We try to save by scratch cooking as well. Have been doing that for years as hubby is on low salt diet with his heart problems. He won’t give up cable and netflex though. But he doesn’t have the energy to do a lot of things anymore, so he watches a lot of movies. We were keeping the heat down but this year he put it on 70 for both day and night. We used to have it on 68 during day and 64 at night. But with blood thinners and it is looking like he may be anemic as well but will find out after blood work is done. But the heat bill has still been below 200 so not complaining. We haven’t bought any clothes in well over a year. But do need to go through them as soon as I finish with the other things I am doing. Lots to down size on. We don’t eat out nor go to movies. We don’t take vacations now in over 10 years as hubby just can’t travel much now. So we are saving in several ways but could do better. I never get my nails done and as for my hair, I get it cut about every 6 to 8 months. With my bad hand I can’t cut my hair to easy these days. Hubby gets his cut about once every 4 months. So not to bad.
