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Just a few simple lifestyle changes could save you hundreds of pounds - an expert explains
National World - LocalTV
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12/03/2025
Simple changes to you shopping and driving could massively reduce your household spend.
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£1 billion worth of loyalty points are just sat in accounts being unused. And approximately,
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you could say they've got about £19 in unused loyalty points. So it's really a call to action
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for everyone to basically say, if you've got a loyalty card of anything, go and have a
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look to see if there is any money on there. One of my favourite tips is whenever you're
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shopping online for clothes or gifts, for example, if you do a little trick where you
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add items to your online basket, and then you basically abandon them, you don't go ahead
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with the purchase, you leave it in the basket and go and do something else for a few hours.
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Retailers are now sending out emails basically saying, you've left stuff in your basket,
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here's a coupon to get you some money off that item. So when it comes to loyalty cards,
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it's probably worth signing up for all of them because loyalty cards in general, most
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of them do send you coupons or offers just for being signed up to them. So another tip
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that I recommend you do is basically to sign your whole family up for birthday freebies.
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So if you know your birthday is coming up, sign up for basically everything, the email
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schemes because retailers will send you deals, coupons, discounts to get you money off their
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items. And this can add up to quite a bit of money once you've signed up to all of them.
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A little tip for that as well, I've set up a separate email so it doesn't spam my normal
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email account with a load of different offers, so I miss my normal emails. But if you can
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set up a free email account for free, get all of these offers into your email account,
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then hopefully you'll save a bit of money there. If you are driving as well, I've got
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a few tips that will help you save some money on your fuel bill. So if you wanted to drive
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more efficiently and increase your miles per gallon in a car, because the price of fuel
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is so high at the moment, this can actually add up to hundreds or even thousands of pounds
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worth of savings over the year. So there are three tips that can help with your fuel economy
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and miles per gallon. The first one is if you can drive at 60 miles an hour rather than
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70 miles an hour, that can add up to quite a bit of money saved because your car is more
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fuel efficient at a lower speed. So if you don't have to be anywhere in a rush, you can
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do that. If you see a red light or a traffic light or a roundabout up ahead, if you lift
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off the accelerator before you get to that place and not just use a heavy right foot,
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then that can save you quite a bit of money. And also, if you brake slowly as opposed to
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brake suddenly, you know, sort of drive up to a roundabout and then just stop. If you
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brake suddenly, that can save you quite a bit as well. And because the price of fuel
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is so high, that can really add up.
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