Money-Saving Tips

[robinson100 12,828]

Inspired by a post from Techsmex, I though we should have a thread of money-saving tips to help us all fight against inflation.

His post is here:

 

 

[robinson100 12,828]

Okay, so nobody is offering their money-saving tips, so I´ll throw in a couple that I use:

 

- with reference to the photo above, I keep the seeds from tomatoes I have eaten and liked, let them dry out on a piece of kitchen paper, and plant them the next spring in order to get lots more of the original tomato!

 

- another tip I picked up from my Mother is to cut open "empty" toothpaste tubes, body lotion bottles, etc and use up what is still left in them - it´s surprising how much is often left in them!

 

[catjones 1,691]

live below your means

[fraufruit 42,166]

16 minutes ago, catjones said:

live below your means

 

For how long?

[catjones 1,691]

1 minute ago, fraufruit said:

 

For how long?

 

If saving money is your goal?  Forever...but then, you know that. The amount is a measurement of your personal wealth balance and that can change over time.  It's more fruitful than scraping toothpaste tubes.

[fraufruit 42,166]

Life expectancy also comes into the equation. Unless you want to take it with you when you die. 

[Fietsrad 412]

Gathering fruit, the cherries are ready soon, then plums and apples, all free.

[fraufruit 42,166]

22 minutes ago, Fietsrad said:

Gathering fruit, the cherries are ready soon, then plums and apples, all free.

 

Have you figured in land cost? 

[snowingagain 5,354]

Some places around here encourage people to pick fruit from their trees.   Rather than letting it rot.  Not really a cost thing.  And the birds, insects etc usually get a look-in too. 

[HH_Sailor 3,624]

45 minutes ago, snowingagain said:

Some places around here encourage people to pick fruit from their trees.   Rather than letting it rot.  Not really a cost thing.  And the birds, insects etc usually get a look-in too. 

 

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[Elljay 525]

@robinson100 Re:" empty"  bottles and tubes.  I'm happy to find out I'm not the only one! And then of course I wash them, in the last of the dish water, so they can be recycled  .  / Goody two shoes , out

[robinson100 12,828]

7 hours ago, snowingagain said:

Some places around here encourage people to pick fruit from their trees.   Rather than letting it rot.  Not really a cost thing.  And the birds, insects etc usually get a look-in too. 

 

My town also has trees and bushes with fruit that you can just take, but they only started this a couple of years ago, so neither trees nor bushes are really well-established yet, and don´t have more than a few fruits on them - yet!

 

As for "live below your means", well, I figure quite a lot of money-saving tips into the equation!

 

[Gambatte 925]

8 hours ago, snowingagain said:

Some places around here encourage people to pick fruit from their trees.   Rather than letting it rot.  Not really a cost thing.  And the birds, insects etc usually get a look-in too. 

 

I'm very shocked that people don't do this more.

I've been doing it for a very long time. I made several 100s jam jars from fruit from street trees. 

When people see me collecting fruit they think I'm a weirdo. Well, I actually am, but not because I take fruit tree, if anything that's a sane thing, NOT doing it is odd.

Oder?

Maybe too many people simply have too much money and they can't eat food unless is overpriced and less tasty?

 

[Gambatte 925]

5 hours ago, Elljay said:

@robinson100 Re:" empty"  bottles and tubes.  I'm happy to find out I'm not the only one

Same here!

[Gambatte 925]

One more moneysaving tip:

after you boiled food (pasta, for example), don't through the hot water in the drain. Rather "fish out" the food, cover the pot of steamy hot water and leave it there for several hours to cool. Instead of throwing the heat away you'll "use" it to slowly warm the surrounding area. Probably the impact on heating bill is minimal, but it's the idea of NOT doing this that I find shocking bad.

 

[keith2011 2,648]

9 hours ago, Fietsrad said:

Gathering fruit, the cherries are ready soon, then plums and apples, all free.

We have a couple of huge cherry trees in the hof of our apartment block but sadly they have grown so high the fruit is completely out of reach to everyone except the birds and squirrels. However when I was a kid we did this a lot and called it "scrumping" which is an alternative word for stealing and I would not want to risk "scrumping" as an adult here in Germany!

[Fietsrad 412]

The thing is, again, the Verarbeitungsgrad, depth of processing.

 

The fruit I pick is not processed and there are hundreds, maybe thousands of yellow plums on the trees, nearly all are perfect and have not been chewed by insects. So I eat a lot of muesli for a few weeks.

 

At the Baumarkt (Baum - Markt, Tree Store?) you can get a device to pluck fruit from on high: a little basket on the end of a long pole.

 

 

[skinnypuppy 91]

1 hour ago, Gambatte said:

One more moneysaving tip:

after you boiled food (pasta, for example), don't through the hot water in the drain. Rather "fish out" the food, cover the pot of steamy hot water and leave it there for several hours to cool. Instead of throwing the heat away you'll "use" it to slowly warm the surrounding area. Probably the impact on heating bill is minimal, but it's the idea of NOT doing this that I find shocking bad.

 

Depending on what you've cooked in it, that water can also be used to water (and fertilise) outdoor plants.

[Gambatte 925]

7 hours ago, Fietsrad said:

Baumarkt (Baum - Markt, Tree Store?) 

Baumarkt, not Baummarkt.

Bauen = to build.

So the market where you buy stuff you need to build stuff.

Makes sense to me.

BTW I love them, gardening section, and zillions of cool toys one can play with... after all we're all still children, right...☺️

[Fietsrad 412]

Food Rules by Michael Pollan is an excellent book about nutrition.

 

One of the Rules: drink your spinach water!