Questions savings agitated the minds of housewives always, regardless of the time in which we live, whether it is the Soviet Union or the current market realities. And the poorer the society was the more trying to save homemaker.
I hope that the level of our grandmothers, we do not have to get up, but learn to be frugal mistress will not interfere at any time.
For what - would become economical mistress, you need not so much. Enough to learn to read and count. Yes Yes. It's enough. But how to do it, read on.
How to start saving
It would seem that there may be such a complex in the economy ?! Spend less money - and the entire economy. In practice, it is much more difficult.
I'll give you an example. For house cleaning, we use certain tools, such as glass cleaner, means for washing the floor, dishwashing detergent, etc. Each of these tools has its specific price. You can buy a very cheap way, and, like how to save it, but to use it to clean up, for example, a gas cooker with stainless steel, this tool will be needed in two or even three times more than other more expensive means to washing the stainless steel surfaces.
And it turns out that buying a cheap but ineffective cleaning products does not lead to the saving of the family budget, but on the contrary, will increase spending on the purchase of tools for cleaning.
For what - to become leaner hostess and start saving, you need to critically look at all what you are doing, and select all the possible ways to save. In fact, you can save on everything from savings on utility bills to save on clothing and food. can be found on the website site is not only a lot of interesting tips and publications devoted to the economy, but also the recommendations and methods preserving and augmenting the family's welfare.
What can save housewife
Perhaps the best answer to this question will be - at all! And in general - is the way it is. Critical look at all their household chores, and choose ways to save.
What does any hostess usually do?! That's right: laundry, cleaning, cooking, grocery shopping. It is in these processes that you can find ways to save money.
You can save on laundry in the following ways:
- buying a less expensive, but no less effective washing powder;
- washing in an economical and ergonomic washing machine;
- washing at night or on weekends - significantly saves electricity in the presence of two - tariff meters for electricity;
- fully loaded washing machine. Washing in a half-empty washing machine with the same consumption of water and electricity, in general, increases the cost of the family.
Save on cleaning and cleaning products:
Almost at the beginning of the article, I already gave an example regarding the choice and purchase of household cleaning products or dishwashing products. The point is that not every cheap remedy will give the desired effect. Accordingly, for cleaning the house you have to use much more "cheap" products, and buy it again. And this is clearly not an economical option.
Savings on cooking:
- gas is cheaper than electricity. Therefore, if you have a gas stove in your house, then you are already saving in some way;
- We cook as much as we can eat. If you're used to cook once a week, and your family does not eat much, calculate how much is not eaten food you throw away at the end of the week. Translate this amount of money on the cost of the purchased products, and imagine if you were not the remains of the soup splashed out and threw the money on that amount.
It's the same with food shopping: don't buy more food than you can eat.
Savings on clothes:
Careful wear and cleaning of clothes and shoes prolongs their life. Well, you see, if you had washed her white blouse with black socks husband, nothing good will come of this union. A faded blouse will have to be thrown away, and this is another expense.
The same goes for ironing clothes. If you have chosen the wrong heat iron, and because of that her husband left pants scorched spot, these pants to wear it no longer can. Accordingly, again unforeseen expenses.
A similar approach should be to everything you do!
Summing up the above, in order to become an economical hostess, it is enough to follow a few basic rules.
- You can save on any product you buy. Whether it's food or a new blouse, or buying household appliances. We buy products in small wholesale, if discount cards work in the store, we buy them and use them. Wherever you can ask for a discount, be sure to ask.
- We treat with care all things that fall into our hands. The longer this or that thing “lives”, the less will be the cost of buying new things. Of course, everything that can be repaired or repaired must be repaired or repaired.
- Food is bought and prepared only in quantities that the family can physically eat.
- We save on everything from electricity to cleaning products.
Probably, many housewives are familiar with the situation when, returning from work, not burning with a special desire to cook something, we buy ready-made food. And at home, in, there is a bunch of food that quietly spoils while you eat ready-made food from the supermarket. As a result of this whole situation, half the salary is spent on food per month.
But, in fact, you can save on products, you just need to discipline yourself a little and learn how to properly manage money.
It is about how to save on products that we will talk today. So, first you need to make a menu for the whole week. Despite the fact that it seems almost impossible, however, a roughly compiled menu will make your life much easier. Think about what you usually eat, for example, for breakfast. Purchase of eggs, muesli, cereals and ready-made cereals, as well as sausage or ham, depending on what you prefer. This will be enough. It will not be superfluous to think over several options for lunches and dinners.
The next step is to buy products wisely, as they say. At home, make a list of necessary products, and strictly follow the list in the store. If "extra" purchases are your weakness, then it is best to take a small amount of money with you, only for what is needed.
Make it a rule to keep store receipts. At the end of the month, you will be able to knock down the amount that you spent on food.
It's no secret that in stores located near the house, everything is always exorbitantly expensive. Therefore, it is necessary to find the best option for a store that is not very far from home, and the prices for products in which will not ruin you before the end of the month.
Try to cook more versatile dishes. scrambled eggs, casseroles, Cereals, omelets and sandwiches can be prepared from a fairly unexpected products. For example, a half-eaten dinner pasta or potatoes will be an excellent basis for casseroles.
Of the remaining porridge (if it is cooked in milk) can cook pancakes. Remain green and do not discard, it is possible to cut and freeze.
Good rescues housewives cook, frozen dough. Yeast dough perfect for cooking pizza or simply baked muffin.
"Press" on the seasonal fruits and vegetables. Of course, often in the winter we like grapes or strawberries, but it's pretty expensive. Especially because this time of year, they are not very useful. It is better to give preference to vegetables (fruit) seasonal. They are much cheaper and safer. Judge for yourself what is more useful compote, cooked by you or obscure colored water with bubbles in a plastic bottle, it is not known where and how stored.
The last and very important rule of economy - avoid at semis opportunities. They are all beautifully packaged, but have a relatively low weight (250 to 500g). If we translate the cost of semi-finished product in the price of one kilogram, it turns out that they are - it's expensive, and their quality - the secret to the buyer.
Much better and more useful to buy a whole chicken than ready cutlets or stuffing. Prepared salads - is not quite healthy meals. If you need to reduce the time for decoction of vegetables (carrots, beets, potatoes), buy these ready vegetables in the supermarket. Vegetables are usually close to salads and marinated kebab on display.
Following our advice, you will soon notice that the cost of food significantly decreased, diet has become much more diverse and more useful. Husband and children often come from the table with a satisfied smile. You hear often: "Thank you, my dear!" Have you got the "extra money" that would go with your family to the movies.
This does not mean that you will eat less, not just learned to save you!
Sooner or later, every woman is faced with the question - how to be the perfect hostess, to the house was dominated by cleanliness and comfort, the household cooking and happy time delicious dishes And at the same time left for themselves. To properly solve all these problems and learn how to be a good housewife to her home to begin to answer the question - who is a perfect hostess? Let's try to sort this out together.
Signs of a good hostess: who can be called a real guardian of the family hearth
The main symptom of skilled and knowledgeable experts in the household is a woman's ability to combine the life and efforts to create coziness and still developed personality, do not forget about yourself.
In such a hostess and the house is in order and she did not go slob, and the children and the husband maintained. Good housekeeping skills are not innate abilities, they need to learn.
For this purpose, it is not necessary to attend the expensive and of little courses in home economics - is enough to know a few simple tricks and old women's tricks To the question of how to become an excellent zealous mistress could put in the category of solved once and for all. Let's talk about all these tricks more.
The ability to save - one of the most important signs of a skillful hostess
A woman should be able to carry on the family budget so that money enough for everything: for food, and clothing, and entertainment and travel for the entire family.
How to become a real economical mistress?
- To begin, start to keep records of income and expenses- Head for that special notebook or even the house register. Meticulously make it all expenses and profits. This account will allow you to calculate the basic expenditure and take measures to reduce them. At economical mistresses every penny counts!
- Pre-compose a shopping list before each trip to the store to acquire what is needed. Ideally, plan 2-3 major purchases of products per month and try to produce them in large hypermarkets or in the wholesale markets and databases - consumer goods everywhere approximately the same, but the price can vary widely. The ability of business women is to choose the price, useful for the family budget.
- Also, you must master the entire volume of information about where you can buy quality, but not too expensive clothes, as the central city's shops and boutiques often significantly overestimate the cost to its product range.
Ability to plan your day - an important skill Housewives
How to become a real experienced hostess, that all the time?
The answer is simple: plan your day in advance. At the present day hostess painted by the minute and every thing is given a certain period of time. It is important to not just make a list of cases, but also to place them in order of priority.
For example, it is far more important to have dinner ready for the children to come home from school than to spend the same time cleaning up, which can wait. Also note things that can be combined - for example, while the meat is baking in the oven, you can turn on the laundry and iron the clothes.
You can plan your day like this:
- do the most difficult tasks first;
- put things that are not so burdensome at the end of the schedule.
This approach is useful both from the point of view of saving time and from the point of view of the competent distribution of one's own forces.
It’s good if you build your schedule so that one day you will cook food for a couple of lunches and dinners, and the other day you will be cleaning up the room, washing, ironing, and other worries. Do not forget to find time for yourself in the drawn up schedule: a housewife does not mean disheveled and slovenly in an eternal dressing gown and curlers on her head.
Inventory control and the ability to cook delicious food
How to become a good housewife?
Cleanliness and comfort in the house are the hallmarks of successful housekeeping
How can you become a clean housewife?
Simple enough - you need to learn a few elementary rules for maintaining order in the house:
It is also useful to distribute tasks over several days before a major cleaning. For example, if you plan to clean the carpets and polish the furniture on the weekend, wash the curtains, wash the windows, clean the plumbing, change the bedding during the week. Feel free to involve other household members in cleaning: let your husband or children take out the trash, knock out the rugs, wipe the dust. Working together is much more fun, and after cleaning, you can arrange a festive dinner or go to the cinema with the whole family.
Nina Minina-Rossinskaya
14.06.2015 | 6692
I share simple tricks for effective savings, which I have tested on my own experience.
Like most women, I love to wander around the supermarket and make spontaneous purchases. But I get no less pleasure from the weekly purchase of products for my family according to the list ..
As a constantly experimenting culinary specialist, mother and thrifty wife, over the years I have developed the following principles - the “mandatory basket” and the “creative set”.
For everyday and holidays
I make sure to make a menu for the week - it's very convenient. I will share my simple menu formula. I usually cook homemade cakes for breakfast, soup and salad for lunch, and I try to make dinner varied (these are dishes from chicken, meat, fish, vegetables).
Based on the menu, make a list of "mandatory basket" and also save time and money, getting the opportunity for culinary creativity.
In my case, the "mandatory Basket" includes:
- hen
- vegetable oil and butter
- cereals
- pasta
- vegetables
- sugar
- tea leaves
- mineral water
Some products I buy fine by the gross for one to two weeks or even for a longer period. This is beneficial, and then you can go to
shop light.
As for the "creative set", it is all sorts of spices, sauces, and sometimes products for a particular food, or those
that suddenly wanted very much to buy and cook something to them.
Pastries - a tradition
Meal I always take a lot, because every day I prepare pastries for breakfast and bread in the bread maker. It is useful and beneficial.
I have a basic dough recipe on which I made more than a dozen sweets.
Cake (basic recipe)
2 tbsp. flour
1 st. kefir
1 st. Sahara
2/3 st. refined vegetable oil
1.5 tsp baking powder
All components connect and mix. Bake the cake in a greased form. The additives are perfect fresh or canned fruit, berries, dried fruits, spices, jams, nuts, candied fruit.
Fish, chicken, meat ...
For your family like to prepare rolls, why buy a piece of chilled trout, which I salt in its original recipe. My husband once calculated how much cheaper to buy chilled fish than salted. The difference in price - twice. Already good!
salted fish
0.5 kg of fish
1 tbsp. salt and brandy or rum
The salt is dissolved in alcohol and this mixture obmazhte fish. Leave in a cool place for a day, but better in two.
During the weekly grocery shopping be sure to take the chicken, because of it can be cooked dozens of options for meals. And I
decided for themselves: more profitable to buy chilled poultry completely and independently divided into parts.
- Of breasts doing so loved in our family, "sausage" - pastrami.
- Wings freeze, and when they become so much, that was enough for a family of five, baked in the oven with a variety of
- spices.
- Drumsticks provide space for culinary creativity, and I, like any housewife, there are no less than ten different variations and recipes
- their preparation.
Chicken pastrami
black fragrant, pink and green peppers
the mustard grain
2 chicken breasts(With skin)
any vegetable oil
Breasts hour soak in a salt solution or in cucumber brine, dry. Oil, connect with herbs, season with salt and stir. Mixture lubricate the meat marinate for 2-3 hours. Preheat the oven to 275-300 degrees., Put the meat. After 15 min. Turn off the fire, do not open the oven for 6 hours.
Meat usually buy chilled, at least - frozen. More profitable to buy a large piece of bone: from it we can cook soup, make the stuffing, and even home-made pickle bacon. For the stuffing I take very carefully - always read and study its composition appearance (better stuffing of minced meat).
Other tricks
My household like flavored tea, but I almost never buy ready-made. Instead, I add a tea brewing ginger, anise and other natural spices - it turns out tasty and healthy.
Cereals, pasta ...
Without them, nowhere. But sometimes I save and I do sheets for lasagne and cannelloni itself. As a result, the process of buying products as
process for their preparation, it is not a chore for me, and creativity, because in him I put not only the power but also the soul.
If your family the cost of food constitute a large part of the costs, you probably thought about how to save on products, without detriment to health
And tastier!
Is it possible to save money on food? After all, proper nutrition - the guarantee of health. But you can replace expensive products over budget. In fact, many cheap products are often even more useful, and even more delicious delicacies not cheap
■ Cut out the long-term storage of milk: that soft bags are much cheaper. If yogurt not afford to replace them with yogurt, which can do itself - from boiled milk and leaven.
■ Do not buy pies in the banks. Buy a liver pate and prepare itself.
■ I want to treat the family of salted salmon? The carcass of a red fish is much cheaper than fillet and pickle her home - simple.
■ Instead of packing with sliced herring buy barreled herring and butchered her home.
■ Instant coffee is not only more expensive, but also less useful-tion than coffee beans. Swipe-lot them and cook fragrant drink you can itself.
■ The easiest example of savings - hot dogs and sausages. They are not cheap, but how much meat in them, know only manufacturers. Buy meat and cook it: beef can be cooked and pork - bake in the oven.
■ Meat seems to be too expensive? Partial replacement of its chicken, and buy it whole and not in parts - so much more economical.
■ In winter, do not rush to buy ready-made pickle - making sauerkraut or carrots in Korean is a snap.
■ If you can not live without the sweet, armed with recipes quick homemade cakes. Pumpkin pie is cheaper and helpful store cake.
■ Try to eat less potatoes and replace it with all kinds of cereals. By the way, and cereals, too, can be saved: instead of oatmeal fast food buy ordinary oatmeal. Cereals, flour, pasta, sugar better to buy in large packages - so much cheaper.
✓ For the storage of flour and cereals are best suited linen bags. Before they fill products will boil them in saline solution - as will be less likely that the rump zavedutsya bugs pests.
Secrets of proper storage
Learning how to save on products - it is also means to learn to store them correctly. Think how much money you throw away in the trash along with moldy bread, potatoes and sluggish spoiled meat! Let's save, saving products.
■ The bread store in the refrigerator: because he is not moldy. If you hold it in a breadbox, put the apple - so the bread will slowly harden.
■ Fresh meat can be stored in the refrigerator for up to four days. If you plan to cook tomorrow or the day after - wash it, to cut and shift the onion rings.
■ Before you freeze fresh meat and fish, not too lazy to cut these foods: fish cleaned, and the meat - wash and cut myself to pieces. Place each portion in a plastic bag. Remember, you can not re-freeze the fish!
■ For storage of cheese and sausages use the plastic wrap, which should be changed every time you took out the product from the refrigerator. To slice the sausage from drying out, put on him a slice of lemon or carrot.
■ Do not store the oil in the oiler with transparent lid: because it is rapidly oxidized.
Household chemicals: easy to find a replacement!
If you want your house was clean and safe, try to use natural cleaners.
| That replace? | Than replace? |
|---|---|
| Means for cleaning tableware | Warm soapy water with baking soda |
| Bleach for laundry | soda ash |
| remover | Lemon juice, citric acid |
| Means for cleaning toilets | A mixture of baking soda and vinegar |
| Air freshener | Natural aromatic oils, which are sold in pharmacies |
| Universal detergents | Warm soapy water |
| polish |
1. Corn starch 2. Napkin with silver John 3. A teaspoon of olive oil + half a cup of lemon juice |
| Carpet cleaner |
1. A paste of baking soda with mineral water 2. Corn starch |
| The liquid for washing windows |
1. Two tablespoons of vinegar in a glass of water 2. Lemon juice 3. Just hot water |
| Sredstvodlya descaling | Ukskus |
| Pipe cleaner | Half a cup of baking soda and half a cup of vinegar to a half-hour later, it is necessary to pour boiling water |
| Means for cleaning plumbing |
1. Cut raw potato 2. mustard powder |
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