The recession has had many of us pinching our pennies. A dollar has to stretch farther than ever before. With so many watching their budgets, we were curious to hear if you were making any changes to your activities?
Are you staying in more? Are you doing more home entertaining? Please tell us what you think. We want to know!
Staying home more (78.7%)
Going out more (1.5%)
No change (19.8%)
spending more time with family, finding creative and fun free or inexpensive things to do and cooking more at home instead of ordering take out.
Gardening, making better food, and concentrating on what matters most -- Home and family!
We havent really changed our daily lifesyle, we are just eating out less.
I eat out a little less. I have also started using Resturant Coupons a lot more
After 16 years at a community bank, my position was eliminated last year and my family had to cut down on spending fast. I discovered freebies websites, Redbox - the $1 DVD movie rental vending machine (what a novel idea!), coupon websites and I finally had the time to organize and use the coupons I clipped. By the way, I am once again employed full-time and things are looking up but I still use these techniques to save money :)
I make a list of what we need and what we want the needs come first and everyone picks 1 want a month makes them learn to earn money and to actually save it
We stay at home more and try to do things together that does not cost money........we do not eat out at all anymore..i love to cook but the expence of groceries it awful..............
I used to be a mystery shopper and loved it, I did it for a few years.
I love estate sales,consignment shops & flea markets beacuse I can always find something I like or need at a good price!
I am being mindful of my expenses, but I haven't really changed anything drastic yet.