Four ways to save on daily essentials and little luxuries from health and beauty to furniture
THEY say the best things in life are free – so it’s worth having a look around.
You can get your hands on plenty of stuff without paying a penny if you know how.
Follow these tips and you can save on daily essentials and little luxuries . . .
FOOD: Apps including NoWaste, Olio and Too Good To Go are designed to tackle food waste.
Restaurants and shops use them to list food that is perfectly edible but would be thrown away.
Users can then request to collect the food for free.
It’s also worth signing up to magicfreebies.co.uk, which scours the web for free samples of food and other goodies.
CASH: Go through a cashback site whenever you are shopping and you’ll get a percentage of your spend back.
Try Topcashback, Quidco and JamDoughnut.
You can also get a lump sum for switching your bank account.
TSB is giving £125. Terms and conditions apply.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY: Become a product tester and you can receive free items in return for giving a rating and review.
It’s not just beauty products, you can also sample food and other goods.
Try signing up to sites hometesterclub.com or toluna.com.
Big companies also run their own schemes.
For example, you can try out Tesco products by signing up to tescohomepanels.com.
FURNITURE: People who want to shift furniture and other goods quickly are often willing to just give them away.
You can usually find local freebie listing groups on Facebook.
Gumtree.com also has a section that lists freebies and you can search sites such as freecycle.org for goods.
- All prices on page correct at time of going to press. Deals and offers subject to availability.
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