The lengths we go to to save money

Helonearth

I have started growing my hair now I can't afford to pay for a cut. I don't trust many people with my hair, so for me it's either £40 or no cut at all! Been more than 6 months now although I have gone for more than 3 years before.

I've found that the facewash I use can easily cope with being topped up with loads of water, so the new bottle will be split into two and topped up! The facewash in itself was bought with gift vouchers I got as points back from my credit card.

I'm really looking to cut back at the mo, and am pretty new to all this, but feeling positive.

gallygirl

DS saves money by only getting hair cut when I have a perm or colour (hairdresser comes to house) and he can get it done while I 'cook' - so I pick up the bill.

However, I am now saving money by NOT having hair coloured or permed.

So, standoff at the mo!

This is him at the mo :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

prophecy_grrl

Hi Spendthrift - I used Clairol NIce N Easy - I have lots of hair, and it's very long, so had to use 2 boxes. They were on offer in Boots, 2 for seven pounds

HTH

datlex

finlay wrote: »

By far the cheapest decongestant is menthol crystals. You buy a very small tub from chemists, Boots have them. They are crystals of menthol. You put a small pinch in a bowl or cup of hot water and sniff. You can also reuse them when they go cold decant the wter and top up. I have had a tub for years and they only cost pence.

I use menthol liquid works as well as vicks/ olbas oil to decongest.

datlex

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Datlex - what freebie bags that boots do? How do you get them????

Catt xx

The ones they do if you spend a certain amount on No7 products. Which are long lasting. Their £13 foundation lasted me a year last time! And I am still working through their eye shadow. Trick is to make sure you don't buy the sort of things that are in the bag, mascara, nail polish, lipstick, lip liner, moisturiser.

mutley74

I used to cut my own hair (male with very short hair). But find it very messy job i.e. hairs everywhere, even though I cut it outside. Also find it hard to use the trimmer to make the back of my neck look smart. I cut my son’s hair once although it was a challenge, but again found it very messy, even with wearing an old clothes on him and me. But it was over £4 saved towards his toys!!

Any advice welcome…


Other – I reuse most A4 envelopes. If I can reuse them I use them next to my desk to collect small bits of scraps papers for recycling.

immoral_angeluk

OH and I've been wearing the same trainers for nearly 2 years even though they give me blisters on my heels because the backs worn out.... :rolleyes:

Bogof_Babe

I'm still ill, but managed to get to the Co-op yesterday (OH drove me), and found they do an own brand lemsip type thing, 10 sachets for £1.99, while the Beechams are 5 sachets for £2.89. The active ingredients appear to be exactly the same too, except they don't actually list the amount of vitamin C, but I don't rely on meds for that anyway.

I have just started washing and re-using individual foil containers that I have bulk-frozen HM ready meals in. They are only 8p each anyway, but that's a carrot or an onion towards my next batch!

p.s. Great play now on Radio 4 about couple in dire financial circs and the steps they are taking!

SoggyMoggy

I bought Tesco's own-brand Cold & Flu powders this week - Lemsip were an astonishing £3.25 for 10, Tesco's were £1.35 for ten. Half a spoonful of honey in the mug and you can't tell the difference (and it was SO nice to be able breathe ...!)

I haven't had my hair cut for ... umm ... three years? At least. And it was only the once then for a school reunion. I'm lucky to have naturally curly dark hair, I've been cutting it myself for as long as I can remember. It does its own thing anyway, so there's absolutely no point in me paying someone to blow it dry in a certain way because it won't stay like it for any longer than it takes me to get home.

I have done the layering thing upside down - a mirror propped behind me on the floor, bending from the hips and looking backwards into the mirror - cut the ends off level, and when I stand up (and the whirling stars have receded) I have neat layers (which then immediately coil up into springs again).

I've been cutting OH's hair ever since we've been together (eleven years), occasionally he does get it done in town; comes home having spent a fiver and looking like he's been attacked. I get to do it for the next few cuts

Neither of my daughters (5 and 4) has ever been to a hairdresser. The elder has long blonde hair with a curl (if it was shorter it would look like mine but she won't hear of it being cut), I just trim the fringe and square off the ends. The younger one has straight blonde hair which I cut into a bob (when I was finally able to bring myself to trim off the baby wisps ). I've never had any training, just willing victims for my experiments!

Recently took to turning off the microwave and built-in oven overnight - the oven is a great reminder because, when you switch it on, the eye-level digital clock resets to 0000, and starts again. So you can see exactly how many hours of electricity you've been wasting when you look at the clock and it's reading 0530, although it was only in use for 30 minutes!

The microwave has a radio/cd player sat on top of it, and although the microwave has the obvious digital display using 'leccy unnecessarily, the radio gets turned off as well because it hums all the time, even when switched off, so it must be using juice for something, even though there's no display.

sharronloves2spend

ooh..i do lots of the above, ive been cutting dh,and three sons hair for about seven years, i have mine cut and colured at a very prestigious salon training school for FREE, my favourite price! dd has grown out her fringe and i take her once a year(before school starts in september) for a trim. I water down handwash/washing up liquid/fabric softner. I mix brand soap powder with cheapo stuff...and it works! we have about two paid for days out a year, the rest of the time we feed the ducks/bike ride/beach/park/picnic/see the squirells /go to the forest..... i use teabags twice and for perfume i ask my family for it as gifts. I am always willing to take stuff of people even if i dont use it i can find someone who will, so much so that my dd had way too much clothes for one little girl , icleared out her wardrobe and passed them on to a grateful friend. I run a tight ship and love a sparkiling clean home......cleaned by watered down stardrops of course. I also recycle unwanted birthday pressiess.....phew sharron