Saving Money tips by reducing television, ready meals, luxuries, gambling and charging your mobile phone!

21 – Television

How many channels does your television have? Do you watch them all, and do you pay for them?

We tend to be all the same, we get a television package cable or Sky, we come home from work sit in front of the television and go to bed. Watching the same television channels day after day. Freeview in the UK gives you around 30 channels free, so paying £50 a month additional channels seams pointless!

Try and get away from television and read a book, improving your knowledge and reading develops your personal self, and prevents you watching brain numbing rubbish on television.

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22 – Ready Meals

If you buy ready meals you really need to know how to cook! The ready meals are really not good food and are over priced.

When cooking make more than you need, and freeze it. Make a chilli for six, freeze five and eat one, easy home made ready meals at a fraction of the price.

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23 – Luxuries

Cutting down on your luxuries is a positive way to save money, but do not go mad we all deserve to spoil our selves once and while.

Try and stop smoking, and instantly save allot of money, every time you want to smoke stick a £1 in a pot, you will soon see the pennies add up.

Drinking, try to half your weekly intake of alcohol, try and drink on Friday and Saturday nights.

Limit takeaways to once a week or once every other week, you could even cook your self a special meal once a week and buy good quality produce, meat and pudding all for cheaper than a takeaway meal for two!

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24 – Gambling

Gambling is like any thing else, OK in moderation! The truth is the only person who wins at Gambling is the bookmaker or Casino! There are ways to gamble and methods to follow with a pinch of luck you may win, but generally you will lose!

Spending a £1 on the lottery once or twice a week in another matter, do not go overboard and spend vast amounts of money hoping you will win. £1 a week gives you the chance of winning, the same chance as everybody else but without throwing your money down the drain.

The best option is to pay off debt or put your money in the bank, a winner every time!

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25 – Charging your Mobile Phone

Unplug the mobile phone charger when not in use, the transformer still uses up valuable electricity when not in use.

Charge your mobile phone and other electrical devices in the car for FREE! Your car creates more power than it needs, once it has fully charged your car battery it just throws the energy away! Use it to charge your electronic devices for nothing!

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