Comments on: Frugal Friday Week 17

By: Kevin@OutOfYourRut

Kevin@OutOfYourRut — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:19:13 +0000

I was driving by a dry cleaners on Sat and thought the same thing. I haven’t been to one in a few years, but I see people walking into them with a weeks worth of laundry, something you can easily do at home while working on other things, and can only imagine what the weekly bill for that is.

Let’s see, we pay other people to do our laundry, clean our houses, cut our lawns, cook our meals (restaurants) and we wonder how it is that we ever got into debt! Are we a lazy lot or what???

By: Jan from BetterSpines

Jan from BetterSpines — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:00:10 +0000

Very sensible advice. When you look at the amount of money wasted on coffees and lunches, it’s horrifying. Also, it’s much healthier to bring lunch from home. About dry cleaning – we don’t use it at all because of the chemicals! The home phone is a necessity for us for internet access, but shop around to get the best deals.

By: Mom

Mom — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:30:10 +0000

I coupon. I fanatically coupon. I think you might even say I’m a bit crazy about coupons.

I went to Publix on Monday and bought almost $60 worth of stuff and only paid $7.41 — my current personal best. I got 5 bottles of Tylenol – 24 ct for ‘better than free’ because they were less than the value of my coupons. I got 5 boxes of Barilla pasta for ‘better than free’ because THEY were less than the value of my coupons. It was awesome!!!

I also cook at home as much as I can manage. It’s my one area where I’m trying to focus for improvement.

By: JOE

JOE — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:39:37 +0000

Nice! (added to text of post as many don’t read comments)
thanks /Joe

By: Buggys

Buggys — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:24:27 +0000

I cut out the unneccessary dry cleaning which saves about $15 per week.