How we re spending our Covid cash
For some, no commute and no daily expenditure means an unexpected benefit of the pandemic is a hefty savings pot
Has lockdown made it easier to build your savings?
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For Lee Putnam, lockdowns have had a silver lining: he no longer spends three hours a day in the car commuting from Chertsey to Uxbridge. He spends the extra time with his girlfriend and son; he used the money saved so far to buy a pizza oven.
“I started making pizza and I loved it,” says Putnam, 33. In a normal year, he might not have spent £400 on an Ooni gas-fired oven, but this is not a normal year.