HOMESTEADING â—½ HOME
With our current job and debt situation, I am trying by any means to see how we save money. Please feel free to share any money saving tips in the box below that you can! I need all the help I can get!
Besides the obvious, we don’t eat out, we eat at home, we don’t buy coffee, we can make it ourselves, and we try to knock out errands all in one day to save on gas. But what else? We don’t have any monthly subscriptions or car payments.
Any time we’re not in a room in our new home, I try and make sure the lights are off in that room. I turn the AC or turn down the heat, or turn both off, during the day. During the winter we have a fireplace that we keep going, as to try and not run the heat as much. I also try to buy groceries once a week and not go back for more in between visits! I stock up on food when it’s on sale.
I have a garden and try to use whatever produce I get from that, to enjoy in our meals. I started making my own Kombucha and that saves tons! Those bottle are anywhere from $3-6 a bottle and I can make 8 jars for $6. And it’s been fun! If anyone need a scoby let me know…
I used to try and get Amazon gift cards at Randall’s grocery store and buy what I needed from there and that gave me a discount on gas, but the Randall’s gas closest to me closed down.
We’re on well water, so we don’t pay for water. We don’t have a trash service, as we just burn what we can!
I buy our meat from a local farmer and whatever veggies I can from there, as well. It seems to cost a little less than the grocery store depending on what I’m buying.
I even make my deodorant. I would like to try making toothpaste and laundry detergent but haven’t tried that yet! That’ll be next…
I’d love to hear your home money saving tips! Being extremely frugal has not been my favorite thing and worrying about money is rough!
But the Lord says,
“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,”
James 1:2 NKJV
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So, we will be JOYFUL!