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Bought an apartment in the CBD so I could walk to work, saving on car costs & public transport. :eek:
Got a job that requires me to travel regularly, so I don't feel the need to get out of the CBD for holidays. :eek:
Make my own bread. :(

m.
 
i do plenty lol

only use ATM if it is "my banks " no exception (they are not getting my $4)

haircuts have gone from $40 to $9 by changing salon

shop at aldi where i can instead of coles

petrol on tuesday only

sign up for m4/m5 cash back scheme

make my own cafe quality Cappuccinos from home before work.

cook at home instead of eating out.

bring a bag with your own lunch/dinner to events such as football games or the easter show

never buy new clothes

heres the best one of all

i work in a CBD i wont say where.. and there is a large parking station that is near by. where its 2 hours free parking . alternate parking is $7 a day

parking rangers come normally at 10am (to try and catch the "all day parkers" and mark your car with chalk and if they chalk is still there 2hours later they will fine you $81.

so im in a email syndicate with my work where 3 times a day 10.30 12.30 and 2.30 some one on the list (growing list of over 100 people) has to go and check the cars have been "marked" and then email the whole list. (it works out to be your turn once every fortnight or less. and if they have been marked you simply go there with a cloth and water and scrub off the mark..... all to save $7 a day


but we are saving $2000 per year (enough for a 1-2 week holiday) so why not???

and it works.......i haven been fined for the last 7 months.....

i swear i could survive for a whole year on just one fortnights pay

why do I do all of the above?? i became that way when i lost some $$ on a margin loan in the crash of Dec 2007

I have recovered now but have kept my new attitude
 
I pose as an art enthusiast to get invitations to private art exhibitions. Each one lays on copious amounts of free wine, beer and food. I have no interest in art.
 
marklar said:
Bought an apartment in the CBD so I could walk to work, saving on car costs & public transport. :eek:
Got a job that requires me to travel regularly, so I don't feel the need to get out of the CBD for holidays. :eek:
Make my own bread. :(

m.
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I make my own bread too. And I meditate. It really helps. ;)

 
trillionaire#1 said:
when i take the car into the cbd i park it on war memorial drive
to escape parking fees and walk into town.
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Live in North Adelaide (for about $10pw extra than burbs outside the parklands) so just walk to work and uni :)
 
Ahem, let's see.

  • Use a laptop instead of a desktop computer
  • Don't drive
  • Go 'out' maybe 10 times a year
  • Use Skype as often as I can
  • Never buy lunch (I just bring a muesli bar or 2)
  • Don't drink soda, or alcohol
  • Rarely buy takeout
  • Use Student cinema vouchers
  • Try to only buy items on sale
  • Repair old things, rather than replace
  • plus, much more!

Skype is especially great, especially if you have yourself an iPhone, or iTouch - and are able to use free WiFi (McDonalds, uni, etc) to call other people.

The laptop is another biggie. The wattage usage on a laptop is substantially less than that of a desktop computer. Heck, they have laptops that run on the energy equivalent of a light bulb now! Whilst some of the more high-end desktop computers, at peak - can use anything above 500watts - just a message to all you gamers out there.
 
Some of you have got issues:p:

Getting with my ex, for some reason i had nothing to spend & I learnt to live off nothing.




Hold on..... that ended up costing me an arm & a leg:cautious:
 
Instead of buying a pool, I just painted a blue rectangle in my backyard to fool overhead planes.
 
When the tins of whole peeled tomatoes at coles are on sale I stock up. Typically they only have the brands with pictures on them that cost around $1.50+, but sometimes they have the plain homebrand or savings brand. Recently they had it for 79c so I stocked up.
My best memory was when they were 30c around a year ago so I learnt some awesome things to cook with bulk tinned tomatoes.

I wait until the 18 packs of kleenix cottenelle are on sale for under 50c a roll, then I buy a few packs. By the time I've run out of them there's another sale. I may be stingy at groceries but i'm not gonna wipe my a*s with crap!
 
prawn_86 said:
LOL. Believe it or not but it does actually work out cheaper by the time you take travel time, parking etc into account :p:
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But what if you want to actually go into the real world. How much does it cost to time travel from the past into the present where the rest of us live Prawn? :p:
 

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