Contents:

• The basic principles of saving the house
• How to save on food?
• How to save money at home?

The arrival of the financial crisis resulted in a decline in revenues and higher prices in the shops, reminded us of the need to save money; just how to do it correctly? To abandon the acquisition of essential goods, including the fore food, detergents and hygiene products, it is simply impossible, and without buying new clothes and shoes for several years, every woman loses appeal.

So on what can be saved without unpleasant consequences for themselves and their families? After all, free money never become superfluous - they can be sent in a different direction, for example, to organize a joint campaign to the rink or in an entertainment center. What are they secrets economical mistress? Maybe in the rational planning the family budget, as well as in cooking, has its own special recipes? Let's try to figure it out right now, and try to understand what it will allow us to become more thrifty and economical.

The basic principles of saving the house

To get started please create a special notebook, similar to the one that houses the family recipes. That's it you are as thrifty hostess will be to record all income families and even the smallest expenses. Within a few months, you get a complete overview of all costs. So, no doubt, will be easier to schedule highlights for further savings. After recording in a notebook immediately point to those expenses that have been made without a specific need.

A lot of tips that will not only allow a woman to become thrifty hostess, but also involve in the process of saving the whole family on domestic issues. After all, a large part of the money goes exactly to the content of the apartment and related mandatory payments. Therefore, you can save money, while receiving some benefit.

So, if some basic expenses of the family a considerable amount allocated to the payment of utilities, each economical housewife decides to install gas and water meters, not to overpay public utilities. To save on payment, not the consumption of resources in vain, do not leave taps open, timely repair leaking plumbing appliances, turn off the lights in rooms where no one is, install energy efficient light bulbs in the apartment. If you have to buy new appliances, pay attention to this class of equipment, because the higher it is, the more economical than the cost of using electrical and water.

If the cost of mobile communications and the Internet have become burden on the family budget, maybe it's time to change the provider or switch to more economical packages that allow you to reduce costs in the future.

How to save on food?

Many useful tips thrifty housewives generally include only the recipes, which are inexpensive in preparation for the family budget, but the main economy is not so much a part of the ingredients, as in home cooking. Our compatriots have long been accustomed to buy in supermarkets chopped salads, pizza, which is enough to warm up in the microwave packs with dumplings and dumplings, and other semi-finished products.

But thrifty housewives know very well that such products are expensive and unlikely to benefit the body. Therefore it is better to go on a day off the market, or, at worst, to the supermarket. To buy fresh vegetables, dairy products, meat and chicken, all sorts of greens, and then during the week to prepare these products healthy food, using old and inventing new recipes. Therefore, any economical and thrifty hostess need to learn the first rule of rational shopping: high-quality natural health food is not expensive!

For after work, do not spend a lot of time to cook dinner, advance to tinker with meat, cutting it into pieces, make a semi-finished meat balls, which then will only have to fry. Not bad and learn is about the menu for the week, taking into account the recipes of the dishes prepared that will not be difficult even after a busy day. Please refer to the experience of more mature housewives and listen carefully to advice, such as mothers. Oh, it certainly is aware of the many tricks related to the question of economy.

Remember that a truly economical housewife does not disappear, so do not need to cook huge pots of food, the remains of which will then be thrown out and fill the fridge up to the top, as most of the products during prolonged storage deteriorates. This is the second rule of how to become more economical: products with a limited shelf life should buy only the amount that your family can consume time.

The properties of flour and sugar depends on the storage of bulk products, so if you have to save to buy up bags such products, ensure its safety. To do this, you need to create in the room, for example, in the pantry, ideal conditions where there is no moisture. But sunflower oil to buy packaging is not necessary - it can always be chosen in any store. That's the third rule that you need to remember any economical young hostess, long-life products actually more profitable to buy in bulk, but only if a reasonable approach and the availability of suitable storage conditions.

To become more rational in spending, discipline yourself and other family members do not go shopping without first having breakfast or lunch. Of course, there are force majeure, when you want to go to the store after work. But this time you are usually in a hurry, so quickly take necessary and just go home. Tips are not shopping on an empty stomach relate to the weekly trips to the supermarket, which are often committed by a family.

If someone is hungry, especially children, the variety of food temptations will move quickly into your cart without leaving the place is really important goods. And how can you be surprised to disassemble the purchase and found that the amount of money spent does not correspond to the fullness of your refrigerator! Rule Five: a full meal before going to the store is able to be a good deterrent to trying to buy too much.

How to save money at home?

Any economical woman cares for the things, giving many of them the right to a second life. Even if you do not know how to sew, reworking old coat in fashionable jacket in a sewing studio will be much cheaper than buying a new outerwear and worn out jeans can make a mini-skirt, creative beach bag and a lot of other interesting things.

If your family spends a lot of money on clothes, then surely a situation where cabinets are bursting under the weight of things, and wear something, in fact, and nothing will seem familiar to you. Therefore, first of all, try to get rid of those items toilet that you no longer need (become small, great, wear), and analyze the remains. Determine what kind of new things, and someone in the family needed in the first place. Arrange them according to the urgency, and do not try to cram everything into the nearest salary.

Economical and help the young mistress is very common advice about what to buy clothes and shoes at the most favorable seasonal sales. This is especially true of children's clothes, because they need a lot, and sometimes the kids are growing faster than we can update their wardrobe. Please note that the rapid loss of the original form of things, shapes, colors and textures can be the result of improper care. Remember that clothes are best stored on trempel, and wash and dry indicated on the labels properly. Tips that time shoes should be washed, cleaned and lubricated protective equipment will help to wear it longer.

There are many ways to help renovate the interior economical: it is enough to buy new curtains and applied in the design of objects made with his own hand-maid. And even the old couch you can give a new life with the help of the change and the use of beautiful upholstery cushions. If you are - a creative person, and know how to love tinkering something with your hands, then apply these talents for the good of the family budget, home decorating objects of their own creation. Especially now that it is considered particularly fashionable and original solutions.

Treat your savings very seriously! And over time, you will definitely learn how to save so that the apartment remain comfortable, the kitchen came the aroma of delicious food, and clothing consistent fashion. I do not think that the wide range of food and industrial goods drove out of the habit of our lives bake cakes on weekends and knitting, embroidery and sewing made the prerogative of women of retirement age. All of this will never lose its relevance, because based on the principles of love and care.

Here, perhaps, and all the basic tips that will help every mistress rational approach to the organization of the family budget and be more frugal. Let not all of them will be useful to you personally, but the use of even a small part of the above-described methods will make it possible in a couple of months to see positive results in a certain amount of money saved. And if you do not turn away and turn this experiment into the habit of care of the income and expenses carefully planned in a year and a half can completely unexpected way to strengthen financial situation of their families.