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

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Whether it's perfume, pants, gym passes, vouchers, face cream, games 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.

Cheapest Petrol & Diesel: Drive down the costs by 20%

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First use a special trick to find your cheapest petrol station, then buy it the right way and then drive more efficiently and you can cut 20% off your annual fuel bill.

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…

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.

Pay Less for Going Out: Tickets, bookings, restaurants and days out

It's not just touts who aim to push prices up. Agencies, restaurants, theatres, theme parks and cinemas all make you pay as much as they can get away with. Yet there are websites, strategies and vouchers to get the prices lower than Britney Spears' jeans.
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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.

Best Cashback Credit Cards: Earn a huge 5% cashback on all spending for three months

The best cashback card pays 5% back on all spending for the first three months. Simply buy everything you can on your card and make £100s

Cashback-sites Maximiser: Finds you the highest possible cashback available

This unique cashback-site comparison service finds you which of the cashback sites, such as Quidco, Rpoints or Topcashback, pays you the most for every product or retailer.

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Consumer rights: how to make 'em play fair

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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.

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

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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

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.

Best Cashback Credit Cards: Earn a huge 5% cashback on all spending for three months

The best cashback card pays 5% back on all spending for the first three months. Simply buy everything you can on your card and make £100s

Credit Card for New Borrowing: How to borrow interest free for up to a year

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 6.7%.

Stop Spending!: Tips, tricks and the Demotivator tool 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 Schemes: Tricks to get more from Nectar, Airmiles, Tesco & others

First use the LoyaltyChecker to instantly value your points' stash of over 40 different schemes, then read about the anomalies which allow you to boost the returns of loyalty schemes up to eight times

Credit Card Reward Schemes: Find the very best payers

Airmiles, Nectar points and others promise 'something for nothing' but rarely deliver. This is the UK's only full reward scheme valuation, by picking the best you can get up to £3 back for every £100 spent.

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 safer system for online spending

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

Spending Overseas: The cheapest way to pay

Trip abroad or spend on foreign websites and the correct plastic beats everything else. However use the wrong one like Halifax, Lloyds or NatWest Debit cards and you'll pay large!

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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 & Other Safety Software: Legally protect your PC for nowt

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.

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: The equivalent of Word, Excel and more for free

Forget Microsoft, it's possible to kit your PC out with high quality, professional, legit, software totally free, possibly saving you hundreds

Cheapest Perfume: How to find fragrances for up to half price

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…

Pay Less for Going Out: Tickets, bookings, restaurants and days out

It's not just touts who aim to push prices up. Agencies, restaurants, theatres, theme parks and cinemas all make you pay as much as they can get away with. Yet there are websites, strategies and vouchers to get the prices lower than Britney Spears' jeans.

Cheaper Prescriptions and Medications

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.

Cheapest Petrol & Diesel: Drive down the costs by 20%

First use a special trick to find your cheapest petrol station, then buy it the right way and then drive more efficiently and you can cut 20% off your annual fuel bill.

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

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

New Car Buying and Financing Cost Cutting Plan

This five step plan includes deciding between new, pre-reg or nearly new; sourcing the cheapest using special web-hunt sites, using that price to haggle with dealers, and financing possibly at 0%.

Buy from the US: with the pound super-strong, massive savings are available

The pound's near its strongest against the dollar for around 25 years. Thus, buy from US websites or go there in person and massive savings are possible; provided you are aware of the 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, gym passes, vouchers, face cream, games 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
Price Guide UK*

Homes & Garden, and Toys:
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Cashback Sites
Topcashback*, Quidco
Rpoints*, Greasy Palm*
Pigsback*, Freefivers*
Loyalty Shopper, E-cashrewards

Specialist Shopping
DVDs: Find DVD

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


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