Super Scrimpers

wondercollie

My favourite Till debt do us Part (yup, I'm Canadian) involved a Paris Hilton wannabe and her postie husband. Talk about delusional? If you can find that episode on youtube you'll get a real laugh

Pollycat

I watched an episode from a few weeks ago (it was the one with the 2 girls who spent £16k a year on 'stuff').

Quite a few tips on using spray paint (spraying bottles, spraying jewellery etc).

Don't they take into account the cost of the spray paint?
Or do they have numerous cans in varying colours lying about in the garage?

Justamum

Pollycat wrote: »

Don't they take into account the cost of the spray paint?
Or do they have numerous cans in varying colours lying about in the garage?

They have a few of those ridiculous tips where they don't cost in the initial outlay of the bits and pieces they need to save money. It's like the episode in the second series where they got a husband to make his wife some perfume using essential oils. It would have been cheaper if he'd just gone out and bought her some perfume!

PipneyJane

mmmsnow wrote: »

She called it a rhinestone. I'm not particularly crafty or jewellery savvy but I knew it was a plastic pearl . Surely someone would correct her while they were filming?

Yes. So she did. D'oh!

Thanks for the correction. :beer: Rather spoiled my own rant, though, didn't I by quoting incorrectly? :rotfl: At least diamantes and rhinestones are the same thing.

b_girl

Did anyone watch this last night? Unless I'm going crazy I'm sure they recycled one of the tips from the other week about putting an elastic band around a paintbrush to get into tough spots when painting.

It was an ok watch but no really useful tips

Pollycat

PipneyJane wrote: »

What really gets me is the ignorance of the contributors. First, we have the girl mentioned above by Hardpressed then, in last week's episode (watched on Sunday), we have that silly jewelry woman calling a PLASTIC PEARL a "diamante"! :eek: If that was a diamante, woman, then I'm a millionnaire.

I watched this episode last night.

This girl really is clueless!

I personally couldn't see the point in de-constructing the flower in the first place.

And can't you buy similar brooches in Primark for £1 anyway?

Gettingtherequickly

My god, some of the tips are useless! B_girl, yes that tip was used a couple of weeks ago.

The tip about the engine oil - garages have to dispose of the oil correctly and probably have to pay for it somehow, so what are we supposed to do?

Did like that tip about doing the legs, not heard that one before, although the announcer before the programme was a bit sexist in saying "no more hairy legs for the ladies" or something similar.

Lindy_-_Loo

The hair conditioner on legs (and other bits you may want to shave) really works. Ive done it for years x

spike7451

Here's one for you,how to make good lemonade for about 20p for 2 l...

Take a 2l bottle of ASDA Smart Price fizzy water (17p),drink a glass,top up with ASDA Smart Price Lemon double strength squash (20p) to taste...simples!

janeyd2

I,m not sure if I am seeing things but weren't they originally loading up standard size pallets? Then when they were being dismantled they seem to have grown much bigger.
The cartridges for nail guns aren,t cheap either.
AND I dispute that was a summer house. Won't get much sun in there-it was a shed.
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