The money-saving ideas above are good, assuming that most people overspend and overuse and have lots of free time to mess with curtains and pennies. But that’s not so.

If you stick with a saving-money quest long enough (by choice or not), you realize that it is costing you in your time, attention, energy, options, etc. There are good reasons why certain things were invented and why some businesses still exist.

Here is one extreme example: you can save money by making your own clothes from your own yarn. You can make your own yarn by saving some animal hair (from your nice neighbor’s dog). You can fix your worn clothes with threads pulled from your unusable clothes…

This idea could qualify as a money-saving tip, but who would want to do it?

The tip #3 on the list I liked the most because it is very original and it could potentially bring in new money, but, unfortunately, at the expense of other people’s time. I won’t do it.

So, my point is, I am looking for ideas better than that. How about a contest for the best money-saving idea?

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There was a guy at my last job that I swore was smuggling toilet paper home from the company restroom.

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I thought I was the only one doing this. My dryer has just broken down 3 weeks ago and I have been thinking about purchasing a new dryer. We have been hanging our clothes in the backyard to dry. It took a little longer to dry but hey, I don’t have to do anything. I just got my gas bill back 2 days ago and it was 15% lower than normal. I saved about 11$/month which adds up to about 132$ a year. We can put that into our credit card debt and mortgage. Every penny counts.

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I am about to switch back to using a regular landline for just this reason. I don’t use some of the features on my cell enough to justify paying for them, such as call waiting, and if you leave those features off your landline it becomes significantly cheaper than a cell. Also, I can either get 250 minutes or 450 minutes, but nothing in between, and I never ever use all 450 of those minutes, and I don’t get rollover either–even if I did they’d be wasted on me. So I’m blowing all this money on something that gets thrown away–that makes no sense.

A landline with nothing fancy added to the account is so much cheaper as to be ridiculous and it has unlimited minutes to boot. I’ve been holding off on keeping better touch with my family by phone precisely because I would go over my minutes. None of them are good letter-writers, either, so whether I am is kind of a moot point. I’d like to hear from them too.

Long distance is still an issue but because of competition from cellular companies it’s getting cheaper. And some of my relatives have unlimited long distance on their own landline accounts, which solves that problem anyway.

I’m thinking I might get a prepaid cell to carry around in my purse, if the monthly fee to keep it activated plus my landline bill is still less than a regular cell. I can’t ignore the benefit of having one in case of an emergency but there’s no reason to use one as a regular phone.

I don’t put my real number on most things I know will be sold to telemarketers…and while they’re getting the Brring number, they’ll still get through to me. In which case I have the nuisance of having to deal with more telemarketers….

And if there was some legitimate use for the number, then I don’t want to not get the call because they thought they had the wrong number. Or just didn’t want to put up with ads.