{"id":26677,"date":"2025-07-28T04:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26677\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T04:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:51:07","slug":"26-money-saving-habits-frugal-people-swear-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26677\/","title":{"rendered":"26 Money-Saving Habits Frugal People Swear By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      23.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;I plan meals and restocks around grocery store sales. The local ads and coupons come in the mail on Wednesdays, so when the discounts are big enough for items I actually buy, then that is what I cook for the week and\/or stock up on. I\u2019m talking things like eggs on sale for $.99, laundry soap coupons for $5 off, $3.50\/lb off for bulk ground beef\u2026 not things like a $.09 discount on canned corn that will eventually expire in my cupboard. I also do a quick look around the house to make sure I am not buying something on sale when I already have six months\u2019 worth of it in the freezer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like this shouldn\u2019t be considered &#8216;weird,&#8217; but according to the reactions I\u2019ve gotten from people, it must be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Frugal\/comments\/1m0ar0d\/whats_your_weirdest_frugal_habit_that_actually\/n39x2kt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fennecfoxes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"23. &#8220;I plan meals and restocks around grocery store sales. The local ads and coupons come in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,5623,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-26677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-evergreen","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}