Whats the tightest thing youve done...

Casual

I remember reading a while ago that the best thing to eat when staying in hotels is frankfurters!

You can simply pop them in the kettle in your bedroom and wait for it to boil - voila!

I tried it with a colleague one night at a hotel and it was great. We bought some rolls from the Tesco Metro down the road, had some ketchup from breakfast and they tasted great. Really filling and we then claimed the evening meal expenses through the company regardless! :rotfl: :rotfl:

(Knowing this now, I always rinse the kettle out before I use it in hotels! )

Casual

I also think this is a good idea as airport hotels are usually exorbitantly priced and poor quality.

http://www.sleepinginairports.com/

kingshir

leni wrote:

oh and I SWAER I've never done this but a friend who was totally skint used to take her washing once a week home to be washed and dried, her mum commented that their was only one pair of knickers - her responce - I wore the same paid all week, you can get 6 days out of a pair of knickers if you use the gusset one day, one leg strap in said gussets place the next etc and then repeat wearing them inside out thats taking a little too far and I prefer french knickers anyway!

My niece married an RAF officer who did this with his y-fronts!! She told us it took her months after they'd got married to get him to change his underwear everyday instead of weekly! He did persuade him to sit down instead of standing up (and splashing it about) when having a wee though. Wish my hubby and son would sit down

tsharp

MCBIRNIE25 wrote:

a postman friend told me you know all the junk mail you get, with freepost envelopes, you can cross the address out, put youes on there, and it gets delivered

AND, it will cost the original company to post it. Revenge on the junkmailers! 7P per envelope apparently...

lazy&indebt

Casual wrote:

I remember reading a while ago that the best thing to eat when staying in hotels is frankfurters!

You can simply pop them in the kettle in your bedroom and wait for it to boil - voila!

I tried it with a colleague one night at a hotel and it was great. We bought some rolls from the Tesco Metro down the road, had some ketchup from breakfast and they tasted great. Really filling and we then claimed the evening meal expenses through the company regardless! :rotfl: :rotfl:

(Knowing this now, I always rinse the kettle out before I use it in hotels! )

That, my love, is pure genius!! I wish i'd known that when we went to the Peak District last year!

I use work's franking machine to post items I've sold on amazon
Not sure if this is tight but when I'm working at my part time job behind a bar, I assess who is most likely to give a tip and flirt outragiously!!

WestonDave

Not long after I bought my house money was pretty tight, and I "offered" to dispose of the pallet that a server had been delivered to work on. Method of disposal was to take it home, nail 4 legs on and make it into a TV/Video stand (the forklift gap was just right for the video to sit in!). Funny thing was we got so used to it being there it was only when we changed the TV for one that came with a free stand that we got rid of the pallet table!

Triker

A few years ago we all went on holiday to Crete, in August. It was absolutely boiling, and despite the (gulp) many thousands of pounds the holiday cost I begrudged paying extra per room per night for the air conditioning.

So I bought 2 small hand held fans and a stack of batteries from poundland and convinced my family that I was a genius and we were'nt as daft as every one else paying extra for the air con.

They were ab-so-lutely bl**ding useless.:rotfl: and we all boiled to death! Not literally but you get the picture.

pms

If I get presents at christmas or for my birthday I dont like or will never use I keep them and give them to others as presents. I have several pressies this way for Christmas this year already!

lazy&indebt

pms wrote:

If I get presents at christmas or for my birthday I dont like or will never use I keep them and give them to others as presents. I have several pressies this way for Christmas this year already!

Just make sure you don't give them back to the same person that bought it you in the first place!

tsharp

sarahlouise210 wrote:

Oh I am so glad to get this off my chest at last............here goes...the tightest thing I have ever done was when my daughter was 5. She had a birthday party in August with 30 children ..the amount of presents she had was ridiculous...so.......I saved some and put them in her stocking! Oh god I feel so bad...and it was 8 years ago!!! Forgive me....

I did something similar once. The hotel had AC, you had to get the remote for it from the reception, at a daily cost. I realised this would mount up over the time we were there, so i got it for one day, then never returned it. On the last day, i just left it in the room and boarded my flight. My GF thought they'd track us down and bill us for £20 or something...:rolleyes: