What little things do you do to pay off debt/save

Candy0107

Hi,

I became debt free a couple of months ago, so completely understand how a couple of ££'s here and there help to achieve debt freeness....some things which helped me along the way....

• Taking lunch to work every day
• Not going out at the weekend - although now I am too tired after a week at work, it is nice to be at home
• Sign up for the no spend day challenges
• Look at your mobile contract - some people at work have the latest phones, and are paying £40 per month with capped data....mine is £12 per month (sim only) with unlimited data
• Look at the dfw small things thread daily....some good ideas on there
• Make a payment a day
• Read Martin's email each week
• Look at your travel costs, and see if you can commute cheaper
• Become a fan of porridge - when my debts were at their highest, I realised that porridge was the cheapest thing to eat...it keeps me going all morning, and at the time cost 5p + milk each day
• Look at what you're spending on your groceries each week.....look at batch cooking, and adding lentils to things like lasagne and Spag Bol - it's cheaper and healthy
• Look at the recipes on a girl called jack - some of the recipes look really good
• At the end of the week, before you go food shopping, chop up and freeze all the bendy veg - when I moved back with my mother, she used to throw the veg, now I've have bags of celery, carrots etc in the freezer
• In winter make soup rather than buy it
• When supermarket shopping, try the basic ranges - some of the products are so much cheaper, and there is no difference in quality

Think that is about it for me, hope there are some good ideas there

Candy xxx