Take a Step Towards Saving Money

This is a short but sweet way we save money in our family step-by-step.  My husband, like most men, owns only a few pairs of shoes and he wears them for years before buying new ones. He has his favorite pairs and he literally wears them to the ground.  Recently, he wore a hole through the bottom of his most favorite pair.: they are broken in, they have conformed to his foot, the rest of the shoe was worn, but nothing a little polish couldn't fix.  Instead of buying a new pair of them, which costs around $150, he took them to our cobbler.  Yes, we have a cobbler. It only cost $3.00 to get them fixed!  He even put a couple of holes in my belt for free!
Check in your area for a quality cobbler shop.  There are a lot of things they can do:   stretching shoes, fixing handbags, reconditioning leather, polishing shoes, fixing zippers, repairing straps, making adjustments to leather jackets, and more.
Total savings for this year: $150