Ways to save money in tough economic times

Your link sucks.

There aren't any qualifying restaurants within 30 miles of me.

 

What do you mean renegotiate?

Cingular will suddenly give me the same service for less money?

 

I stopped playing poker, stopped fantasy leagues and stopped playing weekly pick 'em polls and "survivor" polls and frankly haven't had to cut anything else out.

It is amazing how much money I used to blow on this kind of bullshit and outside of Poker, which I play still occassionally, I don't miss any of it.

 

That's pretty impressive, and I'd be willing to bet your numbers are pretty conservative. If we were to go down a car, it would save a hell of a lot more than two grand. Too bad we can't figure out a way to make it work.

Consumerist.com is a good resource.

 

I have plenty of restaurants around me listed on the site, but it seems as if the good ones are out of discount gift certificates.

Shit.

 

Well, I do live in a place considered the asshole of Texas, so I guess it makes sense.

 

It says they replenish the first of each month. The regular price is $10 for $25 gift certificates, so you're still saving money.

 

My girlfriend used to buy two Dunkin iced coffees per work shift (pharmacist, 13 hour shifts). That's like 6-7 bucks a day, so like 28 a week.
She bought a diesel bag of Dunkin coffee (I hate coffee) and she brews at home. The big huge-ass bad costs 17 bucks and lasts for what seems like forever.

EDIT: Wanted to add to this only to say as much as those company's seem like a scam, we've saved a couple bucks buying in bulk at BJ's. If we buy something like chicken, we freeze it and take it out when we need it. It's weird having a gallon of frank's red hot, but it's cheaper to buy it in bulk than constantly replacing it. I bought a thing of Country Crock there for 7 bucks about a month and a half ago and it's still going strong.

 

My problem is work. I wake up at 2, so I get food on the way into work. Then I'm not done at work until 3 a.m., so I'll get food while I'm there. That's two meals a day, four days a week.

I bought sandwich stuff today, and also bought stuff I can make at home without too much effort before work. Hopefully that will help.

 

Avoid strip clubs.