How do you spend less/save more money? With the bad economic outlook lately, I have been trying really hard to cut down on expenses. We are in the middle of yet another house construction project, so it is good incentive for me to be extra careful with spending right now.

One way is at the grocery store...I have cut out buying individual yogurts (we were going through 3/day, one for each of us, and instead getting the large size container. Right there, that is saving me close to $8/week. The same thing with individual fruit cups, and getting the larger sized cans and dividing them up myself. And I am also buying ALOT more store brands, and 95% of the time they taste the same.


Another area is clothes buying...lately, Lydia has been outgrowing her 2T outfits so fast, so I decided to try a local thrift store near us. I normally HATE thrift store shopping because usually they are filthy nasty, and you have to dig through piles of clothes to find the sizes that you want.

However, my BFF has been recommending this one store to me....they wash every single thing (they have a room with 2 washers/ 2 dryers) before they put it out. Not only that, but they have it all organized out by size and boy/girl. And when you walk into their building it smells so clean in there. I was SO impressed!

Anyway, this is what I got for $27 yesterday:

Five shirts:



Two dresses (the denim one is brand new):



Three skirts:



Four pairs of pants:


Everything:


I will definitely go back there!

So please share ways to be frugal...I'm all ears!