15 Things You're Storing Wrong (And It's Costing You Money)

📕 The Home Savings Manual — 79 ways to stop overpaying for your own house: https://brendacarver.com/ Open your refrigerator and look at the door: the milk and the eggs are sitting in the warmest spot in the whole box, going sour days sooner than they should. That's one thing. There's a lot more like it — food going stale on a shelf, drying out in a drawer, dying in a cupboard six inches from the stove. A family throws out well over a thousand dollars of food a year, and a good chunk of it is just storage. Our grandmothers knew where everything belonged, and nothing went to waste. In this one I'll walk you through 15 things you're storing wrong, and what each one is costing you: 🧅 Onions with potatoes, tomatoes and bread in the fridge, and herbs in the clamshell 🧂 Brown sugar, flour, nuts, cooking oil and the spice rack over the stove 🥕 Celery, carrots, mushrooms, cheese and apples, and why your fruit bowl goes all at once 🥛 Medicine in the bathroom, and the refrigerator itself, organized backwards …and why a paper bag and a jar of water beat every gadget they sell for the problem. Fix these and the food you buy finally lasts as long as it should. A little know-how keeps your family fed and your money right where it belongs. If saving money and running a smart, thrifty kitchen sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 Which one on this list surprised you? Tell me down in the comments. #foodstorage #frugalliving #savemoney #kitchentips #reducefoodwaste #pantrystaples #homemaking #householdtips #thrifty