How are you saving your family, money?

Here are some solutions I can come up with, quick...

• Get the Sunday Newspaper, it's full of coupons.
• COUPONING!!
• Planning your meals! Breakfast, Lunch, Dinners, Snacks, for each family member.
• Buy in bulk!!!
• plan your shopping list in advance.
• Repurpose old furniture
• design on a dime or make things yourself.
• buy clearance items
• buy generic brand food if you shop at a local grocery store. i say it that way b/c we shop at an air force base, commissary.
• put a little money away a week, such as $5, $10, whatever you can spare.
• start a savings at a young age for children.
• do all your seasonal shopping for the next season as one season ends and things get clearanced out.
• look for internet coupons.
• make a monthly budget.
• ALWAYS balance your pocket book.
• If you can and have time, CLOTH DIAPER your little ones.
• Pass clothing and essentials down from child to child, if you can.
• Swap babysitting services with a friend/family as needed.
• Keep a change/money jar and cash it in at the end of the year.
• cut back on a bad habit: ie: smoking, drinking, chewing tobacco, coffee drinking, energy drinks, chewing gum. put that money you would have spent into your money jar.
• make your own baby food.
• if you are able to, BREASTFEED your children.
• Eat in instead of eating out all the time.

If you can come up with others, please feel free to share. :)