Credit Crunch - how are you saving money?

[SlugLobber]

I bought a choccie Easter Bunny (the Lindt ones) at the garden centre on Sunday. £1 each! Yummy! First I ate the head, then it's little face...

[bluemoon]

We're cut out all unnecessary appliances, have stopped buying in supermarkets, make our own bread, grow most of our fruit and veg, have cut out meat except for an occasional treat from the farmers' market and are about to get our own hens. A car is necessary as my OH works in the middle of nowhere and public transport is virtually none existent, but we now only use it when there's no alternative. This was all done for environmental reasons, but it's really saved us money too. - I'm also happier than I've ever been.

[Marthaclematis]

To tell the truth, our first few years of marriage were so consumed with penny pinching and second hand everything and never being able to buy anything new and hardly ever going out that now I spend what I like on what I like. I buy nice clothes (twice a year, I don't actually enjoy clothes shopping but when I do its quality stuff), we food shop in Waitrose and M&S, we buy the best olive oil we can afford together with 'proper' hand made bread, we drink nice wine, we use Molton Brown bathroom products, I use expensive make up and I go to the hairdressers four times a year and spend about £100 a time. And why should I not? My OH and I have scrimped for years and worked hard, if we can't enjoy some luxuries at this time of our lives then we may as well give up!
On the other hand we don't have a car or a tumble dryer and some habits do die hard... I remember a cold spell in March and I was shivering at home whilst OH was at football; even with layers of clothing and thick socks. I suddenly thought to myself 'for God's sake what are you doing! Put the flippin' HEATING ON'!! So I did. (I did feel guilty tho'). We have no children to pass anything on to and I am determined to live life to the full, preferebaly with a bank account which reads zero credit.