Saving Gas the Easy Way

If your family is at all like mine, chances are that you live only a few miles from the nearest store that sells the daily necessities. For my family, we live two miles from a smaller grocery store, and four miles away from a larger one. Five miles away from the newly placed Super Wal-Mart.

But driving to the grocery store only adds to your bill. There is an easy way to save money on gas: bicycle anywhere within ten miles!

I know it seems like a lot - a twenty mile roundtrip on a bicycle, but in great weather, that's about an hour ride out - maybe a little over if you don't bike much - then an added little while for shopping, and then an hour ride home, with extra weight attached. That's two hours of exercise, compounded with saving money on gas!

Items for the freezer you would most likely have to drive to get - but the little stuff - bread for the week, pretzels and chips - you could go once a week for those items instead of stocking up once a month for a huge grocery bill. You'd get your exercise, and you would save money on gas.

Exercising has been shown to improve self confidence, and it goes hand in hand with other healthy lifestyle changes! Maybe you will start focusing more on creating your own food - hand made tortillas, home grown vegetables, etc. And although your savings might not be great - you might squeeze out one day longer before you have to get gas - it may be just enough to get us through these rising gas prices of today.