[mom-from-missouri]

Our biggies are using the clothesline, not eating out, keeping the AC at 76 and the heat at 63 & layering up, cooking from scratch, avoiding unnecesarry trips to town, not wasting food by canning and freezing, gardening & growing our own meat and fish, not using disposable products such as paper towels, napkins, plates...using cfl and led lighting, cheap entertainment at home, shopping in bulk, sewing most of the kids and my clothes & shopping thrift stores, dh takes his own lunch and we don't use disposable lunch items--they are rubbermade containers that we reuse.