There are a lot of simple, easy ways to save money around the household and help the environment without compromising your lifestyle
For instance, if you use half a dishwasher tablet when you wash your dishes, it works just as well as a whole one, and if you don’t have any old clothes to donate when you get a charity bag, use it as a free bin liner.
Keep a spray bottle of diluted washing up liquid next to your sink for when you need to wash just one item. Boil a full kettle of water and store the extra hot water in a thermos so you can make many cups of tea after only boiling your kettle once. When you cook potatoes, use the boiling water to kill weeds in your garden. Instead of buying cloths to use as cleaning rags, cut up your old clothes and use those.
The lids of 500g yoghurt tubs fit over ramekins perfectly, so you can use the plastic lids to cover food in the fridge to save on cling film. Greaseproof baking paper can be wiped clean and used repeatedly, and it’s already cut to the perfect size for your baking tins.