What your your best money-saving strategies? 12 WEIRD Ways I SAVE MONEY kzfaq.info/get/bejne/orydp7KIrdrHcoE.html

Sewing is my superpower. I recently made a duvet cover from two stray sheets. I mostly do repairs for family, neighbors, and our local clothes closet. It's too bad sewing isn't taught in school any more.

After I retired from the army, I bought 3.5 acres in Maine. I built a greenhouse and have started growing herbs which I dehydrate and store in mason jars. It saves a lot of money. Above that, it is very fresh, and I know they have travelled only 100 feet not 1,000 miles.

I'm older and retired, disabled. My husband retired last year and passed away this year 2 months ago.....a loss of income. Devastating in so many ways. 😢😮if I wasn't prepared for the depression that's coming, I would be in bad shape. Paid off our home early in life. Become debt free!!! Save cash, not in the banks. Save, save. Buy extra every payday. Sell items you don't need or use anymore. Save old shoes for hard times. On and on. 😢😮 waste not want not.

When my kids were babies, we used cloth diapers , warm wash cloths to clean them. We also made our own baby food, basically blended much of what we all ate. Saved so much money and so much easier than we thought. They are now 34 and 37yrs. old and have always been and continue to be extremely healthy.

Im just here for the comments. They're my favorite part about a frugal video. 😊

Ive got an old black and white picture of my family around the same time. Everyone was smiling. Life is what you make of it. 🤷‍♂️

Check how people live in other countries like Philippines, Africa, etc... To them a "poor" person in the US is wealthy. They've been living with almost nothing for generations. Americans live in a bubble. Kind of amazing.

I adapted the motto "if it is free, it's for me!"....and I told it to everyone 😂 All my family and friends call me when they are getting rid of anything. My most recent gift was a like new king size bed with FOSTER & STEARN mattress (that had been enclosed in protectors). I'm guessing this saved us about $2000. It paid off being patient instead of running out and buying it.

This society has created a generation of immediate gratification.

My father was a young child living on a farm during the final years and after the 1930's depression. The habits/lifestyle carried with him. He would stock away almost everything. My mother wanted to 'purge the pile,' one day when my father was gone for several days. She found an old leather work boot, just the one, not the pair. She asked me, "Why is he keeping only one boot?" I answered, "Because he thinks he might need the leather for something someday." The 'make do, do over or do without' was deeply ingrained in him.

I save all plastic bags, use for bathroom trash cans, and cat litter.i save every glass jars, fill w/ beans, rice, and noddlrs.last longer, keep flour in fridge, no bugs, lasts a super long time. Save large gallon water jugs, store rice, beans, and water 💧

I just finished reading a book of collected stories and recollections about The Depression called “We Had Everything But Money.” It was truly amazing the level of resourcefulness and resiliency that these people had during that time! It’s time to bring these practices back into our lives!! 👍🙏

I am 75 and so grateful I listened to my grandparents who lived through the Great Depression. I have practiced what I learned from them for years and it is pretty much as you outlined. We are ao accustomed to modern conveniences and doing what we want when we want. Time to change that and do as our ancestors did. I go on vacation maybe every 5 years or so but only the time and money is right. I have a trailer but will not use it for camping this year because of gas cost. I will stay home and grow food. As for cooking, I start dinner in a crockpot first thing in the morning so I have dinner ready after chores. When it rains I take advantage of that time doing inside chores. Today I am making tamales. Every day has a job. Pay cash for everything. If you use a credit card pay it off every month without fail. Buy from local ranchers and not the store. Pay off what you can and then pay other things ahead. Always have a contingency fund for emergencies.

I will say as an avid canner, who owns 6 different canners, I would not lend my canner out to someone who doesn’t know how to use it. It can easily be damaged. Instead of trying to borrow a canner to learn, ask a canner you know for lessons when they are canning. Most canners will can food year round.

❤ My maternal Grandmother had a great little rhyme she taught me ( she was a tween during The Great Depression)... Use it up Wear it out Make it do, Or do without!

KZfaq has a plethora of “fix it” videos. I still have my Kenmore washer and dryer we bought for cash 30 years ago. We’ve fixed the washer ourselves by paying next to nothing for the parts and watching a video on how to fix it. I love the older simpler machines. I also pray over it every time I do a load of laundry that it keeps going!! 🙏🏼🤞😂

Will be eating lots of bread and soup to stretch our organic veg.

There are so many more options to buy, and that's why it seems easier than using your imagination. I reduced portion sizes to save money and my health. I collected reusable containers to prepare meals in batches and freeze. This works good for me and my husband since we became empty nesters.

So glad I paid attention when my grandparents talked about growing up in the 1930s.

Wash and reuse ziplock bags,use rags to clean not paper towels.Make your own clothes soap,mouthwash,mayonnaise, with recepies on line and no new furniture. I shop thrift stores and learn which ones have personal items an clothes and shoes. I grow veggies. carrots, potatoes, herbs can be gr own in buckets. So many ways.

I live in Australia and everything is expensive, even more so after the pandemic. I own my home, I grow a lot of my own food including herbs. There are only two of us now..I can, dehydrated and freeze I buy quality and meal plan. I make my own taco, Italian, Greek etc, herb blends. I buy used, look on line for freebies or swap with other members of my community. Any excess produce we share with our community and they share with us. That's just what we have always done, it's not that hard...

During this past fall and winter, I have been saving all the one-dollar bills. Due to the present economic conditions, there will be a plethora of garage sales this summer. I have saved thousands of dollars getting hand powered tools and other items I know I will be needing as I continue to become more self-reliant on my acreage. Sometimes I will offer 'twice-the -price' because of the VALUE of the item and to help the seller. This summer I will have several hundreds to go, 'tool and hardware hunting.'

Canning isn't that hard to learn and it doesn't have to cost much to get into it. I bought a big stock pot on sale and make it into a water bath canner by adding canning rings to the bottom as a "rack." Before for I got that, I used to borrow my mom's. I do a lot of canning now. I have basically allowed myself to try canning one more thing each year to help it be less overwhelming for myself.

I love to buy books and clothing at goodwill or second hand stores. Always love to get items that are secondhand due to they are usually better quality than newly produced items.

I was born and raised in rural Newfoundland in a fishing village with a native mother and a Irish father. Poor wasn't the word but I didn't know I was poor until I went out into the world. I was taught about danilion and cattail roots have the same nutritional quality as a potato and potatoes are a super food lacking only vitamin K. Trout rabbits cod moose and root vegetables. I didn't know what a grocery store was until I was 15.Used newspaper and the Sears catalog to wipe my bum.. to many things to mention

Love to pick wild blackberries. So good to forage for food.

I think keeping an organized home saves money. You know where things are and you know what you have, so you never doubles. This may sound strange, but I have long hair and often throw my hair in a poneytail. I have had the same hairties for at least 10 years,,I only replace them when after about a decade they loose their elasticity. Now thats being cheap!😊

I live in the Colorado Eastern prairie and try to utilize many of these concepts daily. i am a computer programmer... Take nothing for granted.

We are a family of 10. I use every frugal tip that I can find .❤

I use to go to the store every payday now I stretch it a little more till we eat everything. I literally have no food wasted.

Great ideas. I live that way. We try to use as little gasoline as possible because it is very expensive as well. Carpool, multipurpose the trips, stay home more. #2 We never eat out. Entertain at home, cook the meal at home instead of paying someone to do it and rush you to eat it. #3 All animals have a purpose, earn their keep by either providing food, protecting or hunting mice and rats. #4. Give homemade gifts repurposed from used thrift items.

I think i ll survive…I was born in country side in Russia, we were poor n I have some skills … have a tiny garden just for my children n grandchildren to watch how fruit n vegetables grow n how to canning stuff n I can sew …have sewing machine…n other stuff that my grandma taught me to do…How to start a fire. Also I learned here in USA how to use a gun… I hope I don’t have to use this last skill.

- I always like to do things on my own. Since i was a kid, doing my toys. It was the best part of playing. Further it was the base for my entrepeneur career . I live almost off grid today in Brasil!

It drove me nuts when I had a perfectly fine cell phone but had to change because the provider no longer supported 3G. Same happens with computers. Some of this is driven by the manufacturers who intentionally make things obsolete so they force you to buy something else. I try to go without whenever I can or buy used or the cheapest version that will still work if I can't fix it myself.

Preserving food is great. I prefer to can, not use the freezer space. I also bake all my own bread. 🍞 over the years I have learned to bake just about every kind. I buy wheat, rye, or spelt berries in bulk. Store it in airtight 5 gal food buckets. Then I just grind up what is needed for recipe. Those berries can last 25 yrs if stored correctly. Bread here in California can be $8-$10 a loaf. And the ingredients are not that good. I think mine costs about $2.50 bc I use olive oil and organic honey. Great video. I love how green your land is!

I wish you all the best in your journey. I am a boomer from the back to the land movement and have lived your lifestyle on a large farm in Canada. I don't think you will be able to live on just your youtube money and build a house no matter how frugal you are in today's economy. As for getting tenants living on your property the insurance insurance will kill you. The two of you will have to get some part time jobs to pay the bills. If your husband is a nurse that is the best route to go. I was like you once and thought you could live off the land but it is very hard and will wear you down. I am very happy and financially stable but both my husband and i had to work part time to survive.

One place that I lived at had an apple, pear, plum, fig and cherry tree. We planted blueberry and gooseberry plants. Had a bed of potatoes and had tomatoes, radishes and bok choy in containers on the deck. We live in British Columbia, Canada, so we have an abundance of blackberries, huckleberries, salal, thimbleberries, and salmon berries to forage.

The communal aspect is so important. If (and I hope not) we have to live through economic collapse again, I want to think "how can we and our neighbors work together to get through this" and not "how can I stop my neighbor from robbing me before I have a chance to loot their house". The other day we had a one-day water outage and because we had water stored, we were able to help out our neighbors. I'm sure they'd also share with us next time :)

My sister and I don't need more "stuff." So, we practice intentional regifting. If she wants to give her sister-in-law a pair of Cutco shears for Christmas 1) I buy a very old set on eBay when a great price comes up, 2) I send it to Cutco for free repair or replacement. If it is damaged or worn out, great, they will replace it for free. I just pay shipping. 3) When I get the replacement set, I give it to my sister. This is my Christmas present to her. 4) She gives the new pair to her sister-in-law. Her sister-in-law knows that we do this 😊 She wants them. Two presents for the cost of one ratty old pair! $142 is the current list price -$ 40 used on eBay -$9 shipping from eBay -$9 shipping to Cutco -$9 to have them ship it to my sister Also, since my sister works in Austin, Texas, where there is a Cutco store, I can have the eBay vendor send it directly to my sister. They send it in to the factory for free. This saves $9. Also, the knives are union made in the USA. Lifetime warranty.

I am so glad that my husband is really good at fixing things. He fixed our washer a few times already, changed the pump. Same with the dishwasher. Also the oven, that broke during the pandemic.

Your ideas are a great help to me, and I’m now able to live below my income and save hundreds a month.

Back in 2020 we went back to all most all of your ideas. Love it!

Florida 2024 1830 a month rent last year it was 1705. Zero affordable housing. Its fucked 70K thats half my income after insurance and taxes. Social collapse incoming.

We found free pallets and lined all 4 sides,not the bottom, with free stuff we had. Cut to waist height and screwed together. Free raised beds!!!!

Lawns became a symbol of wealth because of the estates in England.

Love the grow food not grass!

Speaking of technology- save by saying goodbye to all those streaming services and join my hobby of collecting dvds! In my area, people give them away or sell them for around a dollar. I've got a dvd player for 5 bucks. In 3 weeks, I have over 200 amazing and classic movies. And to save space, I cut the picture of the movie and slip that with the movie in sleeve/case and tuck away. If the power goes out or if you live off grid you own the movie. You can even pick up a cheap/free portable dvd player and have movie nights (charged with solar). Its been such a fun hobbie when me and my hubby want some time away from the homestead we can visit some thrift stores. And entertainment is so comforting during power outages like hurricanes

Good list. I agree with everything you said. I have a saying “ information is free. Try and learn something new every day. It keeps your mind sharp and you never run out of storage, never know what you might need to know.” We run a trap line and I tan the furs. I sew garments and blankets for my family from those hides to keep us warm on those cold Minnesota days. I also stay home and grow and preserve our food. We bought a fixer upper and I am the stay at home construction wife. My hubby has a better ability to earn a living so we decided that I would be the one to reside the house, build the outbuildings, renovate the interior, and so on. We also let our finances dictate our pace. If we can’t pay up front, it’s not time for the project. Wait until you can pay. I’m going to build an off grid tiny house on our land for an air b&b as well as an emergency residence for family members if times get tough.

One very important thing to remember is TIME. All of these things will take time, significantly more time than you ever realized. Which is why this change is a full lifestyle change. Family activities are now revolving around berry picking, making bread, ect. This can be good, and teach valuable skills, but it's not going to be a quick "let's make bread in an hour" type activity. There is a good reason why people lived in communal tribes, why "working songs" were developed, why so many talks and relationships were built around various activities such as drying berries, making baskets, ect. It's a full shift away from our isolated individualistic capitalist driven lives towards a more communal, eco socialist, self sustaining existence.

I live below my means and i produce a lot, I fix 90% of everything, I build all my infrastructure including my home that i wasn't going to build to small lol.

Good morning. I took a fence down and needed trellis for the garden. I made five yesterday with lattice strips, twine and cut the fencing in long strips. They turned out way better than I thought they would. Free from my yard. I buy frozen bread dough. Five loafs for the cost of one! Not full of chemicals n keep in fridge holds longer.

Water bath canning does not require special equipment. And you can re-use glass jars from other food items if the gasket is still in good condition.

GREAT advice!

We grew up making do and glad we did! It taught us much. Great video

My Dad was alcoholic. He would forego house maintenance so i had to take the $16600 college money id worked hard n saved saving house from condemned. He just said when i went broke Noone asked u to. In 1975 mom had 1st heart attack there were 7 adults n a 4 yr old living on Dads 1 A&P grocery store pay. With 4 days till his next pay n no food n house he wanted to get a $500 loan for 4 daus food n in case something comes up. In all actuality he wanted to b a big shot drinking beer n flashing it n buying drunks for others. So thats when i pulled out the store id been getting 3 extra cans a week n hiding the . He was LIVID. So for a month hed go over the list n register receipt to make sure i didnt do it again. Hed search the place id hidden food. But i continued w 3 extra cans n hid under steps. Please dont drink alcohol or smoke cigs or do drugs n forget tatoos anything like that takes food from your loved ones mouths.

A good list the only thing I would add is build it yourself...go buy framing lumber to build your shelves, furniture, ect. You can get old bikes and build hand carts. Learn to blacksmith and you can hammer out hand tools for cheap. Pick up simple electrical skills and you can repair extension cords or wire in a light and skip the drop cord light. It fits in with the reuse but now I can take the old mower and old alternator and make a 12v gas generator for solar systems

Such a wonderful video. Thank you.

I have been this way for many many years fixed small appliances that stopped working even watched a KZfaq video about what was wrong with my refrigerator and figured out what it was and solved it saved us hundreds if not, thousands of dollars over the years and things like that.

Amazing advice thanks! I have subbed and hello from Australia 🦘🌞

Simple cleaning solution: Quarter or Half bucket of Hot water, ounce of dish soap, ounce of white vinegar. Good for glass, wood, and tile. Grandmother-in-Law swore by it, and she lived through the Depression.

I have chickens we repair We salvage but can't grow food at 9200ft altitude. We burn wood to heat our home and barter, 1 chicken makes 2 dinners. I made a list of expenses and cut back on unnecessary stuff.

Excellent

I just saw your channel and I freaking love it! ❤

I got 3 55 gal barrels n lined with contractor bags. Each marked metal snd alum cans and plastic. The plastic when full is recycled at Walmart. The metal mostly cans r rinsed n put in barrel n when it and alum cans full sold to scrap yard. All trash burned in woodburner that i cook on top of too. All garbage goes to compost as well as asher. Hence no garbage bill.

Loved this video, you made me laugh out loud describing grass as useless 😄

Great channel. Very encouraging. Thank you

Our local library recently had a session on "lessons from the great depression". My best money saving strategy is just not to carry it around. Unless I have a specific need I just don't bring my wallet- job done 🙂

I'm a Newfoundlander who was raised in a rural fishing village before Newfoundland discovered oil offshore. I drove a motorcycle through West Virginia and other places when I was younger because I read to much John Steinbeck as a boy. I didn't know I was poor as a child until others told me I was. What do you think my chances of surviving anything. I was a fisherman soldier and miner and I lived the most dangerous professions and did well.Like me mudder said it's only bragging if it ain't true Tommy..My mother named me after Tom Joad and I ain't mean because of her influence and love.

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You can survive. You can make do and be comfortable, if you got a house and big garden, but thriving takes government spending more into the economy [on the needful] than it takes out in taxes and bond sales. My grandmother [Married 1929] kept a big country garden going unto she passed at 72, in 1975. My grandfather scaled it back, and run it until he passed at 86, in 1987.

I have fixed my vacuum many times

I look for good prices on food items we can freeze and toss them in the freezer. We hit the bread store every two weeks, free turkeys prior to Thanksgiving as part of a store promo., sale prices.

These are all really good, common sense tips that have really fallen out of fashion. Sadly, I see far too many comments here feeding into fear that is really unneccessary.

good tips, extra tip baking cake and cookies yourself

I never thought the world would come to this but here we are. I am saving more stuff I find for free and trying to find out how I can sell things. Sometimes people will buy things that you never thought had value. They might do something else with the item other than what is intended. They may even melt the item down if its metal.

Do you have a rain water catchment system?

When shopping for food buy what is on sale. Stay away from packaged items. I love my clothesline. Nothing compares to sun dried clothes and sheets. Why every yard doesn't have one is beyond me. 🌻

My son asked me the other day," Why do you keep all those old out of style shirts?" I told him, "When I do any painting, they are in style. IF they get paint all over them, I can keep using them or toss them out."

Have you done a video or thought about doing a video all the ways you use and mix the dr bronners soap? I would be very interested! I do use it for hand soap so far, but want to use for cleaning. I did try it as dish washing soap and didn’t like it. Do you use it for dishes and if so what is your ratio of soap to water? Honestly a video with that plus all the natural cleaners you use and how, laundry soap, cleaners, and etc. I love learning new ways to do things and how others do/ use as well. 15:13

Yard sales . One it’s super cheap plus it’s a way to talk to others

Or you can look into gasless and oiless self running generators and solar for EVs and everything else. No more blackouts, limited range or expensive installations. We could replace all the wiring on the sides of the roads and underground. Recycle it to be used on other things.

#1 Money saving thing: have a real business to deduct expenses and get money back from the dang gov.

Since you are off grid could you show us how to? And fees. I’m very interested in learning

A word to the wise, sometimes good stuff is thrown out along the road because the owners had a bedbug infestation. Be careful!!!

People are obsessed with being clean to the point of seriously damaging their bodies and those in their family. We don’t have to bathe and wash our hair every single day. I ditched all the cleaning supplies years ago in favor of vinegar water and dawn. I use personal cloths instead of TP, make my own mouth wash and tooth powder. Laundry detergent can be made from Borax, washing soda and a bar soap and water. I felt like every time I turned around I was using something that had to be thrown away so I changed my habits. Its jot rocket science.

you know, you do not need all the canning equipment to can. We reuse glass jars with metal lids and a large saucepan to do ours and have been very successful over the years

Thanks. For the Wisdom. How to get good seeds and tools to do DIY and did in the Garden. What do do to stay warm in the Winter?

Don't you think it would be better to avoid depression? My system never has a depression or a recession.

My oldest brother Naval Intelligence said what we throw away some foreigners would b kings

I’m glad I don’t play the gen z or the millennials game I’m 58 I’m a gen X a country boy will survive girl and you will too I’ve got a place so damn far and high no power no water no phone service no cable no Wi-Fi and no toxic people lmao and I love it up there it’s my land and it’s so beautiful and paid for too I’m looking for a female partner that thinks like us the cabin is 650 sq foot and very nice too !! 😎👍

I like clean goods not dirty

Show us how to forage ... show us

We have lost the ability to be creative. This.

all this only works if you own your own home.

Fruit

Hey Katie, what do you use as a cream/mosturizer for face/body/hands? I wish to know good product that would work, inexpensive and vegan 🤗

America wont.

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