Money saving tips

I turned our "spare" fridge freezer off in the garage yesterday.
We've been using all the frozen food up other the last few weeks and managed to empty it.
Still using it to store drinks in but have told the family that if they want cold drink then will have to pre-plan and bring them into the kitchen fridge before hand.

My son has also had a small fridge in his bedroom. That's been turned off.

When washing hands, just use the cold tap. No need to turn on the warm tap for 30 secs, ours didn't get warm in that time anyway but still turned the boiler on.
 
I've adjusted the boiler settings for the hot water. Turned the timer down to half an hour, three times a day. Hopefully be enough to heat up for our daily usage.
Will tackle the central heating in the coming months.
 
Ways i've saved a few quid this year
Some of the yellow label stuff at Asda isn't half bad, we've swapped from big name brands to supermarket own brands with a few things, swapped Morrisons/Tesco for Asda/Aldi/Lidl and saving a fortune. There is some things i wont change but some stuff there really isnt a difference in quality but often a huge price difference. We shop to a list, go round the house and note if we need something and try to stick to that, no need to grab stuff you dont need.

Turn all electric stuff off overnight, i dont plug my phone/laptop charging all night like i used to. TVs go off at the wall. All lights go off, no need for toilet light on all night.

Wash hands with cold water, not hot.

Dry clothes outside, sometimes it'll take longer than a radiator but even on a 'ok' day, if there is a breeze the clothes will be sound, long as they have fabric softener they wont have that outdoor/cold smell

Batch cook food. Yesterdays leftovers, can be used in tonights tea. Make a whack of pasta or whatever, doesnt have to be boring if you look online you can find ideas everywhere for batch booking and how to make a weeks worth of food with very little ingredients. My mrs is a great cook so im lucky, she is a magician in there and can go to Aldi spend 30quid and make a weeks worth of food for us (7 of us)

Stopped going to the pub. Stopped drinking near enough altogether, but rarely go out now. Save a small fortune here.

Binned off the gym, and just changed it for swimming twice a month, and walking and trips out with the kids. Eating healthier whilst saving money ^^^ means the gym isn't as necessary anyway

Takeaway is once every 2-3 months, not once a week. Same for taking the kids bowling, golf, cinema etc these are special occasions now and not something we do every week just for the sake. They see it more of a treat when we go too.
 
Turn all electric stuff off overnight, i dont plug my phone/laptop charging all night like i used to. TVs go off at the wall. All lights go off, no need for toilet light on all night.
Eh? Do you set your alarm to unplug your phone and laptop in the middle of the night. Once charged they will use milliWatts. Negligible.
Toilet light on all night? WTF? :D
 
Eh? Do you set your alarm to unplug your phone and laptop in the middle of the night. Once charged they will use milliWatts. Negligible.
Toilet light on all night? WTF? :D
We've got small kids and they like having a light on either in the bog or the landing otherwise its pitch black, and the mrs used to pamper them and leave one on, aswell lamps in their rooms. No chance now, i switch them all off. I WFH so my electric bill is high as **** anyway now with 2 phones on charge, laptop, printer, dock, multi screen etc so i dont charge stuff overnight like i used to, and i switch all plugs off on a night so they aren't charging or even on standby overnight anymore and i go round and switch the kids TVs and consoles off standby too, no idea how much it helps, but it helps and it takes me 30 seconds and rest easier knowing im trying my best to bring my bills down.
 
Yeah you can charge an iPhone every day for a year and it'll cost about a quid, maybe 2 quid with the recent rises now

Old stuff on standby used to use more power but modern stuff should be negligible
 
Yeah you can charge an iPhone every day for a year and it'll cost about a quid, maybe 2 quid with the recent rises now

Old stuff on standby used to use more power but modern stuff should be negligible
Does your device no good been plugged in all the time either.
Old devices definitely use more so i'm on the lookout for a new cooker and new fridge to help with this.
I was brought up to turn stuff off at the wall and turn lights off, and as i grew up i ignored my dads advice until now. For lightbulbs we've got energy ones, got the free insulation years ago, heating doesn't go on now whenever its just the adults we'll just add clothing and wrap up when it gets really cold we'll only put heating on when the kids are here (We have kids to other people, so they spend time at their other parents house). I've turned the boiler down as much as i can. I'm just doing whatever i can to lower my bills best i can then at least i feel better and when i do go to them and say its too much i know ive done everything i can to lower my bills myself first, even if what im doing saves 5p a year, i know i've done my best.
 
I'm presently sitting in my living room watching the Spurs v Liverpool game on the tele of people who live across the road whilst listening to the commentary on the next door neighbours (I do have Sky Sports).

The tele across the road is massive and I can see it clearly and the next door neighbour is that deaf we can clearly hear his tele. 🤣 🤣 🤣

The wife can't hear what she wants to watch and turned the tele off.
 
Using the toilets when visiting a supermarket and the Riverside will save around 40p a go per person.

A common way to waste money is the wash clothes at too high a temperature, many machine default to 40 degrees when 30 degrees is perfectly fine for modern clothes.

Public Libraries subscribe to a service than gives free subscription to many newspapers and magazines, if you are a member of the library.
 
All prices are reduced by £3 by MFC for the Cardiff game, because it is a mid week fixture.

Adults can buy a ticket for £28 and Adults aged 65 or over can a buy a ticket for £20.
 
Being efficient and frugal is a state of mind and it can actually make you see things in a different light. It's also a form of self-development. It breaks the cycle of putting yourself under pressure to pay for the liabilities you commit to. A lot of those liabilities aren't really needed.

Things like buying used and learning to do and fix things can save you money and learn new skills. Cutting your own hair became a thing during the pandemic and some people have stuck to it.

A couple of my pet peeves are Peloton exercise bikes and electric vehicles. It used to make chuckle listening to the guy on here who said EVs are really cheap because of 'TCO'. The maths of that circle could never be squared 😆
 
Buy your books from second-hand shops or web-sites. b***ks to Amazon!

I bought a four year old hardback a couple of months ago in perfect condition that cost £25 new but cost me £2.80.

Recently I've bought about a dozen books on-line and most of them have cost about £3 each. All in good nick.



(Am I the only person who still buys real books???)
 
Buy your books from second-hand shops or web-sites. b***ks to Amazon!

I bought a four year old hardback a couple of months ago in perfect condition that cost £25 new but cost me £2.80.

Recently I've bought about a dozen books on-line and most of them have cost about £3 each. All in good nick.



(Am I the only person who still buys real books???)
Nope
 
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