Give me your best money saving tip for around the home :)

[lilima]

I am trying to save the $$$ as much as possible at the moment, so I thought - what is your best money saving tip for around the home. It couold be a recipe for your own laundry powder, or howto reduce the power bill etc.

[AnyDream]

Seal around all your doors and windows with products like weather-strips and selly's all-clear. Use a door snake.

[Just Me]

Never go shopping without a shopping list - I spend a lot less money and throw out a lot less stuff if I go plan our meals for the week and shop with a list of ingredients I need for those meals and just general snacks, toiletries and cleaning products that we are running low on. I also don't get to the shops and wonder whether I need something or not and end up buying it just in case.

As things run out we put them on a list on our fridge so I know to buy new things when I go shopping. If it's not on the list, we just go without for a week.

We go through our pantry, fridge and freezer and see if there are ingredients there that we can make meals out of before we go shopping and try to plan meals around things we already have.

[~Trish~]

Use energy saving light globes and cut your electricity bill down heaps. We only pay 10% of what we used to with normal globes.

[Floweryfields]

Eat a full meal before you go shopping - so you're not tempted when you're hungry. Meal plan so that you only shop weekly or fortnightly - then you don't impulse buy when you are in the shop all the time.

[Phteven]

Take lunch to work instead of buying it