Your BEST tips for saving money......

[Bloom]

Everyone has some great tips here!
A few more that I use:
1. Make your own cleaning supplies (eg using vingear, making your own laundry powder)
2. Re-gift appropriately, saves money on presents (just google to find the "guidelines" of re-gifting!)
3. Make your own greeting cards (cut up and re use old cards, save wrapping paper)
4. Make homemade gifts - letter writing set, bath salts, mixes etc.
5. Learn how to make your own spice mixes.
6. Make your own gourmet breads (rather than paying $4 for a vienna loaf at Brumbies!)

DH and I have always been thrifty as we got married while both still uni students! Now we are paying off one mortgage and about to start paying off a second, so I'll be looking at everyone else's tips carefully.

[canberramomma]

All I can say is - go back to basics as much as possible. Make things from scratch, have more veggo meals, invite friends over for coffee instead of going out (get them to bring morning/afternoon tea), have BBQs instead of takeaway or dining out, set up direct debits for your bills so you are paying off a little at a time, shop at op shops and the like. It works from our perspective.