Budgets are about balance. There are some areas you simply cannot skimp on safe housing, health care, quality food, education, and shoes to name a few. Your health begins in the grocery store, your solace in your home, educating your children provides life long skills, preventative health care and shoes support your body. You may need to live in a smaller home in a better neighborhood, remember the better neighborhood "doesn't always look good". Healthcare and education may be the deciding factor in your employment. I stayed at agency that I hated because it had excellent health and retirement benefits. The grocery store and your gardening skills are going to improve your health. Whole foods, making your own sauces, and measuring your food will reduce your grocery bill. People often comment on my "correct" portions for my body, I often post my family's portions.
Stop buying one or two cleaning products each shopping trip. My favorite dish soap is 7.89 a bottle. I can make a 32 ounce bottle of dish soap for 50 cents with a bit of ivory sopa, white vinegar, and esstential oil drops. A gallon of my Bissell hardwood floor cleaner was 28 dollars the other day. I can make a gallon of customized floor cleaner in scents I love.
Floor pads for the spray mops, I can make 10 of them for 5 dollars. They cost 18 dollars for a pack of 3. By the time, I drive to Walmart and back, I can cut and sew 20 of them.
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