Great ‘Team Up With Friends And Save’ Hunt

DAME_3

I have a tennis partner at my gym who joined with another friend as a 'couple' since the club offers a discount for couples memberships.

My husband and I joined this way and save about £10 per month.

angieth

if a group of people are going on a night out to a club and you know which club you are going to ,phone the club a couple of days before hand and say that such and such amount of people(the more the better,8/10 etc) are coming to the club for one of the groups birthday and is there any "offers" on for a group,you may get a discount or get in free(on the odd occassion we use to get a free bottle as well)

carolbee

just a little one - a friend and I bought a large sack of onions from the farm shop, way before xmas, think about 10 for £4.

could be worth thinking about for potatoes if you are like us, just a couple, to share with family/friends?

egarobar

In our area, West Wales, we (and a lot of friends) use heating oil (kerosene) to heat our homes. This week, a dozen of us got together to buy oil - and thanks to a little bargaining and a few friendly words, my wife got the price reduced by 2p per litre. That means that an average tankful (1000 litres) is £20 cheaper.

There is a website called boilerjuice.co.uk which does a similar thing online; you can register a group of people in the same area, and get a discount as a result. Or, if you don't know your neighbours that well, you can still get a discount from them (probably not so much) if others in the area happen to be buying oil the same weekend.

But we think it's friendlier to do it by getting people together, and one of us ringing up the oil company and chatting them up!

This is people power as it ought to be. I recommend you get to know your neighbours! Most of us need the same things...

We also buy as a group from a healthfood wholesaler, once every 6 weeks or so. Some of us get organic veg delivered every week to a dropoff point at the nearest farm, where we bump into each other on delivery night. It's all about people!

ebb'n'flo

being lucky enough (?!) to have quite a few family members living in same locality, I started a scheme over the Christmas period which is similar to the babysitting circles of late, or maybe not so late, whereby you get credit for taxi-ing one or more family/friends to and from a venue, and then they return the favour with consideration for distance and time. Ie after midnight scores pretty high in my book! Setting out to collect when it is cold and dark, it helps to think ahead to the time when you can call in the credit.
It is important to be flexible and so far has worked really well and allows us to have a drink without worry about the cost of a taxi or having to drive. Give it a go, hope it works for you.

Savvy_Sue

DAME wrote:

I have a tennis partner at my gym who joined with another friend as a 'couple' since the club offers a discount for couples memberships.

My husband and I joined this way and save about £10 per month.

You beat me to it! So I'll just stress that you don't have to be any kind of couple, or live at the same address, or ever go together again once you've signed up, although I think they do want just one standing order.

DH has rejoined his gym as half of a couple: the other half is another friend from church. He's set up a standing order for half the total cost into our account.

flowerofscotland

When supermarkets such as Tesco and Sainsburys send me money off vouchers e.g. £7 off when you spend £70 I usually combine shopping lists with my mum. I've got a "till spit" from Tesco which I plan to use tomorrow in this way. And best of all she gives me full value for her share of the shopping so the saving is all mine! I do always offer to share the discount of course.

Edinburghlass_2

I'd share with Terry from the Radio2 allotment any day, I love listening to him

A signed photo would be nice Martin next time you see him

Family Rail Card covers loads of people and you can have another named adult on it who isn't necessarily family or same address but you do have to take a child on each journey with you.

Haycorns_2

We shared bark to put on the garden. We had a lorry load delivered and we all mucked in a wheelbarrowed it until both gardens were done.

teedy23

Haycorns wrote:

We shared bark to put on the garden. We had a lorry load delivered and we all mucked in a wheelbarrowed it until both gardens were done.

excellent idea! will put this to the neighbours:T