What Frugal Habit will you start in the New Year?

I think I need to tackle the element of food wastage at home-every meal that we have, we have alot of left over food that gets poured because the house maid and my boys never like left over foods, i am going to put my foot down and rule that the left over foods be recycled to the next meals-if lunch remains, itwill constitute a bigger part of supper-if supper remains it will constitute a bigger part of lunch-this will reduce expenditure on food this year!

4.00?1? Was that at the movies lol? I am going to get most of my reading materials from the library. Not buy any clothes unless I have to like they rip or something. I couldnt bring myself to give up soda.

I like the idea aboutnot ordering soda when eating out. It seems to me, that so often when I get the soda, it doesn't taste right (too watery, too much soda water, too much fizz, it's flat, etc.) If I go somewhere with free refills, I will order a soda though, only because it tastes better than water, and you can keep drinking it and drinking it and..., well, you get the point. Since I'm starting this year on short-term disability at only 60% of my regular pay, I'm going to have to be more frugal than usual. I'm a pretty frugal person to begin with, but will be finding new ways to be frugal - or, finding old ways of being frugal and finding ways to incorporate it into my daily living somehow. I can't wait to read the rest of the responses!!! Thanks for the post!

The main thing I'm going to do is teach my stubborn s/o how to be more frugal. He hates change and trying new things so it will be a struggle but so worth it in the end. He is way too attached to his brand name processed foods and canned goods...and brand name everything else too. I'm also going to get him to live more green. Alot of things will be tricky because of our current living situation but we can change that after we3 change spending habits. The other things we're doing...although for more selfish/practical reasons than just being frugal...is to get both older boys potty trained whether they like it r not. The younger one is ready and we've already had some success with him, the older one is BEYOND old enough but is just plain stubborn about it. The baby will still need diapers...and I do have cloth but no one here is very accepting of using them...but we'll still save a lot not having to buy them for the older two. I have a lot of other ideas too but they'll have to wait until these ideas start putting extra money in the bank.

I am about at the end of options. I do so much frugal savings that I can't think of any thing else to do. My blog Coffee Break Whatever Save Money (Link in my profile) Details all the things I have done, still do, and ways to save money. It isn't hard, you just have to want to save. In my case, it was out of necessity - I was raising 2 kids on a limited budget. It was to make ends meet. But there are so many ways you find you are wasting money and don't even know it! The water instead of soda at dinners - I've been doing that for while. I ask for lemon with the water and then squeeze it into the water and add a packet of sugar and I have lemon ade. But I don't really like it sweet so just the lemon in the water is really nice. Also it doesn't fill you up like soda does so you can eat your whole meal. But then what I do is eat the baked potatos and salad, and take the meat and bread home for tomorrows lunch!

I spend so little money that my wife hasn't given me my allowance in two pay periods.

We are trying to eat more fruits and vegis, so we are growing a larger garden. We are also trying to pay 110% of all our debts monthy bills. It doesn not sound like much but it is going to pay a lot of extra on our home. The soda idea is a great one. We dont drink a lot at home but at resturants we splurge a bit more so that could save us tons. Thanks

I am like the other ladies I use the grocery store bags for garbage and I also go to the thrift stores or here where I live they have a place where you can go to get free clothes.I also use the generic products and we have a store that has bent cans and I go there alot because they have good deals.

i think mine will be to rent movies than watching them in the theaters. the price of movie ticket becomes so expensive that it is now equivalent or more than my meal budget. another one will be to walk more and not take taxi whenever i can.