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Money saving ideas; Ways you save and also good ideas to make life better.
Topic Started: Dec 1 2011, 04:32 PM (5,865 Views)
DesmondGhostRider
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Im in the same situation. Well pump and I have a septic tank. We work hard to keep our bills low by unpluggin everything we dont use.
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nerys
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Grr

we were keeping it 65 in the house but this past 3 weeks I lowered it to 55 (the wood stove sometimes brings it up to 57 with the 2 electric heaters)

Figure another $100 on the electric bill (about what those heaters will cost me) is better than running out of gas cause then we will think 55 was summer time in comparison.

just not enough money for gas at 65'
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Shinrin
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I don't turn on my ac until it hits 75. I'd go up to 80 but the woman starts whining at 70. I don't turn the heat on unless it's below 40. We have blankets for a reason.
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nerys
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Grr

these last few years we have been fortunate to not need the air till july. we just "deal" with it till then.
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econoboxer
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I am the one on the left.

todays banana bread. Yummy for breakfast, or an anytime snack

I bought 20 bananas for a dollar. We used them in smoothies, on cereal, and now as they have reached the end of their shelf-life, they've become banana bread.


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I never waste food. Ever. If it gets near the end of its life and its a veggie, I trim it and start a vegetable soup. I use bones of animals to render soup stock. If I don't want to use the bones right away, I freeze them.
Sometimes that means the doggies get table scraps. Better in them than in the waste tin.

I am a stickler about left overs. Use within 3 days. On the fourth day it gets reinvented. (Sometimes as dog food.)
Breads become breadcrumbs, breadpudding or croutons.
Veggies become part of a savory pot pie.
Its all good. I usually buy $20-30.00 of fresh fruit and vegetables every two weeks. If we can't use it up, I preserve it. Keeps me busy.




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MR Bill
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My wife needs lessons.
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Memphis metro


You should get a pet monkey! Anyone who can get that many bannanas for a buck needs a monkey. Bread looks awesome.
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nwgeo


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Dec 3 2011, 07:13 AM
This thread is also about good ideas that make life better. Why has the people who build tvs not put a button on the tv you could push when you loose your tv remote that would make your remote beep so you can find it? Remote rage is becomming a problem of being a prerequisite to heartattacks and this could all be prevented.
They already have that idea in use over 10 years ago maybe longer.
Edited by nwgeo, Aug 31 2015, 12:24 PM.
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maxmpg
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Coche Blanco
Jan 22 2012, 12:05 PM
nerys
Jan 22 2012, 12:02 PM
but once I did the math for cost of supplies water and electricity making my own loaf of bread comes out to well over $1 a loaf equivalent.
This.

But, fresh bread is delicious.
Simple solution:
Buy the super-cheap loafs of bread for every-day use.

Make your own *specialty* breads instead of buying artisan $x loafs of whatever specialty bread you would normally buy. You save money en mass on every day loafs, and you still get the opportunity to make your own bread while saving on "unique special" stuff you'd usually buy.
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Turbo Dan-O
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Shinrin
Jan 23 2012, 03:13 AM
I don't turn the heat on unless it's below 40. We have blankets for a reason.
Below 40!!!??? :cold I would freeze to death!!!
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econoboxer
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I am the one on the left.

will be lucky if we get to a high of 40 today..., brrr!
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Way


Turbo Dan-O
Jan 25 2012, 09:18 AM
Shinrin
Jan 23 2012, 03:13 AM
I don't turn the heat on unless it's below 40. We have blankets for a reason.
Below 40!!!??? :cold I would freeze to death!!!
I do pretty much the same. Even though my house is an old Victorian, high ceilings, little insulation in the walls, it holds about 60 inside pretty well through about 40 outside. I turn on my furnace when the thermostat reaches 58-59.


I also have a pellet furnace but I live in a flood zone so storage is a problem. I figure I'd need about 5 tons to get through an avg winter. With Tropical Storm Irene this last summer, I'd have lost at least the bottom 2 rows, maybe a quarter ton or so. I'm so far out of the tropics and yet still get flooded by tropical storms. Life is not fair sometimes. :gamerz
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Wobblybob


Here's a novel approach to saving water. And making your own fertilizer :)

http://humanurehandbook.com/

I built our house and had no running water or sewer during the entire building process. I made the simplest loveable loo possible (a seat mounted on a 5 gallon bucket) and it served me well for four years. And they're right - it doesn't stink.

The whole concept sounds kinda gross at first, but the more you look into it, the more sense it makes.

I could easily see this in place of a septic system.
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Way


Making your own loaves just took a sudden turn.... :shit
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Wobblybob


:holycrap
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