Frugal People Share the One Habit That’s Saved Them the Most Money, and They Are Spot On

A Dime Saved
9 min readJul 12, 2024

Committing to frugal habits will help you live a frugal lifestyle. Making frugal habits part of your everyday life could save you money in the long run.

Saving money is about creating a frugal life that allows you to save money on the things you don’t need and use them for the things you do need.

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Take some of these frugal habits and try to incorporate them into your life. Then, take the money you save and use it to better your life in some way: save up for an emergency fund, give more charity, save for retirement, or use it to make more money.

Writing Down Meal Plans

Food is essential and isn’t something you can’t skip; however, it is something you can save on! Since last year, I’ve developed the habit of writing down meal plans for the month, and I tend to go through my food cupboard at the end of every month and utilize whatever has been sitting for a long or needs to be used soon.

This way, not only does the cabinet get a refresh, but I also end up with things I’d forgotten existed and end up saving

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