You know you're a money saver when.....

Fozz

When you realise in your local charity shop that the towels they are selling for animal blankets at 50p each are in fact better than the ones in your bathroom , so you end up buying 5!!

v8monkeyboy

When you realise that you'll be able to pay off the evil and huge credit card bill in 5 months rather than 12!! :j

kitschkitty

You know your a money saver when....

you get upset that you have to put a reduced loaf of bread back on the shelf as you simply don't have any room in either of your 2 freezers for it as they're both already full of bargains and leftovers etc! (yup happened to me today).

rach

you find yourself resorting to a sharp knife to cut open the bottle of bubble bath to get the last bit out...

PetuliaGristle

When your oh rolls on the floor laughing as once again you've started panicing that you haven't bought enough Xmas pressies and stocking pressies throughout the year...then he goes up into the loft and brings down 3-4 bags of pressies...and the rest...

jpwhittle wrote: »

haha i do this, my mum nearly choked when i told her id started next years christmas shopping on christmas eve, only started because wilkis had a sale on and i got some bargains for the brothers, and started easter shopping yesterday as coop were doing 6 cream eggs for £1.25. I get laughed at but at least its cheap, at christmas sister in law got hair striaghtners cos they were reduced to £3.00 for a good set last january.

when your kids know all the rules of haggling and tell dad of when he isnt doing it right!!! my Son told his dad to go back in a shop and try again as he didnt try hard enough.

3 year old walks round using martins phrases i.e only use cashback credit cards.

Bogof_Babe

rach wrote: »

you find yourself resorting to a sharp knife to cut open the bottle of bubble bath to get the last bit out...

Just add water and shake it up.

I could use this tactic with moisturiser though, as you don't really want that watered down!

Bogof_Babe

kitschkitty wrote: »

You know your a money saver when....

you get upset that you have to put a reduced loaf of bread back on the shelf as you simply don't have any room in either of your 2 freezers for it as they're both already full of bargains and leftovers etc! (yup happened to me today).

So you start wondering whether anyone would notice if you gave them bread and butter pudding for dessert every night this week :rotfl:.

rach

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Just add water and shake it up.

I could use this tactic with moisturiser though, as you don't really want that watered down!

no such luck...it was a funny shaped clarins bottle (freebie with face stuff) with a tiny hole!!

Sucker_for_sweeties

Primrose wrote: »

When you spent 15 minutes empting your full vacuum cleaner dust bag with tongs, putting the stuff on the compost heap and putting the same bag back in the vacuum cleaner, rather than putting a new one in.

:ome too

Confuzzled wrote: »

i do this too even though i have a dust allergy, i just wear a face mask when i do and wash my hands well afterwards just in case though i much prefer the vacs that have a cannister you just dump out i'm sadly at the mercy of whatever the landlord deemed acceptable as a vac (why can't landlords ever give you a decent hoover anyway?!)

I have a VERY decent hoover, one of my best ever buys (not least for the FABULOUS customer service, really, really good:D)
It's a miele and I love it, it's been fault and hiccup free for three years, long may it last.:cool:
But it's a greedy !!!!!! for new bags, and I howk them out at least twice before I replace them.

Doesn't help having kids and dogs:eek:

Not keen on an overstuffed bag in a rented holiday house though._pale_ Our own gook is different.

Sucker_for_sweeties

When you take the wrapper/cardboard bit/whatever from the goodies you put in the fridge on a Thursday (whoopsie day for me) so OH can't make a drama out of a crisis about one day out of date on Friday tea-time:rotfl:

He benefits from the whole MSE thing, but clearly still doesn't really gettit