Looking back over 2012, with a bit of savvy shopping on the one hand and sheer luck on the other, I’ve managed to save quite a bit of money by getting freebies. Companies know that offering items for free can be very attractive, but by playing them at their own game you can be sure that you don’t end up buying things you would never have bought and probably don't need. ...

No, this isn’t a post about the heat in Spain, especially given that I’m writing it in the middle of December, but actually about temperatures in stores and restaurants in Spain. ...

Whilst preparing a blog post on all the freebies I’d managed to accumulate in 2012 and feeling very smug with myself, I kept getting flashbacks of all those other ways I’d lost money in a multitude of ways. ...

A few days ago there was a comment on the Money Saver Spain Facebook page about the high price of a school skirt at El Corte Inglés and I started to think about costs in general in Spanish schools and how they could help parents to save. ...