Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

missychrissy

Thank you for your suggestions. Anything open I will keep but I’ve got quite a few (13, I’ve just counted them) still in their boxes. I’m going to donate them to the food bank. It makes sense that if someone can’t afford food then they can’t afford toiletries.  They might enjoy a bit of luxury and some of my toiletries are expensive - Baylis and Harding, spa sanctuary, ritual of Sakura, La maison de senteurs and that’s just the top four.

GeorgianaCavendish

Really enjoying this thread, I’m only about a quarter of the way through it but thought I’d skip ahead to leave a tip. 

Using a micro fibre towel to dry my hair instead of using a hairdryer. It dries much quickly than a normal and doesn’t go fluffy. 

PipneyJane

GeorgianaCavendish said:

Really enjoying this thread, I’m only about a quarter of the way through it but thought I’d skip ahead to leave a tip. 

Using a micro fibre towel to dry my hair instead of using a hairdryer. It dries much quickly than a normal and doesn’t go fluffy. 

Good luck working your way through, @GeorgianaCavendish.  Back on the old Forum, where you could see 30 posts on a "page", it took me over six months to reading through the original Sneaky Ways thread and then this thread.  I tried to read one page a day.

My money saving tips de jour:  I routinely dye my hair on a 4-5 week cycle.  Each pack of dye comes with a pair of gloves and a small bottle of very thick hair conditioner.  Rather than throwing out the gloves after dying my hair, I dry them and reuse them the next time.  My record is 29 uses before a glove tore/got a hole.  I save the unused pairs in a drawer and use them whenever a pair of disposable gloves would be handy, e.g. when making homemade chocolates.

One bottle of the conditioner is enough for three dye sessions.  I'll save the other two bottles and use them to refill the pump action bottle I use for my regular hair conditioner.  (It was once a liquid soap dispenser.)  The conditioner waters down well, so I'll squeeze as much as I can out of the original bottle, refill it with water, give it a good shaking and add that to my hair conditioner bottle.   Give that bottle another good shaking and now I have a month's premium hair conditioner for "free".  (I wash my hair every day and this absolutely the best hair conditioner I have ever used.)

- Pip

Butterfly_Brain

Look up homemade hair dye on the internet, no chemicals and it works, for instance I have been using lemon juice for years

• 1 part water
• 2 parts lemon juice
• a spray bottle

Prep-Time

2-3 minutes

Processing Time

45 minutes to 1 hour

Here’s what you need to do:

• Mix lemon juice and water and fill it in a spray bottle.
• Spray this mixture all over your hair.
• Sit outside in the sun or blow-dry your hair.

• You can apply this once a week.
• It works faster if you sit in the sun and allow your hair to dry naturally

Eenymeeny

I've gone grey now but when I used to colour my hair I found that the tubes of conditioner mounted up, as you only need a small amount. My niece used it for her daughter who had long hair which was prone to tangle. She said that it worked very well. My hairdresser was pleased to receive extras also as she said that it was a very good conditioner. (I also used to pass on unused gift packs of toiletries as she had a nice gesture of giving some ladies a little gift if it was their birthday or she thought that they could do with a little treat!) Hairdressers can pick up a lot of knowledge about you )

Gem-gem

Can't remember if I have posted this..
I stopped dying my hair in September. I am in my late 40's. My mum stopped dying her hair at 70. Not taking into account of cost of living increases, I am going to save £15k+ because I have stopped dying it much earlier.

Gem-gem

Hubby and I have recently had a birthday  Our birthdays are only two days a part.
- birthday cards to each other - homemade. (Cost 20p)

Presents wrapped up in recycled tissue paper / paper from shops and placed into a cardboard box (cost 0p)
We bought our birthday cake 1/4 priced from Waitrose in January and froze it. (£3.50) we had half for my birthday and half for hubby's birthday.
Due to lockdown, birthday meals - home cooked. (Rather than eating out). (Saving £30+ Have accounted for cost of food). Could have ordered takeaways but didn't want to.
Birthday activities / we normally go to the theatre up in London - have a meal and drinks. Cost £200+ This year...a nice long walk around the local area. (Cost £0)

Presents:
hubby received - hair clippers (saving him £100 a year on hair cuts).

Rosa_Damascena

Gem-gem said:

Hubby and I have recently had a birthday  Our birthdays are only two days a part.
- birthday cards to each other - homemade. (Cost 20p)

Presents wrapped up in recycled tissue paper / paper from shops and placed into a cardboard box (cost 0p)
We bought our birthday cake 1/4 priced from Waitrose in January and froze it. (£3.50) we had half for my birthday and half for hubby's birthday.
Due to lockdown, birthday meals - home cooked. (Rather than eating out). (Saving £30+ Have accounted for cost of food). Could have ordered takeaways but didn't want to.
Birthday activities / we normally go to the theatre up in London - have a meal and drinks. Cost £200+ This year...a nice long walk around the local area. (Cost £0)

Presents:
hubby received - hair clippers (saving him £100 a year on hair cuts).

Simple pleasures cost little....a MSE exemplar post! (Although how M&S get away with charging £14 for a cake for ?4? servings people beats me).

quoia

Gem-gem said:

hubby received - hair clippers (saving him £100 a year on hair cuts).

How much/often is this?
To spend that in a year here, it would be a trip to the barbers every 18 days

wondercollie

quoia said:

Gem-gem said:

hubby received - hair clippers (saving him £100 a year on hair cuts).

How much/often is this?
To spend that in a year here, it would be a trip to the barbers every 18 days

My husband when he was still in the service would have his haircut every ten days!  He's now down to twice a month.
Oldest son has his wife shave his head.  He put a stop to her using the dog clippers on him.  
Saves a bundle