Miss Thrifty

A label maven with a beady eye for bargains and a craving for saving. Credit crunch? Pah!
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Archive for July 16th, 2008

Homemade sandwiches – quids in!

July 16, 2008 By: missthrifty Category: Food, Work 1 Comment →

turkey sandwich Homemade sandwiches   quids in!
A great piece in The Daily Telegraph, called Ten crafty ways to save £5,000 without trying. Some of them are old faves: stop buying lattes, ditch the expensive gym membership. But what I like is the financial value that has been attached to each one. (American readers: £1 is $2, so think of this as ten ways to save $10,000 without trying.)

For example, I save oodles of pocket change by taking my own sandwiches into work every day (farewell, Pret a Manger – I loved you longtime!) but I was delighted to learn just how much I save by doing so: (more…)