What have you given up or cut out due to the economy ?

we dont go to mcdonalds as much

My husband and I used to have a date night, we cut back to once a month or so now it's like once or twice a year. I haven't really given up much, though I have gotten more thrifty with sales and coupons.

ya that was something else we had to cut back on ,The fast food .

we don't eat out as much. more careful with how we spend at the grocery

We've always been a frugal family, and lived below our means. We haven't felt much of a budget crunch from the economy at all.

I haven't done anything to cut costs. You all should thank me since I seem to be the only one trying to keep the economy going by spending my money.

I stopped shopping for everything but groceries. Now i'm having withdrawls! lol :)

I'm much choosier on things I purchase for meal prep. Gone is the sliced turkey breast for sandwiches at $6-8./lb and welcome the chopped ham that we purchased in bulk 10 lbs. for $12. Beans are being added to more and more meals to supplement the protein lost from less meat.

We have stopped eating out and going to movies...unless it is the $1 movie.

I stopped buying coffee in the morning. At $3.05 a serving x 5 days=$15.25 x 4 weeks=$61 a month. Ouch. I also started packing my lunch, which is also making a huge difference.

We haven't cut spending due to the economy. We did our cutting three years ago when I became disabled and had to stop working.

honestly, nothing. We have always been frugal, well, me more so than my hubby. We just aren't willing to cut some things out of our lives at this point.

We've also been frugal always, but have found more and more ways to tighten up the budget. Like some of you, we have given up movies and eating out except once in awhile at a fast food restaurant dollar menu. And that only when we are running around getting more things done in one trip than we used to.

Probably the next thing we will cut out is the cable if needed. We haven't had cable since the '80's. 2007 was the first time in many many years that we've had it, and that only because we needed the high speed internet it was bundled with for my two college age kids and my jobs.

One thing we've changed in the past 5 years is that we don't rent movies anymore but use Netflix instead. We've figured that it saved us a lot just in overdue fees (living out in the country we were always a distance from any place that rented out movies).

We also have a phone service that charges one monthly rate with unlimited long distance. We use only pre-paid cell phone service. And we use cell phones only for emergencies.

I could go on and on.

Hmmmmm, we really haven't given that much up.....I guess it's because we've not felt the pinch that much, as we've always tried to live modestly....we have a quite small, two-bedroom older house, which has been paid off for years, two vehicles, including a Ford F-150 truck, which hubby just bought maybe 4 or so months ago, used, of course......our vehicles are older but all paid off, so no payments there, and I just avoid going to stores, not entirely, but a lot less than I used to....sometimes I shop online, to save gas and time......we don't eat steak nearly as much as we used to, but we still have our satellite and I, my computer. I grocery shop at 3 or 4 different stores as well. I have NO cell phone and plan to keep it that way!!! Plus, then I have all my points programs online, surveys, and other money making things on here to help.

Not much really, I already just get disability from Social Security. I'm used to doing nothing, LOL.

I used to get my nails done every two weeks. I don't anymore.

Alot of the cutbacks we made have been over the last few years ,and many were due to the expense of having a special needs child but the rising gas prices really hit us hard since my husband works a ways away from home and we have so many medical and therapy appts for my daughter each week so thats when it really started hurting our already stretched budget even more.

We've also cut out the Starbucks and don't go out to eat as often. We also scaled back our cable package. For the most part, thankfully, we haven't been too affected directly but we've definitely seen our overall costs go down as prices on everyday items seem to have dropped a bit with demand.

We've cut down on extra trips around town and combine stops so we get a lot done in one trip.

We cut down on fast food, we have a few more months on both leases and we are gonna get rid of those...

We have cut out fast food for health and the cost. We still like to go out to have a nice dinner. Less Las Vegas

I have cut out a few minor things but nothing major.

extra snacks

we cut back on eating out.

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