Whats the tightest thing youve done...

lynzpower

I love the way on here theres absoultely no shame in being tight- I love it.

I ummed and ahhed over some potato scones today for 40p, I thought, you know what I dont NEED those, Ive just bought some potatoes, Ill make them myself. Then I started weighing up whether the electric Ill use on the oven will be more than 40p plus the cost of 2 potatoes, and some value flour. If you saw someone like this in farmfoods earlier- It was me

These example are how Im managing to pay off the debt I am- Im not ashamed of it at all!!! - long live tightness!!!! :T

nu1isit?

Here is the tightest thing i've ever done. This is a bit dirty, but hey I might as well share with the group!!!

When I was a student, me and my flatmates were skint, and couldn't afford toilet roll; so we 'borrowed' a big roll from the public toilets...Hope no one had used it beforehand...
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Annie_Fanny

MoaningMyrtle wrote:

Taking stuff from work, avoiding paying fares, stuff like that. I personally would not risk it. The company I work for would give any employee instant dismissal for misapproriation of company property, be it paper, postage, cleaning stuff, photocopying etc. It's known as gross misconduct.

C'mon no-ones going to fire you for 'borrowing' a few paperclips are they!! At my last job I was so glad that they called me back in to do some extra work as it meant I was able to use the photocopier, take home reams of paper, order stuff out of the stationery catalogue to help me with my college course!! I saved a fortune. It would only be a jobs-worth that would dob you in.

PeachPickle

If I'm really strapped I don't bother replying to texts and just wait til people are so bored of waiting for an answer that they just phone me

We get provided with milk at work, so I drink about a pint of that a day after my dad complained how much of our milk I was drinking!

Oh, and my workplace is a goldmine for jiffy bags and big canvas sacks! Get loads in everyday. We reuse lots, but I just walk out on a saturday with massive armfuls of them :T

lynzpower

ONce upon a long ago when I was literally penniless , I finished uni and was working at a warehouse for 6 hours a week for 2.90 an hour after tax counting focus points which used to come in B&H fag packets.

Once I pinched a load adn took them to index or argos to get a toaster which I sold to my mate for a fiver.

Not proud of myself but needs must and all that. Pre-DFW of course, now I know more legal and above board ways of slashing back that spendage

Firefly

I've just realised that I only buy two or three washing up liquids a year because I decant the stuff into a bottle with a pump dispenser on the top. I've been doing this since my children were tiny (20+ yrs ago) and used to waste so much when they 'played' washing up.

It lasts an age .....:T

pounds_and_pensive

This thread made me think of a family I knew when I was still at school, who would squeeze every penny (literally) out of fifty weeks of the year so that they could spend a fortune on holiday for the other two. Every meal was jam and bread, apart from Sundays when they'd push the boat out and have sausage and mash. They watched TV, but no-one was EVER allowed to put the lights on. Consequently, the kids all wore glasses with lenses like jam-jar bottoms. Each to their own, but I can't believe a fortnight's holiday is ever worth living like that for the rest of the time.

It also made me think of an ex brother-in-law, who was notoriously tight. Erm... thrifty Many moons ago, so long ago that cider was still supplied in glass bottles, he turned up with a bottle of the stuff to share between the three of us. This was so out of character that I was actually quite worried about him, and lay awake for hours after he'd gone, wondering what traumatic event had caused him to put his hand in his pocket. Then, in the dead of night, I heard the front door open, footsteps up the stairs, and a knock on our bedsit door. I opened it to find ex-brother-in-law standing there.

'I forgot the empty bottle. There's ten pence deposit on them!' All was well with my world, and I could sleep easily again

sarahlouise210

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....

leni

erm, a few!:o

When making cakes for people, I buy Asda's own sugarpaste (reduced at the moment too - so I've stocked up) but charged them the normal price!

I refill my water bottle at work too!

look for the most filled bottle of comfort when I go shopping!

and I realised last week that I reclaimed some train tickets through work that I thought I'd paid for out my own pocket, but work had actually bought them for me, but still paid me for them again:o

I've never bought stationary such as pens, folders, reams of paper etc and even took home the old printer from work with 3 toner refill because it failed the PAT test - still going strong and on the original toner cartridge 1 year later!

Oh and I've sometimes sent ebay items I've sold through my works postal service:beer:

leni

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!