25 Morally Grey Survival Hacks From the Recession That Turned Millennials Into Financial Moguls

Sometimes when I email compliments to companies they send coupons for freebies or discounts.

College move out days have the best free dumpster stuff.

Goodwill and thrift in the rich areas. They say it gets distributed but it does not.

I took all the textbooks out of donation bins at move out and sold them. The signs said they wouldn’t accept the books so I figured better in my pocket than the trash. Also dumpster diving veteran

ALSO call your phone company or internet and say you want to cancel, if they try to get you to stay, say ok if you lower it to $x a month, be strict though!!

Instead of paying to go out, go to art gallery shows and drink free wine and eat free snacks

Lots of tools have lifetime warranties like Craftsman, Dewalt, um, and I think rigid is another good one. But they have lifetime warranties so you can just take them right back to Home Depot and exchange them right then in there.

In the winter, after you cook something in the oven, leave the oven door wide open and it's like Free heat

Getting chickens to save money on eggs. I cannot emphasize this enough. Chickens are expensive. Their feed is expensive. If you don't have a big yard where they can forage and Take care of themselves. Chickens are going to cost you so much more money long term than paying for eggs at their inflated price.

I know a lot of people who turn off their HVAC system when they leave to go to work for the day because they don't wanna heat their house or cool their house when it's empty. Your HVAC system is going to have to work so hard to come back up or down to temp when you get home. Doing that is going to cost you way more money long term. Same exact thing goes for the water heater. Do not turn it off just because you don't need it.

1) dumpster diving furniture 2) get a serving job and eat leftover food 3) get a library card

Create an email address specifically to share with family members for sharing streaming services memberships like to Sam's Club, anything like that that cost money on a monthly basis that you can share with your family. That way there's never any back and forth about can you check your email for the code? I just had it sent to your email. Blah blah blah. You don't have to worry about waiting on other people. It's just always gonna be there.

Find out when the rich neighborhoods have their trash day and then drive through the night before to pick up everything that the rich people have decided is junk but can actually be resold for a lot of money. Or just keep it for yourself. Of course that was the mid 2000, so adjusting for today's standards. Infiltrate their Facebook groups, find the neighborhood Facebook groups, and keep alerts on for when somebody posts curb alert. Because usually it's gonna be something nice.

If you get an email about buy three bathing suits, get one free but you've already got 10 bathing suits, you aren't saving money by getting a free bathing suit. You are spending money on 3 4 bathing suits that you didn't need in the first place. It's a waste of money.

Hand washing your dishes instead of using the dishwasher. The dishwasher is going to save you more money long term because it's going to take far less water and it's going to take far less energy to heat up the water.

Anytime you're out to eat somewhere, grab extra condiments, bring them home, put them in your fridge. Forget they're there until you need them later.

I was in college. I went to as many free events as possible. Food was ALWAYS provided.

switch car insurances every 6 months (actually call an agent though) because they have “competition” price deals and you could keep getting cheaper and cheaper car ins everytime

Measure liquid laundry detergent with measuring cups. Don’t just pour

Cut your sponges in half.