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Cheap Gas & Electricity: Time to Switch?

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E.On cuts gas prices 3.3% for most customers. While further price cuts are possibly, it's unlikely. If you're paying over the odds, switch now.

0800Buster: Dodge costly 0800, 0808 & 0500 mobile calls

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Calls to 0800 numbers from mobiles can cost a bomb. But use this easy loophole and you can call them using your inclusive minutes.

Free Directory Enquiries: Call for free on your home phone & mobile

Forget cheap 118 numbers, if you know what you’re doing it's possible to make calls for free. Plus you can slash the cost of enquiries from mobiles too

Home Phones: The Cheapest Calls Provider

It's possible to get your home phone plus line rental, broadband and cheap calls to mobiles for under £17 a month, almost half of the cost of BT!

Energy direct debits: Get money back & your payments lowered

If your energy supplier's unreasonably increased your direct debit, this is a step by step guide to getting your money back and payments lowered, including free template letters.
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Water Bills: Can you cut the cost?

Water bills are rising by an average of 4.1% in April. Deciding to choose a water meter can save some people hundreds of pounds

Cheap Broadband: Get online for under £5/month using special link

The price of broadband has plummeted. It’s possible to get fast connections with high download limits for little more than a fiver a month, or pay a few pence more for unlimited downloads.

Say no to 0870: BT now includes 0870s in free call packages.

Tips & tricks to fight back against these hideous 10p/min calls.

Cheap Mobiles: Compare, switch and make cashback deals work for you

This speedy mobile phone cost cutting guide can save you £100s, by using the right comparison sites, beating down the cost and beating dodgy cashback.

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Home Phones, TV & Internet

Say no to 0870: BT now includes 0870s in free call packages.

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Tips & tricks to fight back against these hideous 10p/min calls.

Cheap Broadband: Get online for under £5/month using special link

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The price of broadband has plummeted. It’s possible to get fast connections with high download limits for little more than a fiver a month, or pay a few pence more for unlimited downloads.

Free BT Line Installation worth £122.50. New homes, re-connections & second lines

It's possible to get a BT line installed for free. This usually costs £122.50 so it's a huge saving. These offers are time limited & often kept hush so the key is grabbing it while you can.

Cheap International Calls: Find every country's cheapest in seconds

You can call abroad from free via the web or just 0.5p per minute from a home phone. A full step-by-step guide and unique tool to find the cheapest provider for each country.

Calling Mobiles Cheaply: Instantly cut the cost

It's possible to instantly halve the cost of calling mobile phones, without changing your home phone provider. Over a year the savings are huge. Plus special tricks to save when calling mobile to mobile too

Home Phones: The Cheapest Calls Provider

It's possible to get your home phone plus line rental, broadband and cheap calls to mobiles for under £17 a month, almost half of the cost of BT!

Free Wireless Internet: Free UK hotspots & cheap 3G mobile internet

There’s a raft of hidden wireless hotspots around the country allowing you to get online for free. Alternatively for those needing to connect anywhere, 3G mobile broadband allows you to get a speedy connection wherever there’s a mobile signal.

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.

TV Licences: Know when and how to pay plus grab discounts

If you watch a TV set, you need a licence; there's no avoiding it. Yet if you're in the know you can save on the cost plus grab possible discounts

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.

Voip: Completely free calls worldwide via your PC

It's possible to make PC to PC calls anywhere in the world without any cost, yet don't believe the hype that PC to normal phone calls are a cost saving revolution, often they're more costly than normal calls. Find out when to use internet telephony.

Cashback Collapse Help Guide: How to fight to get your money back

As people learn the tricks of mobile cashback contracts, more claims means more retailers go out of business, most recently Simply3g. Read my guide to check how to minimise your potential loss or find out what to do when cashback contracts go wrong!

Internet Access: The cheapest way to dial up.

Free web access is a myth, it always costs. This deal is how to net savings of up to £100 a year.

Free Directory Enquiries: Call for free on your home phone & mobile

Forget cheap 118 numbers, if you know what you’re doing it's possible to make calls for free. Plus you can slash the cost of enquiries from mobiles too

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.

Stop Junk Mail: And unwanted calls, texts, faxes and spam e-mails

It’s possible to junk the junk in minutes, whether its mail, calls, faxes, texts or e-mails. Sadly though, illegal marketers are much tougher to tackle. Yet a few basic steps can help you block out all those people desperately trying to flog you stuff.

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Mobiles

Cheap Mobile Phone Insurance: How to cover yourself for less

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Many people have mobile insurance who don't need it. Others are paying well over the odds. This step-by-step guide takes you through whether you need it, and includes a full best buy comparison.

Calling Mobiles Cheaply: Instantly cut the cost

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It's possible to instantly halve the cost of calling mobile phones, without changing your home phone provider. Over a year the savings are huge. Plus special tricks to save when calling mobile to mobile too

Cheap Mobiles: Compare, switch and make cashback deals work for you

This speedy mobile phone cost cutting guide can save you £100s, by using the right comparison sites, beating down the cost and beating dodgy cashback.

Sell Old Mobiles: Earn up to £150 for unused handsets, Unique Comparison Tool

Dust off your unused old mobile, you can recycle it and earn cash. Full guide including a unique tool which speedily compares all the main companies and websites to see who’ll pay the most

Free Texts: Includes virtually free texts from mobiles

If you’re a text maniac, there’s a clever loophole that’ll slash the cost of texting to a fraction of a penny from your mobile; or get totally free texts via the web.

Mobile Phone Contracts: Batter your network down to save £600/year

There's a secret set of prices mobile phone companies don't tell us about. Yet you can access them with a little chutzpah.

Mobile Unlocking: Unlock the Savings for free

Locked handsets can be a pain, preventing you from getting the best sim card only deals. Here's all the info you need to unlock your mobile; unlocking the savings.

Free International Calls From Mobiles: Tricks to talk at no cost

A legal trick enables those with 'free minutes' to make free calls overseas from mobiles, and it's just local call costs for everyone else; compare this to the £1 a minute some networks charge!

Mobile Roaming: Use your phone abroad for free

There's now a loophole for all to make free calls while abroad, Jun - Aug. Take your mobile on holiday and your network could charge £1/min to receive calls even if your phone is switched off! Luckily there are lots of easy ways to slice down roaming costs

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.

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Gas, Electricity & Water

Cheap Gas & Electricity: Time to Switch?

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E.On cuts gas prices 3.3% for most customers. While further price cuts are possibly, it's unlikely. If you're paying over the odds, switch now.

Boiler/Central Heating Cover: Get better cover cheaper

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Many have these expensive policies with their energy provider, bought due to the fear of cold water and a cold home. Yet this is a competitive market, and speedy comparison services will slice your costs to the bone in minutes.

Water Bills: Can you cut the cost?

Water bills are rising by an average of 4.1% in April. Deciding to choose a water meter can save some people hundreds of pounds

Plumbing MasterClass: sort your pipes out for free!

Media plumber Ian Puddick kindly agreed to help site users with their Plumbing queries. These are the results

Staywarm Is It Worth It?: Special Briefing

Staywarm is the fixed fee gas or electricity provider for the over 60s from Powergen. Once a powerhouse deal, recent changes mean it’s no longer best for all. So should you switch and ditch?
Economic uncertainty's rife, and picking troubled companies isn't easy, so it's crucial to protect yourself.
Section 75 Free protection for all purchases
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Recession Proofing Sort your finances

Meanwhile we'll carry on finding top deals & bargains.
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