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I recently ran a giveaway in conjunction with EON and a compulsory entry mechanism was to provide your best energy saving tip.   There were lots of obvious ones which I hope everyone is already putting in place (they are first on the list) h owever there were more that I believe need sharing and I have collated the best twenty-five here.    If you would like to add your favourite please share it in the comments. Unplug all electrical items when not in use, especially overnight (but not your fridge and freezer, obviously). Turn the thermostat down by one degree and add a layer of clothes instead of putting the heating on. Turn lights off when you leave the room and use energy saving bulbs. Shut doors to keep the heat in a room. Put tin foil behind radiators to reflect the heat back into the room (and if your radiator is under a window, tuck long curtains behind the radiator for a similar effect). Anything that can be charged via USB can be done when y...

I hope you all enjoyed my Money Saving Tips post that I wrote in conjunction with My Family Club ?  Now that the UK is officially in recession again I'm giving their website another push this week as part of my collaboration with them. The Family Club has a really easy to navigate website which is packed full of money saving ideas, money planners, recipes, travel tips and vouchers for the high street.  But I'd like to point out their competitions section   (where you can enter to win an iPad  by sharing your top money saving tip!!!) * whispers beind hand * stay tuned for my own giveaway at the end... My mum was an enthusiastic 'comper'.  It was more than a hobby but without taking over her life.  She won big - a few holidays, a year's shopping (in vouchers) for a well-known supermarket - and she won small but the achievement was the prize no matter what the worth.  She loved competitions such as "complete this sentence in 15 words ...

Frugal times call for frugal measures so I was really pleased when My Family Club approached me and asked me to help spread the word about their website.  Their website is full of articles based around saving money as a family and includes voucher deals, offers, discounts and "best price" tips for household goods each week. As mum (and nana) to an ever-growing family it's important that we squeeze as much as we can out of every single pound that comes into the house but to also findi ways in which we can still enjoy ourselves without it feeling like we are counting the pennies all the time.  I call upon my fellow parent bloggers all the time for their amazing Top Tips  (as does Lisa from The Mummy Whisperer ) and here are a few of the ones that I've been using recently. Money, money money... Amanda from  Flying Start Magazine  tells me that her best budgeting tool is to calculate how much money you are going to use for a given period of t...