{"id":375221,"date":"2026-04-04T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375221\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:10:07","slug":"readers-share-their-most-outrageous-tips-for-saving-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375221\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers share their most outrageous tips for saving money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TOWIKMNJ5BAN3KUPXZ7A57MMFA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">There is a thrill in finding ways to save money, and for many people, that drives a lifelong pursuit of penny-pinching hacks.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"B7BOB5T53ZFZRK3KGPGRWMFUAY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">But even I was floored by some of the more ingenious and radical tips on frugality that readers sent my way. Since I shared some of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/03\/25\/gas-prices-penny-pinching-hacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">favorite stories about saving money<\/a>, my inbox has become a confessional for a kind of thrift that borders on a competitive sport. The tales of creative cost-cutting involves, among other things, an elaborate filing system to save on foil and a water conservation effort that requires a detergent bottle and a steady hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a thrill in finding ways to save money, and for many people, that drives a lifelong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267],"class_list":{"0":"post-375221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}