Getting over the embarassment

flowertotmum

Have to admit that a few years ago i would have been embarrassed to do this but now its a whole different story..i do it on a regular basis and as others have said "money is money" no matter what form it takes..i love CS too..have had some absolutely gorgeous things from them for 2 littlies and me and at very good prices too...every penny saved is in my bank and staying there..
I love doing the whoopsie run...dash in grab it and out..then sit down and work out how much i would have paid for it..gives you a good feeling inside..
keep up the good work
ftm

LondonDreamer

unixgirluk wrote: »

I can't speak for other M&S stores but having been in there to purchase some stuff at lunchtime (using vouchers from surveys) they have half of their self service tills (8 in total) as cash only. In the Morrisons here 2 of the self-service tills are also cash only.

Mine is the other way around - 5 self service tills, 3 are card only. Can't even think of a cash only till around here in any store, apart from temporary ones because the card machine is broken. Although my local £land definitely prefers cash!

Turkishdreamer

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

I love getting a bargain and could'nt care less what people think.
To be honest I find people who don't try to save money are the weird ones.
Why on earth would you not want to get as much as possible for whatever you have to spend.
Let people tut,I'll be the one going home with much more in my shopping bag for spending less money.

I agree 100%. Every single day there is a price increase on so called 'essential items'.

If there is an opportunity to make savings in other ways, who would not want to take that opportunity.

I have learnt to only pick up what I know I will use, freeze or re-vamp. The 'don't through food away' challenge, which I am currently only an avid watcher of, is certainly proving I am not alone.

I find the people that tut are usually the ones that wish they had been a bit quicker off the mark!!!:p

charlies-aunt

I must confess to being completely shameless when either using a purseful of change and a fistful of coupons at the supermarket self serve, trawling through the reduced section or buying most of my clothes in a CS

I too have worked with a few people, who have openly declared that they won't be seen dead in Aldi or Lidl . . . . Charity Shops, Farm Foods and Poundland are beyond the pale! :eek: Silly billies!

Abbafan1972

I used to work with a lady that insisted on buying her weekly shop from M&S. She looked down her noses at the rest of us who liked to look for bargains from Aldi and Lidl!

And it was us that used to laugh at her, so don't be embarrassed op!

minniemaus1970

Be proud of being thrifty and clever!!
I get whoopsies all the time too. However I don't make a point of telling anyone. I know a few of middle class people who are really tight, but they won't tell anyone
I recycle packaging as soon as I get in ( bit OCD must confess) but that is with allmy shopping not just whoopsies, I am a sucker for keep fresh tubs.
I also remove outer cardboard packaging for freezer goods ( you can fit more items in that way. Large meat packs are split into meal portions.
My 'fancy soapdispensers' hold value baby bubblebath @11p, and everyone always comments on how lovely it smells and how soft their hands are! But they never ask what brand it is.
I have a kitchen spray and bathroom spraybottle that get re filled with vinegar and stardrops and I tell everyone I mix my own spray, not because I am skinned or tight, but because it's better for the enviroment and cleans better than most cleaners. All my cleaning products are stored away ( I don't like clutter on show)
I am proud of being money savvie but I don't go on about it to my friends. and if they shop with me they can't belive I can manage to leave Mr T's with 2 bags full for a fiver. Now who is the embarrassed one?
and it's been a few times I held up a Q at the shop cause I paid with change ( I rarely use my card!) I take out money for the week and that will have to do til next week. I have to wear nice things in the office, and most people think that I spend a lot of money on clothes, I don't
I co-ordinate, add to my wardrobe in the sales wisely. Again I don't make a point of saying how much I spend on things, I just wear it. I will tell them if they ask, but they re not that interested....
Be thrifty with confidence, people judge regardless your spending power. you can't do right for wrong.
They won't bother asking if you re confident about it.
I've had 'busy people' tutting at me because of my change-counting ... I just smile at them. It's none of their business, they don't know me and I don't owe them an excuse.
MM

Emuchops

The retailers love people who are embarrassed at being careful with money as it means more profits for them.

Having 'come out' publically as a right tight b*gger, anyone who knows me knows what I'm like and if they don't like it, they can give me a wide berth.

For most people, making money is hard and sometimes unpleasant. When I was employed, before I bought an item I used to weigh up how long I had to work to earn the money which would enable me to purchase the item. Sometimes it really wasn't worth it and the item stayed on the shelf.
Now that I am unemployed, I've racked it up a gear and don't purchase an item unless it's a really good bargain and I need it.:)

I think being careful with money is a sign of intelligence and not something to feel embarrassed about.

Soapy955

I went to M&S recently which is in the same shopping complex as a Sainsburys. I needed milk and I thought that as I was in M&S, and they reckoned they were price matched with Sainsburys on their milk I may as well buy it there. I was stocking up for the freezer so picked up six 4-pint bottles at £1.25 each. The cashier asked if I needed bags, which I did, but then I asked if I would be charged for the bags. She said I would! As she was ringing it all through I suddenly thought, if I went to Sainsburys I wouldn't need to pay for the bags AND I would get Nectar points!! I said to her that I'd buy the other things that I couldn't get in Sainsburys, and that I could manage without a bag, but then explained why I didn't want the milk after all. She seemed a bit put out that I was saving money on bags and going to get my Nectar points!! I asked her at the end, if she'd taken off the cst of the bags again to which she replied "Well that was the whole point of you leaving the milk wasn't it??" with a grimace!! Moody Mare. She then told me that as I was going past the milk aisle to leave the shop that I should put the milk back on the shelf! Silly me, I did! :eek:
And to cap it all they weren't price matched with Sainsburys at all.... I saved 7p a bottle in there!! :T

snowleopard61

I was thrilled when a (young and trendy) girl ran after me in the street to ask where I'd bought the jacket I was wearing, as she'd tried everywhere to find one like it, and my (truthful) answer was 'Oxfam!'

I know at least one relation-by-marriage quietly and tactfully pitied us because she knew I bought many of my children's clothes from charity shops, though I was quite unembarrassed myself, and just pleased with my bargains. And I get the impression I've often been pitied for not driving (something which seems to me like pouring money down the drain if you can manage to live where there is work and get a job within walking distance instead).


I'd be much more embarrassed to admit on the OS board to wasting money than to be seen to be scrimping anywhere else!

vgstar44

Well all i can really say is well done and Keep up the thriftyness!!!

I too in the past had a couple of friends commenting on me being OTT looking for bargains or "embaressing myself " by buying value items instead of branded things.

these so called "friends" have crippled themselves with debt and regularly have there phones cut off ......yet its me whos embaressing!!!

Needless to say i have slowly pushed them out of my life as i will not allow them to judge me when i wouldnt dream on commenting on there guilt free lives...even tho sometimes its been on the tip of my tongue.

i find it quite exciting sometimes getting a really good deal and theres certainly nothing wrong with trying to make your money go that little bit further


Dont let them grind ya down