Ideas for Saving Money
You can save money without sacrificing your lifestyle by making a few small changes. Let’s take a look at how to do so with these three tips.
Save Money on Food
The amount of money that you spend on food can vary greatly by person. How frugal you are when it comes to food can save you a lot of money. Consider how often you eat out at restaurants. Do you get take out often? Do you tend to buy a lot of prepackaged foods? There could be an opportunity to save money on food.
Meal planning can help you be more successful in reducing your food budget.
- A Free Guide to Meal Planning
- The Importance of Meal Planning to Save Big Money
- Easy Meal Planning Tips to Save Money on Groceries
- 7 Easy and Affordable Recipes with Simple Ingredients
- 20 Frugal Grocery Shopping Tips
Cancel a Subscription Service or Two
I challenge you to cancel just one of your subscriptions services. These days, almost everyone has a few and likely more than we use. If you have cut the cord and are cable free, you may have some streaming services you can cut. It’s easy to add more over time and forget to cancel the ones we are no longer loving and using frequently. Worse case scenario, you miss it and renew it again later. It only takes a minute or two to cancel a service such as the ones below and doing so can easily save you some money without impacting your lifestyle, if it is something you are not really using anyways!
- Amazon Prime
- Netflix
- Hulu
- Paramount+
- Disney+
- Audible
- Peacock
- YouTube TV
Lastly, if you still have cable, you could take the great leap and cut the cord. Learn how to cut cable and be cable free.
Pay With Cash
I’ve notice that many restaurants in my area are charging people less if they pay with cash. Oftentimes, there is a sign that states how much of a discount for cash or how much of a surcharge there will be if using a card. I always have cash on hand so this is a great way for me to easily save. This is an easy way to cut expenses without changing your lifestyle.
Combine Shopping Trips to Save Money on Gas
You can easily save some money on gas if you combine shopping trips into a single outing. For us to drive up on the hill to our local Aldi grocery store, it is about 20-miles round trip. Most shopping and entertainment are in the same area. So we visit this area quite frequently. Reducing just one trip a week can save 80 miles in gas per month roughly. This can easily save me $15 on gas a month. The bonus is a more efficient use of my time.
