Super Scrimpers

BeckyC2be

blackboard paint is quite expensive but if you've got any dark paint in your shed, just mix it with equal parts polyfilla (or plaster of paris) with a dash of water and it works just the same.

joedenise

Just watched today's episode - thought the spag bol omlette sounds absolutely revolting!

And where on earth can you buy a decent table and 6 chairs 2nd hand for £25? Nothing like that in my area - even the charity shops would want double that.

Denise

Cariad9

joedenise wrote: »

Just watched today's episode - thought the spag bol omlette sounds absolutely revolting!

And where on earth can you buy a decent table and 6 chairs 2nd hand for £25? Nothing like that in my area - even the charity shops would want double that.

Denise

I'm off to Wicks to see if they'll do me a free can of spray paint and half a role of wall paper... oh wait, I won't have a camera crew on me!

On the plus side the posh women who pends £5000 a month on home d!cor was wearing my topshop coat that I bought off ebay for a tenner!

And as for left over spag bol, why not just heat it up and have... ummm... spag bol?

And don't even get me started on the paperclip necklace!

Rage_in_Eden

Cariad9 wrote: »

And don't even get me started on the paperclip necklace!

Made me laugh when she said "and there it is a necklace out of paperclips" to which I replied "Yep and it looks it". Some people have incredible confidence in their own abilities, sometimes not for the best.... I must say sometimes the tips are a bit, well, why? e.g. the hair gel. I did laugh though at the look of horror on the faces of that family in a charity shop..... "and these twigs are free?" priceless :rotfl:

Sequeena

The paper clip necklace was ridiculous

carlislelass

this weeks episode...introduction was in one place but Sunnyside garden centre is in Ibstock

Justamum

Just watching episode 8. I'm puzzled - do men normally de-fuzz their armpits these days?

ETA I get the impression with some of these people that they wear their spendaholic lack of budgeting almost as a badge of pride.

merlot123

I can't watch this programme, I find it useless and annoying, more tips on this forum. Can't watch Martin either on TV, he's like an excited child, talks too quick..Alvin Hall was the best money saving programme IMO.

Pollycat

merlot123 wrote: »

I can't watch this programme, I find it useless and annoying, more tips on this forum. Can't watch Martin either on TV, he's like an excited child, talks too quick.

I agree - and all those irritating bits, like when he was dressed up as a pilot and in the band. To me, it's just 'filler' and I want to shout at the TV "just get on with the money-saving tips and stop a**ing about with all this rubbish".

merlot123 wrote: »

IAlvin Hall was the best money saving programme IMO.

I agree - and lots of other people on this thread do too.

BeckyC2be

Just half way through getting caught up on the latest episode and i'm getting so annoyed with it! It's the family re-doing their dining room for £50 that are driving me insane. How can you have gotten to that point in your life without ever buying anything from a second hand shop or charity shop? And the DIY shop ticked me off too! There's no chance they'd let normal people off nearly half of the costs. Grrrr rant over, I'll watch the other half now!