Some Less Usual Tips for Saving Money
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We see articles full of tips for saving money being published every other day, but a recent article at Yahoo Finance actually included a few tips we rarely think of. Our favorites include:
- Save money on software - once you have Windows then many other kinds of software you need have a free version available - such as OpenOffice.org for word processing, spreadsheets, and so on, and there are a bunch of free (but good) anti-virus software programs to download.
- Don’t buy plants - heaps of plants grow just as well from cuttings, so check the gardens of your friends and family for what you’re after and take a small cutting to grow your own.
- Don’t drink bottled water. Apart from the production of all those bottles being very environmentally unfriendly, buying them is wallet unfriendly. Either drink tap water or buy an inexpensive filter system to filter your tap water.
- Check grocery prices for some unusual surprises - the writer of the Yahoo article found that the local gas station in a New York suburb had the cheapest price for eggs and milk compared to supermarkets and other shops nearby, which is definitely not what you’d expect.
- Do your own mechanic work - a lot of small jobs that you pay a mechanic for can be done yourself with a small investment in tools and time.
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