Super Scrimpers

elfen

The only interesting bit that I picked up is the No Spend Week. I'm going to make sure I have everything today, and then I shall start mine tomorrow

Ilona

I watched last night, on the computer an hour after it went out live. Why bother to get a television and licence, now that saves a lot of money. The programme was boring, same as last week, and why is that posh woman with her face plastered in slap, going out to tell people how they should live their lives? It should be someone who practices what they preach....... like me. :j

'Stop spending for a week', shock horror, it should be 'stop spending forever'. Those elderly ladies seem to have posh houses, they want to come here and see the basic shell I live in. My furniture and clothes are ancient, and will have to last me for the rest of my life. Other people's hand me downs are what has kept my bank balance in the black. I will watch next week, just for the novelty value. :rotfl:
Ilona

Ida_Notion

toasterman wrote: »

That said, it annoyed me somewhat that Mrs Moneypenny started complaining about all their electronics and gadgets.

I felt exactly the same. The gadgets all had different owners and were being well-used - there may have been a lot of them in her view but the family seemed to be getting their money's worth from them, not at all like they were (not!) from their grocery bill. Once she'd deemed their gadgetry excessive, I had visions of her happily prompting them to just a give a load of it away like she did with the woman who'd bought a lot of clothes she'd yet to use the previous week. No wonder the kids were looking worried - to put it politely, Mrs Moneypenny doesn't quite seem to stack up to the full pound...

I agree too that it seemed a LOT like watching last week's. I'll watch the programme, but I'm far from enamoured enough with it to want to schedule my life around it and so I just watch via 4OD online when I feel like it. When that woman started banging on about dyeing her underwear again at the beginning, I actually looked twice to see if I'd clicked on the right episode link.

It bothers me a lot that there will be people out there who are sinking into a financial mire because their first reaction has always been to throw money at a problem who will now be thinking that they are proactively taking steps to address the issue by spending money they haven't got on beeswax, essential oils and tatty old trays.

Lily_The_Legend

dreamyd wrote: »

I also miss Alvin Hall - I wish he was still doing financial programmes.

Yeah, I used to like his show on BBC2!

SunshineBear wrote: »

Hear hear. My wife kept telling me off for shouting at them. (she couldn't hear the tv over my rant)

I think my dog could have explained how to save them money. What a dim couple!!

They were simply not in the real world at all.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I was complaining over most of it as well! I suppose I should have just turned it off! :rotfl:

Lily_The_Legend

valentina wrote: »

And that old dear with the trays - how many trays do you need?

That's the thing, they were saying she'd saved money by buying a tray and decorating it. I was saying 'she's just wasted £2 on something she didn't need!' :mad::rotfl:

flikkerty

I think the undies 'off white' look would have been better than that purple which looked like it had gone in with the darks wash by mistake. The characature presenter is ridiculous. Who wants to know about £2 homemade trays in this current climate? just go without don't buy more tat. Alvin Hall was very good, i agree, get him back on. As for that bacteria laden soap gunge and homemade face stuff - jeezus i wouldn't.

BitterAndTwisted

Well, at last they had a clip about chucking cola down the lav instead of expensive proprietary cleaners! In amongst the less-pertinent stuff there is some useful information in the show. I thought the piece on credit/store-cards and their usurous interest-rates was very useful. I think there are probably millions among us who didn't appreciate just how expensive they are and the folly of making only the minimum payment each month.

What REALLY annoyed me was the reference yet again to the war-time propaganda of "Make-Do And Mend" as if it was a choice back then. It most certainly was not: I think it's most revealing that the women featured in those war-time clips were invariably middle-class ladies who probably had absolutely no idea how to manage when things were either in very short supply or completely non-existent. Working-class grannies would have been well-versed in every single one of those thrifty strategies as they had been living like that for generations. Or doing without completely, as mine did. Members of my own family made their own furniture, and some of them up to relatively recently because no spare money could be found to buy any, not even second-hand.

I'll still keep watching in case something comes up which I've not heard of before.

I do get some pleasure out of seeing folk having to come down to earth with a bump and start living in the real world with the rest of us. The families featured so far didn't have a clue and in a way I felt quite sorry for them.

Living_proof

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I have just watched episode 2 on 4oD and I am gobsmacked. Surely everyone these days, whether they earn £5000 a year or £150,000pa has some sort of Plan B up their sleeve in case they are in the unforunate position to lose their job or income? I know a surprising ratio of people don't save and can only last a short time on what they have saved, but not to be able to survive on £3,200 a month redundancy deal is truly ridiculous.

I would have thought that there have been more than enough articles in the media about analysing your income and cutting back on expenses recently.

Society has become totally pampered and out of touch with reality, and this isn't just in private life. Why in heaven's name should we have to bail out Portugal because their people will not accept austerity measures? Have we taken collective leave of our sense?

toasterman

flikkerty wrote: »

As for that bacteria laden soap gunge and homemade face stuff - jeezus i wouldn't.

Ah yes. I forgot about that. I haven't bought a bar of soap in years, because it dries out my skin too much.
There's always one of the brands of shower gels on special offer, and you can easily rinse the last bit out the bottle at the end. Much easier than reforming soap in the microwave.

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Well, at last they had a clip about chucking cola down the lav instead of expensive proprietary cleaners!

While true, they were comparing apples with oranges in that clip.
She compared a £3 bottle of branded toilet cleaner, and a 20p bottle of own-brand cola.
The own-brand toilet cleaner I buy is 62p for 750ml (and it's not even the value/basics one), and I don't put half as much down as she did with the cola.

candygirl

What's with the bloody stupid orange hat, and way too short skirt?:mad::mad:Why are all the women on these advice progs fat and badly dressed, eg supernanny, Ruth Watson etc?
I thought the prog was the same as last week.Dotty old bags, crap music and advice, and spoilt kids:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I wont be bother making the facecream as it obviously doesn't work, and how come Lady lard !!!! is sooo fat if she's frugal:eek::eek:
Loved the spoilt brats faces when she cut their spending money though:T:T:T