Ideas to help save $$$

[JohnnyDrfiter22]

Since times are tough all over Im just curious what are some of the things you guys do to save money. I mean on things besides your cars.

One of my ideas and what I recently started doing was buying all my cleaning supplies and paper towles/napkins at like a dollar tree.

[Slammed180]

dump your girlfriend.

[nsn240]

Steal as much stuff as possible

[Slammed180]

Plant a tree with broad leaves
Pick leaves.
Free toilet paper.

[kandyflip445]

I've started turning my computer off when I'm not using it. HUGE decrease in my power bill. lol

[lflkajfj12123]

drop the coke habit

[Helghast]

Stop going to Asian Massage Parlors.

[ESmorz]

Secondhand porn.

[Matej]

Share needles.

[ronmcdon]

Eat out at pricier joints less
Be smart with cooking (cook a lot of cheap soups, stews, & pasta sauces)
Drink less soda, alchohol, and coffee.
Do less track events (tires and pads are the most expensive).

Try to pay off CC debt more dilligently

Keep a ledger to track expenditures (should have done that regardless)

[Slammed180]

Eat out at pricier joints less
Be smart with cooking (cook a lot of cheap soups, stews, & pasta sauces)
Drink less soda, alchohol, and coffee.
Do less track events (tires and pads are the most expensive).

Try to pay off CC debt more dilligently

Keep a ledger to track expenditures (should have done that regardless)

In other words, everything considered common sense.

[lflkajfj12123]

reuse toilet paper

[ALTRNTV]

Since times are tough all over Im just curious what are some of the things you guys do to save money. I mean on things besides your cars.
...because of course, you wouldn't want to cut back on that hobby.

[druthafoo]

ramen all day and only drink water.

if its yellow let it mellow, if its brown flush it down

turn off all lights if possible

open up your blinds/windows for light/air circulation

turn off electronics when not in use

install a low flow shower head

minimize driving

DONT eat out

drive conservatively, dont accelerate hard, be easy on the gas, etc

[Helghast]

Save bath water for later re-use.

[iRONDONkey]

here's one.



don't own a 240.

[Matej]

reuse toilet paper
Both sides.

[SexPanda]

I like how its called common sense when no one seems to have it these days...

[Sil-Abc]

if ur willing to work hard and have some free time, go around collecting cans and bottles and get money. I did this one day and got 20 bucks (this was back in highscool). Another is go to goodwill or garage sales and buy certain items that look cheaper than it should and restore it (polish it up, clean it up, fix it, etc) and resell. My cousin found a mont blanc pen at a goodwill store for people to sign their signatures. She asked if she could have it, they gave it to her for free. Another thing is if u live near a school campus, when the quarter or semester is over, check what the buyback is for textbooks and offer 5-10 more than the school and buy students books. Resell on amazon and make alot of money. Just from selling textbooks from the past 2 quarters made me an easy 400-500. Example: a chem book retail is 120, school buyback is about 40 mayb 50 tops. Give the kid 55 or 60 and u can resell on amazon for 80-100. Students are lazy but if u are willing to put in the effort, u can find ways to make easy cash.

[duffman1278]

It wouldn't be a bad idea either to try putting away a dollar a day or when ever you find that you have an extra dollar or change in your wallet, to put it in a savings jar or something.

Make a goal for yourself like say you'll want to get 5$ by the end of the week or something, then just keep increasing it.

Also, try walking/biking/skateboarding/roller blading/gliding, etc I don't care to places near your house whenever you need to go somewhere next to your place.

Stop spending on your car would also help ALOT!

Instead try investing that money instead.

Learn not to eat out alot, it makes a big difference.

Don't drive too much when you don't have to.

Use someone elses A/C or heating by going to like a mall or something and walk around when you have nothing to do, unless you have a gf then thats a bad idea. Just leave all the lights off.

[Brian]

I stopped buying car stuff.

I've been dumping money into my other savings account. It's going well.

:)

[Phlip]

A 30-day challenge: Don't spend - MSN Money (http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/LearnToBudget/A30DayChallengeDontSpend.aspx)

[DALAZ_68]

Steal as much stuff as possible

i borrow toilet paper, printing paper, surgeprotector pens, and other various items from work that we have an abundant amounnt of, even ethernet cable lol

Stop going to Asian Massage Parlors.
but, but, but, but....FINE!

Eat out at pricier joints less
Keep a ledger to track expenditures (should have done that regardless)

very good advice, i dont eat at expensive places very often, maybe once a month if that, used to be 3 times a week...



if its yellow let it mellow, if its brown flush it down



seriously the most discusting thing my moms side of the family does...nasty MF's...

here's one.



don't own a 240.

let alone 2...dont jusdge me

It wouldn't be a bad idea either to try putting away a dollar a day or when ever you find that you have an extra dollar or change in your wallet, to put it in a savings jar or something.



i do this quite often, i dont carry cash, i have the itch to always spend, but if i do have cash and i get change that jingles, i dump it into my giant Vegas coke bottle, but i save 1 or 2 quarters in the car for meters...





another way to contribute is dont use ATM's that charge fee's to withdraw money, a dollar here and a dollar there dont seem like anything, but add those bitches up and they add up, i went over my shit last year and realized i spent roughly 70 on withdraw fee's from ATM's...

recycling is always a plus, easy money.

a good way to save money is when you need to fill up your cars tank make sure u do it either late at night and early in the morning, gas expands during heat, so 12 gallons may not bbe 12 gallons, also , make sure u NEVER fill up at a station that getting refueled by trucks, they lift sedement that end up in your gas tank...pretty much this is a bang for your buck so to speak.

reuse water bottles...if u have an office that has free water, fill that bitch up, u wont have to buy anything, you wont have to detour to stop somewhere, and your being healthy, 3 in one.

print double sided on paper prints, specially if ur a student, but check with proffessor first...some bitch about it...

buy cheaper beer, Rolling rock is almost as good as heineken, new castle is almost as good as hefenweisen...almost...beer pong is fine with light beer...taste nasty but if u play enough rounds you get a buzz...

if you notice that a bus is on the same route from home to work, do it, 30$ bus pass for a month over god knows how many dollars of gas.

save atleast 15% of ur check into savings...im currently saving around 45% and holly fuck does this add up fast...:wackit:

do your own oil change...Autozone and pepboys take used oil for free...

[ZenkiKid]

get low flow shower heads and faucets.

dont eat out much, and if you do go to cheap places

lay off the throttle

make your own lunch

get those efficient light bulbs

[Fonix36]

seriously drop out of school.... get a full time job wile living at home and taking the bus to work and back not leaving your house for anything but buying groceries and by food i mean noodle soup and frozen pizza

[ronmcdon]

I lived off taco trucks for food staple when I was broke.
it's one thing hard to go wrong with (at least in socal).

guys in Los Angeles who like taco trucks and corean food ought to give this a shot;
should be cheap too;

below are taco truck schedules taken from below link;

Korean Short Ribs | Kogi (http://kogibbq.com/2008/11/24/korean-short-ribs/)

This Week - 4/21 - 4/25

You can always get some Kogi in The Alibi Room Mondays through Saturdays 6-Midnight - 12236 Washington Blvd in Culver City.

Tuesday
Roja
[email protected] Rock - 4405 Lincoln Avenue
[email protected] Heights - Daisetta & Nogales

Verde
[email protected] - Gayley & Strathmore
[email protected] Brig - Abbot Kinney & Palm in Venice

Wednesday
Roja
[email protected] Lofts - 11491 W. Olympic Blvd
[email protected] ABC Driving School - 12630 Del Amo Blvd

Verde
[email protected] - Gayley & Strathmore
[email protected] ABC Driving School - 12630 Del Amo Blvd

Thursday
Roja
[email protected] - 1st & Central in Little Tokyo
[email protected] Bar - 4100 Sunset Blvd. in Silverlake


Verde
[email protected] Chain - Olympic & New Hampshire in K-Town

Friday
Roja
6PM-7:[email protected] Rock - 4372 Eagle Rock Blvd.


Verde
6:[email protected] Weekly Festival - 1615 N. Vine St
[email protected] Brig - Abbot Kinney and Palm in Venice

Saturday
Roja
9:[email protected] ABC Driving School - 12630 Del Amo Blvd

Verde
[email protected] and Alpine Headquarters - Toyota Way & Van Ness [email protected] Brig - Abbot Kinney and Palm in Venice

Last Orders will be taken 30 minutes prior to end times.

Times and locations are subject to change. For the latest EXACT location, check us on Twitter!

[jzepol1985]

Go around your neighborhood. Start asking people for random house jobs. Cleaning the gutters, pool, mowing lawns. Fixing their cars. I made good cash painting houses not the outside but the Inside. Pretty much become a Mexican. I'm Mexican and people don't believe me when I tell i live in the neighborhood. Funny and sad.

[zenki.life]

Secondhand porn.

ewie nasty! lol

[Phlip]

ewie nasty! lol

Porn comes on DVDs now, not just magazines, you know?
I fail to see how this is nasty.

-although-
Bootlegging porn is a good way to SCORE some extra trap...

Watch:
1 - Copy whatever porn you may have onto DVD discs, hit up carwashes on the weekends and sell for $5.00/disc.
2 - ???
3 - Profit

... if you know how to find good pern on the interwebz, this is a LOW overhead endeavor, and I have found that you sell more at carwashes nearer to the "hood," where the inhabitants would be more likely to want to watch bootleg porn, to be displayed from the televisions in the headrests of their 86 caprice with a skittles logo down the side and 30" wheels.

[K_style]

sell your car junk,parts in your garage or backyard.

set up to lower boost to save gas

no beer !!! no party !!! get 2nd job !!!

[Yuri]

dump your girlfriend.

Have your girlfriend pay. :keke:

Ride a motorcycle instead of driving a car.

Cook instead of eating out.
(pasta is awesome for bang for the buck.)

Get a ralphs/VONS/whatever card.

Get a roomate or two.

[s14vagabond]

Look if you have a car, and would like to travel the top half of the USA with little to NO MONEY, I'll give you a general outline on how to get it done.
(And this isn't some bullshit idea of mine, this is a general outline of all the shit I've personally done in order to travel across the country to clean myself up.)
ON this trip I've learned a fuck-load about life, and people and how they're normally too consumed with themselves or their jobs to give a fuck what you're up to.

What do you need when traveling?

Gas: Simple Pump-Runs Are usually called in if caught right away. However I managed to pump and run from MONTANA TO OHIO without ever being pulled over. You see, most of the northern states are all Pump THEN Pay. filling up and speeding away as fast as possible seemed the right way to go at first, but I did something we call "thinking"
Use your heads. Bring a plastic card with you, preferably a debit card or old credit card you dont need. Swipe the fucker, even if on the wrong side.
What this does is, if and when a gas station clerk decides to call you in, they will see you TRIED to pay, you made an attempt to at least look like you wanted to pay. This will make the cops really give to fucks about your little gas theft.
Maybe I was just lucky, but i never once was pulled over due to stealing gas at the pump. If they have video cameras youre also pretty much good to go, you look like you made an attempt to pay.


Food: Easiest of all. Less nerve racking than gas by far.
Pull through your favorite (or all/any) chain fast food and demand they give you one of the 2 double cheeseburgers they forgot when you ordered your fries burgers and pop. Again this isnt rocket science, dont do some meal nobodys ordered in months. The most common mcorder is 2 - 1 dollar burgers, med fried and small pop.
namely 2 dbls. Maybe im just a good actor, but ive never been declined food at mcdonalds.
Ive never had an issue or argument, except when i went to some podunk fast food restaraunt which hadnt had any customers in 2 hours.

Sick of fast food? Want free good breakfast?
Find a Big Nice hotel, wake up before 9 or 8 or whatever their hours for it are and take advantage of their continental/complimentary breakfast. Ive had some killer waffles and even sausage on occasion.


Money: MART-WAL, MART-WAL,MART-WAL.
Steal bunch of those little rings. Sell at Nail Salons/Beauty parlors for cheap. women love new cheap rings with their new nails. Watches, fun to steal and was very addictive for me. I took one of every brand ever made throughut the trip, and I must say, them little fuckers are fun to steal. Bring a lighter, go to the family restroom as to not be bothered. take your time and dont be too loud, throw plastic remainders in garbage.

Find a place that buys used or new DVD's and use your brain. I'm not going to give you shoplifting techniques (im just ballsy and smarter than you) but I will give you some heads ups. If you by some fuckoff chance beep at the door. Simply act cool, let them wand you and walk away. LISTEN. even when the wands have gone off, theyve STILL just shrugged their shoulders and let me leave. Ive never been detained.
I (for reasons of personal greed and gain) am not going to explain how I've walked out with Laptops on numerous occasions.
I might add that when this was pulled off it was during VERY BUSY shopping days.
Hardware stores that have expensive tools were a favorite of mine for a while. Find yourself a Midwest hardware store that doesnt have beepers at their garden section. Wait til busy shopping day, load up 2000$ worth of tools and walk out. GO to pawn shop. Have your story ready on why you cant just return to store, also know what price it cost when you bought it, and act pissed store wouldnt take it back without receipt.
This was our most profitable endeavor during our "road trip" but probably also the riskiest. Again we were never caught, although they SHUT DOWN the entire garden centers of some of the stores we visited.
Petsmart: Steal small but expensive 40 dollar item and have partner return after youve left store.
Take your gift card and sell it half price to random customers. everybody loves half off giftcards.

Need a shower/bath?
Hotel/motel swimming pools/hot tubs.
Chlorine will clean ya off.

Want to have some fun?
Go bowling, Don't pay. Sneak into a movie. Sneak into amusement/water park.

[SochBAT]

^^^

That works.

SUPER OVERLY FUCKING STUPID AND BATSHIT INSANE, but works.

[keistyle]

stop having fun

[Helghast]

Sell sperm, instead of wasting it in the shower walls.

[Fonix36]

I lived off taco trucks for food staple when I was broke.
it's one thing hard to go wrong with (at least in socal).

guys in Los Angeles who like taco trucks and corean food ought to give this a shot;
should be cheap too;

below are taco truck schedules taken from below link;

Korean Short Ribs | Kogi (http://kogibbq.com/2008/11/24/korean-short-ribs/)

This Week - 4/21 - 4/25

You can always get some Kogi in The Alibi Room Mondays through Saturdays 6-Midnight - 12236 Washington Blvd in Culver City.

Tuesday
Roja
[email protected] Rock - 4405 Lincoln Avenue
[email protected] Heights - Daisetta & Nogales

Verde
[email protected] - Gayley & Strathmore
[email protected] Brig - Abbot Kinney & Palm in Venice

Wednesday
Roja
[email protected] Lofts - 11491 W. Olympic Blvd
[email protected] ABC Driving School - 12630 Del Amo Blvd

Verde
[email protected] - Gayley & Strathmore
[email protected] ABC Driving School - 12630 Del Amo Blvd

Thursday
Roja
[email protected] - 1st & Central in Little Tokyo
[email protected] Bar - 4100 Sunset Blvd. in Silverlake


Verde
[email protected] Chain - Olympic & New Hampshire in K-Town

Friday
Roja
6PM-7:[email protected] Rock - 4372 Eagle Rock Blvd.


Verde
6:[email protected] Weekly Festival - 1615 N. Vine St
[email protected] Brig - Abbot Kinney and Palm in Venice

Saturday
Roja
9:[email protected] ABC Driving School - 12630 Del Amo Blvd

Verde
[email protected] and Alpine Headquarters - Toyota Way & Van Ness [email protected] Brig - Abbot Kinney and Palm in Venice

Last Orders will be taken 30 minutes prior to end times.

Times and locations are subject to change. For the latest EXACT location, check us on Twitter!

that list if fucking awesome

[ramblux]

this is a general outline of all the shit I've personally done in order to travel across the country to clean myself up.)


You call going on a nationwide crime spree cleaning yourself up? Seems like you're the one too consumed with himself to realize the repercussions that pilfering has when OTHERS end up having to pay for what you've done. Dick.

[Fat Felix]

cut out one of your eyes so you only have to purchase contacts for one side.

[Matej]

1. Have octuplets.
2. Profit.

[JVD]

Look if you have a car, and would like to travel the top half of the USA with little to NO MONEY, I'll give you a general outline on how to get it done.
(And this isn't some bullshit idea of mine, this is a general outline of all the shit I've personally done in order to travel across the country to clean myself up.)
ON this trip I've learned a fuck-load about life, and people and how they're normally too consumed with themselves or their jobs to give a fuck what you're up to.

What do you need when traveling?

Gas: Simple Pump-Runs Are usually called in if caught right away. However I managed to pump and run from MONTANA TO OHIO without ever being pulled over. You see, most of the northern states are all Pump THEN Pay. filling up and speeding away as fast as possible seemed the right way to go at first, but I did something we call "thinking"
Use your heads. Bring a plastic card with you, preferably a debit card or old credit card you dont need. Swipe the fucker, even if on the wrong side.
What this does is, if and when a gas station clerk decides to call you in, they will see you TRIED to pay, you made an attempt to at least look like you wanted to pay. This will make the cops really give to fucks about your little gas theft.
Maybe I was just lucky, but i never once was pulled over due to stealing gas at the pump. If they have video cameras youre also pretty much good to go, you look like you made an attempt to pay.


Food: Easiest of all. Less nerve racking than gas by far.
Pull through your favorite (or all/any) chain fast food and demand they give you one of the 2 double cheeseburgers they forgot when you ordered your fries burgers and pop. Again this isnt rocket science, dont do some meal nobodys ordered in months. The most common mcorder is 2 - 1 dollar burgers, med fried and small pop.
namely 2 dbls. Maybe im just a good actor, but ive never been declined food at mcdonalds.
Ive never had an issue or argument, except when i went to some podunk fast food restaraunt which hadnt had any customers in 2 hours.

Sick of fast food? Want free good breakfast?
Find a Big Nice hotel, wake up before 9 or 8 or whatever their hours for it are and take advantage of their continental/complimentary breakfast. Ive had some killer waffles and even sausage on occasion.


Money: MART-WAL, MART-WAL,MART-WAL.
Steal bunch of those little rings. Sell at Nail Salons/Beauty parlors for cheap. women love new cheap rings with their new nails. Watches, fun to steal and was very addictive for me. I took one of every brand ever made throughut the trip, and I must say, them little fuckers are fun to steal. Bring a lighter, go to the family restroom as to not be bothered. take your time and dont be too loud, throw plastic remainders in garbage.

Find a place that buys used or new DVD's and use your brain. I'm not going to give you shoplifting techniques (im just ballsy and smarter than you) but I will give you some heads ups. If you by some fuckoff chance beep at the door. Simply act cool, let them wand you and walk away. LISTEN. even when the wands have gone off, theyve STILL just shrugged their shoulders and let me leave. Ive never been detained.
I (for reasons of personal greed and gain) am not going to explain how I've walked out with Laptops on numerous occasions.
I might add that when this was pulled off it was during VERY BUSY shopping days.
Hardware stores that have expensive tools were a favorite of mine for a while. Find yourself a Midwest hardware store that doesnt have beepers at their garden section. Wait til busy shopping day, load up 2000$ worth of tools and walk out. GO to pawn shop. Have your story ready on why you cant just return to store, also know what price it cost when you bought it, and act pissed store wouldnt take it back without receipt.
This was our most profitable endeavor during our "road trip" but probably also the riskiest. Again we were never caught, although they SHUT DOWN the entire garden centers of some of the stores we visited.
Petsmart: Steal small but expensive 40 dollar item and have partner return after youve left store.
Take your gift card and sell it half price to random customers. everybody loves half off giftcards.

Need a shower/bath?
Hotel/motel swimming pools/hot tubs.
Chlorine will clean ya off.

Want to have some fun?
Go bowling, Don't pay. Sneak into a movie. Sneak into amusement/water park.
Don't mind me.

I'm just quoting this as evidence... so when you decide to post something for sale on here I can simply link to this post.

1. Have octuplets.
2. Profit.
GENIUS!!!