Our moms don’t really get the credit they deserve. They cook, clean and care for the entire family and rarely miss a beat. More often than not, they do all this on a shoe-string budget using strategies that would confound established economists. Here are the little ways in which Indians moms save money.
1. Combining a new Rin bar with an old one to make a bigger bar. Because more soap means more whiteness!
4. Squeezing every bit of toothpaste from a tube of Colgate by crushing it to a sliver with a belan (rolling-pin) or cutting it in half with a pair of scissors.
6. By keeping all the polythene bags inside a giant polythene bag and using them for groceries. Mock it all you want, it saves money and is super eco-friendly.
8. Saving all the newspapers and bottles from a month to be sold off as “Raddi” (Refuse). Earning around Rs. 500 just from selling trash at the time of the month when you’re most broke isn’t a bad strategy at all.
9. By converting every fancy bottle of booze into a flower pot, mums save about a gazillion Rupees a year and make awesomely stylish flower vases to boot.
11. In an Indian home, no item of clothing is ever thrown away. According to Indians mums, clothes go from party clothes to home clothes to night clothes to poncha (cleaning cloth).
