I’m a budget mum – you can stash away £5k this winter using my ‘penny challenge’, tin foil saves me a fortune on heating

RUNNING the hoover around the house, 38-year-old Alysha Fletcher beams with delight when she hears the sound of metal clinking inside the drum. 

It’s usually a sound which signals that it’s time to get a new one but when Alysha open it up she finds 46 pence in copper and silver coins which she’s sucked up from beneath he daughter’s bed.