How To Save Money _ 25 Top Tips

14. Save money by Shopping Online

Now let’s see, however, some suggestions regarding online shopping. Is it really worth buying items on the Internet? Shopping online today has become a regular action for more or less all. Who doesn’t know Amazon?! A supermarket and online shopping mall that allows you to buy any product at an affordable price. The service is great, you expect the return and also the free shipping at times. But above all it is protected and in case of problems there is a good service center available.

This new way to buy merchandise is able to offer many advantages over traditional shops located in your own city. You can choose anything and save at the end of our spending. You can buy cosmetics, clothes, food, furniture, appliances and much more. A very expensive product in the shop can be found online at different internet sites with lower prices or on offer, so it is possible to buy with less effort and more carefree.

One of the most successful sectors which is online, where you can take advantage of excellent promotions, is that of household appliances and Electronics products. In fact, in online shops you can buy televisions, mobile phones, audio systems, refrigerators, washing machines, ovens, dishwashers, etc. Of all these products you can also find a wide choice. Considering, for example, that a phone can cost even €50 less than the store, many consumers now use this purchase method.

Buying this kind of products can scare you, first because you are afraid of a scam that will only fetch us money without receiving the product in exchange or selling it defective; second because there is the fear of not being able to manage and assemble very bulky equipment such as a washing machine or a television, moreover alone.

But you have to consider, in addition to saving, the idea that there are many reputable online stores, which have sold any type of product and appliance for many years, obtaining so in time trust from the customer. An example of online electronics store, become a colossus in the industry over the years, is ePrice. Here you can find any product you are looking for at low and affordable prices without fear of taking candles for lanterns.

We have to say about the second problem that online warehouses that sell this type of products, often have services such as delivery and installation of the appliance purchased. When you purchase these products, as well as in the case of furniture, you can pay a small additional amount to obtain extra services, such as delivery to the floor, the installation of the product, the withdrawal of the old one and also the withdrawal of the packaging.

But now let’s talk about the economic aspects. Is it really possible to save this way? Of course, it is! Especially if you pay attention to the offers and you take advantage of the discount codes. The latter are a great opportunity for the customer, because they are simple, free and can give us many discounts on purchases. Just visit a site of discount codes and look for the promotion that interests us, for example those active on appliances, or click on a promotion in particular.

This way we can take advantage of a discount on the chosen product.

The reasons to buy on the internet are really a lot, starting from the great savings that you can get, the service at home and, when needed, the installation, and the comfort that this technology allows is not less important. We can shop online at any time of day, maybe during the breaks at work without wasting too much time leaving the house and going around to various shops, wasting fuel or money for parking.

Buying online allows you to save a lot of money. As an example, we could buy a very common washing machine in one of the shopping malls, like Mediaworld, at an average price of €350. Looking online we will realize that the average price of a washing machine, on an internet site specialized in household appliances, will be €250.

The money saved will not be only those on the appliance but also those on gasoline and especially on the time.

If then you want to be safer, then you can go to see the product first in a physical store, to touch it with your hand and decide on your purchase. This will make you feel more comfortable before entering our credit card numbers on the site under consideration. Good shopping! This advice is going to allow you to save more than € 100.

THIS ADVICE WILL ALLOW YOU TO SAVE MORE THAN € 100.

15. Save money by optimizing the use of household appliances

After talking about buying appliances we are going to see how it is possible to save money when using them. We know that from their use at home comes a great part of our water and light bills of, so it would be great if we could know how to save using them. When we hear about energy saving, we must think that the concept also refers to our homes, to our small daily consumption, which multiplied by all users becomes a disproportionate consumption. In fact, about 36% of CO2 emissions are due to residential consumption, a percentage that could be lowered considerably if the idea of energy saving is taken into account. Reducing home consumption can help to reach our goal, helping us to save money.

The houses of our territory until recently were not efficient and were not considered  to be zero-impact, to date our government is adopting new forms of protection that will perhaps lead to an improvement of the condition of the air we breathe, thanks to new agreements with the Countries of the European Union.

The money that an Italian family pays reaches quite high figures that can be improved with small precautions. In the table below there is the average consumption and costs of household appliances of a typical Italian house. The light is included but in this case we do not consider it, we will talk better later.

Italian source: Lucegas.it

The first step is to check if all the household appliances we have in our house are necessary. It happens to buy or to receive for present an appliance that we hold there on the kitchen counter always on and that we do not use, for example a food processor. But it also happens that for laziness we buy appliances that we could do without, for example why not make the juice simply squeezing an orange on the juicer instead of using electricity? We are often lazy but we should try to eliminate the superfluous and to use only what we really need. It is not easy to quit to use dear appliances but if you want to save you need to sacrifice yourself. There is a rule in minimalist philosophy, to take an item that we haven’t used for three months and ask ourselves if we would use it in the next three months. If not, then we can throw it away because it is superfluous.

FRIDGE: This appliance needs to remain on perpetually and above all it is part of the extremely necessary ones, especially when it is hot. So here we cannot just decide to unplug when no longer needed, but there is a way to save on the consumption of this appliance. which is to place the refrigerator in order to let it “breathe” and not crush it between the walls. Being too attached to the walls it will have to work twice to better cool the food inside. Also it would be better to avoid opening and closing the door continuously, so you will not have to work continuously to return to the right temperature. The fridge heats up immediately as soon as it is opened and therefore the energy to be produced is greater. Also the light inside that turns on and off consumes energy.

LAUNDRY MACHINE: The A+++ model is the one most suitable if we want a eco-friendly house. It is advisable to load it when the basket is full and washing the cloths always at low temperatures. Wash at 30 or even 40 degrees saves a lot per year compared to washes at 90 degrees; basically we would have a double saving.

Finally, it is useful to know that if we wash the cloths from 7 pm onwards the energy will cost less. The same tips can be used for the dishwasher.

ELECTRIC OVEN: Use the gas oven would be better, although less comfortable, and it would allow an immediate saving, but it is possible to bring down the consumption even with the oven, following some tips like to avoid opening the oven continuously during cooking, do not heat the oven too early, it takes 5-10 minutes, try to keep the resistance clean and finally turn off the appliance a few minutes before the supposed cooking time of the food. The oven is hot and what we have in the oven will continue to bake.

COMPUTER AND TV: Activating the standby mode is useful to reduce the consumption of a PC, even if they are now programmed for energy saving.

Disconnect the plug every time we stop using PC, printer, scanner, etc.

As for televisions nowadays technology has adapted them to energy saving and this already allows a great saving compared to old televisions. Try to disconnect the plug and check the standby mode is always better.

Following these little tips you can get to save about 10% on the consumption of household appliances, which however constitutes about 80% of our bills.

THIS ADVICE WILL ALLOW YOU TO SAVE ABOUT € 45,30 a YEAR.^[3]