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Originally Posted by unapam
Lack of money brought/bought us a valuable commodity...time"
Nicely put.
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Nicely put indeed and I totally agree
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Some of the things she did to save money was..
Use the local library to borrow books and movies.
Make lunch and use a flask
Swap clothes with friends to change her wardrobe
Sold as much as possible of her possessions at flea markets (She lives abroad)
Make presents (nicked some of my ideas for this) for Christmas and birthdays
Grew vegetables...organically
Bartered her skills for other peoples skills
Entered as many competitions as possible (and won some)
Babysat for friends and took in dogs for friends going on holiday (all for the going rate of babysitters and kennels)
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Yes I do barter, like for instance last year I spent time searching for a shed for a friend who is a tiler, I managed to get a shed for him and he did some tiling for me.
I also sorted out his laptop which is to be paid for by more tiling.
I have actually bartered with people around the world, some of my own formulations of natural creams for something they can send me - exchange of energy :)
The idea of babysitting and pet sitting is a good one :)
rowing our own organic veg and fruit is in the pipeline this year.
Also I'm not sure where I read the idea of creating vouchers as gifts. My 18 year old niece had no money to buy gifts for her parents and siblings this Christmas so I suggested she create a book of vouchers for each of them.
She had the following in the voucher books she created:
For her mom:
Foot massage x 3 vouchers
Shoulder massage x 3 vouchers
Make over x 3 vouchers
House cleaning x 3 vouchers
Brother sitting x 3 vouchers
Car cleaning x 3 vouchers
Yard Cleaning x 3 vouchers
For her dad she had vouchers for Poo patrols, dish washing, cooking, car cleaning and so on.
For her brothers she has vouchers for cleaning their rooms, play time, football playing, story reading, and so on.
For her sister she had Girls afternoon, make overs, room cleaning and other similar promises.
The idea is they give her a voucher when they want to claim the offer.
When they visited me they were full of chat about the gifts she had given them and all agreed they were the best they had received :)
This idea can be used for birthdays also.