How to effectively save and accumulate savings is a question that is relevant for any sane person. Residents of post-Soviet countries usually save by buying cheaper things and limiting themselves in something. But let's find out how long ago people from different developed European countries learned to save money.
1. Swedes save money by not buying a washing machine
The zealous Swedes noticed that the maintenance of a washing machine is very expensive: firstly, the item of proper quality equipment itself is expensive, and secondly, the use of a washing machine the car consumes a lot of electricity, thirdly, it breaks down from time to time and it takes a lot of budget to repair, fourthly, powders and conditioners of proper quality. To avoid these costs, you need to take into account the fact that in almost every apartment building in Sweden there are shared laundries, designed for residents, where services are mere pennies. They are usually located in basements. To use them, you need to book a time through a special computer system and purchase a key to this room once and for all for little money.
2. Germans save on penny health insurance
In Germany, people try to buy only those medicines prescribed by a doctor, because then the insurance company will reimburse the costs for them. The principle of economy is as follows. Once a year, Germans buy health insurance for a very small amount, which will allow them to get back ALL FUNDS that were spent on MEDICINES PRESCRIBED BY THE DOCTOR. If a German falls ill, he immediately rushes to the doctor, receives prescriptions and buys these medicines, and at the end of the year he gets all the money back. So the Germans are not engaged in self-medication in principle and are a very healthy nation.
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3. The British are saving on solar panels in lighting devices
To save on electricity bills, the UK uses lanterns, string lights and solar-powered lamps to light not only the garden but also the home. After all, the sun's rays also penetrate into the house!!! Such devices are charged during the day even in cloudy weather and work throughout the night. The country has been actively switching to the use of solar energy in recent years.
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4. All over Europe they save by buying UGLY vegetables
Many Europeans buy “ugly” fruits and vegetables in supermarkets, which are cheaper than usual. You can also get a good discount if you come to buy at any market shortly before closing, when sellers are more willing to "get rid" of the goods that they could not sell during the day. But if you think that this happens only in distant European countries, I hasten to reassure you. At the beginning of 2020, your humble servant regularly bought excellent bell peppers at a price in one of the supermarkets of the Belarusian city three times less, because they were in a tray at a promotional price due to the fact that each pepper had a small black wormhole. It was enough to come home, cut out this black speck with a knife and enjoy fiber three times cheaper.
And the second example, again about peppers, happened to your humble servant just 3 days ago. A supermarket in the city center put bell peppers at half the price in the evening due to sufficient wrinkling. But you just had to put aside the peppers that were in the front tray in order to find completely juicy peppers in the back of the tray. The trick here is this: in the evening, ingenuous buyers will buy dried peppers from the top of the tray, and ripe peppers will be put up again in the morning at a high price. But it's business: just dig in in the evening and find juicy peppers, carefully buried by merchandisers so that buyers buy up all the shrunken ones. Life hack!
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