My Thrifty Ways to Save Money

I_Love_comps · 1 January 2017 at 7:10PM

Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year to all of you. My disappearance was due to lack of time and my old laptop finally giving up. I am now enjoying my new laptop and slowly finding my way around windows 10.
This year I am going to track every penny I spend in 2017 and see how much it costs or everything costs to live for a year.

dingdongsaving · 1 January 2017 at 8:37PM

All the best for 2017 to you too!

I track everything in different budget areas and am always looking to improve our frugal ways also so I hope you don't mind if I tag along on this thread.

Here's to an abundant but thrifty new year. :beer:

I_Love_comps · 5 January 2017 at 2:57PM

Well I had a look at the Boots half price sale - did not see anything I liked. Every year seems to be the same old stuff but in different boxes, cartons etc. Not buying saved me money.

I_Love_comps · 12 January 2017 at 12:36PM

Remember when doing the grocery shopping to buy shops own brands - it will save you £'s off your shopping bill.:j:j

VfM4meplse · 12 January 2017 at 4:50PM

I_Love_comps wrote: »

Well I had a look at the Boots half price sale - did not see anything I liked. Every year seems to be the same old stuff but in different boxes, cartons etc. Not buying saved me money.

And space, these days I find this just as important.

I_Love_comps · 14 January 2017 at 5:23PM

VfM4meplse wrote: »

And space, these days I find this just as important.

That is the first thing I do when I receive any gift sets is remove the items from the packaging, I then can pop them into a drawer, the packaging probably costs more than the gifts.

t14cy_t · 14 January 2017 at 5:48PM

im doing a daily tally of any coins i find while out walking zeus the dog...we are up to £1.39 so far this year!!! im also entering the minimum of 40 comps on line per day and have signed up to toluna, so far this year ive earned £15 in voucher form. ive won £50, a tin of beans and a dye kit so far this year...a weird combination i know! xx

VfM4meplse · 14 January 2017 at 7:11PM

I_Love_comps wrote: »

That is the first thing I do when I receive any gift sets is remove the items from the packaging, I then can pop them into a drawer, the packaging probably costs more than the gifts.

I take a different approach, I work out how I could possibly regift them.

If that's not an option they go straight to the chazzer.

kv6mick · 14 January 2017 at 10:05PM

I love Aldi, since we started shopping there, we have saved 100s of £££££££, no i dont just go to see what is in the baskets :T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

Lindlou · 14 January 2017 at 10:40PM

kv6mick wrote: »

I love Aldi, since we started shopping there, we have saved 100s of £££££££, no i dont just go to see what is in the baskets :T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

We're fairly recent converts too - shopping seems to have gone down from £55 -£60 per week to £35 -£45. How good is that?:beer:

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