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Cheap Beauty Deals: Freebies, discounts & deals on make-up, hair cuts & more

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If you want pampering on the cheap this is a daily updated list of the top beauty freebies, discounts, deals & treats.

Cheap Restaurant Deals: Eat out or take away for less with vouchers, codes & 2for1s

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If you’re planning to eat out or grab a takeaway, you can halve the cost. Many restaurants have special deals to draw in customers, but only for those in the know.

Freebies, Freebies, Freebies: A guide to and directory of free stuff

Whether it's perfume, pants, games, gym passes or books, there's masses available for free on the web with a simple click-and-grab. This a huge list of permanently available genuine freebies.

Loyalty Points Boosting: Increase Tesco, Airmiles & more up to 8x

Massively boost the value of your loyalty points without spending a penny, using hidden tips and tricks for each scheme. Plus the unique Loyaltychecker tool will value any points stash.

Supermarket Shopping: Halve your weekly bill by beating the system

It’s possible to save £1,000s annually on supermarket shopping, with a few designed techniques: shop at the right time in the day, use the downshift challenge, use online supermarket comparisons, grab discount vouchers and more…
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Cashback Credit Cards: Earn £100s by spending on right card

You can profit from plastic and earn 5% cashback on all spending for the first three months, up to £2,000. Plus a new card pays 1% on all food/petrol spending.

Cheap Petrol & Diesel: Cut your fuel spend by a third

Find the cheapest petrol station, pay the right way, speedily make your car more efficient and learn the golden driving rule & you'll cut your fuel bill by a third.

The Mega Shopbot: Search all main shopbots in ONE click. New Tool

The Mega Shopbot whizzes to all the top shopbots in one click, including CDs, DVDs, books, perfume & more

Rent your parking space: Make money from your driveway or park for less

If your parking space is unused, even if it's just during the day, you may be sitting on a goldmine. This guide shows you how to make easy cash letting out unused spaces, or how to cheaply find someone else’s driveway to park in.

Shopping Vouchers: Special discounts to get 20% or more off your shopping

Whether online or on the high street, these are loads of hidden vouchers and discount codes to get money off. This is a daily updated, fully checked-out rundown.

Cheap Online Shopping: Shopbots and other tricks to slash costs

Don't go straight to just one internet shop when in the same time Shopbot sites can find you the cheapest price from scores of retailers. This is a full shopbots review, including a raft of other serious cost cutting online shopping tricks.

Cheap Tickets: Theatre, sports & gig ticket cost cutting

A full guide & links to grabbing the cheapest tickets for any event, including beating booking fees, spotting special offers and hunting out bargains on ticket exchange sites.

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The Mega Shopbot: Search all main shopbots in ONE click. New Tool

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The Mega Shopbot whizzes to all the top shopbots in one click, including CDs, DVDs, books, perfume & more

Cashback Credit Cards: Earn £100s by spending on right card

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You can profit from plastic and earn 5% cashback on all spending for the first three months, up to £2,000. Plus a new card pays 1% on all food/petrol spending.

Cheap Online Shopping: Shopbots and other tricks to slash costs

Don't go straight to just one internet shop when in the same time Shopbot sites can find you the cheapest price from scores of retailers. This is a full shopbots review, including a raft of other serious cost cutting online shopping tricks.

Cheap Restaurant Deals: Eat out or take away for less with vouchers, codes & 2for1s

If you’re planning to eat out or grab a takeaway, you can halve the cost. Many restaurants have special deals to draw in customers, but only for those in the know.

Shopping Vouchers: Special discounts to get 20% or more off your shopping

Whether online or on the high street, these are loads of hidden vouchers and discount codes to get money off. This is a daily updated, fully checked-out rundown.

Top Cashback Sites: Buy through them & make £100s, plus free cash loophole

Cashback websites like Quidco or Rpoints pay you every time you buy something or sign up for a product through them; it can add up to £100s a year. Better still, if you’ve time there's a loophole to rake in serious money without even spending

Consumer Rights: how to make 'em play fair

Do you know your rights? When can you take goods back? When can you ask for a refund? Is buying a second hand car the same from a showroom or a private individual. Find out with this article.

Section 75 refunds: Free protection for ALL spending

Spend over £100 on a credit card and the card issuer’s legally jointly liable. Full Q&A on how to use this or Visa Debit cards to protect all purchases.

0% Credit Cards: Best credit cards for new spending

If you need to borrow, done right credit cards are the cheapest way. The current top deals allow you to get a year’s borrowing at 0% or long term borrowing for 6.8%.

Prepaid Cards: New plastic that anyone can get

A new breed of card requires no credit checks to get, meaning anyone can now shop online. Prepaid also works for teenagers, travelling abroad, or rebuilding your credit history.

Stop Spending!: Tips, tricks and tools to help you fight yourself

The two biggest enemies to our pockets are costly companies and ourselves. This is all about tackling your spending demons, including the Demotivator tool!

Loyalty Points Boosting: Increase Tesco, Airmiles & more up to 8x

Massively boost the value of your loyalty points without spending a penny, using hidden tips and tricks for each scheme. Plus the unique Loyaltychecker tool will value any points stash.

Credit Card Reward Schemes: Get flights, points, cashback & more

A unique major analysis, valuing and ranking the benefit of the UK’s 40 credit card rewards schemes, including Nectar, Tesco, BA Miles, AirMiles and more. Get up to £3 back per £100 of spending.

Store Cards: Play with the devil and win

Store cards are the devil's debt, hideously expensive with very high interest. Yet if you reject their borrowing facility, there are scores of discounts available which you can snatch and grab.

What Shops Don't Want Us to Know: Hidden hints divulged by shop workers

MoneySavers get everywhere, and now some of those in the retail trade have turned fifth columnists. They've revealed some tips from hidden knowledge shops don't want us to know.

Buy Online: Free & safe online spending system

Whether you're paying for shopping, info or legal pornography online, one provider protects your cash from fraudsters by rotating your card number.

Cheap Travel Money: Pick the right plastic to spend abroad

If you’re going abroad or spending on a foreign website, boost your spending power by £100s using specialist credit and prepaid cards and a free tool to find the best foreign currency rate for every country.

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eBay selling tricks: Declutter, flog & make £100s with ease.

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There’s a raft of tricks and tactics to help you to list auctions effectively and smash down eBay fees. This detailed guide shows you how to list automatically with tools, profit from bizarre items you never thought you could flog and much more

Contact Lens and Laser Eye Surgery Cost Cutting: A Visible Saving

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It's possible to slash the cost of your current contact lens brand by up to £200 a year, plus cut laser eye surgery costs by 30%. Includes a full comparison of all the contact lens discounters.

Free Anti-Virus & Safety Software: Legally protect your PC without spending

It's possible to fully protect your PC from viruses, adware, spyware, worms, trojan horses and the rest, without paying a penny. This is a full guide of the best free, legal & professional safety software around.

Orange Wed 2for1 Film Tickets: Non-Orange customers loophole

Orange offers all customers special 2for1 cinema ticket deal every Wednesday. If you use a different mobile network, why not sneakily buy an Orange Sim card, which costs just £1 to qualify.

MFI Administration Help: Get your cash back

Furniture store MFI has gone into administration. Thousands of people who’ve spent £1,000s and are waiting for delivery are worried . This is a full Q&A guide to what the administration means and how to protect your cash.

Cheap Parcel Delivery: cut the cost of sending by using the web.

Using the web, you can now get many big-name courier delivery services at Post-Office-beating prices. This article shows you how, and includes all the info you need to get your package to its destination quickly, cheaply and safely.

DVD Rental: Cheapest online providers & tart to get it free

Online rental can massively cut the cost of borrowing DVDs and better still, savvy MoneySavers can sneakily rent films for free.

Free DVD Unlocking Codes: Make DVD players multi-region & get cheaper discs.

Unlock your machine so you can play DVDs from other countries; taking advantage of knockdown DVD prices. Free hacks to turn your DVD player multi-region and where to buy those uber-cheap films too.

Free Office Software: Equivalents of Word, Excel, Powerpoint & more

There’s legal, top quality office, graphics, speed boosting, photo editing programs, online fax machines and more to rival the world’s big corporate software giants available for free, if you know where to look

Cheap Perfume: Swiftly find half price fragrances

Providing they're legitimate, perfume and aftershave are the same where-ever they're bought; and it's easy to halve the cost, but keep the smell, even of designer brands.

The Money Diet: The bestselling guide to saving serious cash

This is the MoneySavers’ bible; the Money Diet is Martin Lewis’ detailed book about how to save money, cut debts and getting more for less.

Supermarket Shopping: Halve your weekly bill by beating the system

It’s possible to save £1,000s annually on supermarket shopping, with a few designed techniques: shop at the right time in the day, use the downshift challenge, use online supermarket comparisons, grab discount vouchers and more…

Cheap Tickets: Theatre, sports & gig ticket cost cutting

A full guide & links to grabbing the cheapest tickets for any event, including beating booking fees, spotting special offers and hunting out bargains on ticket exchange sites.

Cheap Prescriptions and Medications: Slash the cost

English prescription costs have just risen again, but you can cut the cost by using little known 'season tickets'. Plus, how to save a fortune on over the counter medicines.

Digital TV: Five step system to slash the cost

Cut the cost of digital TV dramatically with this speedy package switching and price haggling technique.

Cheap Petrol & Diesel: Cut your fuel spend by a third

Find the cheapest petrol station, pay the right way, speedily make your car more efficient and learn the golden driving rule & you'll cut your fuel bill by a third.

Stop Smoking: The no-buts MoneySaving guide

This is a wealth not a health warning. Even without incorporating the actual cost of cigarettes, it can easily add over £30,000 to the cost of financial products over 20 years. Yet what counts as a non-smoker? This is a full guide to the cost of smoking and how to quit cheaply.

eBay buying secrets: Hidden tricks and tools to smash down the price

There’s a plethora of hidden strategies and tools you can use to track down and then bag the ultimate eBay bargains. This article reveals how to search for under-priced good, profit from spelling mistake listings, auto-bid to save cash and much more.

What's hot and what's not at Aldi/Lidl/Netto

The supercheap supermarkets Aldi, Lidl and Netto are great for cutting the cost, but is the quality any good? To help, MoneySavers voted on what's hot and what's not.

A Rash of Savings: Get the Cheapest Nappies

Don't go potty over the price of nappies. Find out how to get the cheapest here.

Boots Treasure Trove: Take Advantage

Boots is a treasure trove for active MoneySavers. Spend wisely and you can even earn some money.

Car Buying: Get the best deal & cut finance costs

Whether its new, nearly new or used, this five step plan shows you how to slice the cost down. Then if you need financing, how to minimise your car debt cost.

Buy from the US: Cut the cost of shopping across the pond

While ongoing financial turbulence has seen the pound weaken slightly against the dollar, you can still save big by shopping in the US. This is a guide to buying from across the pond, inc. full info on customs duty, VAT and delivery charges.

Glasses Buying Cost Cutting Plan

Cut the cost of glasses making an eye opening saving of up to 80%.

Getting Married: How to have a MoneySaving Wedding

Getting married is one of the biggest expenses we ever face. With a little ingenuity though it is possible to really cut those costs without spoiling the day

Freebies, Freebies, Freebies: A guide to and directory of free stuff

Whether it's perfume, pants, games, gym passes or books, there's masses available for free on the web with a simple click-and-grab. This a huge list of permanently available genuine freebies.

Tips, Tricks & Treats: Full compendium of MoneySaving bargains, loopholes and special deals

The very best of the weekly email's sneaky bargains and lucrative loopholes in a categorised index.

Price Comparison & Cashback Websites

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Major Price Comparisons
Kelkoo*
PriceRunner*
Shopping*

Minor Price Comparisons
Checkaprice
123 Price Check
Comparison Magic

Homes & Garden, and Toys:
Abcaz

Cashback Sites
TopCashBack*, Quidco
CashbackKings*, Wepromiseto*
, GreasyPalm*,
Pigsback*, Giveortake
Loyalty Shopper, E-cashrewards

Specialist Shopping
DVDs: Find DVD

Supermarket Shopping
Special Offers: Fixture Ferrets
Special Offers: Mad about Bargains
Groceries: Mysupermarket


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