Put things in the Amazon cart but don't buy right away. Come back a few days later and realize I don't NEED that, remove. Repeat.

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Got rid of sodas. With the prices increasing, and sodas leading to health issues down the road I definitely will save more than just money in the long run.

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I drink a pop maybe 2 or 3 times per year and let me tell you when you are not used to them they are so unbelievably sweet! Like too sweet, I can only drink a small glass or half a can and I'm done.

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Writing down every expense in an actual budgeting notebook. I've tried budgeting apps on/off for years and never stuck with them. Having an actual notebook where I physically write all of my expenditures has made me way more frugal in every aspect of my life. Something about writing it & seeing it made me want to stop spending it!

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I have been using a budget book for over 20years. It is good to see where your money actually went, and make you think twice over your expenditure. It also allows you to stay within that month's salary and not dip into access funds in your current account

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Drinking. I like a glass of wine or two with dinner or after. Doing it every night is expensive and unhealthy. I have started to replace it with drinking hot tea at night. I’ve never been a tea drinker but it’s fun to explore different options and it’s starting to grow on me a bit.

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I developed chronic migraines and had to stop drinking because alcohol is my immediate trigger. I still have fun with friends and Im 100% fit the next day. And I save money. It´s a win-win.

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Stopped using DoorDash etc and started using frozen chicken strips and tater tots when I need a quick fix.

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"Some say tomato, some say tater tods" 🙃

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Finally got a library card and connected to my Kindle via Libby. I haven't bought a single book, ebook or physical, all year.

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I am so grateful for libraries.

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I created a gift bin. Whenever I see a great deal online or in a thrift store, bin store etc. I buy things and store them in my gift bin.
I always have nice gifts handy for kids, family members. I’m ready for Christmas
For example, we are going to a birthday next week and I have 2 brand new boxes of nice legos that I got for very cheap back in January. The kid will be happy with gifts and we only have to worry about wrapping it.

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I'd like to add, making your own cute, but simple, gift cards. I bought watercolor pens and a 50pk of cardstock and envelopes for $25 a few years back. Saves me $2-$6 at least a couple times a month. I have a massive Irish family, so it does add up. Bonus; I'm now revered as an artist for my silly doodles paired with dumb jokes.

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I learned to make my fancy coffee at home. I used a cheap espresso machine we had to make sure i would stay in the habit and after a couple weeks i bought a used nicer model and have made my fancy coffee at home since. I dont have to sacrifice taste for frugality. The $250 i spent on the nice espresso machine has easily been "earned" back not going to coffee shops.

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this is always interesting to me - I buy in coffee shops only when travelling. People actually use them regularly :D

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One morning when I had some downtime, I went through my email and unsubscribed from basically any email list I was a part of. Wayfair, H&M, Home Depot etc etc. All of it. Not only has this completely cleared up my inbox, I no longer get tempted by sale days, coupon codes etc. It has helped curb impulse spending immensely!

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Quitting a 2 pack a day smoking habit. $500/mo.!!

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Not a change this year, but one that all my friends have been shocked by as I've slowly converted them over time! Your local library is your best resource for a lot of things, but especially accessing books, audiobooks, magazines, manga, graphic novels, music, television shows, movies, and so on and so forth. Language learning apps? Many libraries (like mine!) have free subscriptions for their users. Doing genealogy? Tons of free resources, including, often, Ancestry.com. My library has several apps like Libby, Kanopy, and Hoopla. Free online classes, free sessions with lawyers and job search professionals, free internet, hotspots, board games, yard games, video games, puzzles.....

Also, many libraries have seed libraries and 'library of things' --> anything from science-y or artsy kits to car/house/etc repair.

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Started shopping at the discount grocery store. Ours has lots of things that are nearing or just past sell by dates, and I was nervous things might not be good. Haven't had a single issue and we're literally saving hundreds per month on groceries.

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I love me some Grocery Outlet for weird deals. It's not my go to grocery store, but I love going in when it's not busy and really digging for the bargains. Bulk Lion's mane mushroom powder, hell yeah. ¢99 live, organic basil, yes! Discontinued local microbrew, definitely. Just watch out if you're really stoned,

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I often met up with friends at restaurants, just by default, and that got really expensive, even when they weren't that special. I started volunteering ideas of just meeting for dessert (instead of a drink and meal), going for a hike, or just meeting at a park to sit and chat. The whole point was to just be together, so no one really paid attention to the switch and they were actually a little glad to not have to plan the outings themselves. My budget is happy about it!

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This saves me so much money and time!

I mix in fruit cups for breakfast and lunch. I usually go with pineapple or mandarin oranges. I eat way healthier and I’m saving money.

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If, like a dog, you don't mind eating the same thing day in day out ...

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Went back to doing my own manicures. I have such a collection of polish to use up! .

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I only had my nails done once - for my wedding. I wish I could be bothered to sit in a smelly room and try to make small talk while people primped me to make me presentable for the outside world, but I just can't.

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Went on a "no-buy." Sounds nuts but gamifying making do with my existing wardrobe, decor, cooking utensils, gardening tool etc has made it so easy. And it simplifies the process of figuring out whether a purchase is worth the money because it DOESNT MATTER- I'm not allowed to buy it anyway.
I did a no buy month and wondered if I would make it through but wound up breezing through it and found it so helpful and easy I am committing to a year.

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Use the envelope method for groceries and my fun money. It makes me pay attention to how much money I'm spending and what I'm spending it on when I have to count out the cash.

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Doubled my 401k contributions. Less extra money burning a hole in my pocket.

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well, good for you :D if you have the money to begin with :D

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Switching auto and home insurance. Our auto went down by two-thirds and our home by half. I don’t even want to think of the money we overpaid over the years.

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Don't have a car and we rent - so we don't pay either! :D

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I started cutting my own hair. As a guy, paying $50-60 a month for something that only looks good for probably 2 weeks is not ideal. I'll only pay that if I have a special event like a wedding or if I'm going on a memorable trip (once or twice a year). Otherwise, I'll just cut it at home and spend $0.

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I've been cutting my husband's hair for 25 years, now. Unfortunately, he doesn't own the skill to reciprocate, and I dare not do it to myself.

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The only real change that we made was not ordering take out so much. We were ordering 3-4 times a week and going out about once a week. Now we are ordering out once ever other week and not dining out. It’s saving my family of 4 about $1000 a month. Honestly, I miss being able to have all the dining options, but due to certain circumstances we can no longer afford such luxuries.

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"all the dining options" ... cook it yourself. It even tastes better because it's fresh and hasn't spent 30 minutes in an isolated box and gone soggy.

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Online thrifting for toddler clothes. They are outrageously expensive and the tots grow out of them in a year or less.

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Make friends with someone with a kid just a few months older than yours. You'll be kept in good hand-me-downs until they develop their own taste and style, usually around secondary school age!

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Not this year but during the pandemic... we only ordered from restaurants that let us come and pick up the order. No food delivery services whatsoever. Once we slowed down our eating out from "once a week" to "once a month or two", we started spending way less on takeout.

also giving up alcohol when my husband needed major surgery. The doctors recommended to not drink 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after... and we just never made it back into a liquor store. Going on 8 months of total sobriety now!

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Turned 40 and decided to quit dying my hair. I’m over a year in and have not only saved money, but my hair is the healthiest it’s ever been! I also like my natural gray sparkle!

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I love my unicorn hair too. It makes me stand out. I've had grey hair since I was 20 and dyed it for years. I stopped just before the pandemic (very fortuitous timing!) and it's never been softer, healthier or got me more compliments!

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Cancelled cable, no one was watching ‘regular’ TV, kept prime and Hulu. No one in the house has noticed.

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Buying bone-in chicken thighs for $0.99/ lb instead of boneless/skinless for over $3/lb. Also bought a cheap boning knife ($10) and YouTube'd how to remove the bone. It's surprisingly easy. Then you keep the bones for stock. Takes me about 15 mins to process about 10 pounds of meat.

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NOT renewing Prime.

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Espresso machine. I was buying a 7 dollar Starbucks drink daily. Now it costs about 25 cents for the same thing.

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It will probably also be much, much better!

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Setting a budget. I grew up poor and no one taught me about money. I’ve just been winging it my whole life. This year my husband and I sat down to have a come to Jesus and figure out *where was all our money going?*

We just sort of divided our money up into different accounts because we can’t be trusted. The main account is only for bills and gas and groceries, but I only spend a set amount a month on groceries. Then each of us has a fun account that we add money to each pay period. That’s the only money we have to blow. Then there is a family fun money. If we want to buy pizza or go to the movie it comes from there.

It completely changed my relationship ship to money, and I thought I was frugal. I was a single mom who raised two kids on one income before o got married. I was not good with money. I was good with stretching the last few dollars after I wasted all my money.

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I have started to go through all drawers, cabinets wardrobes etc having a clear out. Not only have I discovered things I'd forgotten and organised things in such a way that I know how much of everything that I have, but it's illustrated to me where I was making impulse purchases that I regreted. That's helped me stop repeating those same mistakes. For example, I am done with eyeshadow, I've never really "got" how to do it, I end up looking awful and I've chucked the lot out, it wasn't a matter of finding the "right palette", it's just not for me!

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Travelling less. I made the decision on July 1 to cut out any domestic travel that requires a rental car, except for going home at Christmas-time. I haven't left North Carolina since mid-June when I visited family in Chicago. I had spent 30 years in travel heavy jobs and still have tons of American and Delta miles to spend, but the rental car and hotel costs were killing my budgeting.

Slowly transitioning to drinking mostly water when at home and rarely buying soda when out. This transition took most of the first eight months of 2024 to break habits and build new ones. I still buy some 8-packs of Polar or LaCroix or a 2L bottle of ginger ale, but only one at a time and only in weeks where I spend $35 or less on other groceries. I also picked up a box of individual Crystal Light packets from Sam's Club to help with transition, and now I use only one or two a week. When I'm out, I have a Panera subscription at $5.75/month for iced coffee and soda, and I use that 4-5 days a week so I don't buy anything if I get breakfast or lunch somewhere else. That along with bringing a water bottle with me also means that I rarely buy combo meals when I am out, and while I do eat out a lot many of the times it's only $2.50-$3.25 instead of $7.50.

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Traveling less - that's just sad

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Removed my saved credit card info from every online store - it’s safer, but also, my want for an item goes down significantly if I have to get off the couch to grab my wallet.

And I shop up our local natural food store that has a ton of bulk bins. Buying the exact amount of something that I need for a recipe is way cheaper and cuts down on waste!

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I never save my credit card info anywhere in the first place. (Well, except bus card app, but that's not a want, it's a need).

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I switched my savings from my account I've had literally forever to a high yield savings (4% apy or something). It's not an account I can easily withdraw from, so that money is sitting safe. I went from getting like a single cent from my money every month to $30 or so.

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Fewer trips to the Grocery Store! After routinely popping in 3-4 times per week for odds and ends forgotten on my primary weekend trip, I started going to the grocery store just once a week . This restricts opportunities for unhealthy impulse purchases, pressures me to use and consume the fresh food and pantry items I already have on hand instead of letting them go to waste, and sometimes saves on fuel for short inefficient car trips to the neighborhood grocer (if I'm desperate, I make myself ride my bike). The main grocery store chain in my area offers a weekly coupon for 4x fuel points on Fridays. By restricting most grocery purchases to Fridays I can also optimize that perk which is a great bonus.

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Sold my truck for a suv and quit nicotine in the same month started saving nearly $100 a month with those two changes.

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Getting rid of paper towels at home


I bought a thing of painter's rags for my art space and brought most of them in the kitchen. they go in a bag to use, into the laundry to wash.

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That saves almost nothing. Though it's an environment friendly step

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Every time I wanted to spend money on something useless on Amazon I “pulled myself up by my bootstraps” and transferred it to savings instead. Took me a few months to not break the habit but I have accumulated a little over $500 in savings instead of throwing it away.

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Drawing out my household food budget in cash- when it's gone, it's gone. If something edible can't be paid for in cash we don't buy it. It's cut our spending from almost £500 per month (with an embarrassing amount of food wasted) to around £250.

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Spent way less at restaurants/I don’t go there that much any more. I spent only 21 dollars last month on fast food.

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I moved somewhere with an Aldi nearby and my grocery budget is about half of what it used to be.

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I started using the pressure cooker.

I was astonished by how quickly I could cook a whole chicken breast, how juicy/tender it still was, and how fast & easy it was to clean.

I can shred the whole breast in less than a minute and mix it with a microwaved southwest blend (quinoa, rice, peppers, onions, etc), sprinkle a bit of adobo on it and have a healthy cheap quick easy burrito bowl to rival Chipotle's.

The actual labor part of that meal is about 2 minutes. Then I just do something else while the chicken cooks for like 25 minutes and throw the frozen mix in the microwave for the last 5 minutes.

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Starting to cook my own meals more and not eating in restaurants.

Every time you cook a meal, you make it better. I’m at the point now where food served in restaurants isn’t good enough for me.

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Good for you! Learning to cook is something everyone should have the opportunity to do. And everyone should have access to fresh food within walking/cycling distance. US food deserts are grim.

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Learning how to cook beans! It seemed intimidating and I've made some mistakes, but now I eat beans for at least one meal a day. My gut, waistline, and wallet are very happy. .

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Using an insurance broker to find the best deals for you every year.

They deal with finding the quotes, talking to vendors, and just present the numbers to you. Every year I end up changing my insurance provider for something cheaper while still getting the same value/protection.

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Not easy, but finally took hubby off my Verizon plan - he passed 2 years ago and it took me that long to make myself do it. Meanwhile, he’s like, why didn’t you do that 2 years ago?! Anyway, saved $40/mo.

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Finance hack here. If I need a big power tool for something, I buy it on Facebook Marketplace, use it, and then resell it on Facebook Marketplace. Usually it’s for the same price, but sometimes I get more. For example, my kids wanted an in-ground basketball hoop. I bought an auger for $100, used it, and sold it for $160. I bought a concrete mixer for $150, used it, and sold it for $175. For another project I bought a table saw for $100, used it, and sold it for $100.

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Reason why people are meant to live in communities. You can borrow stuff or get help with projects. I wish we didn't develop into individualistic society we are nowadays.

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Making my own coffee creamer. I used to buy the brown sugar oat milk kind from coffee mate and it was creeping up to over $6 per container each week. Now I buy oat milk, add some brown sugar and vanilla extract, shake it up, and put it in a jar. Lasts me 2 weeks and costs $2-3/week depending on when I need to buy ingredients.

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Sparkling apple juice is recommended as a sports drink here in Germany. That might be even cheaper, and would certainly be healthier.

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Spending $10 on a candle warmer. Instead of spending a big expense repeatedly buying candles, I can melt them again and again and they still smell amazing.

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Meal prep, canceling subscriptions, and starting an impulse buys list where I wrote what I want, how I feel, and if it keeps popping up consistently then I decide to buy it. Much more intentional! (edit: grammar).

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In the past year plus: Reduce monthly charges/subscriptions. Savings sometimes at the click of a button. Marie Kondo that streaming list, and cut cable. No cable TV saved $1000/yr by itself.

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Not exactly by me, but local store moved all alcohol to locked display. Now you have to press a button for store clerk to come and open it. I pressed a button, waited 5 minutes and realized that I don’t want to buy the alcohol today.

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Moved to a an apt with cheaper rent.

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Started making homemade pizza. Fast, easy, cost-effective and always a crowd-pleaser with the family.

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Good on you for stepping up a bit. But I hope you help in other ways if your wife does it the other six days of the week! A basic pasta sauce is also very easy to master. Might take a bit of time on a rainy Sunday but you can make a big batch of sauce that can be frozen in portions and taken out when you can't be bothered to go out to eat. Defrost the sauce in the microwave while you cook the pasta. Reserve 1 tbsp of the cooking water and mix the sauce in. A healthy, meal is ready in 10 minutes.

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Honestly removing the exposure to ads/influencing. I deleted tik tok and stopped clicking on the instagram pics/vids of influencers telling me what I need to buy. I also unsubscribed from all email lists (I’m still doing this, each time I get an email I unsubscribe). I also turned off notifications from shopping apps. I’m sure there is more stuff too that I’m not thinking of but genuinely when you’re not always seeing stuff that tempts you to buy, you forget about wanting to buy stuff. Seriously.

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Use the stock in the pantry. Get adventurous and mix foods. Keep life simple.

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I got a windfall and paid off all my consumer debt. It saves about 30%.

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Make coffee from home and bring it to work instead of spending $5 per cup.

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I could never be bothered to go to a coffee shop and queue up first thing in the morning. Sod that!

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Canceled all streaming services. Been watching tv shows via library dvd 'rentals'. Just watched Westworld season 1, now watching True Detective. I don't miss streaming at all so far. My goal is to exhaust my local library's supply of stuff I want to watch- movies and tv- then maybe sign up again. But it's going to take a good long while.

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In our kitchen after washing my hands I now use a hand towel instead of tearing off a sheet on the paper towel roll.

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Oh my! People use kitchen roll to dry their hands?!! This one genuinely flummoxed me.

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I started making my own yogurt this year.

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Love doing that! My kids love it too. Try making your own butter next - it's fun and a workout, and all you need is some full-fat milk and a jar!

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