Primark and ebay, there's another site called 'pre-loved' but I've only loooked at this one, never bought anything yet. Charity shops are good aswell.
Use ebay to sell all those things that you don't use or need now, great way of spring cleaning, if you have paypal you can use your profits to buy other stuff, that way you don't dip into your monthly budget.
Don't go food shopping when your hungry and try to use a basket or a small trolley...we have a compulsion to fill things especially shopping trolleys!!!!
Write a shopping list and stick to it.
Don't take your debit card, use cash. You'll have to stick to the amount of cash you have, you can 'see' how much it's cost also, less likely to overspend!! I find that anyhow, but I'm getting where I don't like parting with cash......
Try online shopping, what I try to do is book the delivery slot for the weekend at the begining of the week, order as you go along and you can take out all the impulse buys....choccy bickies, bottle of wine and that cream cake!!!! lol
Try to get all your shopping in at once, it's the mid-week top-ups that can be a real killer to your budget.
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chris.g on Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:29 am, edited 1 time in total.
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