“What’s The Most Frugal Thing You Do?” (50 Answers)

Save my bread bags for dog poop. They are actually really good bags for picking up dog poop though. .

I keep a bucket in the shower that fills up with rinse water. When full, water is used to flush the toilet!

I take my clothes to the tailor to have repaired if they rip or get a hole.

I’ve had the tailor chuckle at me for bringing her 20 dollar old navy flannels to repair but she’s happily patched the holes and I still have the shirts. Almost all my jeans have the crotches patched in them but some of those jeans I ripped the crotches on 5 + years ago and I’m still wearing them.

The repairs are always far less than a new item would cost and I’m not creating more waste and buying more junk it’s an all around win in my book.

There are a lot of frugal things I do, but the ones that have the biggest impact are tracking every penny I spend and sticking to a budget. It surprises me how many people DON'T do these. I know people who have never reconciled their accounts (checking, credit card, etc)! I use a free program called GnuCash to do these (and more... keep track of investments, net worth, etc).

-keep my house at 50F degrees in winter and AC not kicking in until 80F degrees in summer
-use the library and free apps like Tubi and a cheap tv antenna for most of my entertainment (books, movies, TV, sports, audiobooks, podcasts, etc.)
-get most of my clothes at thrift shops or on clearance
-eat probably 90% of my meals at home
-whenever possible try to fix things myself (latest example was fixing my car AC fan myself - i am not very handy but turning a $1000 charge into the cost of half an hour and $40 for a part is worth it if there's not much chance your "repair" will just make things worse lol).

I work at a school, and any leftover school lunches in our class never go to waste. I have like 15 pizza pockets in my freezer right now, all free! 😂.

Probably track the deli and meats area for clearance. 3 weeks after super bowl you get awesome charcuterie boards you can freeze and enjoy a long while.

But really, tracking prices and working to not pay fees or subscriptions and double points consistently.

I wash my cars using rain water to save on water bill. I soaped up my cars when I see dark clouds, and let the rain wash away the suds.

I don’t drink anything that isn’t water, no one in my household does. We’ve kept it this way for years now.

Unplug my tv every night to save on electricity. I have a meter and realized it uses about 100watts/hr while not in use ....