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

23rdspiral

Gina_of_course! wrote: »

When you water your plants with the cold water from your previous nights hotwater bottle and look amazed when a guest staying overnight laughs at you...

When your friend who lives in a van happily admits to you (and few other non-van dwellers), that the water in her hotwater bottle is the same water for months on end, and is only topped up when the steam from the 'hotwaterbottle only' stove kettle has reduced it's volume... and you totally understand and start doing the same...

kippers

heavenleigh wrote: »

you wake at silly o'clock and head to this site before putting the kettle on!

LOL..this is me every morning before any of my family are awake:T:T

GemmaBuckle

So many good tips! What a great thread.

You know you're a Money Saver when your boyfriend proudly rings his sister to tell her about the bargains you just got. Bless him.

sparrer

When you cut the satiny loops out of clothes to thread through gift tags, which you made from cards with pinking shears and a hole punch

When you save/freeze the sauce from a take away curry to make the next one

When you divide the mince (to which you've mixed in a good handful - or two - of porridge oats) into bags for freezing, then take a spoonful out of each bag to make an extra one

When you pour a kettle of boiling water over a big bowl of pasta or rice, put it in the microwave, bring back to the boil and leave, covered with a cotton tea towel, to cook in its own heat before freezing in portions

housemouse100

When you use the water from the dehumidifer to water the plants and wonder what else you could use it for

tori.k

MyRubyRed wrote: »

I am VERY depressed. I'm addicted to this site but I am a really crap cook and my attempts to cook good cheap wholesome food is ending up costing me more as I'm throwing away more than we eat.
I can feed my family on beans on toast or egg and chips ...and save money but I want to be able to put things in the oven or slow cooker or whatever that turn out nice. The only thing I have mastered is broth and nice as it is there is only so much you can eat. Is any one in the same situation??

This was me 18 months ago, Christmas dinner for my kids was a pre-cooked roast chicken and a ready made frozen trimmings.:o

You've just got to keep at it...my shopping bill has gone from over £400 a month to £185 for 5, i still turn out the odd inedible meal but then even the best cooks dont know how a meal they have never made will turn out, but thats now part of the fun and thanks to all on here i have enough basic recipes to make a healthy week's menu plan with the odd disaster to ring in the changes
Best of luck

you also know your a moneysaver when if on an E7 electric meter you tell yourself its no hardship to get up at 5am and do the washing/ ironing/baking while the world are still warm in bed.

Glitterari

I have the quidco fits too...and get slightly annoyed with people when you explain it all to them and they either don't get it or choose not to use it for whatever reason! You can lead a horse to water and all that!

Ones i have done for a long time: Whoopsies, cutting open toothpaste, face creams etc, making meals from scratch inc. sauces,

Am slowly but surely converting the bf too - who thought the freezing curry sauce was an amazing idea...

Am learning about stock, soup and making my own bread...

Need to learn about using oats to make my mince go further...

Pinky15

Tori - Well done on cutting down the food bill that is fab! Ps I still turn out loads of inedible meals - toad in the hole (middle still raw), potatos (took 2 hours to cook - well no-one told me I had to cut them into smaller bits!), Boiled eggs (which blew up) Yes so I am no Nigella but I do my best lol! x:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

sahararose

415SanFran wrote: »

When you have to take one of your children shopping so they can do all the bending for the stuff on the bottom shelves.
Or when they are asking for something and the first thing they say is "I don't mind if it comes off ebay"

Oh my god !!! That describes us so well !!! My 11 yer old is brilliant at shopping with me - we split up and go to the two different reduced sections at Sainsburys the second we get in the store. She also used to be brilliant at Tescos when they had H&B leaflts in strange places...she'd hunt them out with a money saving radar !!

Tibbie's_mum

When you get excited that you've got the lumpy stalk from a head of brocolli that you know will make a nice pot of soup, but have to hide it or OH will chuck it out!