Great 'Embarrassing MoneySaving tips' Hunt

MsHoarder

tinaedwards65 wrote: »

i save all mine too! if you wait ages sometimes you have lots of money you've forgot about - don't put them in those machines you see in the supermarket tho cos i think they might charge you?
i just take mine to the bank, they don't mind if they aren't too busy!

We bank with HSBC, and fortunately the city centre bank has a "Coin depositing" machine, which works like the coinmaster machine, but doesn't charge. So if I'm off to the city centre my bike is loaded with bags of change to feed to the machine.

Eenymeeny

lauren_1 wrote: »

Nope it's not the powder.

Its a litre bottle of their value shampoo (sainsburys do a great one too) 22p per bottle, smells of oranges slightly, fantastic on my cotton, bamboo and hemp nappies as they are natural fibres.

My ds produced an atomic nappy yesterday and everything was shifted even though the nappy was dry pailed for 12 hours before washing, I just wish I heard this tip years ago.

Sorry, I should have made the connection when you'd been talking about shampoo earlier and maybe 'gloop' was a clue!:o
Thanks, I might just give it a try sometime although I lilke the costco kirkland stuff... lasts for ages!:)

exlibris

tinaedwards65 wrote: »

i save all mine too! if you wait ages sometimes you have lots of money you've forgot about - don't put them in those machines you see in the supermarket tho cos i think they might charge you?
i just take mine to the bank, they don't mind if they aren't too busy!


:rotfl:

I have a money box in which we put all our small change. When I get a decent amount I take it to the local greengrocer (at a quiet time of day) and use it to part pay my bill. I do count and bag it for him but I expect him to check it - hence the quiet time. I discovered he had to pay for change in the bank so my £5 or so helps him.

Uniscots97

I don't use the 'vanish' or stain removal bars on shirt collars and cuffs I use plain old white bathroom soap. The cheaper the better. I find the really fiddly little bars that you get in some hotels work the best other than that look in the charity shops, I've found most have a basket with these in them for 10p each. 1 bar lasts me about 3 months, its great for shifting bolognaise splatter (it always happens to me when I'm cooking).


I've also been known to use a tiny bit of body lotion on a tissue to shine up my shoes (I always have a huge amount of body lotion).

Diflower

Haven't quite read the whole of this so not sure if it's been done already.
Didn't even think how stingy this was till today. I have one 'chef's candle', bought in the 99p shop (but they're 3 or 4 quid in Lakeland). The first couple of times (after cooking curry) I duly lit it, and yes it worked. But the next time, I took the lid off, but hadn't got round to lighting it - and it still worked.
So now, I don't light it at all, just take the lid off and stand it on the still-warm ceramic hob (not the hot bits) and leave it overnight. With any luck it will last a few years:T

tinaedwards65

exlibris wrote: »

I have a money box in which we put all our small change. When I get a decent amount I take it to the local greengrocer (at a quiet time of day) and use it to part pay my bill. I do count and bag it for him but I expect him to check it - hence the quiet time. I discovered he had to pay for change in the bank so my £5 or so helps him.

aww that's nice that you can help someone else with your change! i will have to see if any of my little local shops need the change!:D

Hannah_10

I'm on a water meter. If I'm not expecting anyone to come over I leave the old bathwater in and pour buckets of it in to flush the loo. The way I look at it, I have to flush the loo anyway, so it's effectively a free bath.

Hannah_10

Much more embarrasing is if my boyfriend and I need the loo at the same time we'll save a flush by both going one after the other and not flushing between. It only works if the first person doesn't need a big fat stinking poo. In the past we have got 3 of us out of one flush (daughter, then aged 9 going first). Water is scandalous here (SWW- consistantly the highest prices in the UK).

Uniscots97

Hannah_10 wrote: »

Much more embarrasing is if my boyfriend and I need the loo at the same time we'll save a flush by both going one after the other and not flushing between. It only works if the first person doesn't need a big fat stinking poo. In the past we have got 3 of us out of one flush (daughter, then aged 9 going first). Water is scandalous here (SWW- consistantly the highest prices in the UK).

When i lived down there we had a large plastic container (used in wine making) and a siphon in the bathroom. Any waste water went into this container e.g. water veg was cooked in etc, the water I used in the basin to wash my face. Then when needed it was siphoned into the loo.

Any

Hannah_10 wrote: »

Much more embarrasing is if my boyfriend and I need the loo at the same time we'll save a flush by both going one after the other and not flushing between. It only works if the first person doesn't need a big fat stinking poo. In the past we have got 3 of us out of one flush (daughter, then aged 9 going first). Water is scandalous here (SWW- consistantly the highest prices in the UK).

I know many people who do that... our house included.

Do you not know the old saying "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flash it down?"