With so much gloomy economic stuff in the news about financial meltdown and recession, exactly what can you do to beat the credit crunch?

In these troubling times, the Net is the best place. There are many ways you can use it to save cash and have fun at the same time.

Let’s take a look at 5 top ways to use the Internet to beat the credit crunch:

1) Shop online to save fuel. With fuel costs rocketing, anything you can do to reduce journeys will save you cash. Nearly anything you may wantcan be bought online – and usually much less than you can find at your local stores. If you are the type of person who insists on seeing what they’re buying, then you can at least use the Web to locate the best prices, saving you money and extra mileage between stores.

2) Find yourself bargains online. Use online auction sites like Ebay and classified ad sites such as Craigslist, Gumtree (and any local ones) to find great bargains – regardless of whether you are buying new or used. If you are more patient, search the more obscure auction sites too, as they can often have good bargains.

3) Use price comparison sites. For essential charges like car & household insurance, to electricity & gas suppliers, the price comparison sites will help you get the best deal on those must have necessities. Why not make a night or two of it, reviewing all your insurance & utility commitments and see just how much money you can save yourself.

4) Find discount vouchers online. If you’re going out – be it eating out , going to the cinema, bowling etc – just have a quick “Google” to see what discount vouchers are available. Either do a Google search for restaurant discount voucher, or go to one of the many money saving tip websites – they nearly always have pages with details of what vouchers are available. (Just type “money saving tips” “money off voucher” etc into Google)

5) Stay in and have a dinner party. Instead of a big night out, why not invite friends to a dinner party at your home and ask them to bring a bottle. You can find some hilarious party games at websites like partyplan.co.uk to make you dinner party a real fun occasion.

There’s my 5 top tips to use the Web to save money, have a great time and survive any impending recession. Can you think of any more?

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