Thrifty Thursdays are a new segment I am starting to show how we save money. I want to start this week by showing 5 ways we saved money in the past week. This past week was Thanksgiving and we had a pretty low key holiday. Hubby had to work all day and had a pot luck there. We sat down to a celebratory dinner of chicken, green bean casserole and an apple crisp when he got home. We watched a movie and then he went to bed. Which leads me to my first way I saved money...
1. Make Money- I babysat on Thanksgiving/Black Friday so another family could go face the crowds. While they were out shopping in the freezing weather, I was inside, warm and enjoying a rare night of cable. I told them I couldnt babysit until after Tim went to bed so that we wouldnt miss out on any holiday time together. Pretty easy way to earn some dough.
2. Stay Away from Sales- Just because there are crazy sales on Black Friday does not mean I need to take advantage of them. One way I saved money was to NOT go shopping on Black Friday. I am always a sucker for a sale and if I went out, I am sure I would come back with "deals too good to be true". I have to limit my shopping exposure because I have horribly bad willpower, so I stayed in (and babysat) instead of hitting the shops.
3. Bringing Home the Bacon...errr Ham. I mentioned earlier that Hubby had a pot luck at work on Thanksgiving. They served a huge ham alongside a turkey. Hubby, being the thrifty guy he is, brought me back the ham bone with meat still on it. This next week we will make split pea soup using the ham from his potluck. Thats one less meal we have to buy and I love stretching something that would normally have been thrown out.
4. Drink Free Coffee- I love Starbucks. I am kind of ashamed to admit that I have a gold card with my name on it because that shows how I cant stay away. I know I can make coffee at home (and I have really been trying to make cafe like drinks at home so I dont have to pay the high prices at Starbucks). Our RV park has a keurig machine stocked with free kcups in the laundry room. When I went to the office to pay rent for December, I swung by the laundry room and made myself a free cup of coffee. Its not nearly the Peppermint Mocha I love from Starbucks, but it was warm and free and kept me from going out to Starbucks.
5. Swagbucks- I have really been trying to maximize my earnings on Swagbucks to earn Amazon giftcards. Swagbucks is a website where you earn points by watching videos, taking surveys, etc. If I make it a daily habit to earn 90 points, I can earn a $5 Amazon gift card every 5 days. It usually evens out to $5 a week. But hey, thats $20 a month in Amazon credits for not having to ever leave the RV. Did I mention the RV Park has free wifi? You could earn way more than 90 points a day but I dont want to be a slave to the computer so I feel like that is a good compromise.
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