I managed to miss the first episode of Money Saving Expert (c) Martin Lewis’ new TV show on Five, It Pays To Watch. If you saw the programme, what were your thoughts on it? If you didn’t catch the first show, it’s on Wednesday’s at 7.30pm for the next few weeks.
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Which Money Saving Tactic Do You Use in the Pub?
Christmas drinks down the pub can be expensive, so here are some tactics you can use to minimise the cost: Buy your round early in the night – get the drinks in early and hope that it never comes round to you again, especially when the rounds can get a little silly when everyone’s a […]
Motley Fool Money Saving Tips
At the start of the week the Motley Fool began a new daily series of posts with money saving tips. Rather than posting general ideas for saving some cash, these tend to be specific offers that are available at the moment of publication (and so might not be around forever), and cover a wide variety […]
Force Yourself To Save
If you find it a struggle to save any money each month (too much month at the end of your pay cheque?), then some of the tips in Force Yourself To Save: 15 Painless Ways To Pay Yourself First might put you on the right track. Here are some of the most interesting tips: #1 […]
The Big List of Money Saving Ideas: Eyecare
It’s been a while since I added to my Big List of Money Saving Ideas, so we’ll kick things back off with a quick one, which looks at eyecare, and in particular contact lenses. There are apparently 3 million wearers of contact lenses in the UK, and the vast majority could be paying too much […]
The Primark Appreciation Society
Yesterday’s post on whether buying clothes from Primark is a false economy has had a couple of replies (thanks Stuart & Plonkee) – both suggesting that the quality isn’t actually too bad, but the fit of the clothes seems to be an issue. It seems that Primark has quiet a loyal following, if The Primark […]
Primark: Do You Get What You Pay For?
I was wondering through Primark earlier today, and although I knew it was cheap, I was still astonished by the prices of the clothes in there. For example, you can get a reasonable looking winter coat for £17, smart shirts for £4, 6 pairs of black socks for just £2 (you’d never need to wash […]
Top Money Saving Websites
The Guardian recently published a list of their ten best money saving sites, which in my opinion missed out some of the most obvious sites to visit, as well as featuring some that I had quite frankly never heard of. In any case, this got me thinking about my own list of top sites to […]
Shopping: How To Save Money & Improve Your Health
A recent survey by the Alliance & Leicester said that millions of us Britons are paying too much for our basic goods when we go shopping. 62% of us do not shop around when we buy items such as bread and milk, but if like me, you like to avoid the aisles and do your […]
More On Tracking Your Spending
In a post yesterday I said how one of the first steps to being able to save money was to closely monitor your spending. I’ve just read a post over at FreeMoneyFinance which looks at this subject and discusses how by tracking your spending you can budget and fix your cashflow. The process they propose […]