For me I generally pirate most books I read, although if there is a book I really enjoyed I will buy the physical copy.
I also generally tend to avoid having takeaways because they are just so expensive in this day and age with inflation and tend to opt for cheap meals like pasta or rice etc.
Also I don’t pay for any streaming services, but borrow a VPN service from a friend to pirate the movies I watch.
Curious to hear of some ways that you people here save money.
Creative? Cut your own hair.
Been doing this for 10 years. Only once did I mess up badly enough to have to resort to a buzz cut!
It’s pretty easy for most men to give themselves a passable haircut too.
Buy a half decent set of clippers. They don’t need to be particularly expensive, just not cheap crap.
Brush the top of your hair to the middle, as if you’re giving yourself a mohican, and brush the sides and back downwards. Make sure that the lines separating the sides and top are level.
Put a guard on the clippers that you’d be comfortable with the length of if you accidentally get it wrong. It’s a #4 for me, or about 10mm.
Using your off hand as a block, hold the top of your hair out of the way and shave up the sides. Do the same at the back.
Take the guard off and carefully cut around your ear, folding the top of your ear down to see better, if you can.
Using a longer guard, about 30mm in my case, cut the top.
The hardest part is tidying up the back of your neck, so ideally you’d want someone to help, but you can do it in the same way that you did the top, and use your hand to protect the hair you want to keep.
If you did it right, you’ve got a new short back and sides. It’s a basic cut, but most people can pull it off :)
Here’s my tip to you for doing the back: go somewhere with a big mirror and hang a small mirror opposite, then look into the small mirror to save you from having to hold it and from bamboozling yourself moving the mirror about.
Moving mirrors in the opposite direction accidentally really sucks lol
One of numerous situations in my life where I make myself look like an idiot and no one’s looking anyway.
I started during COVID for practical reasons, but it’s so simple and quick I don’t think I’ll ever go back - I just grabbed a $40 pair of plug in Wahl clippers and I’ve probably saved myself at least a grand by now in haircuts