Archive for January, 2012
Ongoing Expenses: Buying and Cooking Tips
Even though I have lived out of home on several occasions I am definitely not an expert on cooking or shopping. My mentor is my mum, and here are a few tips she gave me when I was asking her about this section of the book:
• If you are after the best bargains do your shopping just before closing time. You would be surprised at how many deals are done then, because the shops want to get rid of today’s stock to make way for tomorrows. You will pick up the best bargains at the butcher and the greengrocer, and in those sections at supermarkets.
This is where you move into a place with people you don’t know. You usually find this kind of arrangement in the ‘share accommodation’ section of the newspaper, where the ads state the particular set of attributes that are being looked for in a flatmate—female, nonsmoker, no pets, etc.