Money Saving Tips

I started us off with a few of my favorites:

• Displace water in your toilet’s tank. Place a capped plastic bottle filled with some sand or pebbles in your toilet’s water tank. The bottle should displace enough water to save half a gallon to a gallon each time you flush, or up to about 10 gallons a day in a typical home. A typical family of four might save 16 gallons of water a day with this little trick - and that should save you about $90 a year on your water bill.
  

• Stock up on meat when it goes on sale. You can find discounted turkeys around Thanksgiving, as well as ham around Easter and Christmas. Stock up and freeze to save up to hundreds of dollars a year on meat. You may need to invest in a stand-alone freezer, but if your family eats a lot of meat, the appliance should pay for itself over time.
  

• Request appetizer portions of entrees. Eating out? Ask your server if you can get an entrée as an appetizer or “half-sized” portion. Portions are so large these days anyway you’ll not only take a healthier route but also save up to half the cost.
  

Meanwhile, here are a few of the tips That I have gathered:

I keep a can in the laundry room and charge myself for doing laundry. When the can fills up with cash, I bank it. That way, when an appliance breaks I have the cash to pay for it.
Get a dollar bucket. Any singles you have in your pocket go into it at the end of the day.
There is no need to pay for checked bags or parking, at the airports, thus saving $20 to $30.
People who use the gym to watch TV while they work out. [They] cut out cable, and then Redbox/Hulu/Netflix/watch online for everything else.

Get your hair done at a beauty school. For free a visit vs. the $150 for a standard salon, and it gives the students a chance to practice

Go on-line to: Restaurant.com for certificates when they go on sale for $2, for great deals on discounts.

Get almost all of your reading material from the library! Why is this peculiar? Because in this day of immediate gratification, waiting one’s turn for a book, DVD or magazine is hardly what anyone cares to do - but it saves a ton of money!



-Birdy.