Money Saving Miser Tips – Cash in the Pocket

So far this week I’ve looked at some areas of my life that can be changed to simplify things and make them better for me and my family, to make my food choices more healthy and cheaper, but I haven’t really dug deep enough with money savings tips and actions and that was the biggest reason for starting this in the first place.

So, today, I’m looking to immediate things I can do to save some money and make things cheaper or even free – even better, so here goes;

I think the easiest way to do this I think is to go from room to room and assess what’s costing me money in each of those rooms.

To start – the lounge – standard fare – TV, TV recorder, dvd, freeview box (I’m too tight to pay monthly subscriptions to get more drivel I don’t want to watch), standby lights glowing happily, what! Lights left on when there’s nobody there! TV blaring out! Central heating thermostat mid twenties, cor blimey, do they think I’m made of money?

This is not open to debate; I’m turning down the heating to 20oC (to start with, then it’ll be down to 18oC or less – put a jumper on if you’re cold for goodness sake, when I was a young lad there was no central heating for us, we had two coal fires downstairs, one in the front room, rarely used as we kept to the kitchen/diner/living room where we did most things. When it was bed time you rushed to get into your PJ’s and slipped shivering into a very cold bed – we were used to it – we didn’t know any different. Kids of today eh? Don’t know they’re born really.

Anyway, heating turned down, television off, all off unless recording something, will start to read the meters to see what difference this is making.

That reminds me, I must look into changing the utility companies to see what savings I can make there.

Until next time: I’ll stand in each room in the dark to check for little standby lights shining back at me, as they are not all obvious when its light, and unless they are essential like the fridge, then off they will be turned and save me some cash.