New Frugal Goals ideas?

[leeleeaub]

Well, I have been thinking and I want to set some new frugal goals for myself and wondered if anyone else would be interested.
Mine are to find more meals to make that are cheaper
find ways to save on cleaning products like making my own
start sewing again and make a lot of mine and my husbands clothes
try to find a home job typing for some extra money
hopefully soon stop smoking

[FrugalMomof3]

Those a great goals...

Here are mine:
~ Make cheap meals and if leftovers make sure they are eaten.
~ Buy clothing only from thrift stores or yard sales.
~ Cut back on using electric so much (light candles).
~ Start making my own curtains (gonna do that this weekend).
~ Learn to cut costs are the grocery store and only go once a week (i.e. cutting coupons, compare prices).
~ DE-CLUTTER! I have so much stuff and although I am planning a yard sale I have to figure what's good to sell or throw away.

I have so many things and we've already started some such as to cut down on heating costs we bought econo heat wall electric heats saving us in the cold month atleast $200-$250 a month.

Now I think I am convincing hubby to be frugal atleast when is come to turning the lights off when not in the room, closing the door so the heat doesn't escape, he is already my garbadge disposal so I never worry about throwing food away.

Oh and leeleeaub I sent you an email a while back and never heard back from you!

[KimSecret]

I really need to find a better way of shopping...I thought I was doing better, but have gone over my budget the last 2 months by at least $60.

I want to teach myself to knit...have done a little, but havnt got very far.

Like Tracy, I also sent you an email a while back, but never got a response...you can email me any time! heavenly_1970@yahoo.com

[danni]

My goals are
-to start hang drying my clothes more often
-cut the grocery bill back by at least $50/month
-use up the wool I've had for years, I just learned how to crochet and am working on a blanket for me and hubby as ours has just about had it
- find more healthier frugal meals

[madhen]

Great idea! My biggest goal is to start planning my shopping menu for each week. I would love to start the OAMC, but I'm not ready for that yet. If I could even do OAWC , I'd be happy!

For March, I want to get $3,000 in debt paid off (including my mortgage). If I can pay down $3,000 per month, I can be debt free in 9.5 years. So that is my minimum per month. Anything else I can throw in there is gravy.

[PrairieRose]

Mine are:

~get the grocery spending under control
~work on a budget (I'm so resistant to a written budget )
~get our taxes figured
~work hard on my discretionary spending
~re-do my kitchen as frugally as possible

[Shell]

~Bring my lunch to work
~Buy less clothes & shoes
~More cooking from scratch

[inneedofhope]

Continuing to pay cash-no more cc buying for me!
buying only healthy foods
Reading the books I have and not buying new
figuring out what I could make to sell to earn some extra $$ to go toward debt
Keeping up with the housework
Remembering that spending time with ds doing regular routine things at home is just as important as taking him out.

[tlenad]

Let's see frugal goals:

Continue to improve my cooking and find ways to make healthy delicious meals inexpensively. And eat down my stores, moving in July and don't want to move the food with me.

Sticking to my $150 budget for new clothes this year. I haven't bought anything summery in two or three years. I literally have one sundress and that's it for warm weather clothing. When I purged out the closet nothing else fit. I should be good for another couple of years after that though. I hate buying clothes.

Continue to empty out my apartment in so I don't have to spend a lot of time or money when I move in July. I'm hoping to have everything purged down so it's managible when I move.

Finish reading all the books in the to be read pile and either sell them on-line or take them into the second hand book store or good will. Will do two things, give me free entertainment and will help cut down on the clutter for the move. After I'm done with these, I'll get a library card and start using the library.

Then the little items like:
turning off lights and radio's when I'm not in a room.
find some cheap craft project to use up some the yarn and such in the apartment and maybe use them as gifts.
Improve my sewing when I move back home and have access to my mother's sewing machine.

[AmyBoz]

Well, now that I'm going to be home all day, I need to work on keeping the electricity, gas, and water bills down

[babetteq]

Good thread!

I need to keep an eye on the heat & hot water.

I just started all my jars of sprouts again - I used to regularly keep 5-6 jars on the window that were ready different days so I always had fresh.... time to get that started again!

I must must get my mending done. This will significantly increase our repertoire of ensembles!

Use up my freezer. I have things in there that HAVE to be used up or they will go to the dogs. - really - the dogs would love it.

Get my spinning backlog finished. I get paid when my yarn is spun.

go for a walk to look for the good berry/fern/sorrel patches & check on the ditchmint (free vegies & fruit - the forest will provide)

Offer to walk to the store etc so that my car-addicted partner doesn't use the gas & I get more excercise.

those are my goals.

babs