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Tips For Saving During Gas Price Hikes

reikidreamerhas come up with the idea to share tips for saving money during the gas price hikes. I have gathered my thoughts on this situation and am sharing them here ~

My partner and I are both senior citizens and watch our diets carefully, so we pretty much have been doing that for quite awhile. We hardly ever over eat anything. Our only splurging would be when we do eat out. We only eat at places that are not going to be over thirty dollars for just the two of us.

We eat a lot of sandwiches in the summertime. You might call them Reubens by the time we get done loading the goodies on. We love sauerkraut on our sandwiches.

We tend to have more homemade soups throughout the winter months. We love just ham, carrot and celery. We also love cabbage in our soups. One of our favorites is just plain 'ole' split pea with carrot. I doubt that kids would relish these soups, however.

There is one that my grandkids do love when they come, and that is Red Potato, Bacon & Green Bean Soup. Dice a package of bacon in half inch strips, chop a medium or large onion, throw in about a dozen or so small red potatoes and a bag of fresh green beans. You don't even have to cut those beans up unless you want too! We prefer them whole.


Season to taste. Cook it all in the same pot with enough water to cover for about one hour. You can scoop the excess fat off the top of it.(Note:my cholesterol reading came back at only 144!)

The longer it sets the more FLAVORABLE (is that a word?)it becomes!


It will feed a houseful and you may even have enough left over for the next day!

For entertainment we don't have cable or dish. We don't even have the prime time channels. Nothing. Zilch! We watch all news on our computers instead of CNN. This works great for us. For local news we go to the KOMO NEWS Channel website on our computers.

We save about $45 a month by doing this. We rent NetFlix movies and TV Series on DVD's now and have them delivered in our mail then we send them back at no extra cost to us. We never rent DVD's from the store any longer.

Saves on gas too!

We found a way to cut cost on prescription drugs also. With him he gets his prescriptions filled at Costco's Pharmacy. They are cheaper in the long run than say Walmart, because they(Costco) disperse a three month supply at once instead of only a one month supply like Walmart and elsewhere. That can not only be cheaper for certain medicines, but also saves on those trips to the drugstore every month and cuts gas costs!

I might add also that I quit smoking due to some health issues. The prescription that I get to help me with this cost less a month than what the cigarettes did. Overall, when I discontinue using the Chantix I will be saving at the very least seventy - five dollars a month!

These are just a few of the ways that we have cut corners to save on big spending during the course of the continued Gas Hike Prices.