What are you doing to save money? With gas prices through the roof and the price of everything else following the trend, do you have any tips to share?

Around here we are trying to limit our trips in the car. Our poor old suburban bit the dust so we replaced it this week with a smaller car that will still fit all of us. We will get better gas mileage but we will need to pack lighter for our trips north to see family! We call it traveling “Chinese”. While in China we went on a company trip. We were the only westerners. We packed for a weekend at the beach. I thought we were doing pretty good with a small bag and a backpack each. After boarding the bus and looking around we noticed every one else had a small backpack and nothing else! Most of them were only half full! When we commented to a friend after the trip he told us he even knew someone that only traveled with what he could wear and a toothbrush! I know we will never get that light but it is worth cutting back on other things!