Maintaining a bird can be expensive or cheap depending on the angle you make the approach from. When buying bird toys, there is no need of going to the shop when you can create some pretty good ones yourself. Buying a lot of food at once saves you a lot of dollars. You can refrigerate it and use it until it runs out. Instead of this you can make your own pet bird food. Line the bird cage with newspaper instead of some shop material. And don’t go buying all the bird products out there in the market; some are unneeded.