Should I ignore the way this mince meat looks and just cook it, or should I go on my instincts and resign myself to having to spend money on something else? What would you do? How far should we go to be frugal?
Month: July 2008
Money Links For 14th Jul 2008
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Are You Feeling The Crunch?
FreeMoneyFinance recently asked are you feeling any economic pain, so I thought I’d look at the same subject from a UK perspective, and poll Money Watch readers on whether you are feeling the effects of the credit crunch yet? When I say crunch here, I’m using the term loosely, as I’m referring to more than […]
Money Links For 13th Jul 2008
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Money Links For 11th Jul 2008
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Money Links For 10th Jul 2008
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Finding Cheap Petrol
I came across this page with suggestions on tips for finding cheap petrol on the ThisIsMoney website, a forum post which was originally started back in 2005. It’s funny now to see people talking about prices of 90p per litre – if we’d have known how expensive petrol would be now, we’d probably have all […]
Money Links For 9th Jul 2008
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Frugal Fun: Saving Money On Toilet Paper
Here’s a frugal tip for saving money on toilet paper: make sure you hang it the right way. According to this article, the way you hang toilet paper off the roll has a big effect on the amount of paper wasted. Apparently, the best method is the “over-hang” configuration, which allows for great paper visibility […]
Searching For A Good Mortgage Is Now Harder Than Ever
If you’d asked me a few months ago what the best way to get a new mortgage was, I’d have told you to find yourself an independent mortgage broker, and let them do the hard work for you. With the credit crunch hitting the mortgage market hard, lenders had been withdrawing mortgage rates left right […]