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How to save £1000s this year from life’s small stuff

How to save £1000s this year from life’s small stuff

Have you ever worked out what you spend on the discretionary fripperies of life? By making slight changes to your behaviour you could save £000s. Here's how....

Alex Hartley 9th March, 2016

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