a money saving thread for the cash poor amongst us.

Asda soup, roll and unlimited Tea and Coffee for just £1 until end of February. For the over 60's

Don't buy coffee out ?

https://www.toogoodtogo.com/

filter coffee 98p per cup.    Pret A Manger.

Or 49p if you take your own cup. Black coffee at least.

Don’t have kids.

filter coffee 98p per cup. Pret A Manger.

Buy a man a coffee for 98p, and he can drink one cup.

Buy a man a cafetiere and a decent travel flask, and he can drink coffee forever!!!

Download asda app, sign up for rewards, get 5 quid free off first purchase.

Cheers Ton I fancy a 50p coffee tomorrow

1. Don't buy cheap shoes - it's a false economy as they drop to bits fast, if you wear them a lot.

2. Don't buy high end luxury/designer shoes either, as they are also typically not made any better than mid range shoes, you just pay a lot more.

As with everything else, it's worth paying for something decent that will last, but above a certain price point it's serioulsy diminishing returns.

M and S Mexican Style Chilli and Bean soup £1.10, mucho bueno!

Give up booze. Happier, healthier and cheaper!

Yep, coffee is why everybody is poor

Put some reinforced padded foil on the outside facing radiators - keeps the heat in.

Vinted for clothes and footwear. Let some other mug pay the full price and pick up £70 jumpers for a tenner. It's where I get all my clothes now.

Sign up for one of those round-up savings accounts. I've been doing it for about 4 years now and without even really noticing it I've built up a tad over £4k

Red Bull and a Flesh Light instead of Coke & Hookers

@ton your idea was a good one, once the children have got it out of their system we can start again!

Change current accounts for a £100-£200 switching bonus

Swap to soap instead of shower gel and shampoo.

Give up booze. Happier, healthier and cheaper!

don't suggest that to Ton - he will have a conniption and fall over!

7pm at Lidl midweek you get 20% off all their bakery items with their app. The app is pretty good for giving you lots of random free stuff too.

Change your own oil and filters instead of using the local garage

Change your own oil and filters instead of using the local garage

That's a time v's money thing though... a basic service/ oil and filter change on my car, with an MOT at my local indie is £189.00

By the time I've pratted about, got mucky, disposed of the old oil etc, I'll just pay someone else to do it.

Do your spending on a Chase current account or Amex card for the cashback.

Swap around current accounts. Make a burner account and then swap it around every offer. Can easily make £1000 a year, then need to wait a couple until the offers reset.

Buy anything that doesnt go off either in bulk quantities or load up when on sale. I bought 10 tubes of my favourite toothpaste when it was on offer last year.

If you have a lot of time on your hands.. matched betting.

If you work in the public sector, investigate if your organisation offers a staff discount card or if you're eligible for one like the Blue Light Card.

Line a large holdall with tin foil to avoid setting off door alarms when shoplifting.

Another vote for bank account switch bonuses. I'm on around £800 for last year. I would need to earn over £1600 to get that as take home pay.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/compare-best-bank-accounts/

In Scotland buy alcohol online from Amazon to avoid the minimum unit price. EG Famous Grouse whisky 1l. £26 in the shops. £19:50 on Amazon.

Of course a bigger saving is not buying it at all.

But a designer jumper from a charity shop for £2 and sell it on Vinted and let some mug pay £10.

Buy one up from the lowest entry point of any significant purchase. From white goods to cars, and everything else.

A breakfast treat…..

if you get the McDonald’s app they do their McMuffin and a coffee deal for £2.79 rather than over £6!

It’s bad there’s a McDonald’s in the nursery run I do ?. It has to be ordered in the app FYI

Buy one up from the lowest entry point of any significant purchase. From white goods to cars, and everything else

depends if you class wine as significant, this rule doesn’t apply to buying bottles at a restaurant. They’re the ones they want to shift, on the basis that people don’t want to look a cheapskate so won’t order the cheapest so automatically pick the next one up.

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^ this.

It's proved much more useful than I had expected for a range of issues.

Move your savings around.. I recently shifted my ISA from Chip to T212 - took 30 mins effort and now I've gone from 4.6% to 4.9%

Free money! well, minus 30 mins labour.

Before you buy anything just think for a moment 'do I really need this?'

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If you ride clipless then never buy brand new.

Lots of people buy brand new pedals and shoes to give clipless a go, try them out and hate them and then flog them cheap on FB Marketplace, sometimes I've paid just postage.

Don't pay more than £500 for your cars. Learn to fix them yourself. I have saved 10x thousands £ over the years.

Remind your significant other they are funny and nice to be around. I've heard divorce is rather expensive.

If you ride clipless then never buy brand new.

Ditto with tyres. It's amazing how many folk use tyres for a few rides and then buy something different.

Look for outdoor gear which is durable rather than ultralight. Not quite back to 1990's Berghaus jacket durable, but better than something purely superlight.

1990’s Berghaus jacket durable,

My 97 Berghaus polar 300 fleece is still in use. Elbows are a bit thin.

Yep, coffee is why everybody is poor

I've drunk less than 2 complete cups of coffee in 50+ years and i'm poor too.

It must be powerful stuff.

Use curtains properly.

Don't spend any more money on mechanical watches beyond a Seiko5

Remind your significant other they are funny and nice to be around. I’ve heard divorce is rather expensive.

What if they are neither?

[i]a basic service/ oil and filter change on my car, with an MOT at my local indie is £189.00

By the time I’ve pratted about, got mucky, disposed of the old oil etc, [b]I’ll just pay someone else to do it.[/b][/i]

Doesn't that kind of miss the point of this thread?

A quick google shows Halfords will do Oil and filter change for a MINIMUM of £109. You can do it yourself in 30-45 minutes for £45. So you save £60 for the 'hassle' of undoing a sump plug and unscrewing the filter.

Use cashback for for everything - £500 a year of free money.

Tesco Clubcard plus - £96 a year to buy in and save £500-£600 per year.

Instead of spending hours on STW, knit an artisan jumper and sell it to Hepco Trousers or whatever they are called...

@rustynissanprairie

Those Seiko5`s look nice. My old Seiko Kinetic is playing up...bit tempted by the £225 Seiko Pepsi at John Lewis.

This thread is not really saving me money 😉

A quick google shows Halfords will do Oil and filter change for a MINIMUM of £109. You can do it yourself in 30-45 minutes for £45. So you save £60 for the ‘hassle’ of undoing a sump plug and unscrewing the filter.

In principle I agree with this, but you also need a place to do it, tools to do it, something to catch the oil and you then have to dispose of it.

I always do my own oil changes, but I can understand someone not wanting to faff for the sake of £60.

I actually came on here to posy "Be nice to people, even if they are not being particularly nice at the time".

It is amazing how many times I have been given discounts, let in free, had stuff given to me by people I only have a passing acquaintance with
just because I was nice to them when they were having a bad time. The latest example is the lathe and loads of chisels, probably over £500 worth, a friends Dad gave me because I was 'nice' when he was getting divorced and didn't take sides. This was a few years back and all I remember saying was something like 'Life happens but there will be sunshine again when you get through this". Clearly that remained in his mind.

EDIT - also when selling a painting for £350 to a young-ish couple I offered to deliver it to their house for free as they only lived 5 miles away from my house and we were both at a market about 30 miles from home. I got to the house that evening and they gave me the money plus a nice bottle of wine. I thanked them and said my wife would love that, as I don't drink, and it would help make up for the time I spend in the studio. The bloke smiles, took the wine back and gave me an extra £50 and tld me to get something we could both enjoy.

It is amazing how many times I have been given discounts, let in free, had stuff given to me by people I only have a passing acquaintance with
just because I was nice to them when they were having a bad time.

I've had that recently from two purchases. Work wear shorts - got to the till after spending a while discussing options with the sales assistant and he knocked 10% off because I was "a nice guy."

Bike shop - I asked if the Maxxis tyres were part of the sale and the guy said "everything is if I want it to be, let me see what I can do." He knocked an Assegai exo+ max terra from $95 to $75. I should have bought two!