Comments on: 7 Sound Saving Tips

By: browngirl

browngirl — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:30:00 +0000

no eating out, making lists and rolling my coins–check! i worked in banking for a while and became a firm beleiver in cashing in my coins at the bnak instead of coinstar really fast. did i mention you’re like my frugal guru?! love the blog…

By: One Frugal Girl

One Frugal Girl — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:22:00 +0000

@pharmboy — Avoiding restaurants and take-out can be pretty difficult. Try to set a rule for yourself. For example, you can only eat out X days a week. Every month try to cut back even more.

@finally frugal — I’m not a coffee drinker myself, but if coffee is something you love, there’s no reason you can’t trim your budget elsewhere like you suggested.

By: Finally Frugal

Finally Frugal — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:23:00 +0000

thanks, One Frugal Girl! I already do many of these things, and am always looking for better ways to save money without sacrificing too much.

Recently, though, I had to make a decision about the quality of my coffee: I am a three-cup-a-day coffee drinker (made at home and taken to work in a thermos). In an effort to save some $$$ I recently bought a giant can of coffee for $3.99. It lasted me twice as long as my $7.99 per pound organic/Fair Trade coffee. But it was horrible!

So, yesterday I went back to my 'good' coffee, and will need to find other ways to make up for this cost.

By: pharmboy

pharmboy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:18:00 +0000

I agree about whole-heartedly about the eating-out tip…but man it’s hard. My wife and I moved to a new town, a smaller town, and we live within walking distance of some very cute, (and cheap) restaurants. We eat out so much more than we used to, but hey, I installed a few of our new appliances in our house and we’re tiling our kitchen floor currently. So somewhere in the budget world I guess we’re breaking even.