Save water

Save water

If your loo is approximately pre-2001 then you could benefit from hippo the water saver who once in the loo cistern will save you money. You can buy hippo from biggreensmile for around £2.00 -

Bottled water

Bottled water – stop drinking it

It’s expensive buying bottles of water – in some parts of London it can be almost as expensive as buying liquid fuel. 

Consider some parts of the world have no clean running water at all.  So turn on the tap and drink   —– yes I know we pay for our tap water but it still works out far cheaper than bottled.

Extra points to consider: think of the production and transportation of a plastic bottle – we go through thousands, millions even.

Share a bath

No shower?  Apparently it costs 90 pence every time you take a bath – so save money and have a dip with a friend.

Recycle with Freecycle

Recycle with Freecycle

Save yourself stacks of dosh and use Freecycle – why buy new?  Why dump good stuff that works well – donate and take. 

Pop along to http://www.freecycle.org/ to register with a group in your local area.

Wormeries

Build a wormery to dispose of household bits.

Find out more at
wormeries
Got kids?  Get them to make a wormery for nothing…. pop along to
kidswormeries
Useful hints and tips on wormeries at the
gardeners
Want some wiggly friends then the wigglywigglers site may be just what your looking for.

Saving Money

Saving Money

In these days of perpetual credit crunch news I thought using this blog as a lighthearted approach to saving money might be useful.

Saving Money seems to be on everyones mind these days so lets go and Save Money