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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- Call car insurance and tell them he doesn't drive his car to work and it's only like 5 miles/day PT driving.

- Cancel cable TV and buy an HD Roku box and HD antenna and subscribe to Amazon Prime for free TV/movies.  You can buy new seasons of cable shows you love for about $15/season.

- Cancel gym memberships.

- Get an economic forbearance for the student loans so you can stop making payments.

- Eat beans/rice twice a week and pasta once per week - groceries may be your 2nd largest bill/month. Squeeze lime on the cooked rice.  To season the beans, fry some yellow onions (buy bags of yellow onion - it's cheaper), then pour in the beans and sprinkle adobo on it and simmer a few minutes.  Then mix the rice/beans up.

Or, you can cook dry beans from scratch at 1/2 the price and simmer in water with fried onions and 1 packet of Goya Sazon Seasoning (the all orange box).  We buy the big 5 lbs bags of jasmin rice.

Also, when we eat meat, we usually eat chiken thighs in a crock pot - just de-skin/fat and cover it with lots of water and a chopped up onion.  You can season the water with lots of Adobo, or with lots of McCormick Lemon Pepper Seasoning Blend and Allspice.  Serve with the cheap rice.

And we only eat frozen veggies - Trader's has really cheap frozen veggies, wines, and other beverages but the meat and several other items are really expensive.

And buy everything generic that you can, although some things you cannot like dressing, mayonaise, pasta sauce or canned tomatoes.[/quote]

Whoda thunk, Susze Orman on DCUM![/quote]

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