30 Changes People Applied To Their Lives That Help Them Save The Most Money

It is less slimy and more frugal to place your soap on a slice of loofah or the like, so it can dry (unlike the picture).

I always use up all my soap and shampoo before opening new soap or shampoo containers.

The main lesson I learned during my no spend-year was to use what I got before getting new stuff. So this soap-tip doesn't surprise me one bit :)

Done! Agree and it took me roughly four years to get through all of it. Now I buy bars, they last. It's great!

I try this sometimes, but then I get all anxious about running out of supplies and when a good offer comes along…….boom, cabinets full of stuff. And piece of mind…..

Some of us grew up eating out very rarely, because it is so expensive and we can't afford that...

i grew up with cooking at home. Ive always been cooking at home. Go to work/school, bring your own lunch. Everyone did. Eating out was for special occasions. It was really weird to start to get to know American friends 25 years ago that only ate out.

The problem is (at least from what i feel), is that people buy food because they have less time or energy left to cook a fresh food. I now live in a country side, no overtime and no traffic, i sure can cook my own meal. But i used to work in a big city, and went to work before sunrise and being home after sunset to avoid the traffic. I sure as hell didnt have much left energy in me to cook a fresh meal, so uli used to butly food from street vendors. Anyway, thats me...

Growing up, eating out was for very special occasions and only happened maybe 6 times a year. I married a man who thinks every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday is a special occasion. I hate it. Best part of Covid was restaurants being closed. (Yes, I know it was bad for all aspects of restaurants and feel bad for that. But personally...)

The pandemic was a huge reset for us. While we didn’t eat out regularly, we are now very comfortable with cooking meals ourselves. We’ve also been growing our own vegetables and fruits (I realize not everyone can do this) and it’s helped as well to reduce costs.

Never too late to quit🙌🏻

NOT SAYING YOU'RE AN ADICT Many addicts actually experience anxiety when they begin to accumulate all the money they previously spent on their addiction. Actually having money becomes a trigger. It's a blessing and a curse.

Brave!

Good plan to carry out after college too

I'm not a college student, and I'm "old" but I still make my own coffee (I make my perfect coffee for me...) I cook at home, just because you can make healthier food without preservations and such, and I bring my own lunch and water bottle with me whenever I go somewhere, just because I'd like to be independent. So you are not being frugal, you just take care of yourself (and your finances :)).

This all is natural to most college students, so not a big deal…

I have saved SO much money over the years grinding my own beans / making my own "near espresso" in an Italian coffee maker. I can make coffee stand quality coffee for pennies, even if I use a syrup. But usually I just use a splash of half and half. I just have one cup in the morning but any more at the coffee stand most drinks are over $6.

As for me and my seasonal allergies, this photo makes me want to sneeze🤧🤪

I really wish I could always airdry, but I live in a quite wet part of the world, and unless I want my clothes getting wetter instead of drier, I cannot airdry! Only during the months april-september is it really possible to airdry...

I do this all the time, got rid of my dryer 9 years ago. Air dried washing smells amazing.

I hate that apparently this isn't the norm everywhere. You waste so much electricity on drying clothes, you can dry outside, or hang it inside your apartment, instead of burdening the environment.

I always hang washing on the washing line outside. They are great fun to swing on as a kid too 😂

On disability. We're not allowed to save money.

Why can't I edit my comments?

And every raise - half goes into that savings auto deduction. You still get a little bit more and you don't miss what you "never had".

Or...now most places do direct deposit, they will allow 2 deposits. I do $75 savings...balance in checking

Unless you are purposefully not cleaning up spills or other stuff with wash cloths your not really saving money. A roll of paper towels is $1, so unless your going through tons purposefully or buying name brand you'll spend the $4 a month on energy and water to clean those wash clothes.

I grew up using clothes towels and wash rags to clean and dry. Still use them to this day. I use paper towels for other cleaning though. Never time how long I go through a roll of paper towels. Maybe 3 t o 4 months. Maybe longer.

Switched to cloth napkins, too. Saves so much. I honestly don’t know how people live without bidets. Ours are built into our toilets. The seats are always warm, the water is a perfect heated temp and the air dryer prevents chaffing or irritation. It truly makes the toilet a throne.

Paper towels are for stuff you don't want to put in the washing machine - like an egg that got dropped on the floor. For other stuff - buy a bale of those cotton cleaning clothes from Costco. Good size for cleaning, cheaper than the clothes sold for washcloths. After my grandkids moved away it took me two years to use up a roll of paper towels.

Bidets are fine if you have the space but if you can only afford a tiny shoebox of a home good luck trying to find space for a bidet.

While I still enjoy browsing at secondhand shops, I stick to Ross/TJ Maxx/Marshalls for clothing now. Thrifting has become so popular now - their prices aren't the bargains they used to be

I have SO many things I've bought at garage sales and sometimes thrift stores for pennies on the dollar. $100 wireless gaming headset - $9, $100+ scroll saw - $10 and it came with about $10 worth of extra blades. I'm typing this from a recliner that cost me a quarter because that lady just wanted the bulky stuff gone. Garage sale free box a week ago - a heavy metal spatula that costs $29 at our local restaurant supply store and a pair of pruners that would sell for $10-15. The spatula looks new and I just used the pruners to prune my apple tree - they work fine. My Denon amp, Cerwin Vega speakers and my subwoofer box were a fraction of new and sound awesome. Not enough room here to type all the things I've bought over the years for a fraction of their cost new.