Public Service Announcement: ways to save on Tesco and Amazon

[BrainInAJar]

Hey, I've saved a couple of quid in the last 24 hrs by:

1. cancelling my Amazon prime. Even though I'd paid a year upfront, they have refunded part of my £95. I've shoved this into Premium Bonds for next month!
2. changing my tesco delivery pass to off-peak and a 12 month contract. Down from 7.99 to 3.99/month.

Good thread… hopefully other people will post some other savings they’ve done too

Thanks @Christmastree455555 ! I've always thought I was relatively thrifty but it's easy to overlook things. I think it's important to genuinely sit down and go through every single direct debit at least once a year. Even the ones you THINK you can't get lower or can't do without.

Ocado has delivery for 99p on Wednesdays, so I alternate with Tescos cheapest delivery slot in order to get the best offers.

changed netflix to the one with ads so now only £4.99 month. the ads are short and encourage me to get off the sofa and move for a bit. kids whinged. i said they can pay the difference if they want ad free. it's not been brought up again!

I had no idea that was an option and I'm going to look into that, thanks!

I changed from a delivery pass to Clubcard plus. Still £7.99/month but I get 10% (max of £20 each shop) off two shops in store so I do two huge shops a month of c£200 each and save £40/month on my shopping. It works for us as we spend more than that a month (and I have the time to do it which is the main thing).

I can’t bring myself to get rid of Amazon prime at the moment…we have so much tied into it. I think it’s still saving us money overall but need to go over it again before it renews.

I cancelled prime, Netflix, Disney plus, Apple TV. Paid some guy £70 for a fire stick and it has everything and more on it.

Joined Blue Light as work for an emergency service and made loads on Asda with the Asda card (£10 a month if spent £50 I think plus other bits) saved £63

Our Aldi Lidl and Tesco are 3 mins apart so go and get all the cheap veg for that week and base meals around them and stuff in the cupboard.

Do a "eat the cupboards bare" every couple of months.

Fire stick? Tell me more …

Never had paid Amazon Prime but have had at least 10 free trials or 99p trials. They offer this to me regularly and I take it up if the order is time-critical, use the trial to the max while I have it and cancel before any payment.
Works for me!

Yes, the couple of times a year that I take out a month of Netflix, I take out the "with ads" option. I don't find there's a lot of ads.

You can do this with Disney too. I reduced my monthly sub to £5 before the price hike end of last year - annoying I didn't see it in the first place!

@Mumsnut it's a jailbroken fire stick has over 40k films, has all the series sky sports the lot. Best thing ever got mine from north Weald market

Ah. Might this be slightly naughty?

Reduced Disney plus to £4.99
Pm it has ads but only at start of film
So far. Reduced my sky bill down to
£28 pm instead of £68 , want to get rid of completely but have to wait till July when contract on sky Q box is up

@Mumsnut probably but most people I know have them and nothing been done to any of us 🤷🏻‍♀️

V tempting …

You've been ripped off - I got mine for £40!