Hannah Brooks

Hannah Brooks writes about groceries, meal planning and everyday budgeting, plus the benefits and refunds people are already owed and never claim. Her guides rank tactics by effort against impact rather than listing everything that theoretically works, because the biggest savings almost always come from boring things done consistently. She is unconvinced by any money system that needs an hour a week to maintain.

Her guides are ordered by effort against impact rather than by completeness, on the argument that a tactic saving four dollars a month for an hour a week is not worth anyone’s evening. She is also the one who checks a program is still running before we point readers at it, which matters more in benefits than anywhere else on the site, because a dead application page there costs a reader real time.

Start with cutting your grocery bill for the ranked version of everything she writes about, or the seven places money hides for the fastest single evening of work in the house. For cashback and shopping tactics see Priya; for coupons and freebies see Renee.

10 guides on Deal Diary. Every guide is reviewed and edited before it publishes, and our sourcing and corrections standards are set out on the about page.