Name:
Bev from Kansas
Forum Membername:
mammahop
Your Favorite Source for Bargains:
Thrift shops, consignment sales and garage sales
Your Best Bargain of All Times:
It's a toss up between a $100 Chevrolet Caprice and our corn stove. The car is used as a work car, but only had 57,000 original miles on it. It gets 18 miles to the gallon, and if need be, could be used as a family car. The corn stove was $1500, and we used $450 worth of corn the first year. We also have a wood stove, but we would have still needed a tank of propane a month. If we had used propane, it would have cost us $2800 a winter to heat the house. Now all we need is to purchase corn every year. The wood is free – it just costs our time.
Your Best Money-Saving Tip:
Sign up for several grocery store websites; then, go through each sales flyer and pick out the things that you need that are on sale. Get coupons ready, if you have them; and then go from store to store on one day and purchase everything you need. It takes a little time to do the research, but most sites have a printable list. Most important: just get what is on your list.
The Worst Money-Saving Advice You've Received:
"You need a credit card."
The Craziest Thing You Do to Save Money:
We pay everything in cash; so when it's gone, it's gone. I save all change during the year for our summer vacation.
What You're Doing Now to Save:
We planted a garden, only eat out twice a month, fix our own vehicles, do our own house repairs and carpool the kids to sports practices. I wash my clothes in cold water and line dry them. We use flourescent bulbs throughout our large house, and we buy our pork and beef from our neighbor.
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