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June 30, 2009: Trash cans are a part and parcel of every household. So are trash can liners. It might pay to pause for a moment and reflect on our annual expenditure on trash bags.

Usually we need trash bags of three different sizes - for our kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms. A roll of trash bags containing 30 replacements often lasts us three months. Since we purchase three rolls of different sizes at an average price varying between $5 to $6 per roll, the quarterly cost of the bags amounts to $15 at the least. That means we have to set aside a minimum of $60 for trash bags annually!

A couple of years ago when we did this exercise, we decided to save our money spent on trash bags by replacing them with empty plastic grocery bags. Being aggressively frugal, we wanted to shamelessly save every dime wherever we could. Extending this frugal philosophy we trimmed our spendings on gas, hair cuts, dining and eating out, energy bills, printer cartridges, and cell phones.

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