What do you do to save money?

we use candles instead of electricity, we visit the library to get movies and books, we play games outside such as soccer and baseball, we play indoor games like scrabble, in the winter we have a lot of home made soup with fresh bread (we have a bread maker that we got for free!!) we visit thrift stores, garage sales and the like, in the winter we put on extra clothes/blankets to keep warm rather than buumping up the heat. stuff like that.

Mostly just try to cut back on waste. I try to be careful not to overuse things like too much laundry soap, dish soap, ect. I wish I knew more ways to save money. AT PEACE WITHIN

There are a lot of things we do to save money. I make sure we have a budget. There are some items that are fixed costs and things that we have more control of. 1. Food we eat well, but cheap. 2. Electricity... if you are not in the room no lights on. I also try to make sure we are using as much natural light as possible. A/C I try to keep high. 3. Misc spending I try to join a no spend challenge to keep me accoutable.

I live in an area that ou can pick your own fruits like blueberries, strawberries and peaches annd apples. so I pick them and freeze. I tried to dehidrate some last year but they got too hare. I have dried some of the cherry yomatoes by just leavkiing them set and shaking the up every once in a while.

We try to not eat very much meat, buy things when they are on sale, use coupons, hang dry our clothes, etc.

We re-use things that can be re-used too. We use coupons and look for sales on foods that we normally buy. We bought a small freezer at a yard sale for $20 to be able to stock up on meat when they they have it on sale. We eat a lot of chicken and hamburger since they are cheapest. We buy the kids clothes exclusively from thrift stores and get some from freecycle, even their school uniforms. We asked my parents to keep an eye out for school uniforms whenever they go to thrift stores too since with two boys in school, we go through a lot of school uniforms what with the stains and the knees going out. We buy the kids used toys at the thrift store and yard sales. Sometimes they get a couple of new toys for Christmas and birthdays but generally most of their toys are used and they love them. We also buy their books used, oh and their videos for the VCR [hard to find a used DVD cheap!]. We don't have a lot of money to work with each month so we try to stretch it as much as possible to support a family of 5 people!

i feasting, only eating at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and have no breakfast.

We reuse our ziplog bags, make our own food rather than buy processed, keep the lights off on the rooms we are not in. We do not live out in the country so cannot hunt and forage for our food, but we do have an apple tree out in our backyard and I make apple sauce. The apples do not make good pie apples, sorry, they are way too juicy. Oh and I have some raspberries, I freeze them. I wish I had a blueberry bush, but I do not, because I love blueberries.

Saving money is really a big art I have been learning in my life so far. I have been cutting down on going out, having dinner outside and most of the expensive entertainment I was having awhile back. I would save by buying in bulk on the grocery items when they are on discount (this save a lot of money). And I would see if there is any coupons or offers which I could use to have a cheaper price. But I would say, saving is quite tiring and you really need to keep your spirit up most of the time.

Recycling and reusing is great for the environment!