Quote Originally Posted by ivanshayka View Post
This year my parents picke about 200+ lbs of mushrooms, they grow in the fall time! I don't know the name. They canned boxes of quarts mason jars. And dried probably 2 5-gallon buckets. With a lot of work and just a bit of $, they have a lot of food.

Another thing my parents do is buy a pig at the farm, slaughter it there, chop it into 1/4, finish butchering it at home, comes out to be about $1/lb or less. They use most of the pig for something, rarely do they waste anything.

Another thing they do, is going to the farmer and pick up potatoes after the harvester did it's thing, not all the potatoes get picked up, the ones left over get picked up by my dad (dad loves to do this). The farmer charges less than $10 for a full pickup bed. Most of the time my parents store it in a cellar. Enough potatoes to last 6 mo for them and most of us kids (don't ask how many in our family, and almost all of us are married).

These are few things you can do to save good chunk of money. This applies to most things that we purchase on the daily basis. It is easier to save if you plan ahead and wait for a while to see that deal. At times when you need it NOW (and I'm talking about myself) there is very little room to play.
Your parents will have shrooms for years!!! We have raised pigs, but I am not supposed to eat pork. That is fine, as I am happy to eat everything else on my list. I thought of something else...

Does any one else cut their own hair? I have been doing this since I was 18. That must saved me a bundle over all these years!