Changes you've made in 2009?

Lyger

Thanks for the birthday wishes, Butterfly Brain!

Another thing I missed off my list - I now make homemade soup to take to work as well, since the sandwiches I've been taking into work the last 2 years are now somewhat bored. Home made soup seems to work out cheaper than sandwiches somehow! Maybe I'm just buying the wrong bread.

Rummer

Ooooohhh what a useful thread! This is what I have done this year:

• Online shopping which has really cut our food bills (use discount codes too)
• Packed lunches
• Switching off appliances at night (still trying to encourage OH!)
• Stopped going into town at the weekend saving in travel costs, random spending and eating out
• Growing own fruit and veg
• Stretching meat
• Baking
• Putting on the heating for less time and at a lower setting

I'm sure there are a lot more but they are not springing to mind!

Snowy_Owl

Great Thread!!!

Since finding this site, I have:
- Meal plan and bulk cook with extra individual portions being freezed.
- Save money for clothes, bills, christmas/presents, car costs etc in saving accounts
- Use energy saving lightbulbs,
- Make use of freebies (have got tons of toiletry samples and am using them up before I buy more
- Read the papers at the gym and not buy them
- Take lunched to work 4 days a week - lunch at work costs £2.50
- Bulk buy things that I would actually use when cheap using BOGOFS and 3 for 2's

Snowy owl