Anonymous
Pawn shops and thrift stores are key in our savings.
Cooking from scratch almost 99% of our food. Majorly important when you have food allergies. I’m allergic to nightshades so no tomatoes, potatoes, peppers or yucky eggplants for me, those are in almost 98% of processed foods.
Eating way less meat than we used to, no hunting or ranches around here so we buy quality and make it last.
Cash over cards. Plastic is a million times easier to spend than cold hard cash.
Just stay home and enjoy it. Been with my husband now for nearly 30 years, our idea of a good time is laying in bed and falling asleep watching cooking shows on Netflix or Amazon, having had cable in nearly 8 years.
Window shopping vs. impulse shopping, again, don’t pick up the cards unless you are 1 million percent sure you really need what you will be buying. Plus waiting can really pay off if what you want goes on sale just before you buy it.
Stay prepared for the unexpected so if something happens locally, like a water pipe explodes and your water is turned off you don’t spend gas, time and sanity fighting for a case of water you probably don’t need or want. The pipe will be fixed in hours but that panic setting in drives IQ and common sense to the ground in most people. Store your water and avoid the insanity LOL.