I make gifts for family members like baking, bath salts, jellies etc.  It's hard to buy gifts for my kids too far in advance because they'll change their minds and then I've got the wrong gift.  I try to buy anything early and on sale.  The kids don't get tons of gifts so shopping for them isn't ...

[quote user="Toni B."]I've re-read your posts and I see you are very new to the forums[/quote]   Actually I've been a member of Dollar Stretcher for many years and have been reading the forums since they started.  I just never bothered to post anything until now. I am truly grateful for what I do have.   And ...

 We do have a double clothesline outside.  I dry the clothes outside when it's not raining.  Unfortunately the way our houses are built we are really close to the neighbors house and in the winter their house blocks the sunlight.  I have tried to dry clothes outside in the winter but with no sun and few breezes the clothes ...

[quote user="Pat"] I think, that as you get to know people, you will see that many of them come up with extra money because they've made what some consider to be drastic cuts. From your prior post, I can see several ways you can save money. You can cut cable,  cancel the newspaper,dry clothes inside if it's too cold or wet ...

Forgot to say that by the time we pay our bills and for food we don't have anything left over to put into a savings account.  It sounds like alot of people here do have some extra cash after paying for necessities. I'm already very frugal, this computer is an old upgraded one that we upgraded ourselves from used parts that cost us ...

 We are in the same situation.  We are making ends meet but never manage to keep any savings in the savings account because there is always some emergency that needs the money.  We already live in a very small house so our bills are very low.  We've changed all our lightbulbs to the low energy bulbs.  We keep our home ...