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== Transport == | == Transport == | ||
Learn to fix your own car. Its cheaper to send your phone for a display repair to the cell shop down the street since they have the 590 different tools for it. But most of your car's maintenance involves the new materials, your hands, and household tools you already have. | Learn to fix your own car. Its cheaper to send your phone for a display repair to the cell shop down the street since they have the 590 different tools for it. But most of your car's maintenance involves the new materials, your hands, and household tools you already have. | ||
Flights: See [[Travel#Frontier GoWild! All-You-Can-Fly Pass]] for non-time-sensitive travel. Consider itineraries that involve taking a bus or train to a different city and using their airport. | |||
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Service providers for TV, cellphone, internet etc often have loyalty departments. If youve been a client of theirs for a few years and have always paid on time, you can probably save there too, because there are plans only for people eligible for loyalty, but theyre not advertised unless you ask to be transferred to the department. Tools like [https://donotpay.com/ DoNotPay] can also negotiate down bills automatically. | Service providers for TV, cellphone, internet etc often have loyalty departments. If youve been a client of theirs for a few years and have always paid on time, you can probably save there too, because there are plans only for people eligible for loyalty, but theyre not advertised unless you ask to be transferred to the department. Tools like [https://donotpay.com/ DoNotPay] can also negotiate down bills automatically. | ||
If you need healthcare in the US, [https://healthcareisdumb.com/ sign up for one class a semester at a local university] then use their shared health insurance. (link is somewhat out of date) | |||
If you lose your personal items, most renter's insurance covers losing your personal items, even outside of your house. There's usually a deductible. If you don't have renter's insurance, you can get some via [https://www.lemonade.com/ Lemonade], it protects you from natural disasters making your house unlivable, and there's an add-on for saving you from breakdown of washing machines, microwaves, and other equipment– in total, usually $10-15/mo or less. | |||
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If you're hungry for afternoon restaurant munchies, [https://www.toogoodtogo.com/en-us Too Good to Go] has bulk restaurant food that would otherwise be thrown away at a reduced fee. It's usually whatever didn't sell that day and is getting stale. Sometimes they only have baked goods, and then you pick it up in a short window, or give detailed instructions to an Uber Connect driver, which doesn't always work. | If you're hungry for afternoon restaurant munchies, [https://www.toogoodtogo.com/en-us Too Good to Go] has bulk restaurant food that would otherwise be thrown away at a reduced fee. It's usually whatever didn't sell that day and is getting stale. Sometimes they only have baked goods, and then you pick it up in a short window, or give detailed instructions to an Uber Connect driver, which doesn't always work. | ||