Great 'Embarrassing MoneySaving tips' Hunt

culpepper

Blobby8 wrote: »

Is'nt that what a thermostat does ?

LOL yes but we dont have the heating on 24/7. It goes on for 2 hours in the morning for getting up and getting washed and dressed,then 1 hour in the evening when people are sitting around and not warming up from activity.
Often it stays quite reasonably warm all day but if it is extra cold out ,people will just press the 'on' and forget it ,while actually getting it back to comfortable takes around 40 mins and it lasts for hours at that temperature.

Asiacat

Reminds me of the time I walked into a friends house in Scotland to find him scraping the wallpaper off.

"Decorating are you?" I asked, "No" he said "I'm moving".

Eenymeeny

My OH and a mate of his have passed a birthday card with the Happy birthday bit crossed out and Merry Christmas written on, back and forwards for years. It's become tradition in our family.... little things!:rotfl:

Pembroke

SoapyDish wrote: »

My mum and her old school-friend have given up buying each other Christmas presents, after one regifted to the other a cheapish perfume the next Christmas. It's now a running joke, they just send the same bottle of perfume back and forth every year, with a few sprays gone just to test how badly it has gone off! It's been going as long as I remember, at least 15 years or so, probably more...

:T
Reminds me of this:

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/pants.asp

lilian1977

novo wrote: »

I think that's called stealing, actually. And it's not for free anyway, we all pay for it through the price of their products.

This was in reference to getting the free fruit and veg bags for sandwiches. It's only stealing if you're not buying the product - how do you know the OP wasn't talking about ones that they'd put their broccoli, carrots, sprouts etc into in the supermarket?

hvd201 wrote: »

I find myself making an effort to hide from people the origin of their gift if I bought it from eBay, I know it doesn't really matter but there is something nice about thinking you were completely spoilt and that someone splashed out on your gift.

My friends love how MSE I am and they know that their lovely present will have cost me nowhere near the RRP. It just means they get a great present without having to feel guilty at the amount I've spent!

savingqueen

I try and use the loo while out shopping and take an extra few sheets of loo paper (clean obviously!) home in my handbag for my next visit at home, that way I haven't spent a penny!:rotfl:

I also cut up old white cotton knickers (again clean obviously!) to use as hankies at home.

don't even tell DH about these little tricks, too embarrassed :embarasse but just can't help myself

kids are already trained at 4 & 6 to retrieve "shiny good luck" pennies from the ground for their piggy banks. they get quite a few.

probably have lots more, will have to think about them...

Happy Christmas!

kitschkitty

Yup, a presents value/worth isn't related to price.

Colincbayley

elizabethhull wrote: »

This is excruciating! I was at an evening party (without hubby) last week, to which we all brought food contributions. Lots of people didn't want to take their leftovers away, so I did what I'd done many times before, and put a selection on a paper plate for my husband to enjoy for tea. As I was opening my car. the plate fell on to the car park and scattered sausage rolls etc about. Well, I had to pick my rubbish up anyway, so did I serve them to husband??? Let's just say, what the eye does not see & so on, and he is still healthy! Sorry, folks!

I believe the 15 second rule applies in such situations
:rotfl:

Yenom

jumblejack wrote: »

....And throw them down the toilet instead of flushing as often. My mum adds soap and bleach to the water to make sure the toilet is clean!

We are in a water meter so we tell the kids that if there are no guests in the house then "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down!". We also have one of those bags in the cistern so that it reduced the amount of water used in each flush.[/QUOTE]

Instead of buying those bags, just sink a jar (or jars) right way up in the cistern - the jar holds water in the cistern that otherwise would just flush away - nice one, my money saving mum! :T

Yenom

Weird but true - I got sent a freebie "steel soap" - it gets rid of food smells from your hands (onion etc) - works too! To save money - just rub your hands on a stainless steel sink to get rid of smells (really - it works...) My steel soap lives in the dishwasher where it earns it's keep as an odour eliminator doing the job of those expensive lumps of steel you can buy to do exactly that job - never had to de-pong the dishwasher since!