Save on gas by combining errands/shopping all in one trip. While out for some other reason, gas up then instead of having to pay money just to get to the gas station and back.

Go for groceries after you have eaten ... not before (when you are hungry!)

Plan your menu for the week ahead, and only buy according to the plan.

Know when your stores mark down meats/produce/packaged goods. (time of day, day of week)
Sometimes you can reap huge savings on meat and produce by doing so.
While close on BBD, there's no rush on eating the meats, just freeze it for a later use.

If there is a recycling place near you, one can get a lot of cleaning and painting supplies at some of them.

If you need to purchase books for your classes, find out the ISBNs and start looking for used ones on Amazon. Both used and new books are often considerably less expensive on Amazon than in the school bookstore.

Use the barter system and trade goods/services, i.e., haircuts, sewing, cooking, babysitting, cleaning services....

I use VO5 shampoo and conditioner. It's usually less than a dollar a bottle and works very well for me.

Use the smallest amount of shampoo and conditioner that makes your hair look the way you want to. I have short hair, so I usually just put a drop of conditioner on my hands after I wash my hair, then run my hands through my hair two or three times. I do the same for my nieces hair - long, very fine and thin - but start about two inches from her roots because her scalp is very oily. Of course, I have to use a little more conditioner - a drop about the size of a quarter. For her, sometimes I just put it in the teeth of her comb, and that works, too.

The conditioner can be used as a shaving cream when you shave your legs.

We called our phone, internet and cable TV provider and asked how we could reduce our monthly bill. They found some great savings for us.

Stretch out the length of time between haircuts by trimming your own hair.

Congrats on nursing school! Good luck in your studies.

Buying drinks at work or anywhere else during the day is very expensive.

If you need a drink at work, bring it with you to work/school. Hot Coffee or tea in a thermos, Soda purchased at the store in 6, 12, 24 packs of cans is much cheaper than buying from a vending machine. Drink tap water, fill your own bottles with water at home and bring them along. Hopefully, you have a fridge available to you at work and at school.

Bring your lunch to work with you.

If you smoke, quit. Easier said than done, but that will put a lot of $ back in your pocket.

Cut back on cable tv - get the basic package. You'll be studying in your free time anyway! When you can afford it, you can upgrade.

If you have a cell phone and a land line phone, get rid of the land line and use only your cell.

Cancel the newspaper. You can read everything on the Internet. We canceled our land line phone since we always have our cell phones with us.

We simplified years ago!

Sandy