Inflation, market (was) getting owned, doomsday, etc. Here are Five Tips from CNN Money on ways to save some precious dough.

1. Cut your car insurance cost

Some insurers give discounts for people in certain professions, including vets, speech therapists, economists and teachers. You may also qualify for discounts if you’ve cut down on driving. In some cases if you drive less than 7,500 miles a year you’ll qualify for a 5 percent discount from your insurer.

There’s also stuff like good student discount. After about two years of screwing around, I finally qualified for a good student discount last semester. Oh happy days.

2. Save Your Energy

Check AC filters, unplug gadgets, don’t use the dryer to dry one underwear, etc.

3. Be supermarket savvy

Skip buying toiletries like toothpaste, shaving cream or soap at the grocery store. Prices can be almost 25 percent higher than in a discount store, like Wal-Mart. Look at the top and bottom shelf if you want to find the discounts.

That’s a weird tip. In my experiences, toiletries mentioned above are cheaper at Wal-Mart and Target, than compare to my local supermarkets. But then again maybe my local supermarkets are a rip. Woops, totally misread that tip. lol

5. Get the freebies

The Web has a lot of new product offerings from companies that are all too willing to have you test their products out.

Wow, news flash! A few sites were mentioned: thefreesite.com and brandsaver.com, but IMO, freebie samples aren’t that hot, mostly because of:

Keep in mind, you’ll likely be bombarded by marketers for the rest of your life..but you know there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

How was that for a filler post? Now, back to my summer break.