To ask for your most ingenious money saving tips

[Toothiehurtie]

my Best one is…

a visit to the card factory for cheap cards and gift bags and then picking up presents from car boot sales or charity shops. I have got some brilliant kids party presents for 50p so with the card and a cheap gift bag I have brought the cost of a present in for a pound before.

looking for any tips at all, obviously you can buy porridge oats in bulk cheaper than buying expensive kids cereal etc but anything clever or that people might not have thought of before.

don’t know how bad the fuel crisis will be but considering charging battery packs to charge phones at work and taking a thermos of boiled water home 😂

Agree! And if you're caught, you loose your BLC discount.

Ive been trawling the internet trying to work out of the syphon hose/pump is compatible with a standard uk garden hose! @PerkingFaintly do you have the Amazon pump and do you know if it’s compatible please ? Thanks 😊

Ive been trawling the internet trying to work out of the syphon hose/pump is compatible with a standard uk garden hose! @PerkingFaintly do you have the Amazon pump and do you know if it’s compatible please ? Thanks 😊

I’ve cut portion size there’s nothing else we can do

Just turn a kid upside down, dunk them in the stored bathwater and use her/him as a mop.

Saves on buying mops and keeps your hairbands looking nice too!

Hyperjar.
You need to set up an account to transfer money in and over to your child’s jar, but mine has £0 in it.
Someone said they’re not regulated in the same way so don’t keep too much money in it, but I think it’s a great account.
It’s really cut down on him asking for things as he knows it’s his money and once it’s gone, it’s gone.

@SeptimusWarrenSmith
and excellent for after their chimney cleaning chores.

@HelebethH 's tip about 8 day shopping week now in local paper

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/mum-genius-food-shop-savings-24882744

Great tip about the Iceland bonus card. I've just signed up for one, put £100 on it and immediately got £5 extra. Plus they'll give me a £15 bonus later in the year.

And I've never shopped online with them before, so i signed up through topcashback so i should get 12% cashback on my £100 as well hopefully. Existing customers can get 1%. I usually shop at aldi but they don't do some of the brands we liked so I've just made the most of Icelands multibuy offers to stock up on those. Great thread!

My tip - if you have an airfryer, microwave and/or slow cooker use them as much as possible rather than your oven. Theyre much, much cheaper to run.

Also use up as much leftovers as possible. Its amazing what can be frozen.

I aim to please😁

£9 odd a month.

That's a great one.
Also use one of those plastic body scrubbers as a fascinator.

Instead of buying piddly little expensive Thai curry kits or jars of gloopy sauce, buy a huge 1kg catering size tub of Thai curry paste on Amazon for around a fiver. You only need 1 tsp per two portions and it keeps for about a year in the fridge. Buy tins of coconut for around 70p in Aldi/Lidl.

We are terrible for massive wasting food so now I've started to shop online every 3/4 days so I can add in exactly what we need, I find it much easier to control what I'm planning on cooking by using things I already have in. We're less likely to change our minds or not fancy it. And I've started to really push freezing meals in kids portion sizes or adults so I'm slowly building that up too.

We've used to good to go app a few times when we fancy something sweet we take the risk and spend £3 on a bag rather then £6/7 in the shop

That sounds miserable. No offence. Is there any help you can get as no-one should be eating cold soup?

How does that work with a heating system with a thermostat? Ours is never set higher than 17.5' so surely even on 5 out radiators will never be 23-29'

Well, you're right. But sadly this is the same for the majority of commercial washing products -look at the back of the packs. Might look into essential oils instead.

Never flush after wees. If you have multiple toilets in the house if someone takes a poo then also leave it and that toilet is out of bounds for rest of the day until the bedtime flush. Only flush otherwise if all toilets have had poos in the day
I draw the line at that - the house would stink!!

I don't even understand it. Why don't you just flush the poo?!

No, I don't understand either. Why make a toilet out of bounds? Not everyone has multiple toilets in the home.
Not great advice.

Thank you for this. It always amazes me how much people are prepared to spend on go Henry.

These might have all been said (not RTFT yet):

• use Quidco/ other cash back sites whenever you order anything online. Remember to shop around to maximise cash back, the same item might be available from different retailers with differing cash back levels
• email accounts are free - most online retailers offer money off codes for your first order, just set up new emails to keep claiming
• vinted and similar websites/apps are a brilliant way of selling and buying secondhand items. Especially children’s clothes - they’re barely in them for any time at all and you can often pick up new with tags/nearly new pieces for a tiny fraction of the cost
• frozen meat, veg etc is cheaper than fresh and lasts longer and is fine in ‘batch cook’ type dinners eg. Curries, stews, pasta
• save water from boiling veg/eggs for watering plants/dog bowls

We've got very old drains and last time they had to be unblocked the drain guy was telling us people need to flush the toilets more to stop them blocking and don't use the half flush as not enough water goes through the pipes. We only have one toilet but even if we didn't I'm not having anything sitting there all day! 🤢

Sorry, it was a good few years ago and somewhere drier that I reused shower water, and I had to use a powered pump because the garden was higher than the bathtub. My powered pump was nicely compatible with standard garden hoses, and I had a convenient system where a short piece of hose lived indoors and got dangled out the window, then I'd go outside and connect it to the longer garden hose.

I've just looked, and Hozelock standard garden hoses have a diameter of 12.5 mm. Looking at various manual siphon pumps, 8 mm seems popular. Hmm. Jubilee clip onto a Hozelock male connector?

@TyneTeas
I never expected that ,