Great 'Have fun when you're saving' Hunt

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Great 'Have fun when you're saving' Hunt

Saving money for your dream house or a gap year is important, but serious needn't mean no fun. So we'd like to ask MoneySavers for their top tips on how to have fun whilst budgeting. Give us your tips!


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airgead

Keep your social life going by having nights in and inviting friends round, rather than meeting them for expensive nights out.

dolly_beads

Geocaching. If you've not heard of it, its a hightec treausre hunt using GPS. have a look on Geocaching.com and it will explain more. Ok so there is an initial payment as you will need a GPS system (can pick these up for about £20) but once you've got one you are ready to go and its total free to join the website.There are currently 1,194,475 Geocaches around the world so enough to keep you going through all those money saving days!

karen3w

dolly_beads wrote: »

Geocaching. If you've not heard of it, its a hightec treausre hunt using GPS. have a look on Geocaching.com and it will explain more. Ok so there is an initial payment as you will need a GPS system (can pick these up for about £20) but once you've got one you are ready to go and its total free to join the website.There are currently 1,194,475 Geocaches around the world so enough to keep you going through all those money saving days!

We've been looking into geocaching but haven't been able to yet for the very reason that the equipment is too expensive. Where can you find the right equipment for £20?! The geocaching gps I've seen cost about £200! Grateful for any tips! and what sort of equipment is best to use? Thanks.

genfink

Make use of free events in the local area, there's a lot going on out there - recently Open House Weekend was a brilliant free event, I realise there are quite a lot which are rather London-centric but as it's such an expensive city anyway it feels quite appropriate!

wayneholton

karen3w wrote: »

We've been looking into geocaching but haven't been able to yet for the very reason that the equipment is too expensive. Where can you find the right equipment for £20?! The geocaching gps I've seen cost about £200! Grateful for any tips! and what sort of equipment is best to use? Thanks.

you can download C:Geo or Geobeagle if you have an android based smartphone. there are official GeoCaching apps for the iPhone and the Nokia OVI if that helps.

An Oregon 200 GPS from somewhere like www . handtec . co . uk or a Dakota 10/20 are good enough also if you do need a fully fledged GPS.

karen3w

wayneholton wrote: »

you can download C:Geo or Geobeagle if you have an android based smartphone. there are official GeoCaching apps for the iPhone and the Nokia OVI if that helps.

An Oregon 200 GPS from somewhere like www . handtec . co . uk or a Dakota 10/20 are good enough also if you do need a fully fledged GPS.

Thanks. Unfortunately we don't have an iphone or smartphone or anything clever like that!

Will have a look at handtec . co . uk. Thanks again!

niamhirl

IMO There are generally free museums or gallery tours or parks and gardens in your local area that you generally haven't visited because we have a habit of going further afield. You can have great fun visiting all the things that are available that you've never got round to visiting.

Also if you like books, the Book Crossing is great fun - you find a book in the wild near you by looking at the clues etc and you can release a book and follow it which is really good fun. Some books don't go too far and others travel quite a bit.

Tip: Don't release something that loads of people have read like the Da Vinci code or Harry Potter because people won't be interested in finding them.

just22

For people with young kids, take them out foraging- You get some fresh food to eat without the cost, and my 3yr old loves hunting out brambles and wild cherries.

We also freeze any old crusts or starchy leftovers and when there's a full bag take it to the local duck pond to give them a good feed without having to buy anything for them.

**Juice**

Orange Wednesday is relatively inexpensive if you split the cost between the two of you :-)

You can get a free Orange PAYG sim if you're not already with the network.

determined_new_ms

we've got a residents card & get into local museums free & discounts on local events/restuarants, signed up to a local music venue & get free entry to some nights, discounts on others. take out only as much cash as we can afford to spend when going out. Look out for super deals (martin's email is totally fab for this ) have booked hotel for my birthday in Brighton for £14 , vouchers for eating out. We hosted foreign students to finance a holiday in Turkey, only cost us spending money which we saved :j complain if you get poor service (I complained that the theatre website took my money for a comedy night after it had been cancelled and got free complimentary tickets worth £23 ). Get into a tv series - so far we've watched the complete ER series, Mad Men to date & we're working our way thru The West Wing, we're also watching old classic movies. I've taken up running which is SO MUCH FUN , gosh there's so much you can do for a fraction of the cost :T