Category: Saving Money

Saving Money

Debt “prove it” letter

You may find yourself in a situation where you are being chased for a debt that you do not think you owe. Debt collection agencies will send letters to people with the same name, in the hopes that one of them will pay up. It is up to the debt collection agency to prove that you owe the money, and not for you to prove that you do not owe it. National Debtline have put together

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Free Stuff

Our wedding favours (including free printable)

Our wedding favours originally started as something completely different, but upon making them we discovered that they were rubbish. With a bit of tweaking, we arrived at our final product. Items used: Mini flavoured vodka – we picked these up in America for just $0.99 at Walmart. You can also get them from most supermarkets (although there isn’t such a big selection of flavours) and Amazon (12 for £21.18). We have around 50 left over

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Saving Money

Our thoughts on making your own wedding invitations

Once engaged, we knew that we would be creating our own wedding invitations to both keep costs down and to create a truly unique wedding invitation. Now that we have finally sent all our wedding invitations, we have come to the conclusion that making our own wedding invitations was a really bad idea. We started making our wedding invitations in October, and it took until the end of January for every invitation to be printed,

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Degustabox Review – January 2015 & £3 off

  Degustabox is a monthly food and drink subscription box. We have been receiving Degustabox since July 2014, and every month I have enjoyed the contents greatly. January of course was no different. The theme for January’s box was health, and I think this has come across well. As usual, a couple of items will be making their way into our local food bank as they are items we won’t use (or have tried in

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Coupons

The Orchard at Tesco – get free items & more

The Orchard at Tesco is a program created to improve customer service, products and “create a better Tesco”. Members are asked to evaluate services and products that Tesco provide, free of charge, and provide feedback. Free products have included vouchers for meat, ice cream, fish, party food and so much more. Getting started is easy. You will need  Tesco Clubcard to register for The Orchard (if you don’t have one then you can sign up here),

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Saving Money

SelectSpecs – Glasses From £6

I’ve worn glasses since I was 10, and I think that the only thing I’ve come away with is knowing that glasses are expensive! Years and years ago, I came across Select Specs, offering 48 different pairs of prescription glasses for just £6. The £6 budget glasses are great, and they are all I have bought in the last few years. As long as your prescription falls between Sphere (SPH): +6.00 to -6.00 and Cylindrical (CYL): +2.00 to -2.00, you

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Saving Money

Saving into your emergency fund

Do you ever find that it never rains, but it pours? That is exactly our situation right now. Not only do we have an expensive month with my birthday, dentist appointments and so much more, but now Tony has been signed off work for at least a week with an injury. I say at least a week, but speaking to some nurse friends and Dr Google, it seems that it may take weeks or even

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Food

Click & Collect Grocery Review

The first time I heard about Click and Collect grocery shopping was when buying our wedding wine, and since then I have been converted. So much so that I have given up my beloved Aldi for a few weeks and am now collecting my groceries from Asda. You may have heard about Click and Collect for items like electricals, toys, books, etc. But now you can order your groceries online and collect them from store

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