Great 'Embarrassing MoneySaving tips' Hunt

vesper

When writting out a card for someone I don't write their name on the envelope so that they can reuse it. I save xmas and birthday cards and cut the picture out on the front to use as gift tags. I do re-give presents sometimes but as I don't tend to buy presents for family and friends that doesn't happen often. Instead of buying my friends' children brand new presents I usually get them from boot sales/ charity shops. Next week I am cleaning out my old desk from when I was a child (am now mid-20s), there's a load of perfectly decent crayons and paper etc and unused puzzle books so my friend's kid is getting them for her birthday (have the parents permission so I don't look too stingy).
I re-use wrapping paper and have been known to wait until the presents are unwrapped and take back the gift tags to reuse.

I think the worst/ best (depends on how you see it) is that my self and the OH bought each other a valentines card each 7 years ago (also our anniversary) and saved them and now give each other them cards every year.

pixie1

Slinky wrote: »

We do this with lemon slices for my G&T - chop a lemon up, lay all the bits flat on a chopping board, freeze them then bag up once frozen. No need to defrost when using!

This is a fantastic idea! Thank you! We always throw away half a lemon and its so wasteful, Ive never thought about doing this :money:

Pix

bluebag

BUXTONRABBIT wrote: »

A couple of kids from the High school, crossed the road to where I was picking wild cherries and asked me what they were. I told them and they started picking and eating them them selves. The embarrassing bit was that one of them said "No offence but we thought you were just some crazy lady"

I did tell a colleague at work who thought it was funny. So when we were on out Christmas night out she asked me if I had got my Christmas tree on the Main road. I sad yes. And they all started mocking me about sawing it down. (I bought it)

In my experience, those that mock usually end up in a mess.

I am old enough to have seen two recessions, trust me at some point in the near future you will hear yourself (mentally at least) say 'told you so'

LolaLemon

narabanekeater wrote: »

I understand the buying of drinks points. Im pregnant so drink soft drinks only yet I still got stung for a 'round' at £36,
I really thought the other would have offered me something towards it but they didnt

thats shocking! when i was pregnant and on the very rare times i went out, i would go in the kitty, but they wouldnt take more than £5 from me, and my 5 cans of lemonade would cost more than their 5 drinks of alcohol and a dash! (no wonder we have such an alcoholic culture!) and if i was still thier when they where doing another kitty, they wouldnt take any more from me.

mulled_wine wrote: »

Sorry I explained that badly. The phone calls she said herself she would phone other people and hang up after 1-2 rings so they would ring her back. So after a few times, we decided enough.

The drinks she would have her drinks in the first couple of rounds ( always alcohol) and then the round before hers would slip the money for her drink to the person buying it and then say she's had enough and "go home" when it was her round. Then after that next round had been bought she would come back with her Vodka&coke etc and join back in the convo. It wasn't being skint (which we could have understood) as she was always saying how much she had stashed in the bank.

oooh i HATE people like that! its soooooo annoying!
get someone to buy the forst round and then just tell her its her round next... e.g if you are in a pub and do rounds going clockwise, then get the person who normally starts the rounds to sit next to her or 2 from her and go anti clockwise...
Or be blunt when ordering, and ask specifically what each person wants but dont ask her (or ask and forget to buy it) and if she mentions it to you/group, just say something along the lines of 'im too skint to be buying for people who wont buy for me once in a while'
or
'I've budgeted for x amount of drinks for the night, so minus your round, i'll have had my limit'
I know that is harsh and i expect ill get a lot of stick, but i dont understand why her night out should be under £5/10 for drink when (I'm) your paying £30/40+.

we have this friend who always says she's too skint to go out (we as a group go out 2 or 3 times a year) and a few times she has done it the rest of us cover her share (food/drinks/tickets depending what we are going to do) and then you see on her FB status that she is 'off on a sneaky weekend away', going out with her new drama group for after practice drinks, Spent £150 at hobby craft/on clothes/on new shoes etc...
Really really annoys me, so now i am point blank refusing to go out if she is going, my friends have cottoned on to the reason why im not going out (and it is the only 2 or 3 nights a year i get to go out, that is how much it annoys me) and are now stopping offering to pay for her nights out

mulled_wine

LolaLemon wrote: »

thats shocking! when i was pregnant and on the very rare times i went out, i would go in the kitty, but they wouldnt take more than £5 from me, and my 5 cans of lemonade would cost more than their 5 drinks of alcohol and a dash! (no wonder we have such an alcoholic culture!) and if i was still thier when they where doing another kitty, they wouldnt take any more from me.




oooh i HATE people like that! its soooooo annoying!
get someone to buy the forst round and then just tell her its her round next... e.g if you are in a pub and do rounds going clockwise, then get the person who normally starts the rounds to sit next to her or 2 from her and go anti clockwise...
Or be blunt when ordering, and ask specifically what each person wants but dont ask her (or ask and forget to buy it) and if she mentions it to you/group, just say something along the lines of 'im too skint to be buying for people who wont buy for me once in a while'
or
'I've budgeted for x amount of drinks for the night, so minus your round, i'll have had my limit'
I know that is harsh and i expect ill get a lot of stick, but i dont understand why her night out should be under £5/10 for drink when (I'm) your paying £30/40+.

we have this friend who always says she's too skint to go out (we as a group go out 2 or 3 times a year) and a few times she has done it the rest of us cover her share (food/drinks/tickets depending what we are going to do) and then you see on her FB status that she is 'off on a sneaky weekend away', going out with her new drama group for after practice drinks, Spent £150 at hobby craft/on clothes/on new shoes etc...
Really really annoys me, so now i am point blank refusing to go out if she is going, my friends have cottoned on to the reason why im not going out (and it is the only 2 or 3 nights a year i get to go out, that is how much it annoys me) and are now stopping offering to pay for her nights out

Like your ideas! Totally agree with you, too. xx

kdakin

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FatVonD

Primrose wrote: »

I once sat in a church at a wedding behind a very poshly dressed lady and the price label for her hat started slipping down from underneath the brim at the back. I did rather uncharitably wonder whether she had simply forgotten to remove the label or whether she was trying to go the "refund" route. I wonder what she would have done if I had sneakily pulled some nail scissors out of my handbag and discreetly snipped it off. :rotfl:

I'd have paid good money to be a fly on the wall if you did!

Abbafan1972

I have re-used stamps in the past, when you had to lick them. They are harder to get off now without damaging them.

mrs-stressed

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

I have re-used stamps in the past, when you had to lick them.

Ive done this too. When my father died we found his old stamp collection and there were tons of stamps - all UK and usable. Well, I just systematically used them on all my letters - as long as it amounted to the currect 2nd class (or even first) price it was fine. They were of no value to his collection (I checked first) but they were currency for mail!!

stilernin

mrs-stressed wrote: »

Ive done this too. When my father died we found his old stamp collection and there were tons of stamps - all UK and usable. Well, I just systematically used them on all my letters - as long as it amounted to the currect 2nd class (or even first) price it was fine. They were of no value to his collection (I checked first) but they were currency for mail!!

Aaah, but I think the difference is that you are not reusing them. They have been bought and just not used yet.

I have a large collection from when I was younger; I bought every set and kept them in pristine condition. Recently I asked if they were still okay for their original purpose and was told that it's fine.