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Over price increases
There are lots of ways to cut your
Costs and save money .
In choosing the brands you buy
The shops you shop at.
Buying in bulk items and getting
A discount .
Pls add all your money saving tips |
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I've always been poor but have always and have learnt how to save
Money .
But drinking your bath water No
But recycling. Yes . using it flush
Your loo saves you a fortune .
Same goes for your washing up water . two exsteam. Ideas but some people do it .I don't but where ever you can use your water twice before letting go down the drain . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Buy what you need not what you want
Meal plan and bulk cook ahead.
Walk if close to supermarkets if only getting small amount of shopping, instead of driving.
Same with work |
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I don't drive so big savings there cycle everywhere cook from scratch shall b using the washing up water on the garden in summer don't waste anything make own compost for garden! Have had name down for allotment a year hopefully get one soon! Although like gold dust these days quite a frugal person just as well x |
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Be aware of the raw cost of the energy you’re using. If you have a gas hob, a gas kettle on there will cost less than an electric one to boil the same amount of water.
Same with your heating. No point saving gas at 9p/kWh and using electric at 28p/kWh instead.
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Started walking 35 minutes to work instead of bus.
£15 a week saved.
Make own lunch for work and stay out of canteen.
Could have decent health benefits too |
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"Be aware of the raw cost of the energy you’re using. If you have a gas hob, a gas kettle on there will cost less than an electric one to boil the same amount of water.
Same with your heating. No point saving gas at 9p/kWh and using
electric at 28p/kWh instead.
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Really good tip but for those all electric like me ?
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
"I don't drive so big savings there cycle everywhere cook from scratch shall b using the washing up water on the garden in summer don't waste anything make own compost for garden! Have had name down for allotment a year hopefully get one soon! Although like gold dust these days quite a frugal person just as well x"
If you get your allotment you will have to get a shed, you would be amazed at what goes on in allotment sheds during the summer months. |
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"I don't drive so big savings there cycle everywhere cook from scratch shall b using the washing up water on the garden in summer don't waste anything make own compost for garden! Have had name down for allotment a year hopefully get one soon! Although like gold dust these days quite a frugal person just as well x
If you get your allotment you will have to get a shed, you would be amazed at what goes on in allotment sheds during the summer months. "
Win win  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Sell your kids.
Sell your organs. (from your body, not your church)
Put a jumper on.
Share your bath water.
Drink your bath water.
Nasty"
Desperate times require desperate measures.
I’m just helping the people. |
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"I don't drive so big savings there cycle everywhere cook from scratch shall b using the washing up water on the garden in summer don't waste anything make own compost for garden! Have had name down for allotment a year hopefully get one soon! Although like gold dust these days quite a frugal person just as well x
If you get your allotment you will have to get a shed, you would be amazed at what goes on in allotment sheds during the summer months. "
Now there's a idea! All sorts of images in my head now! x |
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I've been using my laptop for day to day tech usage at last. It's cut my electic down by a huge amount. Before I was using the power hungry main rig every day. I took that for granted and did not pay much attention until now. |
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"Be aware of the raw cost of the energy you’re using. If you have a gas hob, a gas kettle on there will cost less than an electric one to boil the same amount of water.
Same with your heating. No point saving gas at 9p/kWh and using
electric at 28p/kWh instead.
Really good tip but for those all electric like me ?
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There’s not much you can do if you’re all electric except keep a tight rein on what you use. Stuff like, if you want a mug of tea, you boil a mug full, not a kettle full.
What’s your heating and hot water setup? If you have an immersion heater, you can usually turn it down a bit. 55° is plenty hot enough. Some hot water tanks have two immersion elements, if you live alone then using just the upper one means you heat less water. Also, look at the timer settings; no point having the tank heat up hours before you want to use the water. Not unless you have cheaper overnight electric.
If you do have cheaper overnight (usually because you have storage heaters), then look at having a couple of sockets, or even another ring main installed so you can take advantage of it to run your washing machine etc overnight.
People should also be aware of unintended consequences of poor planning. A colleague stopped using their gas heating to “save money”, but the electric heaters they used in their two rooms instead cost more than the gas had been to heat the whole house.
Spot comfort heating with fan or convector heaters can be ruinously expensive. Another friend ran a wall mounted convector heater in his workshop, that cost more than the entire rest of his house put together.
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
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Unfortunately it’s the cheaper brands in food, hospitality, fashion retail etc seeing the rises. Premium and high end brands are hardly affected as the margins are already high so can take additional costs.
The biggest savings for most on low incomes will come from reducing gas so practical things like insulation, draft excluders, sealing patio doors, DIY cavity wall with expanding foam , less use of washers and dryers , spending more time out walking and less time sat in a cold house , fewer take aways, alcohol and cigarettes and more home cooking from raw ingredients |
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"Unfortunately it’s the cheaper brands in food, hospitality, fashion retail etc seeing the rises. Premium and high end brands are hardly affected as the margins are already high so can take additional costs.
The biggest savings for most on low incomes will come from reducing gas so practical things like insulation, draft excluders, sealing patio doors, DIY cavity wall with expanding foam , less use of washers and dryers , spending more time out walking and less time sat in a cold house , fewer take aways, alcohol and cigarettes and more home cooking from raw ingredients "
Do not seal cavity walls with expanding foam. Worst thing you could do and why so many properties now suffer with huge damp / mould issues. |
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Buy bread and freeze it, only take out what you need - it defrosts quickly or toast it.
Boil your kettle ONCE make sure it’s full, then transfer into a flask. Should keep hot all day for coffee’s & tea’s
Don’t split colours of clothes for two washes, do them together and was on a lower temp, colours won’t run.
Use washing line outside when possible
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By *for2Man
over a year ago
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Back to growing up. Lots of layers to keep warm home made knitted blankets to snuggle under when reading watching tv etc. When making tea or coffee, make a flask. Homemade soups stews and casseroles with lots of veg and cheaper cuts of meat. Use a slow cooker rather than oven. Grow veggies in back garden, if enough space keep chickens. Keep daylight hours if you can. Shower rather than bath. Turn down/off central heating. All things we did growing up cos we had no money. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If I don’t batch cook, I make enough food for dinner, and lunch the following day.
I put a timer on for my shower.
Slow cooker use.
Airing the laundry instead of using dryers/radiators.
I’ve trimmed a few hours from my heating programs.
Walking to the supermarket not only saves me money on fuel, but also means I buy less. I can’t carry it. I don’t buy it. |
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"If I don’t batch cook, I make enough food for dinner, and lunch the following day.
I put a timer on for my shower.
Slow cooker use.
Airing the laundry instead of using dryers/radiators.
I’ve trimmed a few hours from my heating programs.
Walking to the supermarket not only saves me money on fuel, but also means I buy less. I can’t carry it. I don’t buy it. "
but that means visiting more often lol |
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"If I don’t batch cook, I make enough food for dinner, and lunch the following day.
I put a timer on for my shower.
Slow cooker use.
Airing the laundry instead of using dryers/radiators.
I’ve trimmed a few hours from my heating programs.
Walking to the supermarket not only saves me money on fuel, but also means I buy less. I can’t carry it. I don’t buy it. but that means visiting more often lol "
Which keeps me active and fit.
No lose there. |
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Probably 'tips' everyone already knows
Close the doors of each room. It retains the heat longer and uses less energy to keep it heated.
Turn the heating down or off in long term unused rooms and close the doors.
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"Probably 'tips' everyone already knows
Close the doors of each room. It retains the heat longer and uses less energy to keep it heated.
Turn the heating down or off in long term unused rooms and close the doors.
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join us in our bed, that'd keep us all toasty warm..  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Go to swinging clubs. They are lovely and warm, you can have a shower and on occasion a buffet is available. Lost count of the number of pork sausages mrsN has taken! M |
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"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x
Fuck me, who pissed on your chips? "
lol haven’t you noticed the eugenics game being played out in real-time ? |
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"Probably 'tips' everyone already knows
Close the doors of each room. It retains the heat longer and uses less energy to keep it heated.
Turn the heating down or off in long term unused rooms and close the doors.
join us in our bed, that'd keep us all toasty warm.. "
An excellent idea. Move over |
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"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x
Fuck me, who pissed on your chips? lol haven’t you noticed the eugenics game being played out in real-time ? "
I don’t even know what the word means.
I’m too busy doing stuff I enjoy to worry about shit over which I have zero control. |
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"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x
Fuck me, who pissed on your chips? lol haven’t you noticed the eugenics game being played out in real-time ? "
It would seam we have a prophet in our gathering. Any other moneysaveing tips that might help while we are still here. |
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Great idea for a post, however saving the odd penny or pound is not the answer anymore.
The current rise seen across everything from taxes, energy and food cannot simply be avoided by money saving tips , where does it stop? Until we are all living in the dark around an open fire in a barrel?
As Martin Lewis has said, there are no tips, tricks or hacks this time around, it is far too expensive to live now. A sad truth for many that will be plunged in to poverty this year. |
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"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x
Fuck me, who pissed on your chips? lol haven’t you noticed the eugenics game being played out in real-time ?
I don’t even know what the word means.
I’m too busy doing stuff I enjoy to worry about shit over which I have zero control. "
me to I gave up giving a shit a while ago, I couldn’t give a shit about the mass morons anymore if you can’t beat em join em |
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"Great idea for a post, however saving the odd penny or pound is not the answer anymore.
The current rise seen across everything from taxes, energy and food cannot simply be avoided by money saving tips , where does it stop? Until we are all living in the dark around an open fire in a barrel?
As Martin Lewis has said, there are no tips, tricks or hacks this time around, it is far too expensive to live now. A sad truth for many that will be plunged in to poverty this year. "
yeah next winter old dears will die of hyperthermia 100% |
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"Great idea for a post, however saving the odd penny or pound is not the answer anymore.
The current rise seen across everything from taxes, energy and food cannot simply be avoided by money saving tips , where does it stop? Until we are all living in the dark around an open fire in a barrel?
As Martin Lewis has said, there are no tips, tricks or hacks this time around, it is far too expensive to live now. A sad truth for many that will be plunged in to poverty this year. yeah next winter old dears will die of hyperthermia 100%"
all part of the plan of the worlds freemasonry governments controlled by the occult which runs the worlds banking systems backed up with thin air x great isn’t it |
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I'll say martin lewis has lots of money saving ideas and lot of goodones here .but every one can save money on what they buy simply takes thought and more people thinking about it and others give tips helps . |
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"Unplug your TV, PCs, gaming consoles etc as all those standbye lights are using electric.
Well yes but no. It's literally pennies a year."
Well its pennies that add up and your not paying them unessarly |
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"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x
Survival of the fittest of the species, is that the idea?
That's always been the idea, Darwin proved that"
Darwin was a Freemason |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
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Set the boiler so the water temperature is hot enough to touch that you don't burn yourself nor need to add cold water this saves both ways.water and electric if you have a water meter.you will only use the cold tape when you want not need. |
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"Unplug your TV, PCs, gaming consoles etc as all those standbye lights are using electric.
Well yes but no. It's literally pennies a year.
Well its pennies that add up and your not paying them unessarly"
If you hardly watch TV, cancel your TV licence, get rid of any viewing box you have. You can still watch programs on OnDemand channels except Iplayer (BBC) YouTube, Netflix, and Disney+ ., if you haven’t watched a subscription for a while, get rid of it. You can always resubscribe later. Watch DVDs.
You cannot watch things like Amazon Prime/Now as these stream live, without a license
This is what I’ve done. I do pay for Spotify on Alexa, but this is less than the monthly DD for a TV License |
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By *aiseiMan
over a year ago
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"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x
Survival of the fittest of the species, is that the idea?
That's always been the idea, Darwin proved that Darwin was a Freemason "
Good, an Expensivemason is the last thing anyone needs…. |
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By *hagTonightMan
over a year ago
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"Great idea for a post, however saving the odd penny or pound is not the answer anymore.
The current rise seen across everything from taxes, energy and food cannot simply be avoided by money saving tips , where does it stop? Until we are all living in the dark around an open fire in a barrel?
As Martin Lewis has said, there are no tips, tricks or hacks this time around, it is far too expensive to live now. A sad truth for many that will be plunged in to poverty this year. yeah next winter old dears will die of hyperthermia 100% all part of the plan of the worlds freemasonry governments controlled by the occult which runs the worlds banking systems backed up with thin air x great isn’t it "
Yes, it is the agenda 2030 as well. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If you use a gym save on your water and heating bills by using their facilities all the time. Less spent on heating your shower water the better, plus it’s an excuse to get healthy and train.  |
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"Unplug your TV, PCs, gaming consoles etc as all those standbye lights are using electric.
Well yes but no. It's literally pennies a year.
Well its pennies that add up and your not paying them unessarly"
Pennies that add up to more pennies.
There are a lot of things to do to save money before you consider switching off things on standby |
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"Great idea for a post, however saving the odd penny or pound is not the answer anymore.
The current rise seen across everything from taxes, energy and food cannot simply be avoided by money saving tips , where does it stop? Until we are all living in the dark around an open fire in a barrel?
As Martin Lewis has said, there are no tips, tricks or hacks this time around, it is far too expensive to live now. A sad truth for many that will be plunged in to poverty this year. yeah next winter old dears will die of hyperthermia 100% all part of the plan of the worlds freemasonry governments controlled by the occult which runs the worlds banking systems backed up with thin air x great isn’t it Yes, it is the agenda 2030 as well."
21 it’s happening a lot quicker than 2030 xXx but I careless just pointing out I’m awake x |
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"Seam to have got sidetracked here
This threads for money saving tips "
They never stay on topic, don’t sweat it.
How do you feel about the club entry fees? |
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