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60 ways to beat the credit crunch

Do not let the credit crunch get you down, follow these 60 tips and life will go the way you want.

1. Buy veg in season. Purple-stemmed broccoli, beetroot, leek, carrot and rhubarb are in stores now. Avoid courgettes, asparagus and raspberries, which are being airlifted in.
2. Give your coffee a day. You will save a staggering £ 10 a week.
3. Plan a week worth of meals, make a list of ingredients, and a shop for these items only – so that no food goes to waste and you'll be less tempted by unnecessary goodies.
4. Go to the supermarkets' own brand. They're cheaper and for the basics and not the best – the difference is often little more than packaging.
5. Bring a packed lunch to work.
6. Use up leftovers. The end of a chicken, and all off-cuts of vegetables, can be transformed stock, and if you are strict when choosing meat from bones, fish can be transformed into a tasty cake.
7. Do not throw off the ends of dry cheese. Place scrags of cheddar and parmesan cheese in an airtight container and use in soups and bakes.
8. Bring out the Tupperware. Try cooking a little more than you need things like lasagne, stew and shepherds pie, then freeze small portions: cheaper (and healthy) than frozen meals ready otherwise you use when you want to save time.
9. Freeze leftover red wine. Place the remaining half of glass in an ice tray – the cubes can easily be added to sauces, and save open a bottle for cooking.
10. Delia challenge. Do not cheat, gathering food from tins and frozen mash, cook it yourself. It is much cheaper and better.
11. Buy in bulk. Markets and greengrocers will give good deals on apples, potatoes and other staple foods if you buy by the box.
12. Grow your own. Find a corner of the garden to sow a rich variety of salad leaves, which grow like weeds.
13. Prohibition the bottle. Drinking tap water, if you let it stand for half an hour, the slight taste of chlorine is gone. You can also flavor it with fresh mint or lemon.
14. Shop for groceries on Wednesdays. Order your shopping online from Tesco during the week and save up to £ 1.75 on charges weekend.
15. Subscribe to what? magazine for the best buys in consumer goods. It offers an experience of three months for $ 3, after which each issue will be £ 6.25 per month.
16. Do not accept the package first suggested by his call mobile phone company. Throw them at a level where it is likely to exceed the quota of calls and texts so that you then pay the costs of calls swingeing extra. Go for it costs a little more but gives a margin of error.
17. Draw up a will using a DIY kit (£ 14.99 from WH Smith) instead of paying a lawyer to do it for you.
18. Book a restaurant online. Reservation websites like the Bureau lists discount offers – usually 50 percent off – from restaurants around the country.
19. Buy contact lenses online. Some of the big supermarkets, as well as online specialists sell lenses for a fraction of the street price.
20. Cancel insurance pet. Most policies do not cover the cost of routine exams and inoculations.
21. Buy painkillers own brand.
22. Get a tenant. If you have a spare room, spruce it up and rent it out.
23. Give your TV license Get rid of your and watch television programs on your computer using the BBC iPlayer online after being transmitted.
24. Cancel your Sky subscription. A box of Freeview set-top offers the most channels that you will want to attend.
25. And with a plug-in-box that records programs for a hard drive – we found the Fusion to FVRT95 £ 66.14, including delivery, ebuyer – you can keep the programs to watch at your leisure, and also can pause live TV, like Sky +. But, for free.
26. Buy cheaper music. Legal music download sites that offer Russians thousands of albums for less than a pound.
27. Cancel your gym membership. Many recreation centers offer systems and compliance training staff and primed with the full range of equipment for a fraction of the price of a private gym.
28. Ditch the football pass. Or at least split the cost with friends. After all, how many fixtures in midweek you can actually get?
29. Get movie tickets at a price reduced. The three large multiplex chains – Vue, Odeon and Cineworld – all offer promotions cheap weekend for families.
30. Duty Cycle
31. If your employer has joined the tax-free Cycle Scheme, you can get 20 percent off a new set of wheels – and a helmet and accessories.
32. Using a system of sharing as electric vehicle. Composition costs £ 49.50 per year with a VW Polo – the cheapest option – it costs £ 28 for 24 hours during the week (£ 39.50 for 24 hours on weekends) and £ 125, Monday to Friday (£ 165 for a stretch of seven days). Also check out Zipcar.
33. Join a car pool
34. Find the cheapest flights. Search online with a price comparison site like kayak.com, book as far as you can, go out of season; fly mid-afternoon on weekdays.
35. Invest in a family railcard. Travel with at least one child and you qualify for the card £ 24 discount that offers savings on fares 03.01 for adults, and 60 percent off fares for kids.
36. Fill in your cavities. About one-third the heat lost in an uninsulated home is through walls, so it is a cost effective way to save energy is to insulate cavity wall – a working free of problems that could save up to 90 pounds in their annual accounts.
37. Look for the logo. When buying new appliances, look for the Energy Saving Recommended logo – a blue wedge – which indicates an efficient device that will be cheaper to run. Replacement an old, inefficient fridge could save up to 37 pounds per year.
38. Investing in energy efficiency light bulbs. They last about 10 times more than ordinary, and cost from as little as three pounds. For each lamp fits, you can save up to $ 7 on your invoice Annual electricity.
39. Delay the loft. About 15 percent could be shaved your heating bill with 270 mm loft insulation thick.
40. Make sure your online home energy levels. For a report on the amount of energy could be saved in your home fill out the Energy Saving Trust survey.
41. Changing credit cards. If you have debts, change them to offer a Transfer de''equilíbrio "which lies in a low interest rate until the debt is repaid. It saves the effort of making repeated applications the short term by 0 percent offers.
42. Remortgage early. If you are nearing the end of an agreement for a fixed rate on your mortgage you should start organizing your next deal as early as possible – three months before the end if you can.
43. Use a broker who is free of charge and todo''do market, "meaning that they will look at almost all mortgages available. London and Country and Charcol (0800 71 81 1991) are just brokers throughout the country, these criteria.
44. Develop a budget. Not working out of your finances on the back of a cigarette pack, you need to look at everything you spend to get a true picture.
45. Recover what is yours. Make sure you can recover PPI, credit card charges, bank fees and mortgage rates, or have your council tax rebanded.
46. Buy kitchen catering suppliers instead of department stores. It is much cheaper.
47. Make your own birthday cards. Much nicer anyway.
48. Make your own compost, using bark, fruit and vegetable scraps, tea bags and ground coffee (but of proteins such as eggs), then you will not have to buy it from the center of the garden.
49. Represent themselves in court a la Heather Mills, saving thousands (£ 600,000 reported in Mills case) in legal fees. It is not as difficult as it sounds, especially when the house of transfer of property (houses, however, are more complicated).
50. Circulate the books you read between your friends. That way, you declutter your home, and will have good tips about what is worth reading.
51. Freshen up your furniture. Instead upgrading your Ikea sofa tatty for a 2008 model, instead of investing some slipcovers. A new look at costs as little as £ 65 with Bemz, whose Web site allows you to drag and drop the colors and patterns in different styles couch to see how it would look.
52. Hire CDs of your local library. Many of the titles book, 3 CDs "from HMV for £ 20" racks will be available for loan pennies – and, moreover, that you really want the mid-'70s albums by the Rolling Stones cluttering up his collection of more than a couple of weeks anyway?
53. Experience music before buying. Instead of forking out for an entire album on iTunes, listen to snippets of 30 seconds to preview and buy only the tracks that appeal.
54. Where rail reserve in advance. Super Apex offer the cheapest rates – substantially cheaper than bought back in the day – but must be reserved by least two weeks in advance.
55. Go clubbing. The smart way to a set of wheels, Zipcar is a car-sharing club that is easy on your pocket: you will not pay extra for road tax, insurance, or central London congestion Charge, because they are all included in the rental cost per hour. You also get free parking in designated spaces and a tank of petrol from 50 €.
56. Find out how your savings are safe. The Financial Services Compensation Scheme covers the first £ 35,000 of savings you have in any financial institution, if you fail, but it is not as simple as it seems.
57. Get that 60 kids out of the attic. Pull it right up and use as a tube top with a skirt below the knee or cigarette pants.
58. Tinkering and doing fabulous. Save laddered pants to wear under pants or boots, revitalize tired T-shirts with colorful tie-dye bags and replace broken with her boyfriend funky guitar strap.
59. Ask for gifts. The smartest department store, the more generous its beauty Hall will be with free samples (for those who show enough interest in their products). Buy from www.jsbsupplies.co.uk to receive four free rental DVD.
60. Get a makeover courtesy. Bobbi Brown make-up counters offer free, one-hour courses, no pressure to shop. Call 0870 034 2566 for more details.

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