Frugal Living Tips

Cut back on spending now. If you can do without it, save your money, or better yet put the money saved, toward filling your pantry with storage foods or that ammo box with .22LR rounds.

Cut out convenience foods
Learn to pass that McDonald's up and start preparing your meals at home. You will save money and become healthier by not clogging up the ticker. At one time I was eating out just about everyday because of my work schedule, I had blood work done at the doctors office and my cholesterol was 280 with the triglycerides at 404! I stopped eating the crap served at fast “food” joints and within six months everything was back to normal.

Screw the oil companies
To save at the gas pump, don’t make unnecessary trips, even short runs to the supermarket ads up to a lot of cash out of the wallet at the end of the month. Try to do all you’re shopping for the week or month with one stop, or stop by on your way home from work (if you still have a job). If you can walk or ride a bike to where you need to be, do it. Fix a flag to your bike that reads something like, “screw the oil companies” and you could find yourself on the evening news.

Learn to do for yourself
Learn new skills and do things yourself. Every time you acquire knowledge that will enable you to do something for yourself that you would normally pay others to do, you save money. Mechanical, building, pluming, and home repair are areas worth looking into.

Avoid the unemployment line
Let’s look at the facts; even if you have a job it is most likely not 100% secure and you could be sent to the unemployment line at any time. Work toward becoming self-employed now before getting the boot from your present employer. Nothing beats working for yourself and once you get established making more money than you did at a conventional job is not only possible but likely.

If you regularly read Survivalist Blog then you know I work as a handyman and do odd jobs in order to acquire the cash I need to keep the homestead kitty (travel trailer on junk land) afloat. Try to find something you like to do that you can make money at.

It’s not all that difficult, write down everything you can think of over the next five days, things you know how to do, that people would pay you for. Let’s see; reloading, odd jobs, furniture refinishing, mechanical work, building, wild crafting, welding, gunsmith, computer repair, cleaning, etcetera.

Chances are if you are good at something you can figure out a way to make money from it.