Charity starts at home. So does saving. Switching off the lights when it’s not in use or using disposable items seems trivial, yet combine them with ten other trivial things and multiply the sum by 365 days, you’ll be surprised at the amount you’re probably wasting. But even before setting off to a year of cutting costs, you must have a clear goal, why you want to save. Saving by itself is as motivating as paying your dentist a visit. But you do pay him a visit because you want a healthy set of teeth. In the same way, it pays to know where you will allocate your savings, a goal, that cutting cost can suddenly be a nice experience. Here are some tips and advice we culled from the Net.
Small but really practical tips
From flavored water to self-made artworks, from saving herbal scraps to swapping clothes, these small but conveniently practical tips may really work. The tips are laid out visually that it’s easy to “see” them. How about using a combo of paper scraps, vintage scarves and cloth for gift wrapping? Or stock on rainwater to be reuse for cleaning? Nothing is so small that it cannot save you anything. And the site got 50 of these fun tips.
Mind the appliance
Do you know that you save 60% energy when you boil water in the microwave than on stovetop? So does packing your freezer to the rim with ice to make it stay cold longer. There are similar tips on manipulating the appliances and household facilities around you to cut cost without giving you a drastic discomfort.
Useful contacts
Sometimes, we all want to recycle or buy a recycled item. But where to? You may have an old rag you want to be reused or a surplus paint you can donate for others to use. The site gives useful contacts where to share your unused or slightly used items, from pillows to aerated shower heads. There’s also a tip on making your own tonic wine, rather taking saving a little bit far though.
Perky ideas
Household saving tips can turn up one ridiculous yet possibly practical idea: use half a scoop of new coffee grounds and combine it with half a scoop of the one you used earlier. That is, if you don’t mind your coffee to be a little more acidic. Another cute idea is to pour a little vinegar to dissolve the mayonnaise sticking to the inside of an almost empty jar, sprinkle it with herbs and you get a nice salad dressing. More trivial and funny tips are discussed here.
Family gathering
The household budget can shoot up during a family gathering. No, don’t cancel the party; just learn the tricks on how to save some more when the extended family comes a-calling. Hey, wouldn’t be a more interesting topic during dinner—how much you’ve saved for the party—than listening for the hundredth time how grandpa used to live in the fifties?
Snoopy savers
We know how much you love your Snoopy and Garfield, but you can save some more dollars without forsaking them. From splitting the cost with a neighbor or friend to buy pet food in bulk to paying the vet regularly to avert a health crisis, which costs more, the site has plenty of elbow room where to cut costs without your pet even knowing it. Not that they can.
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The best thing about keeping the money is that my father can make almost anything on his own - he knows how to make new furniture, and he also understands how to fix electricity and plumbing. In fact, we save a lot of money because my father does all the repairs. And also my mother and I are specialists in the reuse of many things - we find the use of plastic food containers, carton boxes, old clothes - we try not to throw away things that may come in handy. And at the same time, our house is not like a storage facility for stuff.
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