☀️ Hay: Buy in bulk from the farm ☀️ Vegetables: Ask your grocery store for veggie scraps Ask staffers at your local grocery store to collect their vegetable scraps for you. ☀️ Litter: Check the cat aisle A little insider knowledge here can save you some big bucks! If you use Yesterday’s News or some other litter brand that is also marketed for cats, buy the bags in the cat-litter section, as they tend to be much cheaper per pound than the bags sold in the small-animal section. ☀️ The litter box: Get creative A litter box is really just a plastic box, so why pay extra for a fancy cat litter pan from a pet store when you can grab a shallow plastic box from Walmart for half the price? ☀️ Toys: Try DIY ☀️ And one thing not to skimp on: Pellets There’s a wide variety of pellets available, with a wide variety of price tags