Ways to Save Money?

What do you do to save money? Got a great tip you'd like to share?

Here's a few things we do:

1. Shop regularly with coupons. I do this several times a week. I always match my coupons to sale items.

2. Limit eating out. One meal out can be as expensive as 5 at home. Eat out only for special occasions. If you do have a meal out, have water to drink. A soft drink at a restaurant can cost as much or more as a two liter.

3. Utilize your left overs. Don't waste food. My husbands takes for lunch what we had for supper the night before.

4. To get out of the house and have fun. We take the kids to the park. It's a win win situation. They have a ball playing with other kids and its FREE! No need to spend a fortune at the movies or kid based restaurant to have fun.

5. Call your local grocery stores. Find out if they double coupons. If they do make that your grocery shopping day. Try to run all errands while your out. Save on gas.

6. Grocery Stores that have gas stations will normally give a discount on gas for shopping in their store. They might also give you a discount for shopping if you buy their gas. Save on both!

7. Make movie night at home. With Red Boxes at most McDonald's. You can rent a movie for $1 and have a great family night. They are only a one night rental so be sure to return on time. We normally only rent one if we have to go back to town the next day anyways.

8. Don't use as much laundry soap. Most people fill the cap all the way up when measuring out washing detergents. Half that amount will get your clothes just as clean and last you twice as long.

9. Stretch meals. When we make hamburger helper we use the amount of hamburger it calls for one box but use 2 meal kits. This makes twice as much! There is no noticeable difference in the taste.

10. Basic phone service. A phone bill without all the bells and whistles is much cheaper! And it rings just the same!