I couldn’t stop impulse buying – but these ‘buy less’ tricks helped me save hundreds

I spent a month testing anti-consumption strategies, from cash stuffing to ditching Amazon Prime, to find the ones that genuinely cut my spending • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I’m pretty careful with money, I say as I trip over piles of Amazon Prime boxes. I’ve never really been the shopping type, I insist as I stare at drawers groaning with unworn Asos clothes. Look how much I care about the environment, I tell myself as I click “buy now” on yet another battery...

By Jane Hoskyn