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60 Ways to Beat the Credit Crunch

Do not let the credit crunch get you off, follow these 60 tips and life will continue just as you want it.

1. Buy veg in season. Purple-stemmed broccoli, beets, leeks, carrots and rhubarb are now available in trade. Avoid Zucchini, asparagus and raspberries, which are currently being flown in.
2. Enter your daily coffee. You save an incredible £ 10 per week.
3. Planning a week's worth of meals, make a list of ingredients and shop for these items only – so no food to waste and you are less spoiled by unnecessary goodies.
4. Go for supermarkets' own brand. They are cheaper and the fundamentals, rather than the best – the difference is often not much more than packaging.
5. Take a packed lunch to work.
6. Use up leftovers. The end of a chicken, and all off-cuts of veg, can be converted into shares, and if you are recording rigorous meat from the bones, fish in a delicious Cake can be transformed.
7. Do not throw away the ends of the dry cheese. Put scrag Cheddar and Parmesan cheese in an airtight container and use in soups and bakes.
8. Place the Tupperware. Try to cook a bit more than you need of things like lasagna, Stew and shepherd's pie, then small portions: cheaper (and freeze healthier) than the frozen meals you would otherwise use if you want to save time.
9. Freeze leftover red wine. Place the remaining half a glass of ice cubes in a bowl – the cubes can be easily added be to sauces and Save up to open a bottle for cooking.
10. Defy Delia. Do not cheat by assembling food from cans and frozen broth to cook it yourself. It is much cheaper and nicer.
11. Buy in bulk. Markets and greengrocers will give good deals on apples, potatoes and other staples, when you buy from the box.
12. Grow your own. Find a corner of the garden to sow a rich variety of salad leaves that grow like weeds.
13. Ban the bottle. Tap water to drink when you go for it for half an hour to go away, the slight chlorine taste. You can also taste and with fresh mint or lemon.
14. Shop for food on Wednesday. Order your online shopping midweek from Tesco and save up to £ 1.75 on weekends fees.
15. Subscribe to Which? Magazine, the Best Buy on consumer goods. It is with a three-month study for € 3, under which each issue will be £ 6.25 per month.
16. Accept no proposed package, the first call from your mobile phone company. They play at a level where you are likely to exceed the quota of calls and texts, so that you then pay drastic Calls cost extra. Go for one that costs slightly more but also provides an error rate.
17. Draw You make a will with a DIY kit (£ 14.99 from WH Smith) instead of paying a lawyer to do to get it for you.
18. Book online a Restaurant. Our top sites such as table lists discount offers – often from 50 percent – from restaurants across the country.
19. Buy contact lenses online. Some of the big supermarkets and online specialists sell lenses for a fraction of the High Street price.
20. Cancel Your pet insurance. Most measures do not cover the cost of routine examinations and vaccinations.
21. Buy private label analgesics.
22. Get a lodger. If you have a room free, spruce and rent it.
23. Enter your license fee Get rid of your TV and watch programs on your computer with the BBC iPlayer online, after they were broadcast.
24. Cancel your Sky subscription. A DVB-T set-top box offers most of the channels that you would want to see.
25. And with a plug-in-box, which records programs to a hard disk – we found the fusion FVRT95 for £ 66.14, including delivery, on eBuyer – you get to keep programs to watch at your leisure, and can also break Live TV, like Sky +. But free.
26. Buy cheaper music. Download music from legitimate Russian sites, the thousands of Albums available for less than a pound.
27. Cancel your gym membership. Many recreation centers offer membership schemes and Personal training and are kitted with the full range of equipment for a fraction of the price of a private gym.
28. Ditch the football season ticket. Or at least split the cost with friends. After all, how many of those mid-week light, you can get real?
29. Fetch They discounted movie tickets. The three large multiplex chains – Vue, Odeon and Cineworld – all offer cheap weekend deals for families.
30. Cycle to work
31. If your employer has a tax-free Cycle Scheme have joined, you can 20 percent discount on a new set of wheels – Come as a helmet and accessories.
32. Using a vehicle-sharing system, including trams. Membership costs £ 49.50 per year, with a VW Polo – the cheapest option – costs £ 28 for 24 hours a week (£ 39.50 for 24 hours on weekends), and £ 125 from Monday to Friday (£ 165 for a seven-day stretch). You can also Zipcar.
33. Join a car pool
34. Find the cheapest flights. Find with a price comparison site like kayak.com, book online so far ahead as you can fly, to travel out of season; afternoon in the week.
35. Invest in a Family Railcard. Travel with at least one child, and you will be for the £ 24 discount card To qualify, Offers 3.1 that savings rates among adults, and 60 percent discount on child fares.
36. Fill your cavities. About a third of heat lost in an uninsulated house is through the walls, so that a cost-effective way to save energy is cavity wall insulation – a stress- could save job, that up to £ 90 on annual bills.
37. Look for the logo. When buying new appliances, look for the Energy Saving Regulation Recommended logo – a blue wedge – that an efficient device that will be cheaper, runs indicates. Replacing an old, inefficient Fridge-freezer could save up to 37 pounds per year.
38. Invest in energy efficient light bulbs. They last about 10 times longer as usual and cost less than £ 3 For each bulb you fit, you can save up to £ 7 on your annual electricity bill.
39. Lag the loft. About 15 percent of your heating costs could be eliminated with 270mm thick loft insulation shaved.
40. Check Your home energy levels online. could be saved in your home for a report on how much energy, round out the Energy Saving Trust survey.
41. Change credit cards. If you have debts, they go to einem''Balance transfer offering, "that with a low interest rate will remain until the debt repaid be. It saves the trouble of making repeated applications for short-term deals, 0 percent.
42. Remortgage early. If you are at the end treat a sentence come on your mortgage should you start organizing your next deal as early as possible – three months before the end, if you can.
43. Use a broker who charges und''ganze free market ", ie they are looking at almost every available mortgage. London and country, and coal (0800 71 81 91) are the only nationwide estate agents that meet these criteria.
44. Work out a budget. Do not work on your finances FAG back of a package, you need to anything to get what you spend to see a true picture.
45. Reclaim what is yours. Make sure you reclaim PPI, credit card receive fees, bank charges and mortgage fees, or your council tax rebanded.
46. Buy dishes from catering suppliers rather than buying houses. It is much cheaper.
47. Make your own birthday cards. Much more beautiful anyway.
48. Make your own compost, peel fruit and vegetables and scraps, tea bags and coffee grounds (but not proteins, such as eggs), then you will not have to buy them from the garden center.
49. Represent yourself in court a la Heather Mills, you will save thousands (A reported £ 600,000 in Mills' case) in legal fees. It is not as difficult as it sounds, especially when conveyancing house (apartments, but are more fiddly).
50. Circulate the books you have read among your friends. How to declutter your house, and good tips on what is worth getting to read.
51. Refresh your furniture. Instead of investing to upgrade your tatty Ikea sofa for a 2008 model instead of in some slipcovers. A new look will cost as little as £ 65 with Bemz, their website, you can drag and drop the colors and patterns on different styles sofa to see what it would look like her.
52. Hire CDs from your local library. Many of the back-catalog CDs in HMV's "3 for € 20" racks will be available to loan for a few cents – and Also you really want the mid-70s Rolling Stones albums fill collection for more than a few weeks anyway?
53. Try music before you buy. Instead of forking out for an entire album on iTunes, listen to the 30-second preview snippets and buy only the tracks that the Board back.
54. More and book rail travel in advance. Super Apex offer the lowest prices – much cheaper than the yields purchased on the day – but must booked at least two weeks in advance.
55. Go clubbing. The smartest way to a series of wheels is a Zipcar car-sharing club that easy on your pocket: You do not pay extra for road tax, insurance or in Central London Congestion Charge, as they are all included in the hourly rental costs. You will also receive free parking in designated spaces and £ 50 fill-up.
56. Find out how safe your savings are. The Financial Services Compensation Scheme covers the first £ 35,000 savings to you in any financial institution, they should go bust, but that is not as easy as it sounds.
57. Get the Mini-60s out of the attic. Drag it right and they wear like a tube top with a below-the-knee skirt or cigarette pants.
58. Mend and make fabulous. Save laddered tights to wear under pants or with boots, replace revitalize tired T-shirts with colorful tie-dyeing, and broken bags with your boyfriend's funky guitar strap.
59. Ask for freebies. The smarter of the department store, the more generous of their beauty Hall is with free samples (for those who will show enough interest in our products). Buy from www.jsbsupplies.co.uk and get 4 free DVD rentals.
60. Get a free makeover. Bobbi Brown makeup counters offer free, one-hour tutorials, no pressure to shop. Phone 0870 034 2566 for further details.

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