Whats the tightest thing youve done...

MrsTinks

Hmmmm I get free AV software from work but that's a perk and not tight... I bring a couple of screen wipes home every couple of months but other than that it's limited what can be snuck past our receptopnist who guards the stationary cupboard hehehehe As for me being tight then I don't contribute to peoples leaving rpessies or birthday pressies if I don't like them. Why should i?
We often BBQ together with neighbours as it's silly to turn on 2 or 3 bbq's when 1 will suffice and it's nice to socialise with everybody anyway

sandybeaches

Hee hee, the guys in our department put five pence into a collection at work for a wedding present from us all, but we didn't really know the girl that well, she worked in another department and anytime we did have to deal with her she wasn't very nice.............Anyway the funiest bit was when she came round each department to show what that department had bought her, apparently our five pence bought her a very nice Lazy Susan ( I want to know where they bought this amazingly priced item!!!!) we could hardly keep our faces straight.

Midmac

For the last 2 years I have avoided paying for car parking by parking 20 minutes away and walking to college. It saves me £4.25 every day for 5 days, so thats a saving of about £1000 each year

lynsayjane

Midmac wrote:

For the last 2 years I have avoided paying for car parking by parking 20 minutes away and walking to college. It saves me £4.25 every day for 5 days, so thats a saving of about £1000 each year

when i bought my flat i made sure it was in an area where i could walk everywhere and not on a bus route. 20 mins to uni and town centre, at the time there were two diy stores in walkin distance, but both have since closed , unfortunatly only close supermarket is sainsbury's but there is now an asda at the gym, so i'm pretty damn perfect

AMILLIONDOLLARS

I had run out of toilet roll at home a couple of weeks ago and was totally broke, so I took four rolls home with me from work. Thankfully, Sainsburys are doing 1/2 price on Nouvelle 87p for four rolls at the moment, so I am stocking up big time:rolleyes:

katsplat1

Me and my H were once going on holiday and stayed in a hotel near the airport the night before. There was a wedding reception taking place in the same hotel. We went for a drink in the bar and when hubby ordered, the bar tender told him it was a 'free bar' (obviously for the wedding guests!). The barman didn't realise we weren't with the wedding (even though we were in jeans - in fact I bet he thought we were right scruffy sods!) and we got very drunk at the expense of the bridal party!!! There must have been 200 people at this wedding so they wouldn't have noticed a thing!!

:beer: :beer:

loopyloulou_3

oooh i remembered something else i did - when me and my OH went on hol to antigua we stayed in this tiny hotel on the beach - no where around for MILES - every where a cab ride away with one restaurant and bar in the hotel. no fridge or kettle in teh room so literally from the second we woke up we had breakfast lunch and dinner in this place and our bar tab was a small fortune!

we went back the following year armed with a suitcase full of crisps, pot noodles (for lunch!), tea coffee, kettle
we then met up with other couples (one went out and brought a cool box and 'borrowed' ice from the bar) and brought bottles of rum and coke! we refused to pay the bar prices!! he he! (obviously we still went out some nights!!)

Toto

My kids have worksheets to earn pocketmoney. There is a list of household chores and each has a price, if they do the job they can tick the box and they earn the cash (no free pocket money at all in our house, it's all earned)

However, if I think they ar earning too much and I can't afford it I tick the deductions box for being untidy in the first place. Oh and a couple of months ago when things were really tight I reduced the 'wage' for a few jobs without them noticing.

Not sure if it's tight but I am trying to teach them that money has to be earned, there are no freebies in the real world. And, if they make a mess in the first place I don't see I should pay them to clean it up. But, reducing the price per job probably is a bit tight lol.

lynzpower

loopyloulou wrote:

oooh i remembered something else i did - when me and my OH went on hol to antigua we stayed in this tiny hotel on the beach - no where around for MILES - every where a cab ride away with one restaurant and bar in the hotel. no fridge or kettle in teh room so literally from the second we woke up we had breakfast lunch and dinner in this place and our bar tab was a small fortune!

we went back the following year armed with a suitcase full of crisps, pot noodles (for lunch!), tea coffee, kettle
we then met up with other couples (one went out and brought a cool box and 'borrowed' ice from the bar) and brought bottles of rum and coke! we refused to pay the bar prices!! he he! (obviously we still went out some nights!!)

Yep Ive frequently taken a half bottle of vodka into nightclubs - and who can blame me? Most of the time in the bar a double vodka & coke is nigh on £7. I can get a hlaf bottle of vodka in tescos for that!! :beer:

black-saturn

My mum and dad take a hipflask each to the clubroom when they go on holiday. They buy one cheap drink so that they have a glass and keep refilling it under the table :rotfl: