Advice / tips on how to be less wasteful..

[crumpetwithcheese]

Hello

im trying to be less wasteful with everything I can be - money, cosmetics, toiletries, food etc

any advice or tips for this please?
thank you

That's a lot of questions.

I can't really help with cosmetics and toiletries, but
FOOD - my thinking would be planning. You haven't said if you are buying for just yourself or if you have a family, but it is generally a good plan to shop once a week and buy the ingredients you need for each meal. So rather than thinking - Oh, that chicken looks nice, when you are in the shop, go with a list of what you are going to need. Does the chicken go out of date before you have a day when you've got enough time to do a roast (or whatever). I always buy for fewer than 7 days as there is inevitably left overs from some meals, and if there ever isn't, then we have eggs in some form, or something on toast one night.

MONEY - you need to be really honest with yourself about what you are spending your money on. Go through your statement for the last 3 months and see. Until you know that, it is difficult to set a budget. However, one basic step is to get several quotes every time you renew things like insurances, but also check every 6 months or so that your broadband, utilities, etc are competitive, and if you have savings that they are earning the best they can for you or if you have debt that they are charging you the lowest amount you can get.
Monseysupermarket has masses of advice on looking after your money better.

Laundry. If you are a ‘wash it every time it’s worn’ household, you are spending a lot on unnecessary laundry products, water and electricity. Scale it back.

Coffee out & about from coffee shops wastes huge amounts of money, and can usually be gone without or massively restricted if money is tight. Same for sandwiches/meal deals on ordinary days - plan ahead, take your own. It’s a lovely feeling, sitting on a bench, eating your sandwiches and knowing you’ve saved yourself a fiver!

Toiletries in tubes/plastic bottles - there’s often a lot left stuck to the walls when it gets hard to squeeze out. Use every drop by cutting across the tube just less than your finger length, and you’ll get many applications more with a finger sweep - you can park the closed end inside the cut end to stop it all going hard.

Reduce, reuse, recycle. In that order.