The Money Saving Thread

Buy/grow a bag of chilli's and freeze them. Then simply grate them using a cheese grater (from frozen,) into meals as required. Easier to use, last forever.

You can do this with herbs such as basil and coriander too.

You can also freeze peeled bananas, let them go brown first and they go a bit like a banana sorbet.

In Sweden at the moment you can get trial weeks of Hello Fresh for next to nothing. I paid about 20 GBPs for 5 x four portion meals. Stupendous value for money.

One thing I discovered during the pandemic was zoflora. You use 1 tsp of the stuff per 400 ml and we use it to top up bottles of spray disinfectanct. Works out way, way cheaper than buying disinfectant sprays (like dettol) and its much more effective than most as it actually kills covid which most disinfectants don't.

We also use liquid soap dispensers which foam the soap. You have to pay for the dispenser (about £10-15) but then you dilute the liquid soap (1 in 5) and you use a lot less as well as its a foam. Theres the added benefit of not having to touch something that everyone else has been touching previously (as its motion activated).

Looking at my house's energy rating, the best thing I can do is ensure every bulb I have is low energy. It estimates this will cost £72 and save £54 a year. I think most are, but I think one or two might be old styles (like the attic).

Just up the price to put off the sub-£1000 a jar cheapskates. They can get their bargain basement farts round the back of the supermarket bins.

How does it fit into the network? So for example if my PC's directly plugged into the router, does it still work with that?

Curious about this too. I’d like to cut out adverts on TV app YouTube and also All4. My TV is also plugged into my router.

So if saving rates are still low and inflation high! Really you should be spending / investing any surplus cash.

Just wiped out most of our savings to knock a chunk off the mortgage. Will be fine as long as nobody loses their job in the next few months.

Would live off beans for a while but they seem a bit expensive now

Feel all virtuous as I've been around the house and ensured every bulb is now a low energy bulb. Also swapped out a couple of "low" energy bulbs that turned out to be anything but when I checked them. Highest I've got got now is a 10w one in the bedroom.

Hopefully it will help.

Thanks. I remembered the external lights. Worst offender was a 60w bulb which I replaced with an 8W. The other two were already 6W,

Hmmm....I reckon I'm being affected by this too. I bought a dehumidifier maybe early last year.  It's one of those  auto ones and I only run it during the winter to help with condensation towards the back of the house.

Or find some fireflies.

The price of condensing dryer is starting to come down quickly, it’s worth keeping an eye on the price of them but not worth upgrading until the current one you may have breaks. Also only use a dryer if you have children, for singles or couples just hang it up.

We have that too. Luckily renewed it before they put the price up in January.

First time I've heard that euphemism for testicles, but it makes a lot of sense.