This is a community for anyone in the UK who is living on a slender budget. Students, unemployed, in debt or simply stingy, this is for you. Of course anyone outside the UK is welcome too.

We need UK specific tips and hints. Do you know of state benefits, tax breaks or cheap housing solutions? Frugal recipes and household hints? Anything you wish to share with your fellow cheapskates can be posted here.

PLEASE don't post anything illegal. Tips on shoplifting, tax dodging etc will be deleted. I don't want my community shut down because of your nefarious activities!

Final plea - please don't hawk your ebay auctions here. It really annoys people when communities get infested by ebay links.

So go on - pinch those pennies until they bleed!

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