Couponing. Using a clothesline. NOT using the air conditioner yet. Cutting the grocery budget. These are just a few ways that we have decided to cut our bills. Hopefully they will help cut in ways that are helpful. Money that is not spent on those items, we can put toward the payment of Erin's braces and the vehicle.
One way to cut the grocery budget is to not buy meat. It's not that we are vegetarians, it's just that we don't wish to purchase grocery store meat anymore. We probably will buy some every once in a while but it won't happen that often. We would prefer to eventually find local beef or meat. We grow chickens but we are not ready to "eat" them yet. I want our rooster and our hens are still producing eggs so I do not wish to kill any of them yet.
Another way we are cutting our budget is by growing our own food in our small garden. We have tomatoes, sugar snap peas, green onions, potatoes, radishes, and some other stuff. The sugar snap peas are already beginning to produce fruit. I ate one today...shhhhh...don't tell anyone! It was delicious! Can't wait until more are ready and bigger!
How do you find ways to cut your budget? Do you use a clothesline? Do you grow your own food in a garden? I would love to know. Leave me a comment.
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