The economy's imploding, we can't afford our mortgages and George Soros and Mervyn King agree we're all (to use a technical financial term) stuffed. But will this make us all stay at home like poor church mice? Will it hell! We want that break, we deserve that break and we're damn well going to have it. It's just going to have to be cheap. Really, really cheap.
Just because you're tightening your belt, however, doesn't mean you have to settle for a squalid caravan in Skegness. Here's the proof.
HOME SWAPS
Why stay in an expensive hotel when you could be in a real home for (almost) nothing? The world's largest home-swap agency is HomeLink (www.homelink.org), with more than 13,000 properties to choose