Top tips from the WI

August 21st, 2008

Today The BBC website are reporting that energy firms E.On and Scottish and Southern Energy are to raise gas and electricity prices by up to 29%. At a time when people are tightening their belts, any tips on reducing our costs are very welcome.

I found this fantastic article on The Times website 50 tips on thrift from the WI. Times Money spoke to members from the Women’s Institute to find out what their best tips were on ‘old-fashioned home economics’.

Some of their tips include - planning your shopping before you go, don’t buy buy-one-get-one-free items unless you use the extra, buy cheap - don’t shun the value ranges, use a three tier steamer instead of individual saucepans as this saves on electricity and also shop in the last hour of the day to get reduced items.

We can also cut costs outside of the home when motoring, and apparently that is exactly what more and more of us are planning to do. The Observer is reporting that the demand in the UK for hybrid cars is at an all time high with long waiting lists. Japan are experiencing declining car ownership due to the high oil prices. But they are being rather more pro-active then us Brits. A Japanese start up company and looking at ways in which they can modify existing cars and make them more efficient rather than people having to buy a new hybrid car. You can read the full article here, ‘Cars with a green conscience’.

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