On my message board, Lavish, a member recently asked us what we were doing to compensate for the skyrocketing gas prices. Half the responses were along the lines of, “nothing, because there’s nothing I can do to save or cut back on driving”. The other half, which my response was included in, outlined things that we’re doing to try and save.
The big one for us is no excess running around. 11pm craving for a food that isn’t in the house? Too bad. It’ll just have to wait until the next time somebody is out.
My mom and I often combine shopping trips. Or, we’ll pick up stuff for the other, and then drop it off. My mom and I may live seven miles apart, but I’m twelve miles from the nearest grocery store, and she’s almost sixteen miles from the nearest discount retailer (Target, Wal-mart).
When my mom and I or my husband and I or just me are planning out errands that require multiple stops, we try to pick driving routes that use as little gas as possible. This means driving to certain places in a certain order, looking up new places that may be closer, and avoiding routes that involve a lot of hills, stopping, traffic lights and/or construction.
I often send money and a shopping list with my husband to work, since he passes several stores on his way home.
When we do drive, we do the known things: keep tires inflated, check fluid levels, remove excess stuff from the car to reduce the weight, brake and accelerate gently, and coast when we see red lights so we can hopefully have a green by the time we get up to it.
What are you doing to compensate for the rise in gas prices?
And for my own curiosity, what are the prices in your area? Here, in Pennsylvania, they’re around $3.61 per gallon.
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