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Rented a carpet cleaner instead of hiring someone
My landlord mentioned in passing that the carpets in my apartment were "due for a professional clean" and I took that as a hint I'd be losing deposit money if I didn't do something about it.
Looked up carpet cleaning services and they wanted anywhere from $180 to $280 for my size place. Then I noticed you can rent a carpet cleaning machine from most hardware stores for like $35 for 4 hours.
The amount of filth that came out of carpets I thought were clean was actually disturbing. Like I vacuum regularly, I take my shoes off at the door, and the water still came out the color of a swamp. Did it twice in the same day just because I couldn't accept the first result.
Saved like $200 doing it myself and that alone made my week. Then I did my couch. Then the bathroom rug. I'm basically a different person now.
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My landlord mentioned in passing that the carpets in my apartment were "due for a professional clean" and I took that as a hint I'd be losing deposit money if I didn't do something about it.
Looked up carpet cleaning services and they wanted anywhere from $180 to $280 for my size place. Then I noticed you can rent a carpet cleaning machine from most hardware stores for like $35 for 4 hours.
The amount of filth that came out of carpets I thought were clean was actually disturbing. Like I vacuum regularly, I take my shoes off at the door, and the water still came out the color of a swamp. Did it twice in the same day just because I couldn't accept the first result.
Saved like $200 doing it myself and that alone made my week. Then I did my couch. Then the bathroom rug. I'm basically a different person now.
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How do you effectively track and categorize spending?
Cutting cost is an neverending story and especially allocating budgets has always been a struggle for me.
Regular Bills are one thing, but grocery and household items seem to be endless or nonexistent, but never clearly defined. I have tried my hands on several budget trackers of varying shapes and forms, but i always struggled with entering all of my spendings accurately. ADHD and being the financial head of a BIG family certainly doesn't help with tracking down the moneyswallowing cracks.
Of course food or soap have their categories in every budget planer, but what do i apply to less obvious stuff? Last week i bought a lid sorter for under the sink - not exactly a NEED-item, but welcomed nevertheless as it has already helped keeping things clean and organized and reduzing overall work. What do i put it under in my budget planer? Household item or fun money? Last year i found a tape dispenser in a fun animal shape. I already have one, but it brings me a lot of joy to use the new one. Again: not needed, but welcomed. Is it a fun expense or office supply? I had to buy printer paper. We use it for the office, schoolwork, but also do crafts with it. In which category does it belong?
I often do one bulk buy. How do i disentangle everything efficiently? And i have often found that i am not accurately buying according to my budget. For example last month i found a extremly good sale for toothpaste and stocked up. 40€ over my budget, but we won't need to buy any toothpaste for probably a year. But how can i accurately reflect that in my sheet?
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Cutting cost is an neverending story and especially allocating budgets has always been a struggle for me.
Regular Bills are one thing, but grocery and household items seem to be endless or nonexistent, but never clearly defined. I have tried my hands on several budget trackers of varying shapes and forms, but i always struggled with entering all of my spendings accurately. ADHD and being the financial head of a BIG family certainly doesn't help with tracking down the moneyswallowing cracks.
Of course food or soap have their categories in every budget planer, but what do i apply to less obvious stuff? Last week i bought a lid sorter for under the sink - not exactly a NEED-item, but welcomed nevertheless as it has already helped keeping things clean and organized and reduzing overall work. What do i put it under in my budget planer? Household item or fun money? Last year i found a tape dispenser in a fun animal shape. I already have one, but it brings me a lot of joy to use the new one. Again: not needed, but welcomed. Is it a fun expense or office supply? I had to buy printer paper. We use it for the office, schoolwork, but also do crafts with it. In which category does it belong?
I often do one bulk buy. How do i disentangle everything efficiently? And i have often found that i am not accurately buying according to my budget. For example last month i found a extremly good sale for toothpaste and stocked up. 40€ over my budget, but we won't need to buy any toothpaste for probably a year. But how can i accurately reflect that in my sheet?
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Cheapest way to get healthy calories
My bf is incredibly skint (0 hour contract and getting below full time hours) none of that’s great for mental health at best of times, he’s looking for another job but it’s hard out there, he’s also a runner, which IS good for his sense of purpose/self development/pride. Down side of that is he needs about 4000 calories a day, and by the time bills and rent are taken out it’s very tight to do a grocery shop. So far it tends to be the largest pack of eggs on the shelf, the cheapest bulk packet of meat and a very large bucket of pasta. Does anyone have any high calorie cheap meal /food hacks for the UK or bulk buying stores they’d recommend.
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My bf is incredibly skint (0 hour contract and getting below full time hours) none of that’s great for mental health at best of times, he’s looking for another job but it’s hard out there, he’s also a runner, which IS good for his sense of purpose/self development/pride. Down side of that is he needs about 4000 calories a day, and by the time bills and rent are taken out it’s very tight to do a grocery shop. So far it tends to be the largest pack of eggs on the shelf, the cheapest bulk packet of meat and a very large bucket of pasta. Does anyone have any high calorie cheap meal /food hacks for the UK or bulk buying stores they’d recommend.
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