Spill the beans ... what's the most embarrassing MoneySaving thing you do?

tbw

Downstairs loo is flushed with a bucket of water from the water butt outside the back door. (Tried with the upstairs loo but gave up after the bucket handle broke half way up the stairs!)

MarilynMonroe_2

chinagirl wrote: »

I am now washing less of my own clothes. If I wear, say, a knitted top for work, I put it on a hanger on my bedroom curtain rail, while the window is open, and leave it a day or so. Then it freshens so nicely, there is no need to wash it. It smells just like a line-dried top. I then wear it without any qualms. The best way to judge is literally by smelling certain areas, and then make my choice whether it actually needs washing. Seldom do I spill anything down my clothes. Also the clothes last longer, as washing tends to make them look a bit tired after a while.
I do the same with my children's clothes, as they just get heaped on the bedroom floor, so if they smell ok, I shake, fold and pack away.:T

this i what I have been trying to aim for with my dd but in reality it's more like she gets 2 changes of clothes a day instead of one every two days lol.

lanavdt

I buy stuff in the boots january sale for birthday pressies and have a box full of wrapping paper that I buy in january from paperchase etc. This year it was 10sheets for a pound

jdp1970

chinagirl wrote: »

I am now washing less of my own clothes. If I wear, say, a knitted top for work, I put it on a hanger on my bedroom curtain rail, while the window is open, and leave it a day or so. Then it freshens so nicely, there is no need to wash it. It smells just like a line-dried top. I then wear it without any qualms. The best way to judge is literally by smelling certain areas, and then make my choice whether it actually needs washing. Seldom do I spill anything down my clothes. Also the clothes last longer, as washing tends to make them look a bit tired after a while.
I do the same with my children's clothes, as they just get heaped on the bedroom floor, so if they smell ok, I shake, fold and pack away.:T

I do exactly the same!!

NoMoneyHoney_2

I came here expecting some really embarassing tips but a lot of them sound like things I have always done (thrifty parents?).
The only thing I can think of at the moment that my friends laugh at is I keep finding meatballs on offer but they come in packs of 12 so I seperate them into freezer bags in portions of 4 so I don't have to eat 12 meatballs a time!

NoMoneyHoney_2

Ah, I remembered the embarassing thing I have considered but never done...
I am not a big milk drinker but my boyfriend has it in his tea when he visits and I like to offer it to guests. I do use it sometimes myself. Anyway, the biggest milk cartons sometimes go on 241 offers etc. Would it be too bad to buy the offer ones and decant them into smaller containers before freezing? I have frozen milk before but only when I knew the whole carton would get used. I don't want to defrost a whole carton just for it to go off.

katieowl_2

chinagirl wrote: »

I am now washing less of my own clothes. If I wear, say, a knitted top for work, I put it on a hanger on my bedroom curtain rail, while the window is open, and leave it a day or so. Then it freshens so nicely, there is no need to wash it. It smells just like a line-dried top. I then wear it without any qualms. The best way to judge is literally by smelling certain areas, and then make my choice whether it actually needs washing. Seldom do I spill anything down my clothes. Also the clothes last longer, as washing tends to make them look a bit tired after a while.
I do the same with my children's clothes, as they just get heaped on the bedroom floor, so if they smell ok, I shake, fold and pack away.:T

WARNING WARNING WARNING DO NOT try this with a teenage boy's clothes :eek: otherwise you may regret it B I G T I M E

Kate

scheming_gypsy

I've got my washing down nicely.
For work I'll wear the same trousers for 4 days and a clean shirt every day but when I get home i'll just wear the same clothes for the week unless I'm going out. It's dress down day on Friday so on Thursday after work I do two washes, whites and colours, including the after work scruffs. My washing usually consists of; 4 work shirts, a pair of work trousers and a pair of jeans and couple of t-shirts (and socks etc). If I'm in a contract where it isn't dress down day on Friday, I'll wash the whites on a Thursday night and wear a black shirt on Friday so all my colours / darks can go in the wash when I get home from work.

Then I iron everything on a Sunday evening.

7roland8

WARNING WARNING WARNING DO NOT try this with a teenage boy's clothes :eek: otherwise you may regret it B I G T I M E

Secong that - I ised to pick stuff off from the floor and sniff to see if it had been used - BIG mistake I can assure you all!!

GreyQueen

NoMoneyHoney wrote: »

Ah, I remembered the embarassing thing I have considered but never done...
I am not a big milk drinker but my boyfriend has it in his tea when he visits and I like to offer it to guests. I do use it sometimes myself. Anyway, the biggest milk cartons sometimes go on 241 offers etc. Would it be too bad to buy the offer ones and decant them into smaller containers before freezing? I have frozen milk before but only when I knew the whole carton would get used. I don't want to defrost a whole carton just for it to go off.

I started doing this a few months ago. I mean, you can get 4 pints for £1 from Lidl or Iceland or buy milk at 45p for 1 pint or 86p for 2 pints. It's a burden on small households.

How I manage the milk supply is to wait until I'm almost out of milk then buy a 4 pinter. I decant half into 2 x 1 pint plastic milk bottles (leaving some space for the liquid to expand as it freezes) and freeze in upright position. Use the rest and unfreeze the single-pinters as needed.:D

It won't make me rich but it helps make me a bit less poor.....;)