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Small changes to cut costs

 

From printing discount vouchers to picking up coins off the street, what are you doing to make your money go further?

 

 

Look after the pennies ... Photograph: Catherine Shaw/Observer

 

What money-saving tricks have you discovered to get you through these cash-strapped days? Research revealing the penny-pinching measures that many consumers are resorting to certainly rings bells with me – now that eating out has become a luxury, more than half of diners have recently used a discount voucher to get more meal for their money, according to the findings of comparison and switching service uSwitch.com. Ding!

Printable vouchers offering two main meals for the price of one at many restaurant chains, currently downloadable from the likes of Vouchercodes.co.uk, MyVoucherCodes.co.uk and Restaurantvouchers.co.uk, are hugely popular. And I'm cheering the fact I can now swap my Tesco Clubcard loyalty vouchers at four times their in-store redemption value for tokens to spend in my kids' favourite eaterie, Pizza Express.

I'm not so in tune with the 15% of UK diners who say they've cut their bills even further by not paying the service charge – that's surely taking tight-wadding tactics a step too far, but I'm definitely getting a lot louder about complaining and demanding a refund if restaurant food is not up to scratch.

When I can get my act together, I'm with the 51% of consumers who are dusting off the Tupperware and taking packed lunches to work. And my admiration knows no bounds for the 20% who are now doing a John 'Free'-da to save on hairdressing costs by cutting their own or their family's hair. If only I had the required skills to snip and layer, or, failing that, the time to join the 10-week Hairdressing for the family course at my local adult education centre.

 

 

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[MARTIN3030]

Its difficult to find dropped pennies these days..I saw 2 guys diving for one the other day in the town centre-they almost knocked an old lady flying.

Best time to go looking is early on Sunday morning....its amazing the loose change the revellers drop after drinking on Saturday night in the town centre.

I have so far found 3 rings a bangle loads of gold earrings 3 watches and 2 mobile phones.

I contacted the owners of the mobiles and gave them back-one of them said he would be round to collect it in 48 hours after he was sober enough to drive.

[craigers]

martin, are you saying you indulge in a bit of theft by finding??

[MARTIN3030]

Erm....I dont recall saying that -No