My favourite extreme frugal living tips and hacks to help you spend less and save more money. These money-saving tips really …
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When I was with a partner going out at a restaurant, movie can be a birthday gift.
Care products: Not only do not buy ones you do not need, but no unnecessary expensive ones. Chances are that the standards for baby products are really high. You do not need the extra expensive organic whatever cream (or at least much less of it) if you go for the storebrand cream from the baby product line.
Switch off table lamps when not needed like during daylight hours 🧐😆
For the first time in my life over last the year I’ve saved. My attitude towards money has changed completely compared with before. I save a bit a month for Christmas and December fun activities, I’ve got a sinking fund for a only house/car and dental stuff so I put money into one account every month, I’ve saved over months for a holiday and I have a small emergency fund. I’m not bragging but I just want to say it’s the most amazing feeling! I take screenshots of my bank account so I can keep looking at how well I’ve done and feel motivated and stay on track! It’s amazing how doing this helps change your whole outlook. I just really wish I’d known this decades ago 😞. Thanks for your videos, as well as great advice, you’re so lovely and relatable 🥰
I dont buy gifts and told people not to buy me anything. Except for kids, everyone can buy themselves whatever they want.
I shop at Aldi and Lidl. Sainsburys is an expensive supermarket. If aldi and lidl dont have it, I go to Asda.
Nothing you do sounds like fun.
You give good sound advice. We have no financial worries, but we like to save money and your advice is great
I am going to adopt the meat free day. I have cooked fried fish served with cabbage , not a good combination, but I refused to chuck out a cabbage that had limited shelf life Rebecca
Instead of paper towels i use bamboo cloths that come on a roll. They are rewashable and in fact get softer and better with use. Saves a lot of money!
I like the idea of considering whether you’d take the money or the item.
I have my paying myself first on automated into my savings.Shopping for Christmas all year is even better.
I use the bread bags for my cut up whole portioned chicken and cleaned up vegetables
We asians are naturally fond of the methods u r advising dear 😂 !
Plastic Double Bread Bag for Cat Litter……..I am So on it 🐈🍞🐈
Sounds good 😮😊
ffs! I left at the 'Ho Ho Whole lot of debt'. I came for some advice on being frugal. i didnt come for your pathetic attempt at humour|!
When I cook I use the least ingredients simple meals which I grew up on
I don't have a clothes line outside I dry clothes on my shower curtain on doors etc it helps put moisture in the house too
If my grandkids or my gran grown kids can have s3conds when comes food
Definitely stop buying/ sending cards.
You talk a lot of sense, it's good, I'm listening
If in the UK and you shop at Asda, buying a gift card on Airtime Rewards is great as it's 4% cashback. You can also build on this by buying the gift card with a credit card that does cashback on purchases and cashback sites for click and collect on the actual purchase from the gift card. Don't forget to pay the full statement on the credit card at the end of the month. Admittedly, I don't build on this as much as I could but on average I'm saving £20-£25 on Airtime Rewards and £20 on Asda Rewards a month through these methods. My Asda Rewards is linked to the Asda credit card for cashback. So by the end of the year I would have saved £540 from just these two methods alone.
YouTube has videos on making a bulk amount of laundry detergent or dish detergent for massively less money than store bought. I currently have a five gallon bucket of laundry detergent that took me about ten minutes to make upstairs that will last me quite awhile. It smells great and cleans well. I’m about to buy the items that it will take to make the same amount of dish detergent as well. No more outlandish big box store prices that keep rising and rising. They can keep their expensive stuff. A bidet attachment on toilets is a big money saver, and you can keep a stack of dark cloths by the toilet to dry off with and a small lidded trash can to drop them into until wash day.
Use YouTube for free to find how to mend appliances , learn new skills like sewing , cooking etc my husband is an excellent diyer ( I’m extremely lucky) but has found YouTube invaluable in helping him mend our washing machine and my sons Xbox etc and ideas on making a coffee table which saves buying new.
If you can, use menstrual cups instead of tampons.
I agree with most of these but just at small businesses like a pizza shop if they do not offer cups of water, please please don’t ask for it people. Everything costs money. Many people confuse frugality with being straight up cheap!
Re cleaner, I always use bicarb and vinegar for drain cleaning. Super cheap and way more effective than normal cleaners
What about people who live & work in the country ie farmers? Not everyone can simply move to the city because the buses are better! Re the herbs: this was in the news recently. Alot of them are bulked out with olive leaves etc to reduce costs. Supermarket herbs were found to be genuine.
Just in case stuff is dangerous. Be sensible about how much you keep. Hoarding is not a fun thing
Great tips, thank you! I'm looking to be smarter with my money. Recently, the hood of my coat got damaged and I discovered the simplicity of iron-on patches. Far cheaper than replacing the coat!
Pay yourself first is invaluable in my humble opinion. Also think that teaching children from young about finances s crucial it is not taught in schools for a reason.
I give popcorn packs as gifts n jard of jam n whatever. They can reuse the jar n its really good.
At 11.53. 💯 agree DO NOT TAKE young children, screaming 😱 children into the Supermarket with you. If you have a Partners, husband, friends, siblings, grandparents, really good neighbours, after school club or support then please do not take them with you. The say 100+ people trying to quietly do there shopping in peace do not want to listening to your child kicking, screaming or have a paddy and you pretending its not happening when the other side of the large superstore can hear them.. If you are with another adult, then get them to take the child outside and funish ur shop… Do not stand they going la la..Also as a parent with a child who is autistic and has learning difficulties, do you realise how much distress it causes them.
Very useful!
I wasn't concerned with the "meal plan" idea as much as I was with the "pay yourself first" one. The thing is, most people watching these are people who are struggling just to meet daily living costs, not people with a bunch of spare cash. At least in my experience as someone who has spent the past 7 years in the financial world.
You can't really pay yourself first if it means you don't meet your bills. It's fine to say "get more income" but for most that's not possible or practical for many reasons.
Just a thought.
I've just subscribed to your channel I found it really interesting . Especially as I took early retirement just over three years ago and want to make my money stretch further .
We have a Christmas club account!
Please would you please share good resources to get some valuable financial education. Thanks for your reply ❤
I love you your video and I subscribed to your channel ☺️
I am also a frugal practical person
I love to hear from more people more tips and advices on practical living.
I didnt have store bought pancake syrup till i was 12 at my cousins farm. Mom always made her own. Dont buy disposable diaper unless traveling. Make spaghetti or chili with generic tomato soup instead of Ragu. Use hamburger and kidney beans. Eat bread n butter or peanut butter sandwich n crackers to go with it. When i got to only had little chili n spaghetti id mix them together w sandwich and crackers so no waste.
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I use the squeeze mayonnaise bottles filled with dish soap, one full strength and one diluted with water, ready to squeeze the exact amount I need. I save the original dish soap bottles and I fill them with laundry soap and softener. It give me total control over how much I squeeze out. I also save the empty laundry soap and softener bottles, and when I have a few, I fill the washer about halfway with water, then really rinse those laundry bottles and then add the clothes. You would be surprised how much laundry product is in an empty bottle. Sometimes I can get two washings out of an empty laundry product container. If I choose to, I can either repurpose an empty container and plant things in them, or put them in the recycling bin and feel good about it 😊
I understand the importance of saving, but not agreeing on being stingy with yourself and your family. I've done a lot of frugality but at the end if you have the money and your kids want some ice cream why deny it❤. Your kids will remember the fun they had with you not the money you saved!
This is such good advice!!! I love finding new ways to save money.
If you aren't good at repairing clothing, perhaps you could do a swap with a friend who is. I often mend an item for my brother and maybe he brings me a deli treat or a gourmet coffee in return.
I think all kids want expensive things. I hang My washing on Coat Hangers and let Them Iron and Dry in the Sun
My Wheelbarrow once lost a Bolt that I lost in the grass. Collecting old Bolts solved the problem to keep My Wheelbarrow running