TIPS TO SAVE MONEY

NUMBER ONE

To safe money on soaps don't buy luxury soaps with a familiar name on it. If you buy baby soaps from Johnson & Johnson or Nivea or such it does the same thing. Lets face it baby's skin is so tender and when the soap suit them it definitely is good for us. It has good products in it and is so much cheaper.

NUMBER TWO

When you go on holiday save your money buying Guide Books. Write to the Tourist Office of whatever country you want to visit and they send you all the information of sightseeing, hotels and it is all free.

NUMBER THREE

When you have chewing gum on you cloths or especially kids clothes which are hard or almost impossible to get off. Put vinegar on it - it won't discolour your cloths, the chewing gum goes hard and you just peel it off.

NUMBER FOUR

When you or your children have diarrhoea forget about medicine, especially children as they feel already ill and would hate it. Give them a few pieces of dark chocolates - but only dark - it makes them feel good straightaway and it stops diarrhoea almost immediately. It is especially handy on holiday, when it is hard to get the right medicine, if any, and it spoils the holiday.

The moment the diarrhoea stops, stop the chocolate.

NUMBER FIVE

When you want to make custard 2 or 3 hours ahead put a lid on it when it is still hot. It will prevent the thick skin on top of it. Then when you need it just gently warm it up.

NUMBER SIX

When you have a septic wound which will not stop using and heal, put honey on it. It draws the poison out. Also when you had a septic wound and it closed up, try to open it up, it won't hurt because the pus has no feeling, clean it as best as you can and then put honey on it. You straightaway can feel the healing and how good it does you.

NUMBER SEVEN

Now we come to gardening savings. Collect the plastic containers from your meat or vegetables and in spring when the sowing starts use them for sowing your seeds. When the seedlings spouted and are ready for transplanting put them into deeper containers. It also helps with watering because the water doesn't run off.

When you seedlings are ready again for replanting in bigger pots don't buy pots which will really add up; buy white plastic drinking cups from the pounds shops. You can get 75 or 100 for a £1. They are more flexible and therefore less root damage when you want to plant your seedling out into your garden.

When the seedlings are transferred don’t throw the containers out yet, you can use them as saucers to put pots in. At the end of all that I can let you throw them into the recycling bin.

NUMBER EIGHT

Another good saving is for growing garlic; to buy organic garlic at the supermarket and put the individual section into te ground; instead of buying it from seed catalogues or gardening centre. It is much cheaper and brings the same results. The same goes with potatoes. Buy organic potatoes and put them in a box to start them off. The result is the same and seed potatoes are so expensive.

NUMBER NINE

With ants problems don't go and buy all these expensive powder or sprays. Put a tablespoon or two of sugar in a cup -- put boiling hot water on it enough so it gets a thick syrup and then pour it near the main entrance of the ants. I assure you, you will never see them again. I don't know whether they die of diabetic or fat but they are definitely gone.

I do hope these tips will help to save you money which is the best thing of it

NUMBER TEN

When you burned some food very badly in the pot it is either very hard to scrape it out or you decide to throw the pot away. Don't!

Fill it with water and put a good measure of  salt in and let it boil slowly. It will lift the hard burned, throw it out, wash your pot as usual and you can use it again.