Prudent Ways: From Discount Checks to Turning Off The Lights

Posted by George Evers

April 15, 2009

by George Ward

A certain method you can take to economize is to put the brakes on TV watching. This will limit your exposure to ads that browbeat you into throwing away hard earned money.

Purchasing gifts for birthdays, Christmas and other occasions can assault your finances. You can make gifts like cake mixes in fancy jars, make candles, cookies or other unique crafts and save money. The individual approach shown by giving a handmade gift is more valued also by the recipient. add a special note in with the present and you have a winner! Even a pleasing design on a personalized check adds a pleasant nudge, and no one ever needs to know that you purchased them at fifty percent off at a discount checks source.

Have a yard sale. Clean out your wardrobe, attic and basement and (get rid of|discard stuff you don’t use. You can compile unwanted items from neighbors or relatives if have too few of them. You can also bring them to a second hand shop for a tax deduction at the year’s end. You’ll not only make a little cash, but you will feel so much better with an uncluttered house.

Cook a large batch of your favorite dinner and portion it into several servings and freeze. As an alternative to eating out in fast food places, easily take out the frozen portions you’ve already made and throw them in the oven. This allows you to sock away money and time as long as you allow time for the heating up time in the oven.

Shut off unused lights. Electrical energy cost $.10 per kilowatt hour (ranges from 5 to 16.73 cents per kWh). The average light bulb eats 20 watts. If you shut off five 20 watt bulbs that would have run for 2 hours, that’s a total of 200 watt hours of power, or 0.50 kilowatt hours. By taking the exertion shutting off these 5 lights for just two hours you saved yourself 10 cents. In a year’s time 365 x .10 cents, you’ve freed up almost 37 dollars.

Request DVD’s or books online from your county library and have them marked and sent to your local library for pickup. Or exchange books, music and DVD’s with your neighbors and friends. There are even Internet sources for paperback and DVD swaps with various conclaves.

Grow some of your own vegetables like tomatoes. They are great for salads and soups and cost very little. If you don’t have much space for a garden, a bucket will do well to begin to cultivate tomato plants. You can buy one tomato, take the seeds, plant them in a tray under a wet paper towel and then transplant the ones that sprout in the bucket. If you have a garden area, gophers don’t seem to like tomatoes, so you should have a unthreatened crop outside.

Garage and yard are a great source of finding something at a nominal price. Frequent the yard sales in your neck of the woods. You can find great bargains no doubt. And if you find a large number of items to purchase from one seller, negotiate for a lower price. Remember, at the end of the day, the seller wants to get rid of their stuff, so arbitrate a lower price. A lot of garage sale items end up in the Salvation Army the next day and you will be giving the owner a favor by offering any sort of trade.

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