Here’s what I do without in order to have money for preparedness supplies and food storage: New clothes (I haven’t bought any in over 5 years; I just wear and mend my old ones as long as possible), eating out (I eat out maybe once a month at most and that’s at an inexpensive place), a new cell phone (I’m still using my 7 year old “dinosaur” phone ’cause it’s still <mostly> working, lol), purchasing dvds, cds, and books (I borrow these from the library now or share with friends), shopping at my local supermarket (I do almost all of my grocery shopping at salvage/outlet/dent and bent grocery stores these days. Even though some of these are far from my home, the 50-75% savings more than makes up for the mileage expense).
