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What is the ONE thing you refuse to scrimp and save on?

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  • LouBlue
    LouBlue Posts: 53,538 Forumite
    Sky Sports, can't function without my football.

    Diet Coke and Cadburys chocolate.

    Apart from that, not fussy. :D
    A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition
    ~ William Arthur Ward ~
  • DdraigGoch
    DdraigGoch Posts: 732 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Mortgage-free Glee!
    I seem to remember there was a Great "who makes what for whom" Hunt a while ago, where those who worked for various manufacturers [thanks, Lou-Lou!] told us which own brands were made in the same factory as the Brand Names .... I'll go and have a ferret and see if I can find it ..... could come in handy!

    DG
    [who, in response to this thread, has determined to raise her own chickens!]
    If you see me on here - shout at me to get off and go and get something useful done!! :D
  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    make up
    Remberant toothpaste
    Sure Deodrant
    Liz Earle skincare
    coffee
    Decent lean meat – especially beef
    Good bread
    Good Cheese
    Free range Eggs
    Good laundry & dishwash stuff
    Nice tea
    Loo roll with Aloe Vera
    Comfortable shoes
    Good quality underwear
    Sky+HD full package
    The cat has to have Royal Canin – Persian
  • angelflower_2
    angelflower_2 Posts: 2,426 Forumite
    oh yeah, cannot change the cat food - purina is all they will eat

    for us its loo roll, cannot abide the cheap stuff

    not overly fond of value fresh meat ie chicken and beef (espec mince) as its just not the same quality - that being said, I do buy it every other month as I suspect it will have to keep getting better as demand increases for it

    I do love nice perfume too but have started only getting as pressies or when i have enough boots points.

    Girlies monthly stuff too - cannot go there on the value stuff
    DFW 228 LONG H 68
    DFD 2017 :eek:
  • lisasdiary
    lisasdiary Posts: 67 Forumite
    how on earth have you paid so much off your debts off?
    :mad: Total debt at lbm 27420/oct07.Today 18954.00
  • Jacks_xxx
    Jacks_xxx Posts: 3,874 Forumite
    :wave: Hey my lovelies!

    I will scrimp on anything. I don't mean do without - I mean spend as little money on it as possible.

    With the exception of meat...

    Hugh and Jamie have done me over. :D Not before time I hasten to add so it's pricey organic happy dead animals for us and eggies from a nice old dear who lives near my mum.

    ...and my bloody hair!

    Even after two years of being a DFW I'm still paying to get it cut and coloured in a salon. :o :eek: :o I go half as often - but I still go.

    If we were made redundant or summat then I'd have to do without this - but all the time my extra work pays for it I don't even feel that bad about it. :o:D

    Love Jacks xxx :D
    Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Einstein
  • moggylover
    moggylover Posts: 13,324 Forumite
    i'm starting to get worried, lots of people are saying mince and i always buy the asda smart price and it's really nice??? should i be worried

    Not if you like it!:D
    "there are some persons in this World who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them"
    (Herman Melville)
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