Can you do Quitmas? How quitting your vices could save you £1,332.60 before Christmas But if we want crackers, decorations and a tree as well, it might be time to give up the daily tall latte from Starbucks, too, which costs a seemingly measly £2.25 a day when you are grappling for shrapnel in your pocket or purse, but which works out to what you might describe as a grande £11.25 a week and a venti £78.75 over seven weeks. A smaller but just as significant saving would come by ditching that weekly £2 lucky dip lotto ticket - £14 before Christmas. Some new fairy lights could happen to you. But let's get more ambitious: drop that copy of Country Life back on the newsagent shelves, sir and save big: £3.70 x seven and you'll amass £25.90. And don't forget the daily 4pm bag of 60p Maltesers - a wallet-lightening £30.60 over 51 days. The weekly trip to the cinema? Cut! One £10.20 ticket plus small popcorn (£3.95) adds up to a staggering £99.05 over seven weeks. Look, we're not going out for the next month and a half so you can also give the brush off to that Saturday morning Blow Dry at the local salon. If you pay about £20, you can save £140 over the next few weeks, just by getting busy with the Head and Shoulders in the shower. Perhaps you take your mind off money worries with a weekly 30min massage? You could be paying £25 or more. Have a long bath instead, and save a very de-stressing £175 by Christmas Day. And what if we cut deeper still? If you drive an average car, consider walking everywhere non-essential for seven weeks. If you could reduce petrol consumption by 50 per cent, and your car's tank normally costs £60 to fill, you could save a whopping £30 a week - that's £210 by December 25. Look - already, we've amassed £1,332.60 already. Honestly, how difficult is it to trim a budget - I really should be putting my hand up for Chancellor of the Exchequer next time they are handing the red boxes round. After all, with this sort of cash in the Christmas box, Scrooge could have paid for turkey dinners at Tiny Tim's house twice over.