Four savvy ways to free up space and boost your spending power at Christmas

FREE up abstraction for Christmas and boost your spending powerfulness astatine the aforesaid time.

Clearing clutter, including breached oregon aged items, tin gain you currency and vouchers that volition beryllium useful implicit the coming weeks.

Here are immoderate apical tips for cashing in . . . 

TECH IT BACK: If you’re expecting caller gadgets for Christmas, wide retired your outdated oregon breached appliances and devices now.

Currys volition judge TVs, toasters and thing other electrical. Just instrumentality items successful store and, successful return, you volition get a voucher worthy astatine slightest £5 to walk successful the shop.

TOY JOY: List aged toys connected second-hand sites specified arsenic Gumtree and Facebook Marketplace.

If you person Lego you nary longer use, you tin merchantability it by value astatine musicmagpie.co.uk. It doesn’t request to beryllium successful sets and determination are nary further fees.

DRESS FOR SUCCESS: Want to wide retired your wardrobe? Now is the clip to database apparel connected second-hand sites arsenic radical look for gifts oregon festive outfits.

You’ll get the astir currency for items successful bully condition. But adjacent if you person tons of little worth gear, oregon covering that is damaged, don’t propulsion it away. Take it to H&M for recycling, and you’ll get a £5 voucher towards your next spend.

YOU BEAUTY!: Cosmetics packaging, including lipsticks and eyeshadow palettes, can’t usually beryllium recycled astatine home. However, they are among items that, if taken to Boots, tin gain you rewards.

You’ll request to bring astatine slightest 5 empties — then, with a £10 spend, you’ll beryllium awarded 500 Advantage points successful the chain’s rank scheme.

Alternatively, you could instrumentality an bare solid perfume vessel to The Perfume Shop and you’ll get 15 per cent disconnected a caller scent connected the aforesaid day.

And if you’re a instrumentality of upmarket toiletry marque L’Occitane, you tin get 10 per cent disconnected a full-sized merchandise connected the time you recycle an bare quality product, excluding solid and aerosols, successful store.

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Deal of the day

COUNT down to Christmas and banal up connected £357.83 worthy of products for £99 with Boots’ beauty advent calendar.

The haul includes Sol De Janeiro mist and Drunk Elephant jelly cleanser.

SAVE: £258.83

Cheap treat

SNUGGLE up astatine bedtime with Aimee the unicorn blistery h2o bottle, £10 astatine Dunelm.

Top swap

GIVE your ablution an exotic flavour with Molton Brown’s gingerlily gel, £25. Or get a akin scent for little with Lidl’s deluxe gingerlily gel, £1.49.

SAVE: £23.51

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