Saving Everyday

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Gas, food, coffee, accommodations, entertainment, and parking add up quickly, not to mention unforeseen expenses like things you may have forgotten from home. If you’re open to flying or driving, compare the cost of flights to the estimated cost of gas. Gas stations and airports are money traps! Bring your own snacks.

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Saving Money Money Travel Hotel 52

Saving With Shellie

MAY 23, 2013

Then you only need to eat out for dinner. When people are planning staycations they look for fun, inexpensive local activities. Kids get hungry after you’ve run out of snacks. Dinner out may be more than you budgeted. Your gas fill-up may be more than you expected. Want to find more ways to save?

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Vacation Kids and Family Budgeting Budget 49

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 23, 2014

There wasn’t a restaurant on every corner and people didn’t eat out much. Out of season produce, if available at all, was super expensive. Cheap (not just inexpensive, I mean cheap – easy to break) toys came from post-war Japan. Most people were thin. Most food at the grocery store came from the USA.

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Growing Home and Garden Radios Kids and Family 180

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. When we bought our first home , we knew we would eventually try to move up to a better neighborhood so we only did DIY inexpensive or absolute necessity projects to the house.

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Thrifty Garage Spendthrift Fair-Trade 213

The Frugal Girl

JANUARY 22, 2024

When we do stop, my pro tip: Don’t use gas station bathrooms (unless you’re at a really nice toll road stop, and then they’re okay!) We always find free/inexpensive things to do on our trips, if we can. Even if we don’t end up using all the food we buy, it’s cheaper than eating out.

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Rent Son Frugal Home and Garden 181