As I sat stranded the other day in a hospital parking structure waiting on roadside assistance, it occurred to me….this has saved me money. That was not my objective but hey it worked! So this began my mind thinking of other ways to save money. All in good fun, people! Don’t jump down my throat because they DO work and WILL save you cash!
1. You pay a small fee for roadside assistance but rarely use it. Use it to save you gas when you have an hour to waste. (This will only work if you have unlimited roadside assistance.)
2. Ask your pharmacist for the HUGE bottles when you refill your prescription. The most pills that he can fit into the largest container is what you want to happen, your copay will end up paying for an extra month or so of medicine.
3. Go to Mexico and Canada for fertility drugs. Hey wait, this actually is not funny and it works! Pay less outside of the United States for fertility procedures and infertility meds.
4. Keep all forms and privacy act paperwork to re-use as scrap paper for note taking.
5. Use one sheet of paper and put all letters to the people in one office. For instance, your food stamp worker needs to know when you can come in, your medicaid worker needs to know about your medical assistance travel expenses, and your girlfriend in the same office wants to make a date for lunch. Reply to all on the same letter and mail it in. You have just saved a tree.
6. Use duct tape to put quilts on all windows. This saves on your heating bill.
7. Place cat by bottom of front door to decrease drafts.
8. Place dog on your feet at night and turn down the heat.
9. Let children sleep in their coats to keep the complaining down about the heat being turned low.
10. Who needs more than one bath a week? Save on your water bill.
11. Use 1/10th of the amount required for each load of wash on the instructions of laundry detergent.
12. Put water into empty shampoo bottles, then shake. Tada! You have made more shampoo!
13. Don’t just water down the kids’ juice, put juice in their water. Make that juice last a month or more.
14. Wrap Christmas gifts in aluminum foil.
15. Cardboard boxes can fix a broken car window.
16. One square of toilet paper is all that you need. Enough said.
17. Save on gas for your lawnmower by throwing some wildflowers seeds out into the yard. Tell everyone that it is your new garden and it is meant to look like that.
18. Complain loudly to the store manager when your expired coupons are not accepted. He will be so intimidated that he will allow you to use the expired coupons “just this time”.
19. Act sick after eating at a restaurant, then accept your refund along with a new complimentary meal.
20. When someone calls you cheap, smile and tell them the word is “frugal”.
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