What changes are you making?

[Lifesgreat]

We are are just "staying the course" as we already have a (relatively) simple, frugal lifestyle.

[redrhodie]

I'm driving less, eating out less. I haven't had a haircut in months (disclosure--I am trying to grow it long). I quit my gym, and do day passes at the Y instead, which saves around $30 a month. There's not that much left to cut back on. It's not like my lifestyle is getting me my own reality show!

[Zen]

What's to change? I've always been poor

[wildhawk]

What's to change? I've always been poor

Well said Zen!

We are using our bikes for a lot of our weekly errands and driving only when we have to. I am making all our food at home - larger quantities to last a couple of days or several meals. We have gone to the basics - but then, we have rabbit ears and do not pay for cable, get no newspapers, watch our old DVDs of the Andy Griffith show or rental DVD movies - the older titles are cheaper. We eat out only on Saturdays at a local Mom and Pop that is like home to us. And the park near our home is my “free gym”. I can either walk there or cycle there and it is free. And now that we are getting into better shape physically, we can explore wider distances from the house with our bikes - yay!

[Aggie_Ama]

When gas got expensive we already made changes to keep Clifford the big red truck parked. We hybrid bike commute usually 4 days a week, exceptions are this week when we are both trying to keep our allergies/weak colds from blowing up into a big problem. We both get lunch one day a week but otherwise brown bag it. We cook at home and make meals that we have left overs from for several days. This allows us to buy meat in large quantities where it is cheaper. We switched to turkey a couple years ago when we realized it is healthier and $1/lb less than red meat. We already only went out to dinner about once a week and for us that is something about the price of Chili's (although we prefer to visit locally owned). We also bought generic form the time we moved in together so that was already in place but we did stop buying cokes. We find free weekend entertainment: bike rides, expos, hiking. Other than that we are cutting back on traveling when we can and staying the course.