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Frugal fuel tips

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  • maryb
    maryb Posts: 4,729 Forumite
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    Ebac do hot and cold fill machines and they are made in the UK
    It doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!
  • pamsdish
    pamsdish Posts: 2,585 Forumite
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    Plugged my smart meter monitor in yesterday, just out of interest to cooking 4 hrs on dehydrate in my ninja, seemed reasonable.
    I have always turned my t.v. off on the set, but left everything else, I have a power block with lap top plugged in 2 chargers and my magnifying mirror, in my bedroom I have the chargers again, when my meter was displaying it was usually about 48p first thing, covers all things that run 24/7 too, I have started turning off the power block when going to bed, and turning off the socket where my chargers are connected, in my bedroom as my phone and kindle charge while watching t.v. in bed, this morning my meter was reading 26p.
    Do I need it or just want it.
  • Nonnadiluca
    Nonnadiluca Posts: 576 Forumite
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    That's £80.30 a year! Just goes to show how the little things mount up, and it's having no negative impact on your lifestyle. 
  • pamsdish
    pamsdish Posts: 2,585 Forumite
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    That's £80.30 a year! Just goes to show how the little things mount up, and it's having no negative impact on your lifestyle. 
    and I am still on cheaper until June, then I will be looking for best price.
    Do I need it or just want it.
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,157 Forumite
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    pamsdish said:
    That's £80.30 a year! Just goes to show how the little things mount up, and it's having no negative impact on your lifestyle. 
    and I am still on cheaper until June, then I will be looking for best price.

    There isn't one. All of them are much of a muchness. We came off fix at the start of February, we were in credit (still are) but they've just increased our DD from £102 to £179 from May, despite my MSE reducing our consumption pretty drastically. Our DD was £92 for most of last year, so we're nearing double that now.
    Make £2025 in 2025
    Prolific £617.02, Octopoints £5.20, TCB £398.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £26.60, Everup £24.91 Zopa CB £30
    Total (4/9/25) £1573.21/£2025 77%

    Make £2024 in 2024
    Prolific £907.37, Chase Int £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus ref £50, Octopoints £70.46, TCB £112.03, Shopmium £3, Iceland £4, Ipsos £20, Misc Sales £55.44
    Total £1410/£2024 70%

    Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023  128.8%




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