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.

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    Something that I will claim I did to save money was get a new motorcycle. I traded two bikes, one that was exceedingly hard to grt parts for, and one that had a ton of miles, a ton of abuse, and had reached the point where it needed something fixed once a week. So now I have just one, and it actually works.

    The other, more reasonable thing I’ve done has been more cooking at home. No more getting fast food, because it’s no longer fast, or cheap. A really interesting side effect of this is my wife and I losing weight, me not needing to medicate myself to sleep anymore, a drastic reduction in antacid/tums intake, and a stark reduction in the amount of junk food I crave. I used to want a soda all the time, now it’s water or maybe tea. I was originally tired of the way the prices kept going up, amd just tried to cook for myself, and I started looking up recipies… now I have a collection of recipies that I might turn into a family cookbook, and I’m adding to it all the time.

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      I have one exception to this rule and that is Chinese food every other Tuesday. It is one of those places where nobody speaks English so you just know it is going to be good. That and the portion sizes are huge for cheap.

      I might die of a heart attack, but at least I will die happy.

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        Definitely get yourself a treat on occasion… just be smarter than me and don’t get it every day!