Looking for ways to save money I stumbled across this helpful little video from Howcast. There were a few good tips on ways to save in there I’m sure you could benefit from.
1. Cutting back on paper products not only saves you money but is environmentally friendly. You can replace paper towels with tea towels and cloth rags and can use the back of envelopes for writing shopping lists.
2. Bottled water is not only becoming increasingly expensive it creates an insane amount of plastic waste. Fill up drinking bottles with tap water and squeeze in some lemon for extra flavour. If you don’t like tap water, use a filter.
3. Aim to buy less food. Make sure you eat food before it goes bad and start monitoring how much food you end up throwing out so you can make better choices.
4. If you use your cell phone regularly, consider getting rid of your home phone line.
5. Find free ways to get fit. Walking, running, stair climbing, jump roping and dancing are all free and great forms of cardio. Using tins of soup or old detergrent bottles filled with water make great hand weights. There are plenty of at-home workouts you can find online.
6. Do you really need that fast food fix? Recreating receipes at home can often be a cheaper and healthier option.
7. More and more TV shows are becoming available online and it is easy to hook up your computer to your TV. Do you really need to keep paying for that TV subscription? You can also wait and rent the entire season of your favourite shows on DVD.
8. Ask your doctor what kind of supplements and vitamins you should be taking and stick to those. Only buy the ones you need.
“3. Aim to buy less food. Make sure you eat food before it goes bad”
If we find banana going off, they make a great cake
Additionally, apples, kiwifruit, or peaches make a great sponge pudding. http://recipes.had.co.nz/67/fruit-sponge-pudding
“4. If you use your cell phone regularly, consider getting rid of your home phone line.”
Sadly, those who live outside Wellington, like myself, who are outside the range of Telstraclear cable, need to have a Phone line if they want broadband, even if that phone line makes only a few calls a week.
“7. Do you really need to keep paying for that TV subscription?”
U.S citizens can enjoy a wide range of shows on the website of the company that made them (abc, nbc, syfy etc). Sadly, they limit the content, so we here in NZ don’t have the ability to watch it. So we have very little choice (mainly tvnz and tv3 ondemand services).
Hey Kieran,
Thanks for the feedback, good point! Mmm that recipe looks yum, I will try it out, thanks for the tip
Well in terms of TV, I got rid of SKY because I was rarely watching it. I prefer to rent a season of a TV show on DVD and then watch the episodes one after the other with a whole group of friends. You can get quite good deals with renting DVDs, some places have $1 tuesdays etc.