5 Easy Ways To Save £500 Next Month

What would you do with an extra £500?  With the school holidays coming it would certainly help me entertain the children.  £500 would pay for some fun days out or possibly a weekend away somewhere.  It might sound tricky but if you really put some time aside and follow my advice it is perfectly possible using these 5 easy ways to save £500 next month.

• • Slash your food bill.  The average family of 4 spends £83.60 a week on food this rises to £96 if alcohol is included.  Therefore you can save £50 per month just cutting out alcohol for a month.  This is clearly good for the body too!
  • Change your food habits. Buy reduced yellow stickered foods and you can save a fortune.  This post shares how I got How I got £110 worth of food for under £8.50 more recently I have been doing a reduced shop at Marks and Spencer on a Sunday afternoon at 3pm. This could save £50 a week easily.  Making a £200 saving in the month. Staying with food many of us could do a no spend week and just eat up what we have in the freezer and store cupboard.
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• Thirdly energy prices have doubled since 2004 and yet many don’t track or change providers. My Energy have created a FREE tool that can help you compare and switch your energy supplier online for free, and it only take around 10 minutes! One happy customer saved £742 in under five minutes.  That is a monthly saving of £62.
• Save on renewing car insurance.  Never just automatically renew use comparison sites and also TopCashBack who have exclusive discounts.
  Today I spotted three or four insurance companies offering £60 cashback on top of the savings you would make on renewal. For our family we were better off with a multi car insurance and this saved us £250 as a family.

• Check when your mobile phone can be upgraded.  When we take out a phone contract we are also paying for the phone, it is in effect a loan to pay off the phone.  This is paid off during the course of the two year contract.  If you don’t need an upgrade and really I don’t think most people do after just two years ask to be moved to a SIM only deal.  I was paying £35 and moving to a SIM only means I now pay £12 for the same data package from my provider, it didn’t require any change of phone number which I know is an issue for some people. Saving £23 a month.
• Finally print off a bank statement and look at your direct outgoings.  Is there a magazine subscription that you can cancel or a gym membership?  What a about a sports club that your child has got bored of and no longer attends?  When I did this I stopped a lottery subscription and magazine.  This saved me £30 a month
• Summary – Food saving £200, Energy saving £62, Car Insurance Saving up to £250, Phone saving £23, Bank Statement Check Saving £30 TOTAL Saving £565 in one month.  

I’d love to hear your success stories so please let me know in the comments how much you saved by following my 5 Easy Ways To Save £500 Next Month.

EmmaB

Blogger, teacher and more importantly mum to 3. Emma shares money-saving and making tips around the web.