My Frugal tip is to keep your eyes peeled :blink: You just never know what you might find.
What I mean is, for example, I saw someone at my work place going along in his JCB with loads of wood in the bucket ready for the bonfire. I went over after he had gone only to find a large quantity of old scaffolding boards, posts, and other useful bits of wood. So I neatly stacked them to one side and took them up the allotment. Too flipping good for a bonfire!
I also keep my eyes open for bargains. I bought myself a new cargo trailer for my bicycle for half the price of anywhere else, a new petrol strimmer for 40% cheaper than anywhere else and many other articles the same way.
Another tip is to use your imagination. Its fun! Think of ways to make things for free or nearly free. Amazing what you can come up with. I made a huge coldframe out of lots of little offcuts and a sheet of plastic. Doesn't look bad considering I'm no carpenter or DIY expert.
I try to reuse plastic packaging in my gardening escapdes, such as using them for seed trays or propagating lids, using plastic bottles as cloches, keeping the slugs off of stuff.
I am learning to propagate plants in order to get lots of free ones.
I am always looking on freecycle ready to pounce on anything remotely useful.
I go to the local car boot sale and occasionally come home with a real bargain.
I sale anything I never use on eBay in order buy other items that I will use.
I'm in the process of learning to make my own wine in order not to waste bottles and to get wasted
, plus use all my lovely fruit in a good way rather than feeding the local blackbird.
Shock horror I repatch my work trousers to make them last that bit longer. They're perfectly good trousers, just have a few holes in those private places
I have begun the process of composting everything I can. Why pay for it when you can make it yourself with the rubbish you throw away and why give it to the council who will charge you to buy it back!??
At work instead of the plastic pots being put into the landfill I put them on Freecycle along with those plastic fruit and veg crates and anything else I can pillage.
I don't have a water butt yet but I put out all manner of containers to collect water when it rains. And it works!
I'm not sure if any of these are tips but I hope I earn a couple of brownies points for trying at least! I don't earn much and so I think this makes me more frugal anyway, plus my upbringing was to make things last cause you wouldn't be getting anymore.