What is the craziest thing you ever did to save money?

What a wonderful idea. It is so amazing that you discovered this talent of yours. Now you not save money but you also live a healthier live. You co-workers are so lucky to have you and you have a lot of fun doing this. Keep up the good work.

Heh, thank you, right on time. I need a bit of encouragement, as I've just spent 5 hours on Sunday to make apple jelly, because one of my co-workers had 30 kg of apples and no idea what to do with them. I have no idea what I'm going to do with all that jelly either, but have to say it turned out picture perfect :)

I suppose you put the apple jelly into sterilized jars, so it will keep to about a year. (it keeps longer but I like to use up my jams and jellies within the year) Anyway you could buy some pretty labels or make them yoursel using images of fall or apples and say "from the kitchen of..." and give them away as little Christmal gifts to people who have done you a kindness or you could take them along when visiting a friend or relative instead of buying flowers or another hostess gift. If you do that you can also cut out round circle of pretty cloth with pinking shears and cover the lids with it and tie a pretty ribon around the cloth. My sister makes some beautiful jams and jellies. She always takes a jar or two when she visits my elderly aunts. They just love her for it. If you want to use up some of it yourself you can make a very elegant dessert. Soak some raisins in a bit of rum or cognac, heat some of the apple jelly add the raisins, some cinnamon and pour the liquid over thin crepes on individual dessert plates. Add a little lemon juice and if you need to be totally decadent add a dollop of real whipped cream. Can I come over for this dessert?

Hi Kraj, I am having a hard time getting the point of your post. My question was not about saving money on food but rather on all the ways, odd, weird, sensible and otherwise that people have used to save money. It just happened so the previous two posts were about food. I have known people who save old socks to use as cleaning rags, I know people who clean with baking soda and vinegar thus saving big money on commercial cleaning supplies. I know people who buy their Christmas gifts the day after Christmas and give them the following year. I know people who save all their glass jars and use them to store beans, lentils, flour and other items instead of buying those fancy storage boxes. So, do you have something that you do to save money?

Well, that is a good and sensible way to save money on lower electricity bills. I use those tubes as well. I also try not to run the dishwaser until it is full. Lately I am on a savings mission as I have to cut costs and I wash my dishes by hand most of the time. Less usage of water and electricity.

Might be I just went by the first line and did not pay heed to the following lines. Yeah, people do a lot of such thing to save money or to make the best of the things that they once owned and now is old and worn out. It is a good way to save a little. Well I have started using CFL tubes in place of traditional bulbs and tubes to cut on electricity. Do not recollect exactly what craziest thing I must have done to save money.

Hi bhanusb, Haha haha, I wish I could do that too like the polar bears or black bears in Canada where I live. To sleep and sleep and sleep to hibernate from fall to spring I would not have to spend money on food, wow big savings!!! on electricity! on transportation! on clothes! on drinks! Those would be the biggest and craziest savings.

Well, that is one way where people save money. I guess as a young person you did not find it too tiring to follow the lectures of the afternoon periods on an empty stomach. I hope you always ate a good dinner though.

I load up on my breakfast so I don't feel too hungry when lunch time comes. Actually the opposite happens to me, when I go to class with a full stomach I feel sleepy, all I want is to rest because I feel satiated with my meal. But I don't feel tired at all when I go to class without eating anything first. XD