Yup. This is our annual thing. $2K for a beach house for a week (somewhere on the Gulf coast), eat out two or three times but mostly cooking for ourselves and just chillin.
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Yes! Once you split the cost with just a few people, it works out less than a hotel.
Let's try a novel approach and mention the benefits of cheap reliable handguns instead of jumping to freak out mode that the US is about to start blowing each others' heads off.
Watchmen: "I did it 35 minutes ago."
The shame in Spain falls mainly on their domain
We have SolarCity solar panels on our house which cost us nothing to have installed and bought our Nissan Leaf used. We are saving $300 a month in gas which makes the car payment and our electricity bill hasn't gone up at all.
This is cool! Definitely gonna be my next DIY project for my kids.
Thanks for that one - that's a great idea.
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Nice. I expect in the future self-driving electric cars will be an even better ROI. You'll be able to take it to work, then rent it out to other people throughout the day, then take it home. Kind of like Ubering while you work.
Fourth! I bought one 3+ years ago and it's still kicking. I not only save money and use less plastic/aluminum (I used to go through a sixer of sparkling water a day), but I'm also really, really hydrated (I just drink plain sparkly, no syrups).
I bought a SodaStream back in 2010 and it paid for itself in about 2 months. Sparkling water costs about $1.50 per liter and were heavy to lug to our apartment. Then we had 3 empty glass bottles every week to take to a recycling center.
Yes. I did this after a Lifehacker article some time ago. People tend to think that it's hard, that they will cut themselves, but it's basically the same, it feels good - maybe for the more ritualistic or traditional feel about it -, it's safe and, y'know, just the savings alone are worth it.
My experience with it is…
Are those Bugle Boy jeans you're wearing?
if you get a sodastream and the tank adapter it pays for it's self even faster. I now pay about $2.00 to refill a tank as I have an adapter to hook up a 5 pound standard CO2 tank under the sink. It costs me $15.00 to refill that 5 pound standard tank and it lasts as long as 6 sodastream tanks. Only had to drill one…
Oh definitely! Of course. I'm glad you did. :)
or just stop drinking soda
i'll second this - it also gets you something perhaps not quantifiable in dollars, but equally valuable, which is space. no more stocking up on bottles/cans, then finding room for the returns, and schlepping them to the store.
A SodaStream will pay for itself over time.