I also need to be better about looking after my garden tools. I have a tendency to walk away from my project, and then get distracted by something else and then all of a sudden 3 days have gone by and my garden fork has been out in the rain.
There are a lot of awesome suggestions in this thread!
At least once or twice per year, I'll go through my households utilities and annual bills and see where we can make changes or improvements to save money. For us, this includes electricity, water, propane, internet, garbage, insurance, cell phones. For example, last year I switched from my prepaid Verizon cell phone service ($40/month) to Visible ($25/month). I'll look over the car insurance and see if there are any new discounts available or if we have extra services we don't need. PG&E has a price comparison tool so you can look at their different rate plans and make sure you're on the cheapest one. Etc etc. I have found that if you do this continually you can save hundreds per year, as prices and usage tend to creep up when you're not paying attention. Obviously this is on top of making sure to reduce usage in the first place, but a lot of our services here are fixed-rate.
Another thing is to make sure you are taking advantage of all opportunities at work to make sure you're making as much as possible. At my job there is an option to earn an education incentive yearly, up to 10% on top of your salary, and hardly anyone takes advantage of it. Also if you have a 401k and your company matches up to a certain percent, make sure to contribute at least enough to get the match. I do payroll at my job and it's so sad to see people not making anything close to what they could be.
Choose bike over car as much as possible. Pack food when you go on a trip (I'm bad at this). Spend money on good quality food and vitamins that you're not able to grow yourself.
