I'm feeling those same promptings myself. I've always been very frugal with my spending, but lately I've felt an urgency to cut my spending even more. Luckily we just moved closer to everything and will be able to cut our gas money by 75%. We are also working on a year supply of food storage. We are going to be doing it differently though. Last time we moved I threw out about 1/2 of our food storage because it had gone bad. We are now working on just having a year supply of the canned and dry goods that we normally use in a year. Then every month we go dry goods shopping for a month supply and it goes straight down the storage. Whatever food we need for the month we end up pulling from the oldest stock in our food storage. Then we will stock up on wheat and sugar, that have a very long shelf life. My goal is to not throw anything away!
lilered,
Interesting observation about fuel efficiency. Lately I've been going a group of 'hyper-milers' who go to extremes to save a couple of MPGs. I've learned a few helpful tips for changing my driving style to help reduce my fuel consumption. Slow acceleration, avoiding braking, slower speeds, etc. I've been able to get about a 20% increase in MPG. Of course, the biggest help for me has been riding my bike to work instead of driving!
