- The Freezer is Your Best Friend
- If you like to travel, learn to drive stick
- Take Shorter Showers by Showering To a Song
- Give away your old toys and stuffed animals on Halloween
- Use a smaller showering towel
- Fix broken swimming goggles
- If you need a massage...
- Eat Leftovers
- Turn the Heat Down
- Listen/Watch everything at 2x speed
Just about everything freezes well -- if you've seen it from the frozen food section, it probably freezes well. Pizza, Indian, bread, dumplings, bagels, HEB tortillas, Chick-fil-a sandwiches, rice, the list goes on, so take the extra tray of rice from work and throw it in your freezer because cleaning the rice cooker is annoying too.
Renting a car is half the price in Europe and South America...also it's more fun.
Challenge: turn on a song and try to finish showering before the song's over. If you think you take short showers, include the time it takes for the water to warm up. I'm currently hovering around songs that are 3:45 and 4 minutes.
Need more time for your showers? Turn off the water while you shampoo/soap etc. But it'll get cold? Then shampoo faster or close the door and trap the water vapor in the bathroom.
What's better than having kids literally show up at your door to take your junk away? I've done this 2 years in a row now, and surprised by how much they love it. The first year, as he was running up my driveway, I heard one kid shout, "I heard one house was giving out toys! Come on! Don't you want toys?!"
Why not donate it? Most donation centers won't take stuffed animals and based on what I've seen at the PTA, who knows when or if your toys will get set out.
Err how you'll save money: You won't have to buy as much candy?
If your stuffed animals aren't in good condition, I've heard they make good chew toys for pets.
I don't know how I just realized this, but my friend Michelle pointed out that you don't need to use a full body length towel to dry yourself off if you've got a door to your bathroom. Smaller towel = more space for clothes when you do laundry => fewer laundry loads. I've been using an 11x32" towel ever since. (Yea, weird dimensions, right? Can't complain when it was free though lol.)
If the nose piece breaks, bend a paper clip and replace it...it will last a lonngg time. This picture is from when I first replaced it...the paper clip has not needed replacing despite regular swimming.
If the strap breaks, get one of those bungee cords-they're cheaper and have a longer life.
Foam roll. Better yet, use a tennis/lax/baseball and get the knots out of your shoulder blades, quads, glutes, hamstrings, calves, arms. Life saver if you run a lot and get tight knees/hip flexors–foam roll your IT bands! The tighter you are, the more it'll hurt, but it'll feel better later.
If you're traveling and don't like cold food, take advantage of that iron in your hotel room. If your hotel doesn't have an iron, you need a better hotel or stay with friends.
Wear more clothes. If you think I'm kidding, I'm currently wearing a ski jacket as I type this. I love it when guests come because we get to turn the heat up and give them the impression that we have a warm house.
Or if you're worried you'll become that kid from A Christmas Story–"I can't put my arms down!", you can kill two birds with one stone and stay warm and hydrated by getting a giant glass jar and filling it with hot water. Hug it in desk sitting fetal position and be careful to not burn your tongue. I highly recommend the jar from the Art of Caramel popcorn. Terrible popcorn (even when it's free), but great drinking/keeping warm glass–it's so big that it basically covers your entire torso. Keep your eyes peeled in the office for random office gifts people set out.
Everything = lectures, podcasts, interviews, etc. Uh this saves you money because time is money? I actually just don't understand how people listen to slow things.
Ok, so I actually used money to clickbait you...I just want people to waste less stuff.