How much have you saved?

robnye

saved 65 pounds on car breakdown cover, using money supermarket search.

just cleared £32.50 on ladbrokes gambling offer

applied for Barclaycard 14 months @ 0%, which will save me £240+ per year

good on, great web site

angela110660

Have cancelled buildings and contents with Direct Line as they were giving me a good deal last year but not this one! Looked up Egg insurance (have an account with them) and got same cover for over £100 less PLUS they will give me family cover for European travel for one year FREE!!!! Brilliant

robnye

Have cancelled buildings and contents with Direct Line as they were giving me a good deal last year but not this one!   Looked up Egg insurance (have an account with them) and got same cover for over £100 less PLUS they will give me family cover for European travel for one year FREE!!!!    Brilliant

what a coinidence, we had house/contents with direct line, got renewal notice, price gone up by £50, when I phoned to query, they said due to new customer discount ending, so I aksed, ok what if you have multiple polices with you, they answered should be some discount, so i said, i have 2 car insurances, 2 breakdown covers, any discount........... sorry NO, Why? Ok i will go somewhere else, to which the reply was, but we are one of the cheapest on the market........... mr ar@e is aid..... and changed to insurance through my bank (A&L), who said annual discount while am still a customer.... save £65 per year, so yaboo to DL,

just moved my breakdown cover from them as well..... chap couldnt understand the words 'I want to cancel my policy', ok i will give you a renewal price.... no I want to cancel.... why.... because you are too dear..... we are not..... you blumming well are..... some companies appear to employ more than there fair share of idiots!

tru

I checked all insurances, ulility providers etc a while ago and saved money. Then along came Cathy and she saved me a fortune on cleaning stuff. I also check this site before I buy anything to see if there's any offers on what I need. I'm now putting £50 a month in my Abbey account. I used Tony H's spreadsheets, and I can afford to give up work if I decide to ;D

What seems like a small saving on one thing is actually a huge saving if you apply it to everything you buy. So thank you to everyone, I'm very grateful ;D

Leia_Stephens

I find that I save through squirrelling money away into quite a few savings accounts rather than making savings on necessities like food, shelter and bills.

A lot of my standing orders and direct debits are paid the day after payday, therefore, the money that goes into savings accounts is earning as much interest as it POSSIBLY can ;D

Still, I appreciate reading about the savings people have made and posted on this thread. Here are a few of my own.

Most work days I bring in a squash drink from home and save 80p a day

On most work days I also try to bring in lunch from home which is obviously less expensive than buying sandwiches

I have an Unlimited cinema card allowing me to see as many films as I like for £9.99 a month. I just need to make sure that I don't buy food at the cinema ;D

My annual season ticket to get to work is cheaper than buying one each month :-)

I look forward to reading more about savings.

Leia

DiggingOut

Saved £300 today on a large purchase simply by searching the web first, then asking the local supplier to compete. He not only competed, he beat all the web suppliers. I would have paid £100 more than he charged me, just for the benefit of going local -- but I didn't tell HIM that! ;D

Hanoijane

I read Martin's reminder about the deadline for misold endowments in an email a few months ago & thought "in for a penny".

I spent minutes reading the article on here & then half an hour looking at http://www.endowmentaction.co.uk/ website.

I then d/l the standard letter sent it off & less than 3 months later had an offer of more than £2k as I was mis sold.

Balearics here I come. Cheers Martin.

scouselass

My savings in comparison to the above seem very slight, but I'm chuffed anyway.

I have just received my phone bill (internet) from 18866, and nearly fell over...it was.......£4.00. That was for 47 phone calls, which broke down like this:

23 International Calls (Switz)
12 Mobiles
12 Other

Duration: 3.5 hours

The actual cost of calls was £3.60 and Vat of 40p

I haven't compared this to original costings....but I know that this is well below the cost of my previous bills. I am now using 18866 for all local calls at these are .5p per minute

podsbird

Have just registered, having been recommended to the site.

Have already saved £90 on my car insurance this year. :-*

Moving in a few weeks, so will be checking all those other areas - building/house insurance, domestic bolls etc.

Thanks for getting all this info together.

Galstonian

£500 interest received (0% balance transfer)

This now exceeds £3000
The phrase "stooze on" springs to mind but I guess I have to wait for the poll results on that one...

Also over £200 from Boots recently.
Two mobile phones which I have effectively been paid to take away (£35 each)
Numerous casino bonuses.

The list - and the savings - just keeps growing...