If I offered to pay you £300 for a couple of hours of work would you do it? Of course you would! By changing your gas and electricity provider you could potentially save hundreds. For years I put off changing my supplier because it felt like too much of a hassle. If I’d realised how easy it was to save money on my gas and electricity bills then I’d have done it much sooner. If you’d like to see how much you could save then read on…
Cleaning with white vinegar is a cheap and effective way to clean your home. It can be used in many different ways, reducing the need to purchase numerous different cleaning products and cutting down on the number of chemicals in your home. It’s one of the strategies I adopted early on in my mission to be mortgage-free and I’ve stuck with it ever since.
I’m a bit of a magpie by nature, if something shiny catches my attention then I’ll swoop in and claim it. My mission to save money and become mortgage-free resulted in me gradually learning to tame my inner magpie and become a more mindful consumer. It wasn’t an easy journey, but with practice it did get easier, especially as I started to reflect on what I already owned and realised that I had enough.
So we’re now 8 weeks into lockdown in the UK and I’m sure many of us have had a lot more time on our hands to do things around the home. My social media accounts seem to be split between people who have been binge watching Netflix and others who have gone into cleaning and decluttering overdrive.
I’ve still been working from home, but I’ve also had time to reflect on the changes I’ve made over time. Many of these have helped me to save money and live a healtheir life. One of those is the way I do my laundry. My skin is quite sensitive and prone to dryness, itchiness and flare ups, so I’m very careful with the detergents I use. Once I find a product that I’m happy with, I tend to stick to it.
Cutting my grocery costs became a great way to boost my mortgage overpayments and with a bit of focus I became an expert at reducing my food waste, as well as eeking out my storecupboard items just a little bit further to save a few pounds each week. But the main way I managed to save money was to look carefully at the items that I put into my basket, tweaking them so that I got the best value for money. Below are a few steps you can take to start slashing your grocery bill.