Give yourself a £5,000 bonus: advice for cash-strapped Londoners
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10 April 2012
Everyone is feeling the pinch at the moment, but by economising on the basics it's possible to save a small fortune. Jasmine Gardner gives her advice to cash-strapped Londoners
BYO caffeine
A year of coffees:
Cost of making it yourself:
Total saving:
Bonus saving:
On your bike
Cost of cycling to work:
Use it all for five years:
Total saving:
Bonus saving:
Kindle up
Yearly spend on books:
Cost of a switching to Kindle:
Total saving:
Take a haircut
Yearly cost of a cut and roots re-touching every three months:
Go every four months instead:
Total saving:
Lunchbox love
Cost of lunch three times a week for a year:
Cost of making it yourself:
Total saving:
Bonus saving:
Drop the downloads
Cost of 12 months' unlimited broadband:
Cost of 12 months' broadband with a 10GB download limit:
Total saving:
Shop smart
Cost of a year's worth of vegetables at the supermarket:
Cost of a year's worth of the same vegetables at the greengrocer:
Cost of a year's worth of Kellogg's Fruit 'n' Fibre:
Cost of Tesco own brand:
Total Saving:
Switch to freeview
Cost of a year's Sky TV subscription with sports and movies:
Cost of scrapping it:
Freeview box with recording facilities:
Total saving:
Stop school running
Yearly cost of the school run:
Cost of leaving the car at home and buying two children's Micro scooters:
Total saving:
Go Veggie
Yearly cost of meat eaten every day:
Yearly cost of replacing meat with beans and pulses three days a week:
Total saving:
Ignore last orders
Yearly cost of drinking in the pub:
Skip first orders and have one at home:
Skip last orders:
Total saving:
Cancel the cab
Yearly cost of taking cabs home:
Cost of cancelling:
Total saving:
Go topless
Cost of 12 tops a year (one a month at about £30 from Topshop):
Cost of halving your purchases:
Total saving:
