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What are your best UK day our moneysaving hacks?

manaman
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I'm always looking for ways to have fun days out with the family without spending a fortune.
What are your tips?
My best ones are:
1. Most tourist attractions make a huge markup on food and drink - so take your own if permitted.
2. Make free things fun. A picnic in the local forest with a bottle of bubbles is pretty cheap, but feels very luxurious.
3. Look local - keep up today with local events, they are usually free or cheap and you don't need to spend a fortune travelling.
What are your tips?
My best ones are:
1. Most tourist attractions make a huge markup on food and drink - so take your own if permitted.
2. Make free things fun. A picnic in the local forest with a bottle of bubbles is pretty cheap, but feels very luxurious.
3. Look local - keep up today with local events, they are usually free or cheap and you don't need to spend a fortune travelling.
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Great post, thanks @manaman. Some from me:
1. Does your council have an email newsletter? If so, it's worth signing up to hear of free summer events. In my area there's a whole host of free or cheap festivals, food markets, walking tours and events going on across the summer.
2. MSE has a yearly sports day, which is a lot of fun and needn't cost much. You just need a decent bit of space in a park and perhaps some props like a baton for the relay and a rope for tug-o-war.0 -
Quite often you can get in the grounds for a fraction of the price of a ticket for the "house", which may not float your kids' boats anyway. There are even a number of places where you can walk through the estate and picnic if you want, outside the formal garden area. Gives you a trip out and some lovely views on a decent day for little more than the transport costs.
Oh and taking your own pack-up removes the lengthy queue for catering.
Re Laura's comment, I've worked the allotment a couple of times this summer to the sound of a band or music group entertaining people on the lawn at the bottom of the hill, free of charge to all. Just take cushions or a blanket.
At other times, there's nothing to stop people taking a festival tent down and camping for the day, on the edge of the woods.If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing0
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