I flew to France for LUNCH and was home by midnight – the whole day cost me less than £75
Mel Evans and Joanne Howard left Birmingham at dawn, spent seven hours in Beauvais and were back in bed by 12.30am. Return flights: £48. Lunch and drinks: £38.
I told my girlfriend I crossdress on date five – I was sure she’d dump me, her reaction was a DREAM
A 29-year-old Dutch creator hid his alter ego Julia for nine years. Then he told his girlfriend on their fifth date, and her reaction left him stunned.
I was quoted £11,840 to sell hot chocolate at Liverpool’s Christmas market – it’s legalised THEFT
Coffee shop owner Anthony Grice was quoted £11,840 for a four-week Liverpool Christmas market pitch. He calls it legalised theft, and 200,000 people watched.
My £8 Vinted bikini arrived in a Nando’s takeaway bag – I’m vegetarian and it made me feel physically SICK
Meghan Kelly ordered an £8 H&M bikini on Vinted. It arrived in a Nando's takeaway bag, and as a vegetarian she refused to touch it until her sister stepped in.
I couldn’t afford chocolates for my kids on Boxing Day – so now I hide £5 a week in ENVELOPES
Mum-of-three Kate Deacon puts £5 a week into envelopes for Christmas. Her festive box could top £100 by December, and she's sharing exactly how she does it.
I met my husband on TikTok and dated him online for a year – people say he’ll leave me the day he gets his PASSPORT
Holly Hernandez met Diego on TikTok and dated him online for a year before meeting. Now trolls say her Mexican husband only wants British citizenship.
I shaved my bikini line like always – then doctors told me one more day would have KILLED me
Christy Collins thought a lump on her bikini line was an ingrown hair. Days later she was in emergency surgery with sepsis and an open wound five inches wide
Fined £640 for taking my kids to Disney World – I saved £9,000 and I’d do it AGAIN
An NHS worker and her plasterer husband were fined £640 for taking their kids to Disney World in term time and she says it saved them £9,000 and she'd do it again
I forgot to pay a £5 airport drop-off fee – then a debt firm demanded £170 and threatened me with COURT
A mum forgot Manchester Airport's £5 drop-off charge. Two months later a debt firm wanted £170, threatened court and warned the final bill could hit £235
50 people queued from 8am for sunbeds at our hotel – one man fell over, it was absolute CARNAGE
Kirsty Sarbutts filmed the daily 9am sunbed rush at a Salou hotel in Spain. More than 50 guests queued from 8am, one man fell, and she got a bed just once.
Brain surgery left me paralysed – so we squeezed five of us into a one-bedroom apartment, Now we save £700 a MONTH
Megan Hawkins woke from brain surgery unable to walk. Two years on, five of them live in a one-bedroom apartment and say they save around £700 a month.
I gave away every bit of baby kit – then fell pregnant with my third, I bought it ALL back for £365
Sophie Angell gave away all her baby gear – then fell pregnant with her third. She replaced every essential for £365, including two Bugaboo prams at £100.
