What are your 3 best top money saving tips?

1. look at reduced items at the supermarket
2. use toilet roll instead of tissues
3. own brands are often as good as if not better than big names

Oh dear, I can only think of facetious ones! Better come back when I'm in a more sensible frame of mind....

1. Batch cook & freeze to save fuel

2. Keep heating stat at 17 degrees and wear more clothes

3. Only buy cleaning & similar producs if they are reduced or BOGOF

Most of the bread I eat is as toast so I buy reduced sliced bread (Cranks if they have it in Waitrose) split into bags of six slices and keep in freezer.
Easy to use straight from freezer

Well so far that rules out quite a few as I can't afford to buy a freezer, let alone run one!

I buy a large loaf from local market ( 40p cheaper than supermarket) split it in half and freeze the one half and this way the bread does not go stale
I buy cat food in bulk on line and that works out much cheaper than once again buying from a supermarket.
When doing a Sunday roast I make up extra dinners and freeze them so if I am in a hurry I know that there is a dinner in the freezer

field have you had a look on your local freecycle site our area often have small freezers, of course you still have to run it.

Anagram do please give us the facetious ones. We all need a good laugh especially when the 'drought' keeps pouring down!

1 There are loads of things I only buy when on offer and stock up: coffee, tea, washing powder, fabric softener, loo rolls, toothpaste, shampoo, hair conditioner etc etc.

2 Only put the hot water on before a shower and switch it off before starting the shower. If we have to wash hands in cold water so be it.

3 Only buy the meat which is on offer in the supermarket and then freeze it so we still eat a variety.

Can I have 4? We drive at a steady speed to save money on petrol and anticipate so we don't brake or accelerate harshly.

1. Live alone
2. Live in a 24 sq. metre flat which is very well insulated.
3. Stop spending on make-up, hairdressers, bags, etc.

This is how I fund my extensive travel from my pension income.

Greatnan High five! Respect!

1) Shop for fresh food daily and only for what I need so that there is no waste.

2)Only take enough cash for what I intend to buy (leave debit card at home)

3) If my journey is less than a mile walk to safe fuel.

This only works for me because I live in an urban area fairly close to shops and other facilities.

I like Greatnan's top tips, but I couldn't stop spending on makeup completely, or I wouldn't be able to face anyone on my travels....

I am too old to care!

Oh Greatnan I'd rather stay at home all year than live in 24 sq Metres. The price of that travelling is too high.
Different lives different, different propriorities! But you are much admired here on GN and I am much too ordinary and also claustrophobic.

I save money on clothes. for example I buy over- large reduced linen trousers, cut the sides and sew them up to my size. Designer clothing for 10 Euros.

We only shower twice a week as we have a bidet. ( best decision I ever made in this house)
We eat lentils and offal and all those things that tase so good and that no one eats anymore. The cat likes liver as well.

I make home made bread and soup, will only go to the shops if I need milk, as I can live out of the freezer when fresh and cupboard items run low, and I never buy newspapers but read everything on line, including Jamaican and Washington Times, Al Jazeera, UK papers and anything else that takes my fancy.

I couldn't live in my flat if I did not have the French windows opening onto my south facing balcony, and lovely views.
I have had big houses, with land and stables, when my girls were at home, but now I want to be able to close the shutters, turn off the electricity and swan off to NZ for six weeks at a time. My daughter has about two acres out there and I will eventually be buying a mobile cottage to put in her garden.
I had a house with a pool and a garden when I first moved to France, but I found there was always something that needed doing, and I am no gardener.

Not just horses for courses, but different needs at different stages of your life. I can now walk straight from my door up to the ski slopes with their fabulous views so I never feel claustrophobic (although I have always felt uneasy in enclosed spaces and always sit at the very end of the back row in the cinema so that I feel I can make a quick exit. The one time I really am trapped is in a plane, sometimes for 14 hours, and for some reason that never bothers me!)

great your flat is your little piece of heaven

Haven't got enough to worry about the saving of...so no problem.

margaretx
Bidets also make great footbaths.

1. Grow vegetables

2. Keep chickens

3. Keep careful accounts to track where the money is going and therefore where savings might be made

Think that last one is actually the one that matters the most.

use a shopping list but loiter around the reduced section-Monday afternoon is a good time to pick up weekend reductions in supermarkets

You are right, glass. It was lovely to be able to buy my own home again, having had to rent for nearly five years because I had lent my daughter all the proceeds of the sale of my first house in France. I looked at lots of flats before I decided but I just knew this was the one when I walked into the living room and saw the sun streaming in through the French windows.
When I have been away, it feels as if it is welcoming me back!

1. Get rid of the car and use the bus (especially if you have a bus pass).

2. Buy good quality clothes from charity shops and ebay. Sell unwanted items on ebay. (Donating to charity shop those things you can't sell).

3. Always cook from scratch using slow-cooker when possible, and freezing left-overs.

We got rid of our car 8 months ago. We have reaped the benefits so much.