8 SIMPLE WAYS TO SAVE MONEY NOW! ATTAINABLE TIPS SPRING 2018

Welcome everyone, I'm Devi Killian and today I am sharing with you eight

practical and attainable tips to save money in your life today. So these tips are some that Blaze, my husband, and I use on a monthly, weekly, and daily basis that save us

money in the end. So I hope you find these helpful for you and let's just get started

My first tip in saving money is to brew your own coffee

I have a regular coffee pot that I use and my husband and I both drink coffee

so a Keurig was not in the line for us and those are pretty expensive anyways, and the pods are expensive

So I just went with a regular coffee pot. I use a travel mug, take that to work, and have a cup every morning

So it just definitely saves us money because that is how we like to drink our coffee. Not just one cup a day

we have a couple every morning, maybe three, four, more than a couple

My second tip is to pack your own lunch. I'm a teacher, so I do take my lunch to school every day

I have a fridge in my office and I just like having my own food. School food

it's not the best anyways, and there's not many places to eat out where I teach

So it just definitely saves us money to pack our own lunch and

my husband works from home, so he eats leftovers, so that has saved us a lot of money too

He doesn't feel like he has to go eat out, and I don't eat out as well. My third tip is to buy sale groceries

So we get a sale flyer from our local grocery store, and I just shop what's on there

If you follow me for a while, you know that's how I shop. I like to purchase things that are on sale for the week and just use those as our weekly groceries

Instead of buying things that are really high price, normal price, I just always look at what is on sale

My fourth tip is to freeze overripe bananas. This may sound like a weird tip, but instead of tossing them, definitely just freeze them. They're great for smoothies

They're great for making banana bread. A lot of other recipes I use call for overripe bananas

My grocery store even sells overripe bananas at a reduced rate, so sometimes I will just go to buy the overripe bananas

My fifth tip, which may be a little bit trickier for some of you, is to plant and grow your own produce

We have enough space in our backyard to have two gardens, and my husband does aquaponics as well

If you want to know more about that, let me know in the comments below, because that's a whole another video in and of itself

But we plant and grow our own produce, and then we freeze it for the winter months

But that saves us so much money on buying fresh produce at the store or at the farmer's market

and it's a hobby of mine anyway, so if you're looking for a hobby, try gardening

All right, my sixth tip is to sell something from your house

So my husband is a reseller on Amazon and eBay, so this is easier for us to do as well

But I like to do it to find a Facebook swap, a Craigslist, have a garage sale

do something to make a little extra money instead of just letting that junk or things you no longer want sit around in your house

All right, my next tip is to buy in bulk. Now, I don't do this with everything

I just do it with more non-perishable items. Yes, there's only two of us

However, things like canned beans or tomato soup or things like that that we use throughout the entire year

and that don't expire in the next month or so, we buy in bulk, whether it be from Costco, Sam's Club, online on box.com

I really do like box.com. You can get things at a discounted rate from those stores and they last quite a while, so it saves you a little extra money

My last tip that I have for you today is to shop consignment or thrift

As most of you know, I am a huge thrifter and garage saler, and I pretty much buy all my clothing and home decor

from consignment stores, thrift stores, or garage sales. So that has saved us a lot of money

I have not paid full price for anything in my house, and I'm proud of it

I'm not ashamed to say that, and I DIY a lot of things too. So that has saved us quite a bit of money too because I know furniture can get quite expensive

So if you want to see more tips on how we save money in a practical manner, let me know in the comments below

Maybe you have some good tips that you can put in the comments, and I'll put a compilation together

something like that. And don't think these small things don't save money. They truly do add up, and in the end

it's just that nice pocket change to have for something that you may need in the future

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practical ways to save money. With that, I hope you have a blessed and wonderful day. Bye