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[quote=Anonymous]Cooking at home. We used to eat out a few times per week, or even sometimes 5 times a week. Now it is once per week at most.

Ordering groceries for pick up. When I buy them online and don't actually go into the store I seem to spend about half as much. I think it is a combination of lack of impulse buys and an ability to shop sales on my computer in a way that my brain just can't do in the store, even with a detailed list.

Eating what we have. I have been making a big effort to use up what we have and eliminate food waste and it is working. Yesterday I noticed I had about half a large onion on it's last legs in my fridge, half a pack of bacon, and had bought a pack of swiss cheese by mistake when I already had some. So I made a quiche to use it all up. It was delicious. I also had two packs of blackberries from buy-one-get-one that I hadn't used that only had about a day on them and I made muffins with them (saw an extremely easy recipe on a reel a while back and now I use it all the time). I'm a busy working professional, but we now live fairly far south and it will take me as long to go pick something up as it does to throw muffins together or whatever. So I'm cooking a lot more than I used to.

We are driving our cars a long time, but we have always done that. DH's car is about 20 years old, and mine is about 8 years old.

I've been doing my own nails. It started out of feeling like I didn't have the time to go sit in the salon, but then I started adding up the savings in my head, and now that is a huge part of what motivates me to do it myself. I still go sometimes. 
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