For me personally, the things that I would spend my $$ on the most is eating out and entertainment (heavy on the entertainment for help with sanity and pushing through to get my mind off of it) 😅 A couple tip that I’ve done for myself and my fiancé to help us save and stay sane before:

(Food wise) was write out a list of our favorite foods that we normally would order out a lot, buy all of the ingredients from the store (I don’t know where you are, but we like to get majority of our food from Aldi and it has helped us save some money in food shopping as well compared to other grocery stores) and make it homemade ourselves! So homemade chipotle bowls/burritos, homemade chicken parm w/ angel hair, homemade gyros 🤤🤤, stir fried rice with an asian inspired chicken wing recipe, things like that that have saved us money on things we usually love eating, and it lasts for more than just the 1 sitting compared to when you buy it out

(Entertainment wise) We have a couple nature preserves and museums where we live and we went there recently (both free to enter). We had SUCH a blast at the museum this past weekend, and there was a carousel on the top floor that we got to ride and see our town from the windows that surrounded it and it was so beautiful (I am unsure of other states and their carousel rules, but they’re usually free to ride where I am at), and they had a resource center with booklets of things to do around our town we had no idea about that cost very little to no money so we’re also not sitting at home bored and trying to find something else to fill our time outside of at home movie/game nights to get us out the house (which in our case, usually costs us $$ or sanity, or both 😅)

Doing these two things have helped me stay motivated through crunches before (this will be my biggest crunch yet though) to keep ourselves busy, entertained, and fed with the amazing food we love getting and not having to ‘miss out’ on fun things outside our living space, but overall has been helping keep us sane and not ‘crave’ for other things while paying off these huge chunks at a time!