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I originally signed up with my current mobile phone provider when they were known as BT Cellnet, before I switched to their pay as you go service called BT Cellnet U, which was then renamed Genie, then they demerged from BT and became mmO2. That name was finally shortened to the company we know today as O2. As you can see we have a relationship that goes back a fair way, to be precise I have remained a loyal customer for over 9 years.
In a saturated market such as mobile phones loyalty is very valuable to the providers so when I called O2 today to tell them I was thinking of switching to Vodafone it was to be expected that they would try and offer me an improved deal to retain my custom.
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I purchased a Sat-Nav for my other half from Amazon last month so you can imagine my frustration last week when I received an email from them advertising their new lower price for the exact same product.
Fortunately whilst researching a money saving article a few weeks before I had read about Amazon refunding price drops within 28 days if you email their customer services dept. So that’s exactly what I did and within a couple of hours I had a reply agreeing to refund me £16.53.
I can’t believe how quickly the last 3 months have gone, but I guess that’s what happens when you go on holiday for 3 weeks! Anyway it’s time for me to review my spending against my budget for the last 3 months.
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I have been needing some new shirts for work for a couple of weeks now but have been waiting for a good M&S voucher to reduce the cost. Finally today I managed to find a code for 15% off so I was able to go ahead and place my order.
The code is WEBS8LD2 and if you enter FREEDELV you also get free delivery! So simply by waiting a couple of weeks and checking my favourite voucher site hotdealsuk.com regularly I was able to save £13.35.
A couple of months ago I wrote about how it’s cheaper to be a vegetarian particularly with the recent increases in meat prices. So this week I put that theory to the test and became a vegetarian!
As a meat lover I was dreading this week but it actually proved to be far easier than I thought. I didn’t have to radically change my diet as I could still eat my favourite meals such as curry but with potato rather than chicken, and Pizza loaded with pineapple, tomatoes and peppers rather than pepperoni. Many meals didn’t even need a substitute for the meat as pasta could simply be served in the same way but without any traces of meat in the sauce.
In fact the only additional food that I needed to buy was cheese to replace the meat I would normally have in my sandwiches and a couple of extra potatoes. So in total compared to the previous week when I spent £8.20 on meat products, even taking into account the extra 89p spent on cheese and potatoes, I have saved £7.31 by being vegetarian for the week.
So if I was to become a permanent vegetarian than I would be £380 better off over the course of a year. But giving up something I love to save some money is not what MillionaireAdventure is about, otherwise you could take the same argument further and say I should give up food altogether as that would save me even more money. But what this week has shown me is that by cutting down a little, particularly whilst meat prices are so high can help me save money.
