The lengths we go to to save money

I am so stingy it's unbelevable

I use re-uasble baby wipes made from fleece squares

reusable nappies

use cheap economy peach bath creme for hand wash (59p ltr)

use a quarter of the recomended powder usage for a washing machine

only ever use a quickwash, and 40 for nappies

use a teaspoon of concentrated conditioner

palmolive bath cremes are usually BOGOF in morissons and bigger than the shower gels but work fine as we only have a shower

use one of those shower exfoliating puffs, they make the soap go further and more bubbly so you only need a small blob

get some exfoliator gloves from the body shop for £3 and just use with any face or body wash so you dont need to buy seperate exfoliators, my gloves have been going for 6 months and get out with hot water and hand soap to clean them out, yes you can use them on the face too

Dp and i just buy huge packs of black socks from primark and use those between us, we both have similar sized feet too

Only use the washing machine at night
partially dry clothes on a airer before using the tumble (only for towels nappies and bedding)

only iron shirts

wear jeans or trousers for at least 2-3 days before washing

use the water from my condenser tumble dryer to mop the floor with

go to the hairdressers once a year, in june for my birthday treat

dye it black at home, no high lights, no low lights, nothing fancy

Get a great MIL who has a shopping habbit and passes all the stuff she used or worn only once! I love it when when goes nuts in the debenhams beauty section

collection 2000 do some great products BUT no7 do some good offers especially with the boots parenting club

Also boots online often do a spend £45 and get 10% off, if you use disposables then their own nappies (have tried them and they are good) have been permenantly at £1 off a pack and their wipes are on BOGOF (they are good too) buy in bulk and you can get an extra 10% off too + a £1 off each pack and free delivery codes are easily available

see i told you i am stingy

Ive seen a few posts in this thread about people cutting their own hair.How do those ladies (or men) with long hair manage to get it straight and how can they cut the back when they cant see it.Or do they get someone to do it for them??

Thanks in advance

In the winter i turn off my fridge and put all the food outside in a metal container box.

OK, my list:

• Buy everything if poss through Quidco or at least use Quidco to suss out the best bargains (Kelkoo clicks).
• Switched to Lidls for shopping
• Cook everything from scratch
• Only have the lights on in the room I am in
• Bought a laundry ball so I don't use washing powder now
• Bought an anti-limescale magnetic all to prevent having to put calgon in the washing machine
• Buy reduced packs of meat when available, split into bags and freeze to save money
• Join every loyalty scheme - particularly hotels as I travel for work so much
• Negotiate with my credit card companies - starting by saying I want to close my account down - many times they will try to stop you by providing a great rate!
• As someone else said, I take the shower gel from the hotels and top up my OH's handsoap in his bathroom, he keeps marvelling how long its lasted;)
• Bake rolls for my OH's lunches
• Challenge any charges I pay with the banks, etc
• Use freecycle where possible

I buy cheap painkillers from Wilkinsons or the supermarkets, paracetamol is about 16p for 16 tablets or something daft like that, and ibuprofen is cheap too. I'm not suckered into buying the brands like nurofen, it's all the same stuff. Same with cold and flu medicines, they're basically just paracetamol, I'm not suckered into buying lemsip or beechams just because they've got fancier packaging.

I know it's the same as buying cheap stuff in the supermarket I just thought it deserved a mention because it's a bit different.