Cut your Cost at Home in a Natural Way
Here are five tips to help cut your costs at home as well as help the environment in the process.
1. Leftovers at home are the number one way to cut your food cost and save you from using unnecessary resources as well. If your leftovers aren’t appealing for a second or even a third night, try adding them to a dish already prepared. Experiment with different left over food and you may make a whole new recipe and dish
2. Another way to save on food cost and help the environment out at the same time is to eat close to home. Why travel 50 miles to a fancy restaurant when there are many restaurants in your own town. Even if they are mom and pop stands, it’s nice to be giving back to your own community as well as eating at a place that you don’t have to drive so far to as well.
3. If you close up drafts around your home with things called draft snakes, you can make a few out of old fabric, you will save on energy cost that is slipping out the cracks. This technique works great for the winter and the summer as well. Install a programmable thermostat as well; program it to come on about 5 minutes before you come home.
4. Order your products online before heading out to shop for them. Yesterday was the infamous “Black Friday” and many of us could have saved a bundle, as well as the man’s life in New Jersey, if more of us had shopped online on Friday. Many of your regular products can be found in many online retailers and it cost less for you to pay online shipping then it is to drive from location to location. Many retailers have free or drastically cut shipping cost if you buy many products at once.
5. When you leave you home consider biking or walking to your location if it’s close. Even if it is a couple of blocks from your home, consider walking or biking there as well. The more you do it the easier it becomes and you will burn calories as well. We are a society of convenience, how convenient is it to head out on your own two feet and leave the same way you came without having to pay for parking or try to find your car in the parking lot of a large store? Pretty darn easy I say.
*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: Large sized dog food bags can be made into a kitchen waste bag instead of wasting a plastic garbage sack. Just fill it the same way you would you regular garbage sack and save yourself that expensive of using yet another plastic bag.
November 29th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Hi Shelly! Thanks for dropping by Simpson Watch.:)
November 30th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I can appreciate the aspect of shopping on line and do so myself, HOWEVER we must not make that the sole source of our shopping. Shopping in your community means JOBS, you need to support the local businesses as well.
Jobs are being lost quickly as it is - why help that along? This is the reason I refuse to use the self checkouts in the stores. I want to know I am not putting someone out of a job.
When I do shop online try to use Goodsearches.com shopping or igive.com so that a small donation from the sale goes to a charity that I pick. There are many choices on these sites and if by chance I can’t find what I am wanting at the shopping sites under these I at least do my searches from these sites so that there is still a pay off to someone else. Just passing the word along and hope you will too.