9 Extreme Ways to Save

When times get tight, some consumers get creative

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Posted: August 12, 2008

8) Get rid of your carpet. The blogger at Clever Dude points out that having and caring for a carpet requires regular shampooing and steaming, electricity to vacuum, and even medical costs from embedded allergens such as pet dander and molds. Savings: Around $200 a year.

9) Hold a no-spend month. That's what Rachel at the Small Notebook blog did. Her family of three made it a goal to live on $250 or less for the entire month. That included gas, entertainment, food, and other everyday expenses. She says it helped make her more aware of the unnecessary items she had been buying. Savings: As much as $1,000 a month, depending on your spending habits.

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Better ways

There are better ways. I do almost everything at work. Shower, exercise, eat, washing and reusing containers, bathroom, internet surfing.
Here how this saves. Showering - cost of water, exercise - cost of gym, eat - cost of electricity and cooking gas, washing containers - cost of water, internet surfing - cost of internet and phone, bathroom - cost of toilet paper.
I saved over $600 a month and I don't really give up anything.

Boka of PA @ Nov 06, 2009 12:17:27 PM

Move back Home?!?

Get real you are an adult if nything you should have your parents move in with you so they can live for free.

Lawrence Campbell of MD @ Aug 08, 2009 17:50:31 PM

Reuse is not extreme

Plastic sandwich bags should routinely be rinsed out, dried, and reused as much as possible--not as an extreme measure, but as everyday recycling, to keep them out of the landfills.

Leslie of NY @ Jul 23, 2009 15:43:26 PM

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