Let’s get a list going. Like with a Target debit card you can get $40 cash back and it takes 1 to 2 days to be withdraw from your checking.

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    11 months ago

    I save a ton with my garden and chickens. If you got just a little land. I live in a small town but in the middle of it, but I got my yard used to its maximum potential. You would be surprised what you can fit if you do it right. You can go vertical if you need too. Where you save a so much money isn’t that “oh well, now I don’t have to buy a squash! I saved 3 dollars “ but if you let it dictate your meals it’s what you eat and then you spend 0 dollars on supper. I ate a lot of squash and bok Choy and rice and home baked bread this late summer and it was great every meal. Probably saved nearly $20,000 on groceries those two months. Give or take. (Don’t try squash if you don’t have the room. They are delicious but will straight up take over a given area with huge beautiful leaves and huge wonderful yellow flowers all summer)

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          11 months ago

          It’s strange because it… isn’t really a joke, just wrong information? It’s not a high enough value to be obvious hyperbole (“I saved like a million on groceries”), so it looks like a typo that you didn’t realize you made and are now aggressively defending like you meant it as a joke. Not saying that’s the case, but that’s sure what it looks like.

          Could you estimate how much it actually might have saved you? I think that’d be very good for the discussion.

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      11 months ago

      If you got just a little land

      Let me go ahead and get a mortgage so I can raise chickens to save money.

      | Probably saved nearly $20,000 on groceries those two months.

      10k a month in groceries?

      Farmer’s markets sell veggies cheap as fuck.

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        11 months ago

        Farmer’s markets are very expensive in my area. Like, almost double the price of my local grocery stores. I sometimes wonder if people just buy their goods from the grocery store and sell them at the market.

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          You think I meant 20k?

          “Probably saved nearly $20,000 on groceries those two months. Give or take”

          I can’t tell if you are trolling

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      11 months ago

      How much time do you spend looking after your garden? In my area, I would need to water the garden occasionally (if there is not much rain), figure out a pest mitigation solution (I don’t want to eat squashes half eaten by rodents, weed the plant bed, etc.

      I know all this because my father took up gardening as a retirement hobby and quit after a few years because he did not want another full time job.