How to Raise a Family of Six with One Income – 50 Ways to Save Money – Part 2
11. Slow Cooking
Cooking big meals in a big crock pot will also help in making sure there is plenty of good hot food to eat and will save you time and money on your power bill.
12. Limit your luxuries
Cable vision and satellite TV are not necessary to run a household. They usually are showing the same movies over and over again anyway. You can go out and rent new and old movies from your local library for free or you can go to your local video store and rent only the movies you want to watch. This is better than paying for movies you dont want to see or have seen already.
13. Be Addiction-free
If you have addictions like smoking, drinking, or doing drugs then kick that habit to the curb. You could give your family a whole lot more and be around longer for them if you were not spending so much on trying to kill yourself slowly. Love them enough to love yourself, quit!
14. Eating Out
Dont eat out every night of the week. It costs less to cook meals at home than it does to eat out and you know you are getting good wholesome food that is prepared safely if you do it yourself.
15. Replace Light Bulbs
Use florescent light bulbs. They use less power and have to be replaced less often than regular ones.
16. Smart Lighting
If you have lamps then use them instead of your regular lighting. Some ceiling fans have four bulbs and that uses more power which makes your power bill go up. You can also replace the bulbs of the fan with CFLs.
17. Save on Electricity
On days when it is cool outside raise all your windows instead of running your air conditioner. You can even put a fan in the window to circulate the air if you want to, this will still use less power than running that air conditioner.
18. Saving on Water Bill
If your children are young, you can save money on your water bill by giving them all a bath in the same water. Older children seem to object to this because they feel it is nasty to wash after each other.
19. Dollar Stores
You can visit dollar stores and purchase items that you normally use a whole lot cheaper than other stores.
20. TV Time
Watching TV together not only promotes family time but also saves power.
