When Shreddies become collectors items + Free Kindle books

FLOGGING FOOD ONLINE

❚ A piece of French toast, half-eaten by American musician and rapper Kid Rock once sold for more than £1957. An egghead buyer maybe?
❚ A woman in Ohio sold fish sticks fused together “in a way that made three mini crosses”. They fell on the pan to look like the hill where Jesus was crucified. She got £51.
❚ A decade-old toasted cheese sandwich, said to bear an image of the Virgin Mary, sold for £18,258 to an internet casino which deemed it a pop culture item. It never went mouldy.
❚ Two sisters sold a cornflake shaped like the state of Illinois for £880. It was bought by Monty Kerr
of Texas to display in a travel museum.

CASH SAVING TIPS

FREE KINDLE BOOKS
You don’t need to own a Kindle to take advantage of the free books Amazon gives away to customers. They are also free to download to a PC or iPhone, so as to lure you over. amazon.co.uk

ANYTHING FOR FIVE QUID
If a fiver is all you’ve got to your name, a new website shows it can go a long way. Fivesquids.co.uk is a new online community where users offer services for £5 or less. Students and freelancers are quickly signing up, posting such strange offers as ‘I will find you the cheapest package holiday or flight for £5’, or, ‘I will send you 30 totally random facts for £5’. Enterprising stuff.

TRADE IN OLD MASCARA
Clinique is running a promotion where it will accept your full-size mascara of any brand – even if it’s empty – and swap it for a mini Clinique mascara worth £8. The luxury beauty brand will accept trade-ins at any of its Boots counters. The offer lasts until February 1.

HOW YOU SPEND IT




Marina Njavro: 27
Job: Banking
From: Newcastle, Australia
Lives: Marylebone

Last big blow-out?
An Ibiza trip to go to the Swedish House Mafia closing party and also a trip to Amsterdam to see David Guetta. Tickets were sold out so my friend and I stupidly forked out for VIP tickets.

How do you budget?
Badly! Ibiza, Amsterdam and Miami party trips don’t come cheap!

Any money-saving tips for living in London?
Give up crazy weekend trips, parties and drinking ... for a couple of weekends at least. You won’t have as many fun
stories, but hey, you might end up actually saving some money – and your liver.

What non-essential items do you spend money on?
Clothes, nights out, festivals, travelling – the usual. I love London and there is so much to experience while I’m here.