Recommended Reading

Saving / Making Money Books

Mr Thrifty's How to Save Money on Absolutely Everything - Synopsis (Amazon)

This book will save you more than you paid for it: perhaps thousands more! Mr Thrifty has hundreds of ways to save you thousands of pounds on anything you ever buy, from building work to babies’ toys, cars to carpets, houses to heating. More than just a list of discount shops, this life-changing book is packed with money-saving ideas and secrets, with the names, addresses and phone numbers you need to save precious time and trouble. Do you know how to get the latest beauty salon treatment for under £5? A new car at your door, for thousands less? Entertain children for a day for free? Save money on treats, as well as the basics we all hate paying for – power, water, phones, post, insurance? Mr Thrifty does. This revised, enlarged guide will delight Thrifty fans old and new.

The Money Diet: - Synopsis (Amazon)

"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 advice about organising credit cards, finding the cheapest utilities, how to get the very best mortgage deals and how to haggle with every shopkeeper - in other words, how to make sure we're not wasting pennies. With one hundred new MoneySaving pages, in this fully updated edition of the bestselling The Money Diet, Martin Lewis shows you how to be canny with your finances, and provides clear-cut advice on payment of bills, ways to slash spending, which banks to use and choosing the best deals on an even greater range of products, including: mobile phones; package holidays; pensions, credit cards and insurance; books, CDs and DVDs.

Thrifty Ways For Modern Days - Synopsis (Amazon)

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