{"id":363883,"date":"2026-04-04T20:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:15:06","slug":"readers-share-their-most-outrageous-tips-for-saving-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363883\/","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":363884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-363883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}