CraftyMamaMia's Frugal Living Tips

Hello and welcome to the 4th edition of CraftyMamaMia's Frugal Living Tips.

Tip #1 Cooking from scratch
By Buying your own ingredients and cooking from scratch, not only are you saving money, but it will be a healthier meal for you and your family. This is my favorite frugal cooking website
HillbillyHousewife.com there are tons of recipes, baking your own bread, tortillas, pizza crust. There are even recipes for convenience foods, make a canister of hot chocolate mix, or even a spiced tea mix. One of my favorite recipes is for Granola Cereal
I hope you enjoy this website as much as I do!

Tip #2 Frugal Gift Giving
Gift giving especially around the holidays can take a big chunk of your budget, but it doesn't have to. Try making your gifts this year such as decorating a Jar and filling it with goodies, such as hot cocoa mix or a cake mix with instructions attached. You could make a collage, or a photo album. Maybe you could bake cookies or make fudge? I know many people appreciate handmade gifts.

Tip #3 Quit Smoking Cigarettes
Have you ever sat down and calculated how much you spend on buying cigarettes a year?
These numbers are all estimates, of course cigarette prices and packs per day vary, so do the math according to your habit.
If you smoke 1 pack a day:
Per day: $3
Per week: $21
Per month: $84
Per Year: $1008
Ok lets say you smoke for 50 years....$50,400

And after you've spent $50,400 on this habit it only gets more expensive once your doctor diagnoses you with Lung Cancer or Emphezima and you have to for pay doctor visits, treatments, and medicine.

Is it really worth it?



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