Money Saving Ideas Swap

[foszoe]

I almost put this in the prepping threads because of its medical value.

My wife has to get an endoscopy about every other year. I found this on sale.

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Now I just need to get her on board to start saving some serious cash.

Share your money saving tips with fellow INGOers

 

[Twangbanger]

I think I can envision how you might just pick up a real cheap colonoscopy...

 

[spencer rifle]

We have always got the most fuel efficient cars we could. We had 1992 and 1993 Geo Metros (50+mpg) until the rust monster got them. 200,000+ miles including rebuilds. Our youngest now has our 2005 Golf TDI (50+ mpg), but it has more than 250,000 mile and is showing it's age. Our 2016 C-Max plug-in hybrid is currently getting 54+ mpg over the last 7500 miles. That's money back in my pocket.

We do strange stuff in our household - wash out and re-use ziplock bags, have no paper towels (lots of old rags), can produce, trade eggs for honey or money for buying feed, we look through junk mail that has nothing printed on the back and use them for phone message and note cards, grind our own flour, and have a drawer full of plasticware from various meals. SWMBO has a closet (and several trash bags) full of hand-me-up clothes that friends or their kids outgrew or just got tired of. And ammo reloading - I make custom hunting rounds for less than 1/4 the cost of factory.

All that doesn't add up to huge savings, but it does add up eventually.

ETA: I may have taken this thread more seriously than warranted.

 

[Ingomike]

Stop buying most commercial cleaners. Dawn and vinegar, in the kitchen. Ammonia removes blood stains in fabrics. The works blue top toilet bowl cleaner (diluted hydrochloric acid) does a lot of cleaning jobs. You just don’t need to have all tho $5-$20 bottles all over the house…

 

[foszoe]

Stop buying most commercial cleaners. Dawn and vinegar, in the kitchen. Ammonia removes blood stains in fabrics. The works blue top toilet bowl cleaner (diluted hydrochloric acid) does a lot of cleaning jobs. You just don’t need to have all tho $5-$20 bottles all over the house…

We get the industrial strength vinegar, 30% or something...she buys it and then mix it down.

Borax is still a great laundry cleaner also

 

[foszoe]

Yes

We have always got the most fuel efficient cars we could. We had 1992 and 1993 Geo Metros (50+mpg) until the rust monster got them. 200,000+ miles including rebuilds. Our youngest now has our 2005 Golf TDI (50+ mpg), but it has more than 250,000 mile and is showing it's age. Our 2016 C-Max plug-in hybrid is currently getting 54+ mpg over the last 7500 miles. That's money back in my pocket.

We do strange stuff in our household - wash out and re-use ziplock bags, have no paper towels (lots of old rags), can produce, trade eggs for honey or money for buying feed, we look through junk mail that has nothing printed on the back and use them for phone message and note cards, grind our own flour, and have a drawer full of plasticware from various meals. SWMBO has a closet (and several trash bags) full of hand-me-up clothes that friends or their kinds outgrew or just got tired of. And ammo reloading - I make custom hunting rounds for less than 1/4 the cost of factory.

All that doesn't add up to huge savings, but it does add up eventually.

ETA: I may have taken this thread more seriously than warranted.

And no. I started off silly but I do like real savings ideas.

I almost said tips but Printcraft would show up sooner or later probably and he doesn't need any soft ahem balls.

 

[Lpherr]

Keep in mind, that TP has two sides.

 

[foszoe]

Keep in mind, that TP has two sides.

I think I get what you are saying...with proper sanitation procedures, it could double as a colonoscopy.

Maybe I could set up a low cost clinic out in the garage for a side hustle.

 

[OneBadV8]

Keep in mind, that TP has two sides.

get a bidet and you're no longer subject to the toilet paper scares

 

[foszoe]

get a bidet and you're no longer subject to the toilet paper scares

That's another money saving tip. We buy the 4 ply paper then unspool it to 4 rolls.

 

[Lpherr]

That's another money saving tip. We buy the 4 ply paper then unspool it to 4 rolls.

And now you have eight sides.

 

[OneBadV8]

for some reason this reminds me of ....

 

[Magyars]

for some reason this reminds me of ....

I gotta watch that again...I never realized it was a look into the real future

 

[OneBadV8]

I gotta watch that again...I never realized it was a look into the real future

it's closer and closer to reality every year. It's both funny and scary.

 

[foszoe]

It's basically an updated Future Shock with humor!

 

[Magyars]

We save 40.00 a month on electric bill by hanging our laundry out to dry. On bad days, or extremely cold, I set up a retractable line by the wood stove.

 

[foszoe]

We save 40.00 a month on electric bill by hanging our laundry out to dry. On bad days, or extremely cold, I set up a retractable line by the wood stove.

I am a fan of that too. She isn't. Summer is best actually smells fresh naturally. Naturally starched too

 

[spencer rifle]

I am a fan of that too. She isn't. Summer is best actually smells fresh naturally. Naturally starched too

SWMBO is also not a fan. Her pollen allergies won't allow it. We only hang up woollies that don't go through the dryer.

 

[smokingman]

Peroxide for blood stains. If for some reason you have puddles of the stuff, they sell industrial strength peroxide in the plumbing isle at home depot and lowes. Beats paying cleaners....


Buy table salt from GFS or online from Morton in 25lb bags. Break is down into mason jars(12 or so) to keep it dry.

 

[Nazgul]

That's another money saving tip. We buy the 4 ply paper then unspool it to 4 rolls.

Aaahh, have to love INGO. Advice on guns, reloading, carrying AND using TP!!

Next thing you know they will advise me on pineapple on my pizza!!

Don