Comments on: 7 Small Ways to Start Increasing Your Savings Today http://www.gobackpacking.com/Blog/2007/05/17/7-small-ways-to-start-increasing-your-savings-today/ Around the World Travel Blog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:26:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Racquel http://www.gobackpacking.com/Blog/2007/05/17/7-small-ways-to-start-increasing-your-savings-today/comment-page-1/#comment-3088 Racquel Fri, 18 May 2007 02:03:58 +0000 http://www.gobackpacking.com/Blog/2007/05/17/7-small-ways-to-start-increasing-your-savings-today/#comment-3088 thanks budget gurus! really useful tips! :) thanks budget gurus! really useful tips! :)

]]> By: Stu http://www.gobackpacking.com/Blog/2007/05/17/7-small-ways-to-start-increasing-your-savings-today/comment-page-1/#comment-3079 Stu Thu, 17 May 2007 14:24:25 +0000 http://www.gobackpacking.com/Blog/2007/05/17/7-small-ways-to-start-increasing-your-savings-today/#comment-3079 my wife and I had our meeting last night with out financial advisor and it was a bit of an eye opener. We have about 1000$ in mystery money (aka we not sure where an extra $1k is going each month). walmart might be cheap but you can get better savings by using the foodlion + kroger 'MVP' card things and make good use of BOGOF sales and 2for1 deals. One of the best purchases we made when we got married was to buy a chest freezer. We make a lot of crockpot stuff and soups and such and freeze it. cooking a nice piece of turkey/chicken or beef in the crockpot yields meat but also a great soup/stew base for another set of meals (boiling a chicken carcass or turkey carcass will also produce a good stock for soup). food shopping can be a big saving by buying store-brand most of the time (some things are not worth store-brand as quality can just be way-way below name-brand). I've found American toilets have HUGE cisterns, put an old house brick in the cistern to cut water usage/cost. Dishwashers are also expensive to run if you have one (good if you have 4 or more people in the house. bad for 1 or 2 unless you have one of the small types). my wife and I had our meeting last night with out financial advisor and it was a bit of an eye opener. We have about 1000$ in mystery money (aka we not sure where an extra $1k is going each month).

walmart might be cheap but you can get better savings by using the foodlion + kroger ‘MVP’ card things and make good use of BOGOF sales and 2for1 deals.

One of the best purchases we made when we got married was to buy a chest freezer. We make a lot of crockpot stuff and soups and such and freeze it.

cooking a nice piece of turkey/chicken or beef in the crockpot yields meat but also a great soup/stew base for another set of meals (boiling a chicken carcass or turkey carcass will also produce a good stock for soup).

food shopping can be a big saving by buying store-brand most of the time (some things are not worth store-brand as quality can just be way-way below name-brand).

I’ve found American toilets have HUGE cisterns, put an old house brick in the cistern to cut water usage/cost.

Dishwashers are also expensive to run if you have one (good if you have 4 or more people in the house. bad for 1 or 2 unless you have one of the small types).

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