Thrifty Ways For Modern Days

Handy hints on living better for less from the community of MoneySavingExpert.com

This thrifty site deserves to be your financial best friend

If anyone can help, it's this man. Martin Lewis knows more about credit cards than possibly anyone else in the country

Martin Lewis has his own ITV1 programme Make Me Rich, is a regular on BBC1's The One Show, is the financial expert on Tonight With Trevor McDonald, has a weekly column in the Guardian and regular Radio 2 and Talk Sport phone-ins. His free to use, ad-free website www.MoneySavingExpert.com is the biggest independent personal finance site in the UK, with over one million visits a month, and he can easily save you hundreds of pounds a year with his fully researched, easy-to-implement, cutting-edge advice.

This extraordinary book is based on the collective wisdom of the scores of contributors to the MoneySaving Old-Style section of MoneySavingExpert.com - the award-winning, trend-setting website which, in less than four years, has attracted over one million UK users a month. 
 
The Old-Style forum started when many of the older visitors to the site decided to share their accumulated knowledge with other younger users. It has swiftly developed into a discussion on living life cheaply, healthily, ethically and thriftily, with all generations together searching for a path to Old-Style bliss. 
 
Edited by Martin Lewis who, as well as being the founder of MoneySavingExpert.com, is a newspaper columnist, TV and radio money guru and presenter, and author of the bestselling The Money Diet, this lively book cannot fail to appeal to anyone who is interested in living better for less. 
 
The book includes hints and tips on: 
- How to budget 
- Cooking from scratch 
- Cleaning for pennies 
- Gardening 
- Making homemade gifts 
- How to shop

The ultimate guide to shedding pounds off your bills and saving money on everything!

The Money Diet - revised and updated

Fully revised, the Money Saving Expert's money diet can save the average family up to £6000 a year

The greatest money-saving book ever written

Teaches you that being good with your money is neither dull nor evil

Do you want to cut your bills without cutting back? 
Are you fed up with being ripped off? 
Do you want more money in your pocket without changing your lifestyle? 
 
What we all need is detailed, no-nonsense Money Saving advice about organising credit cards, finding the cheapest deals for utilities, getting the best mortgage deals and how to haggle with every shopkeeper - in other words, how to make sure we're not wasting money. 
 
With 100 extra Money Saving pages, in this edition of the bestselling The Money Diet, Martin Lewis shows you how to be canny with your finances, and provides clear-cut advice on how to pay bills, ways to cut spending, which banks to use and how to choose the best deals on an even greater range of products, including: 
 
- mobile phones 
- package holidays 
- pensions, credit cards and insurance 
- books, CDs and DVDs

Martin Lewis

Like Nicky Campbell with much bigger balls

a thorn in the corporate establishment's side

Martin Lewis, the man behind moneysavingexpert.com, is one of those people who can lead you through big decisions involving huge amounts of money as if they are laughably unscary. He is a modern-day Robin Hood, and I may love him more than Phil Spencer from Location Location Location

a highly politicised, single-issue campaigner, working to correct the imbalance of power between companies and their customers

The Three Most Important Lessons You've Never Been Taught is a survival guide to living in one of the world's most competitive consumer economies.We need to change the way we think about money. This book will start you on the path to beating the system, grabbing the best deals and avoiding being ripped off... and it only takes an hour to read. 
 
- A company 's job is to make money from you; your job is to stop them. 
- Debt isn't bad; bad debt is bad. Learn to tell them apart. 
- Loyalty doesn't pay; become someone whose custom is fought for, not taken for granted. 
 
Consumer campaigner and top TV expert, Martin Lewis, first designed these lessons for a unique TV challenge where he had just one day to turn twelve normal 15-year-olds into Money Saving Experts. Yet this isn't child's play - after the class they went home and saved their parents over £5,000. Now it's time for everyone to learn these golden rules... 
 
(Martin Lewis is donating all his proceeds from this book to the MSE Charity (registered charity no. 1121320).)

Martin Lewis

Praise for The Three Most Important Lessons You've Never Been Taught

The UK's biggest financial anorak

If anyone can help, it's this man. Martin Lewis knows more about credit cards than possibly anyone else in the country

Like Nicky Campbell with much bigger balls

The UK's biggest financial anorak

If anyone can help, it's this man. Martin Lewis knows more about credit cards than possibly anyone else in the country

Like Nicky Campbell with much bigger balls

The UK's biggest financial anorak

If anyone can help, it's this man. Martin Lewis knows more about credit cards than possibly anyone else in the country

Like Nicky Campbell with much bigger balls

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