Kathleen Celmins, website owner at FrugalPortland.com, offers great advice to saving money and staying on track with your budget. Celmins suggests going over your closets at home first, before heading out shopping. This advice goes for clothes shopping as well as groceries, because often times we don’t remember what we have or what we need, and we make unnecessary purchases. “I don’t know how many times we’ve purchased duplicate items,” she shares.