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

outofmoney

Ask for a card to spray the tester on (Most places have them) then place in your clothes drawers at home.

biscuitmad

Hi all

I have really ended reading this thread from start to finish, My OH now thinks im mad as i have been laughing out loud at some of it.

I do most of what is already mentioned but think the OH would moan if i tried to send him to the supermarket just to go to the toilet! :rotfl::rotfl:

I am also as bad as VJSmum, if its my kids who have eaten something then i dont mind sharing it with them.

And my embarrising add well actually my OH's and even i couldnt cope with it, he was at work when a pigeon flew into the receptionists closed window and killed itself, she screamed for him so he went out collected the bird, brought it home, gutted it etc and cooked it and told me it was a lovely meal - i wouldnt know as the thought had me retching!!!!:shocked:

outofmoney

Yay ... Our first roadkill..... Well, sort of!

Kathy535

I am sitting here with a fleece over my legs which keeps me toastie warm and so the heating doesn't need to be on. Much to the disgust of DH and DD who are too proud to use theirs.

I also wash J cloths, have got rid of my tumble drier and hang clothes on a rail in front of the radiators to dry - that way not so much needs ironing. I only iron things that will show, so if DD is going to wear her school jumper over the blouse, the blouse doesn't get ironed (doesn't save many pennies but does save time and time is money!).

I also water down the conditioner that comes with hair dye - it's really thick and a bottle watered down twice will do 10 days if careful.

I charge phones and other electrical bits at work.

I haven't yet got to the stage where I'm using the cats' kill to make stews but with 4 cats we get a lot and last month we got three squirrels in a week and I watched the episode of Masterchef where they cooked squirrel with some interest just in case....

babyshoes

OH and I regularly share food, bowls, plates, glasses, even spoons/forks to save on washing up. We share germs when we kiss eachother anyway, so what's the difference? I am also not too fussy about sharing food with family or close friends, and if I had kids I would quite happily eat off their plates. I think that people tend to be too 'germ phobic' these days!

That said, I would be upset if a waiter had a finger in my food or the chef used the stirring spoon to taste the food. That is quite different, in my opinion!

Shotgun_Rider

Justamum wrote: »

A pack weighing only 190g is nearly 25% short of the weight - that's not 'roughly' 250g, it's way off! Surely there's some legal maximum variation (say 5% either way).

Produce like this are sent over weigh checkers and any under or over weights should be rejected automatically. I'm not sure what the legal weight difference is though. The operator probably just chucked this back on the production line or the checker wasn't working properly.

Robthemog

This is the first time I have been on here, so hope this is right. When I have finished using a large box of washing powder, I take it to bits and then rinse the cardboard in a bowl. There is usually enough powder stuck to the glue to do a bit of hand washing!:)

GreyQueen

Kathy535 wrote: »

I haven't yet got to the stage where I'm using the cats' kill to make stews but with 4 cats we get a lot and last month we got three squirrels in a week and I watched the episode of Masterchef where they cooked squirrel with some interest just in case....

For many years, my Nan was "wooed" by a stray cat which clearly wanted to move into her bungalow. He'd leave little presents of prey on her back doorstep; rats, a mole, squirrels, pigeons and once a pheasant.

The morning of the pheasant, Nan was standing looking down at it in bafflement when it suddenly revived (shocked into immobility but otherwise uninjured) and took off at a dead run thru the hedge.

The story has a happy ending; the cat eventually got his way and is now ensconced indoors as a pet.

PS, I know how to hand-dress a wood pigeon in 60 seconds as was taught whilst living in the woods with the mad bushcrafters. Anybody who isn't squeamish...........feel free to PM me.;)

PPS The bushcrafters say don't try eating town pigeons as they live on vomit and Cheesy Wotsits.

Shotgun_Rider

kiss_me_now9 wrote: »

They're not always just abandoned... I lost my trolley token that I'd had since 2008 a couple of weeks ago as I hadn't realised I'd lost my card and had to abandon my trolley in Aldi

I was walking into a Lidl last year and a woman was returning her empty trolley so I gave her a £1 to save her the hassle of returning it. She looked at me with a smile and handed the trolley over. 15 minutes later as were walking round I looked down and noticed the bint had removed the £1. The ones at my local Lidl just slide out easily. I was fuming that I'd been caught out and that someone could be so small over a £1.

A few days before I'd found a £1 on the cold meat shelf in my local Spar so my mate told me that it was only fair and the £1 wasn't meant to be mine! Cue a smug grin on my face as I walked out of work that evening only to find a £1 by the door. Cautious of karma though I carried that same £1 around for two weeks before I saw a collection box and dropped it in there.

Igamogam

Kathy535 wrote: »

I haven't yet got to the stage where I'm using the cats' kill to make stews but with 4 cats we get a lot and last month we got three squirrels in a week and I watched the episode of Masterchef where they cooked squirrel with some interest just in case....

Our cats eat everything - just the odd foot,tail or bit of gut left behind - not enough for a sandwich However they dont eat the shrews because they give off some nasty taste so not going to bother with those :rotfl::rotfl:
Actually we save money by not overfeeding the cats - one pouch/quarter of large tin each per day -they love it when we go away as our cat feeder 'gives them extras' :eek: