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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No cable or land line phone.

Rarely eat out (including bringing lunch to work, making coffee at home, etc)

Unsubscribe from all store emails so you're not tempted to buy stuff you don't need because there is a sale

Above all, do not overspend on your house.  Seriously. There might not be anything you can do about it now but if you can, but a (much) cheaper house than the mortgage company tells you you can afford.[/quote]

We do all this. Especially the last part -- we bought a tiny but cozy 1000 sq ft house in a great school district in N Arl. Our mortgage is very easy to handle, even if we dropped to one salary.

I also cut the kids' and my hair (used to cut DH's but it's too time-consuming). I have longish hair and googled how to cut it and watched some videos, and voila! You'd never guess from looking at me (mid-career professional). I have a feeling people might sneer at this, but it saves me [i]bank[/i].

In the baby years, I cloth diapered and made/froze my own baby food. Thank goodness we are out of that stage.
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