Serious 1st.
- Crush your aluminium cans, I get AUD$5 a horse-feed bag every few months. That's how much beer I drink!
- Turn everything off when you aren't using it. At the wall. Or preferably pull the plug out.
- Spend some money to save some. In the last few years I've paid for a 2100L rainwater tank, a bore and a 1.5kW solar power system (for which we did have a subsidy). Might make me look like a bit of a hippy but end of the day it increases the value of my house and eventually saves me money.
- Cook your own meals. FFS! With fresh ingredients - maybe even grow some. Always prepare more than you need to freeze later.
- The whole homebrew/breadmaking - fuck it do it, have a go. The only way I learned was by having a go, haven't brewed in a while but I reckon I've saved thousands of dollars in buying piss over the years.
- Live within your means. I only have 1 "credit" card - 1 of those 12/24 mth. interest free store cards (which I pay AUD$100 a month on to avoid the interest). I've got a debit Visa so I can still buy stuff (online & bbpay etc.) but I can't spend more than I've got.
- opshop, opshop, opshop. Apart from grundies, workshirts and sox everything I wear is second-hand. All the cds I listen to cost me cents to AUD$2 not AUD$25 odd. All the books I read cost me on average AUD$0.50.
- recycle everything. My missus is mortified when I pick up computers off the kerb-side "bring out your dead". Beige boxes which I have revived then installed as servers and then sold on cheaply to clients. Regular paying clients. Mostly still running those same cheap head-less lamp servers.
- Stock your freezer from the local butchers - most do "budget packs", pick & choose.
- Save all of your change - 'gold' coins in 1 place, 'silver' in another (bigger) place. The missus & I have gone out to dinner more than once on our silver alone (a jug filled with silver coins roughly ≈ AUD$100). I store my 'shrapnel' in the ashtray of my ute - that's why I don't smoke in my car.
- Make your own lunch - srsly we mostly all did it for 6-8 yrs. at school, many of us get our kids to do it every week day - 'knoath how hard is it to make a nice sanger?

Jks 2nd
- Fatten your pets/kids up - when the apocalypse comes - a nutritional easy to call food source.
- Piss on your citrus trees. Apparently they love urea salts. Save your water bills on flushing the toilet. Big juicy lemons all year round ftw.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 11 Nov 2011, 6:54, 2 replies)

Amen to the no credit cards.
I likewise have an "empty" debit card for online purchases, but anything that can by accident or impulse outspend your earning capacity is dangerous.
(Ladyfingers is in your wardrobe,, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 8:27, closed)

"local butchers"
Oh, you card!
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 8:33, closed)

"This is a local shop. For local people."

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 11 Nov 2011, 8:41, closed)

Yup.
Posh areas: quality meat from quality areas, local specialities
Poor areas: food poisoning from the back of a lorry
90% of population: whatever Tesco are selling cheap
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 10:08, closed)