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Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7768441
01/10/23 08:23 PM
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Stop doing anything that ends in ing. For example, smoking, chewing, drinking, gambling, trapping, and womanizing. The one exception is working. I think I'll stick to being poor.

Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7768461
01/10/23 08:34 PM
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I no longer need to save money.That was important at one time but definitely not now.i dont scrimp on anything.I am reaping the rewards now.
For the last 11 years or so I am in the spending mode.I dont owe anything,and own at least 3 of everything. Its enjoyment time now-time to spend it up whenever and wherever..


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7768497
01/10/23 09:15 PM
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Wood heat, use the wood stove for cooking as much as u can. Summer garden .can, dehydrate fmenu. . We buy hay of the fields for our animals. Goat for cheese milk and some chickens for eggs. I'll eat most any thing that crawls. So coon, Rat, beaver and bobcat are all on the menue. sick grin

Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7768504
01/10/23 09:22 PM
01/10/23 09:22 PM
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get a better job and hire somebody for the menial tasks


2021 goals....make time to trap
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Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7768516
01/10/23 09:33 PM
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Stop paying taxes

Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7768521
01/10/23 09:40 PM
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Learn how fix everything. YouTube can be your friend.

I've saved insane amounts of money during my life fixing everything myself.

Plus due to skills I have acquired over the years makes me in high demand for nice gravy side jobs that pay very well.


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Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7768581
01/10/23 10:44 PM
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One should concentrate as much on increasing income as saving money. Can you pick up more hours at work, can you take a second job, can you move up at your current job, are there better jobs available, do you need some training to move into a better job. You will never save yourself into wealth.

Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7768604
01/10/23 11:04 PM
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A old guy told me: watch your pennies, nickels and dimes will take care of thereselves.

Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7768814
01/11/23 08:35 AM
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Accept as much overtime as you can stand, if available, brown bag your lunch, don't get hooked on scratching, (lottery tickets), or any other vice.
BE VERY CAREFUL ON WHO YOU MARRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, cool

Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7768818
01/11/23 08:45 AM
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Not caring what other people think is sound financial advice... I see a lot of people "trying to keep up with the Jones"... After they have it all... too many things soon become too few. I like those guys in bib overhauls that can buy anything they want with Benjermin's

Re: $ saving tips [Re: Eagleye] #7768845
01/11/23 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Eagleye
Not caring what other people think is sound financial advice... I see a lot of people "trying to keep up with the Jones"... After they have it all... too many things soon become too few. I like those guys in bib overhauls that can buy anything they want with Benjermin's


had one of those guys buy a rifle from me , he is working me down on price , hemming and hawing guy is probably 80 , when I tell him that is as low as I can go he says ok and pulls out a hand full of 100s and peals me off the cost.


America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7769024
01/11/23 01:43 PM
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Don't worry about keeping up with anyone.
We burn wood to heat the house. Outdoor wood burner. Keep the house at 70 when we are up.
Get all the wood from our own property.
Probably save 1500 or so a year.
We maybe eat beef 5 times a year. Mostly eat venison, pork and fish. Usually get 4-5 deer. Probably have 80 lbs of fish in freezer.
We make all of our own venison sausage. Price to get made is ridiculous.
Big garden and freeze for winter use.
Make my own liquor. Have mostly given up beer.
We bring our own lunches in to work. Don't buy coffee from drive in places.
Rarely go out to eat. 10 times a year maybe. We enjoy cooking. Even have a wood fired pizza oven.

Re: $ saving tips [Re: Steel Jaw] #7769079
01/11/23 03:07 PM
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I don’t save, I just work more.

Re: $ saving tips [Re: trapdog1] #7769216
01/11/23 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by trapperkeck
And, finally, it is less expensive per pound to buy a half a beef than it is to harvest and process the equivalent amount of venison. frown


Maybe if you're chasing antlers. All of my life I've hunted deer and the most I ever spent (until this year) was the cost of a license and a box of slugs.

Now I have a few $20 trail cameras I bought used and a deer feeder I bought new. I buy one bag of corn a month.

If you count the cost of the deer feeder and cameras, which are one time purchases... and the corn and slugs and batteries... I spent $250 on deer hunting this year. That would buy me 50lbs of 80/20 ground beef. Next year, since I won't have to buy a feeder or cameras, my cost to hunt deer will be under $100, or 20lbs of ground beef. (I need no license since I only hunt my own property and my state doesn't have deer tags.)

Long ways from a half a cow.


Just give me one thing, that I can hold on to. To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go.
Re: $ saving tips [Re: Wanna Be] #7769276
01/11/23 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
I don’t save, I just work more.

I don’t save. I just quit worrying about it ! LoL! Just dont see what good it is to save ? I have known people who saved for retirement for their whole life. Retired. Died 3 weeks latter? So why bother saving? Whatever is going to happen is going to happen. We cant change that. So why not just be happy?? I know I am going to be setting traps till I fall over dead out here. I have excepted this. So when I want something I just get it. Bitcoin. Stockmarket. 401K. All seem like a joke to me. Live life. Have fun.

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