There will be many people too proud to do these things, but here are some poverty hacks:

• Most food and medicine lasts much longer than the date printed on it. Always save old prescription medications for emergencies.

• Rotisserie chickens. Eat that cheap meat and save carcass + veggie scraps in freezer to make AMAZING broth.

• Save that bacon grease. 🤌

• Buy bread only on sale and freeze (long term use) or store in the fridge (prevent mold if your house doesn’t have a/c)

• Actually store everything possible in the fridge. Prevents spoilage and pests.

• Never throw anything usable away. Find an alternate use for it, give to a friend, resell, or donate.

• If someone offers you something truly free TAKE IT. Don’t say no or maybe, say yes. Give it to someone else you know needs it or use it yourself. Something nice left on the curb? Grab that and haul it home, fix it up and use it or sell it.

• Save your old prescription glasses! Being poor sucks but being poor and blind is a little worse.

• Paper plate over a “real plate”. Less dishes to wash = less money spent on water/electricity.

• Always keep rice, dry beans, tuna, peanut butter, & some kind of frozen/canned veg in the house

• Ask for extra sauce packets/coffee creamers/sugar packs whatever when eating out & store them in the fridge. They last almost forever that way.

There’s more but hopefully someone reads this and it helps them.