10 Things I Stopped Buying That Saved Me $200 a Month

📕 The Home Savings Manual — 79 ways to stop overpaying for your own house: https://brendacarver.com/ Pull out your last grocery receipt, the long one, and go down it slow, past the real food, to all the little things. The spray cleaner. The bag of dressing. The box of snacks. Not one line on there would make you stop and think, and that's the trick of it. I sat down with a year of my own receipts and counted, and those little things came to a little over two hundred dollars a month. Our grandmothers never bought half of them, and they didn't miss a thing. In this one I'll walk you through the 10 things I stopped buying that saved me $200 a month: 🧺 Fabric softener and dryer sheets, plug-in air fresheners, and what I use instead for pennies 🥗 Bottled dressing, bagged salad kits, cut fruit, and boxed chicken stock you can make from scraps 🍪 Individually wrapped snacks, cases of bottled water, and name-brand medicine (read the box, not the brand) ☕ Coffee pods, and the one thing that comes back on your receipt every single week …and number one, the one that made me sit back in my chair when I finally did the math. Every one of them has the same thing in common: it runs out, so you buy it again. Swap it once and keep your money right where it belongs. If saving money and a simpler home sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 Which of these have you already quit buying, and what did I miss? Tell me down in the comments. #frugalliving #savemoney #stopbuying #moneysavingtips #budgeting #grocerybudget #frugaltips #homemaking #householdtips