I save money every time I don't buy something. To me, getting something at half price isn't saving that amount of money, it's spending half of the amount you may have otherwise spent (but that's debatable, as would you have paid 'full price' at all?). Now, if you had to get it but pay less than you would have otherwise had to have spent, then that's saving money. But it reminds me of when Danielle would come home with something and go "I saved money! It was buy one get one free!" - but, well, we didn't need one of those things, so really we've just spent money we didn't have to. That's not saving at all...

Sorry, pet peeve.

Anyway. The last time I managed to not spend as much as I would have otherwise spent was when I purchased a new TV and TV stand. I 'saved' roughly £100 by buying the stand new from eBay (as opposed to in store) and the TV from an online-only store which had a much lower price than others. I also used discount codes found by searching online to shave off another £12 from the TV. Yay?