Nargis's blog

I’m really bad at remembering to switch off the light when I leave a room. I guess that makes me bad for the environment. But as that famous saying goes, charity begins at home and so does credit crunching.

"But London's so expensive!" said my best friend when I tried to invite her out for a night out on the town last night. And this wasn't one of my always broke university friends either. With a little help from my other best friend, Google, I decided to find out about all the free things you can do in London, here's what I discovered:

Yesterday, my mum came back from the local shops complaining that the price of meat has gone up. Now, my mum is not the kind of person who complains about prices so this got me thinking. On the news lately, I saw a story about how us Brits are throwing away £10bn worth of food every year. So Sunday afternoon I joined my parents on their weekly food shopping trip to Sainsbury’s to find out how to save money.

This week I've had a bit of a reality check when I decided to investigate how the credit crunch is effecting my life. For the last week, I kept a spending diary to see where the money was going and how much I'm really paying. Some people are still saying to me - what credit crisis? But you know you are in trouble when the local chippie hikes up prices...

Ever since I decided to go back to university, money has always been a topic of conversation with my student friends, both the lack of it and how to spend what we do have. Recently we've started to feel the pinch and we have started our very own 'Ditch the cuppuccino' club, where we stop buying our morning coffee's and save the cash instead.

Coffee Mornings