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21 Sacrifice-Free Money Saving Websites for Dodging the Credit Crunch

Posted on 16. Mar, 2009 in Saving money

A simple way to avoid making savings in the credit crunch is by shopping smarter.  This is a post for all those looking tosave money without making a sacrfice.

Sacrifice-Free Money Saving Tips

Saving Money is easy when you have these helpful websites to do the hard work for you…it meansthe sacrifices you make are limited and your lifestyle almost unchanged!

General Money-Saving Tips Websites

• Money Saving Expert – probably the most popular of all the money saving tips’ websites
• Fool – don’t be a fool and learn about financial products and how to save money!

There are a whole host of comparison websites for utilities, insurance, travel and financial products, so make you run queries through these kind of sites before commiting to any lengthy contracts!

Check the Cost of your shopping

• My Supermarket – compare the cost of your supermarket shopping bill using this handy online shop.  Compare Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Acado prices.
• Compare Supermarkets – look for today’s bargains and find the cheapest prices across many of the biggest supermarkets.

Money you can save or gain

• Entitledto.co.uk – check whether you are entitled to more benefits with ‘entitled’
• A Little House Company – don’t pay commission on selling your house, just pay a small one-off fee.
• Energy Saving Trust – save up to £250/year and save the planet by reducing your bills.
• Say no to 0870 – dodge paying expensive telephone rates, by looking for alternatives using this search engine.

Cashback Money Sites

Earn as you spend with these cashback sites.  Rather than paying commision to retailers, you earn the commision yourself by buying through these

• Quidco – earn money from commission on the products that you are already going to buy!
• Top Cash Back – same as Quidco but says it’s the most generous/
• Give or Take – allows you to take the commision earned from buying products or give it to charity.

Money Saving Travel Websites

• Kayak – searches and finds some of the cheapest deals available for scheduled flights and hotels from around the world.
• Travel Zoo -search for cheap flights and hotels with this great portal.

Use and Share and Save Money

• Read it, swap it – book swapping service to help those share books that they no longer read and get recommendations for new books.
• Envirophone – make money from your old mobile phone by sending it their way!

Saving Money to Give to Charities

Charities have a history of struggling in recession’s, so if you are thinking about reducing your donations then why not find way’s of helping them in other cost-effective ways…

• Every Click – a search engine for helping to raise money for your favourite charities.
• GoodSearch – a large percetage of revenue from this search engine is donated to charities, as does Magic Taxi, Charity Cafe, etc…
• Charity Credit Cards – guilt-free shopping as you give as you spend!
• Or build your own charitable search engine by giving a penny every time you use Microsoft’s search engine.