Quick tips to save money

Here are a few quick and easy tips on how to save money and be eco-friendly.

1. Turn your heating down
There are many other ways to keep warm at home and can save you money, by turning your heating down by a few degrees can save you about £20 a month on heating bills. Using a blanket instead of turning the heating up is a good place to start. Your home heating system should be the last choice to keep warm. You could also replace your Gas, oil or electric heating with an Air conditioning unit as these units use a low amount of energy and take affect faster than normal boiler heating systems.

2. Use less water
This is not only good for the environment but if you are on a meter then it also saves you money. When you have a shower use the water to get your body wet the turn it off, apply any washing items that you use and then turn the shower back on to wash it off. You can also add a water regulator to the shower that restricts the amount of water that flows out the shower head. Turn the tap off when brushing your teeth, fix leaking taps can save up to 15 litres of water a day. Installing a water butt in the garden to collect the rain water can be used for watering your plants instead of using fresh water from your hose.

3. Saving Electric
There are many ways that you can cut the cost of your electric bills and even have no bills at all. The easiest but no the cheapest way to do this is install solar panels they can be used to power most items or all in your home and can also help you make money due to government schemes (This post shows more detail Power Saver. Health eating and using low electricity by using the microwave, I don’t mean by having microwave meals as they are not as health as most meals are. I had discovered a recipe for a negative calorie cake it substitutes butter for a ripe banana and can be done in the microwave in 5 Minutes. You save money from heating up the oven, mixing by hand helps burn calories and so do some of the other steps.
Turning off your electric item by the main socket, this does not save a lot but it’s a start and can show over the year, every little helps and the more of these steps you take the more you save on your bills.

4. Wall Cavity filling
This is almost a standard feature in home that are built by Eco Development Companies, your home loses up to 35% of its heat through the walls and a cavity willing that costs around £100 can save you up to £130 a year.

5. Recycling
Most homes should be recycling plastics and metals but there are still a lot that don’t. Saving money by reusing materials and sending materials off for recycling helps the environment, using your old newspapers to make heating blocks for a log fire can save you money on buying wood to fuel it. There are simple log makers that you can buy Online that help this process. Recycling plastic so that it can be used again in other products, there are many companies out there that recycle plastics one of the main products recycled are wheelie bins. (Here is an article that explains this The Wheelie Bin Lifecycle)

6. Stop the memberships
We all have had a GYM membership at some point or have considered it, but why did we do it in the first place. Memberships can cost you anything from £10 - £80 a month depending on the package you want, and can cost you even more in the protein bars and health drinks that are sold in the Gym.

Let’s work out two different packages

£10 membership and £15 a month on protein bars and health drinks that is £25 a month, £300 a year on a gym membership, a good multi GYM system costs you £100 pound. So buy going your weights at home and going for a run you save £200 a year.

£80 membership would normally give you access to weights, spar, trainers, etc. £80 plus your £20 in the Gym shop £1200 a year on average. For this money you could by yourself a multi gym (£230), Inflatable hot tub (£350) and a 12 x10 shed (£600) to turn in to your own home GYM still saving you £20 left over.
Use the gym whenever you want at home with no cost for travel or to use you equipment, you could also half the cost by getting a friend or few to join in and help by this setup for all of you to use.

By following all of these steps you could save anything from £200-£600 a year.