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Dan Drage
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Posted - 09/05/2008 :  16:51:52  Show Profile  Visit Dan Drage's Homepage  Reply with Quote
In the light of energy bill increases, rising food prices and exorbitant petrol costs, what are the best ways to tighten your belt and get by on a limited budget? Does anyone have any useful money saving tips?

Stephen Babtridge
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Posted - 22/05/2008 :  11:32:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Spend less.

Personally I've never spent more than right now, but then I believe the credit crunch is a fabrication designed to confuse the working classes.
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Dan Drage
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Posted - 22/05/2008 :  11:35:09  Show Profile  Visit Dan Drage's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Working on that assumption, would a mass closure of all Argos (and Argos Extra) stores halt the credit crisis?
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Stephen Babtridge
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Posted - 22/05/2008 :  11:48:13  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It would certainly be a start. Then I'd move onto Lidl, Next and maybe George at Asda.

I'm not an economist, but I'm fairly sure that would inhibit any further decline - if you can stop the main places the WC shop then the battle is half won. They'll just stay at home and spawn instead.
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Dan Drage
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Posted - 22/05/2008 :  11:57:50  Show Profile  Visit Dan Drage's Homepage  Reply with Quote
They're fertile, i'll give you that, but Next? Are you serious?

Believe me, i'm no patron (such dreary wares), but is that really a bastion outlet of the working man? I beg to differ.

Moreover, they're struggling themselves:

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/fashion/story/0,,2279354,00.html
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James
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Posted - 22/05/2008 :  11:58:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
On the bright side it has made share prices cheaper.
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Dan Drage
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Posted - 22/05/2008 :  12:05:54  Show Profile  Visit Dan Drage's Homepage  Reply with Quote
...and rung the death knell for chinos, cargo pants, and heavy weave cords.
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Becca
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Posted - 04/06/2008 :  14:40:13  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hmmmm...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/04/6?gusrc=rss&feed=business

...would an advert featuring Germaine Greer reassure you...?!?
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Dan Drage
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Posted - 04/06/2008 :  16:54:48  Show Profile  Visit Dan Drage's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I read that as 'Sugar and Hawking join National Front'.

Plausible i guess, particularly Hawking.
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