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Monthly megathread: Discuss quick frugal ideas, frugal challenges you're starting, and share your hauls with others here!
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Hi everyone,

Welcome to our monthly megathread! Please use this as a space to generate discussion and post your frugal updates, tips/tricks, or anything else!

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Share with us!

· What are some unique thrift store finds you came across this week?

· Did you use couponing tricks to get an amazing haul? How'd you accomplish that?

· Was there something you had that you put to use in a new way?

· What is your philosophy on frugality?

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Select list of some top posts of the previous month(s):

  1. Frugal living: Moving into a school converted into apartments! 600/month, all utilities included

  2. Follow up- my daughter’s costume. We took $1 pumpkins and an old sweater and made them into a Venus Flytrap costume.

  3. Gas bill going up 17%… I’m going on strike

  4. I love the library most because it saves money

  5. We live in Northern Canada, land of runaway food prices. Some of our harvest saved for winter. What started as a hobby has become a necessity.

  6. 70 lbs of potatoes I grew from seed potatoes from a garden store and an old bag of russets from my grandma’s pantry. Total cost: $10

  7. Gatorade, Fritos and Kleenex among US companies blasted for 'scamming customers with shrinkflation' as prices rise

  8. Forty years ago we started a store cupboard of household essentials to save money before our children were born. This is last of our soap stash.

  9. Noticed this about my life before I committed to a tighter budget.

  10. Seeds from Dollar Store vs Ace Hardware.

  11. I was looking online for a product that would safely hold my house key while jogging. Then I remembered I had such a product already.

  12. Using patterned socks to mend holes in clothes

  13. My dogs eat raw as I believe it’s best for them but I don’t want to pay the high cost. So after ads requesting leftover, extra, freezer burnt meat. I just made enough grind to feed my dogs for 9 months. Free.

  14. What are your ‘fuck-it this makes me happy’ non-frugal purchases?

  15. Where is this so-called 7% inflation everyone's talking about? Where I live (~150k pop. county), half my groceries' prices are up ~30% on average. Anyone else? How are you coping with the increased expenses?

  16. You are allowed to refill squeeze tubes of jam with regular jam. The government can't stop you.

Active&Fit Gym Program
u/sweettoothj
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Active&Fit Gym Program
Advice Needed ✋

Hi, I have used Active&Fit through my employers insurance, for a couple years now for gym memberships. For anyone unfamiliar, you pay one flat rate cost and get access to all sorts of different gyms.

Im wondering now if there is any similar service elsewhere that anyone is aware of.

Just received an email stating they now only allow 1 gym on your account. Which completely defeats the purpose of having an account at all with them. I travel for work and this was a godsend program because many places only have planet fitness OR anytime fitness. I will truly miss this membership.

Im so sick of everything good being torn away from working people.