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post 1682859293 05-17-2023, 07:08 AM
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Fav money saving hacks

What are you favorite money savings hacks?

For me it's brewing my own coffee at home.
post 1682859723 05-17-2023, 07:18 AM
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Making more > cutting costs
Losers let it happen, winners make it happen.

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post 1682859813 05-17-2023, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted By Nonsense916⏩
Making more > cutting costs
Actually this. Increasing your income is the way.
post 1682860003 05-17-2023, 07:23 AM
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The most obvious one is to stop buying brand new chit... Especially toys.

The sales tax alone when you're buying something valued at $5k+ makes it worth it to buy used. So many people selling chit they never even used, just left in a garage for 2 years.... You come in and buy it 40% off.
post 1682860223 05-17-2023, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
Did you know you can scan stuff at the self checkout as cheaper items?

It's not considered stealing as long as you can claim you were in a hurry to catch your bus.
OP, here's a great hack which saves money. It's not having to pay for rent by moving in for free into the heads of misc's non-lifting frauds.




On a more serious note, here some actual hacks:

- Taking coffee sachets into work instead of buying barista made coffee. I saved like $200 a fortnight with this alone.

- Using e-bikes instead of car if you live in a city or suburban area.

- Make lunches with ingredients you can buy in bulk (tuna, chicken, steaks/beef etc.)

- Youtube videos for things you might ordinarily need a pro for (like changing something in your car)

- Instead of paying for multiple stream services, have one friend each subscribe to a service, and all share the passwords between yourselves.

- Look into Aldi for phone service provider instead of a major telco network.

- Shop at Aldi, period.


- For washing, if you don't have a really big load just throw the items in a bucket of hot water and throw in some powder. Squish around for a bit, rinse out, hang up. Saves the price of running a load.
Back off, Warchild.

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post 1682860423 05-17-2023, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted By 87dman⏩
What are you favorite money savings hacks?

For me it's brewing my own coffee at home.
Go to work, drink work coffee, profit.
post 1682860653 05-17-2023, 07:37 AM
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How tf is making coffee a "hack"?

Wtf @ zoomers
post 1682860993 05-17-2023, 07:42 AM
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Stealing
post 1682861203 05-17-2023, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
I mean, account sharing is theft as well.

And I guess it's easier to fool the self checkout at Aldi.
Aldi actually doesn't have self checkout.
post 1682861223 05-17-2023, 07:46 AM
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For me personally: taking Dutasteride to save my hair.


Dutasteride has essentially nuked my DHT that I now have ZERO sex drive, which means I'm spending a lot less money at the local rub-and-tug massage parlors. I used to go about 3x per week, but now I'm going at most twice a month.


Also, WFH... I save so much money from not commuting.


If you can get a WFH job, you're basically set.
Everything I post is satire.
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post 1682861233 05-17-2023, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted By Bodhy⏩
- Shop at Aldi, period.
Bro this saves me legit like $400 a month alone.


Not having car notes has been massive for me as well. I've never held a car note over $16K and never taken more than 2 years to pay it off. I've been free of car notes for like 5 of the 7 years I've been married while many of my married friends have been spending $500-1000 per month on notes most of their adult lives. That **** adds up.
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post 1682861433 05-17-2023, 07:50 AM
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my lazy ass needs to delete doordash/ubereats type apps
post 1682861533 05-17-2023, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted By Nonsense916⏩
Making more > cutting costs
honestly

not to mention the time waste of trying to optimise some costs
communist until you get rich
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post 1682861643 05-17-2023, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted By drvillain⏩
my lazy ass needs to delete doordash/ubereats type apps
And this. A million fcking times this. Uber is the literal devil for the lazy. Over 2022, I spent over $6,000 on Uber Eats, Uber rides, and other delivery apps. Yes, $6,000.
Back off, Warchild.

Seriously.
post 1682861783 05-17-2023, 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted By Bodhy⏩
And this. A million fcking times this. Uber is the literal devil for the lazy. Over 2022, I spent over $6,000 on Uber Eats, Uber rides, and other delivery apps. Yes, $6,000.
you probably save a lot on toilet paper though, so that's nice

also that's not very much on those apps
post 1682863093 05-17-2023, 08:12 AM
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Also, cutting your own hair.

Hyperinflation has haircuts at $30/cut now. Too much. Especially if you do your haircut every 3 weeks or so.
Originally Posted By Bodhy⏩
And this. A million fcking times this. Uber is the literal devil for the lazy. Over 2022, I spent over $6,000 on Uber Eats, Uber rides, and other delivery apps. Yes, $6,000.
ho lee fuk.

I never even used uber eats/door dash.

Used uber for rides maybe 4 times last year on vacation.
post 1682863783 05-17-2023, 08:21 AM
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They're not really'hacks'but a few that come to mind:

Buying things on sale
Buying meat in bulk and freezing
Not dining out and making all my meals fresh
Doing/accomplishing many tasks around the house myself
Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
Also, cutting your own hair.

Hyperinflation has haircuts at $30/cut now. Too much. Especially if you do your haircut every 3 weeks or so.



ho lee fuk.

I never even used uber eats/door dash.

Used uber for rides maybe 4 times last year on vacation.
100% this. I barely know what that stuff is. Only thing I've ever ordered is pizza. If I'm thinking of some lazy kunt who's lying around his house too lazy to cook a quality meal and clicks a photo of disgusting schit on his phone and has some dirty guy deliver it to his home, that's peak rotmaxxing behaviour. Blows my mind.
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*Use half the roll to wipe after a poo crew*
*Fart in the gym and blame rotten smell on faulty ventilation crew*
*Fart at home and blame it on the dog crew*
*Watch neutron-star density poop mock me as water flushes around it and it stays put crew*
*Drive 2 minutes in the summer and back of shirt gets completely wet crew*
*Coffee black as midnight on a moonless night crew*
*Fat shame my cat on a daily basis crew*
post 1682864553 05-17-2023, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
Also, if you just fraud being in a PhD program, you save the costs of actually being in one.
LogicalLifts has my transcript and student card photos and you and your ilk are literallyrefusingto do what's needed to see it.


PhDs and higher research degrees are also free in Australia, since they are covered by what is known as the Research Training Program by the government. Analcorn, once again, shows himself to the epitome of retardation, and should probably use this money he's been saving to have some grooves implanted into his brain.
Back off, Warchild.

Seriously.
post 1682864723 05-17-2023, 08:35 AM
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dont pay for power. run an extension cord from your neighbor's back porch. same for water, but with a hose obv
post 1682864933 05-17-2023, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
I wouldn't know, I am not a poorcel.
My household grosses like 230, 240K and we shop at Aldi

Nothing poorcel about buying 93/7 ground beef for $5/lb. instead of going to publix and paying double that.
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If you have to buy a major appliance, buy one from an estate auction not a big box store. Washer, dryer, fridge, stove. That's how I put appliances in my rental properties. $100-$150 is the average price I pay for one of those 4 appliances.
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Originally Posted By Bodhy⏩
OP, here's a great hack which saves money. It's not having to pay for rent by moving in for free into the heads of misc's non-lifting frauds.




On a more serious note, here some actual hacks:

- Taking coffee sachets into work instead of buying barista made coffee. I saved like $200 a fortnight with this alone.

- Using e-bikes instead of car if you live in a city or suburban area.

- Make lunches with ingredients you can buy in bulk (tuna, chicken, steaks/beef etc.)

- Youtube videos for things you might ordinarily need a pro for (like changing something in your car)

- Instead of paying for multiple stream services, have one friend each subscribe to a service, and all share the passwords between yourselves.

- Look into Aldi for phone service provider instead of a major telco network.

- Shop at Aldi, period.


- For washing, if you don't have a really big load just throw the items in a bucket of hot water and throw in some powder. Squish around for a bit, rinse out, hang up. Saves the price of running a load.
I almost busted out laughing at the laundry one


brb save about 20 cents total by going to the lengths of washing them half assssedly in my laundry room slop sink by hand instead just tossing them in the smart washing machine and being done with it. Just lmao
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Originally Posted By Bodhy⏩
And this. A million fcking times this. Uber is the literal devil for the lazy. Over 2022, I spent over $6,000 on Uber Eats, Uber rides, and other delivery apps. Yes, $6,000.
adds up so fast. I just spent $30 to get noxa lox bagels delivered for breakfast. Just deleted the app.
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Set up a simple home gym (save a lot of gas and price of membership), don’t order from food delivery services, spend the money on a quality coffee maker(preferably with a built-in burr grinder) that will last for many years and bulk beans, walk to places if you can, go over every streaming service you pay for and cancel those you don’t use daily, cancel cable if you have it, pay for an all in one service like fubotv if you enjoy watching multiple sports plus movies, do your own landscaping if you own your house, learn to maintain your house yourself so you don’t have to hire professionals, don’t finance purchases unless in an emergency (interest rates steal your money), spend your free time bettering yourself so you can increase your income, etc. Honestly, this is all very basic but will save you a lot of money over time.
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Originally Posted By drvillain⏩
adds up so fast. I just spent $30 to get noxa lox bagels delivered for breakfast. Just deleted the app.
I don't know what ever made people think adding a legit 3rd party business to the equation of buying food from restaurants was going to be an economically sound idea.
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Make your own meals, easiest way to save money.
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Originally Posted By DrunkonMilk⏩
Set up a simple home gym (save a lot of gas and price of membership), don’t order from food delivery services, spend the money on a quality coffee maker(preferably with a built-in burr grinder) that will last for many years and bulk beans, walk to places if you can, go over every streaming service you pay for and cancel those you don’t use daily, cancel cable if you have it, pay for an all in one service like fubotv if you enjoy watching multiple sports plus movies, do your own landscaping if you own your house, learn to maintain your house yourself so you don’t have to hire professionals, don’t finance purchases unless in an emergency (interest rates steal your money), spend your free time bettering yourself so you can increase your income, etc. Honestly, this is all very basic but will save you a lot of money over time.
The home gym bit is a farce. Even the simplest of home gyms - a barbell, a few hundred pounds in weights, an adjustable bench, adjustable dumbbells, a simple squat rack, and ancillary things like collars, weight tree, and floor mats - will run you north of $1,000, maybe more, and limits you in terms of available exercises. You can get years of gym membership out of that.

If you want a legit home gym, you will probably spend closer to $3,000, that ain't it mane when you're talking about saving money.
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For me, it's that I need to stop buying so much food at gas stations. It's just so insanely convenient nowadays, a lot of them are like legit mini-marts nowadays.

But with that convenience, comes a price. No, it's not $30+ to get one meal like it is ordering from some 3rd party ap to deliver restaurant food to you, but it's still stupidly easy to wind up paying like $10 - $15 for basically double the most it would be to buy the stuff in bulk at a grocery store. It adds up fast.

Even those stops are so bad, I just don't get how so many people see no issue with dropping even more $ on Uber Eats/Door Dash/etc. I mean, you literally can't get more than about 4 meal runs out of that for less than $100. That's fkn ridiculous.
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I like to get new insurance quotes at least every few years. The key is not to just go cheaper, but only go cheaper if it's the same coverage you still want and need.

I put water saving faucets and shower heads in my house. Not only does this save water, but it saves hot water and natural gas for the heater. I can pretty much shower at the same time as a couple of my kids and we all have enough hot water now.

This isn't really saving money as much as just getting some back, but I only use rewards credit cards to pay for everything and then I just pay the bill every month and never have interest.

Get a cheap prepaid mobile plan. I use Visible, but Mint Mobile is also good. If you want real cheap, you can build a plan with Tello.
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