Times are tough - the stock market is crashing like it's 1929, and with the economy in the toilet it's time to get creative.

Our grandparents and great-grandparents got through the Great Depression with the help of hundreds of little tricks to save money and live with less. We can do even better!

Maybe you're reusing, repurposing, or upcycling your old gear; maybe you're combining trips, hypermiling, or carpooling to save gas; maybe you're preserving produce from your garden. There are a million little things you can do to save money, and we want to see them!

So what tricks do you know of to stretch your money a little further? Share them with us and you could win something truly useful: a copy of The Best of Instructables and a Kill a Watt device that tells you how much electricity your devices are using in order to make your house super efficient! We're also giving away Instructables Robot t-shirts, patches, and stickers. Just enter your favorite cost-saving methods to help everyone else out.

So let's get to it - we're going to save money, and Party Like It's 1929!

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