Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

Here's the other thing, say "£2 jar". They have £2 in their pocket, so they put it in their jar; next time they go out they have no money so take out a £20 note ... and as that makes them feel really rich they spend about £18 of it ... and put £2 in the jar... repeat.

If it were me I'd keep the first £2 in my pocket, feel poor and not be tempted to buy things, thus "saving" £20 in my bank account.

PasturesNew

And the ones who say they budget.... then seem to be surprised that Xmas is in December each year and bleat about how much it costs and they have no money for it .... and if you trawl through their postings they seem to be "budgetting" by spending every week/month's money as it comes in.

If you were REALLY budgeting you'd have started saving a pot for that from January!

silvercar

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Even when you wouldn’t have done it anyway, Pastures? :eek:

Seriously, that's the way their mind works.

Example that you can see repeated again and again on grabbit board.

Buy something at Tesco that is £1 cheaper at Asda, that gives you a JTD ( just the difference) money off Tesco shopping from Tesco. = £1 "saving".

Now you use the £1 voucher on your next shop, buy something for £1 that is buy-one-get-one-free, so you buy 2, So you have saved £1 from the BOGOF and using your JTD voucher brings your total bill down £1 + £1 = £2 "saving".

Then, in a feat that explains the country's economy, you add the £2 to the £1 and tell everyone you have saved £3, just by shopping at the more expensive store in the first place.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm nearly 300 miles - and 5 hours' drive away .... so, by staying here I've just saved about £100 in driving/parking ..... so if I were on the other boards I could now declare I've saved £100 this month.

This is like the old joke about the schoolboy who arrived home all sweaty, so his mother asked him why. "I ran all the way home behind the bus, so as to save the bus fare." Mother: "Why not run behind a taxi? You would have saved even more."

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Here's the other thing, say "£2 jar". They have £2 in their pocket, so they put it in their jar; next time they go out they have no money so take out a £20 note ... and as that makes them feel really rich they spend about £18 of it ... and put £2 in the jar... repeat.

If it were me I'd keep the first £2 in my pocket, feel poor and not be tempted to buy things, thus "saving" £20 in my bank account.

it doesn't work if you get more cash out sure, but i have travelled most of my holidays on saved twenty pences. I now do the same, save twenty pences from my change out of my budget, as they are small enough to do with out but big enough to add up quick.


Dh is a nightmare with change, always dumping it. I counted up well ovr 100 quid of his. Drives me mad.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

it doesn't work if you get more cash out sure, but i have travelled most of my holidays on saved twenty pences. I now do the same, save twenty pences from my change out of my budget, as they are small enough to do with out but big enough to add up quick.


Dh is a nightmare with change, always dumping it. I counted up well ovr 100 quid of his. Drives me mad.

i am the same, i just dump it on any surface around the house. i hate having change in my pockets, and i hate using change to buy things with.

whenever i dump it, the mrs takes the some of the £1 coins out and uses them to buy coffee / lunch, and puts the rest in the jar. the jar is overflowing now, i wouldn't be surprised if there was at least £300 in there.

silvercar

i am the same, i just dump it on any surface around the house.

along with your passport, ipad.....

silvercar

whenever i dump it, the mrs takes the some of the £1 coins out...

Have I missed something?

michaels

I put it in my draw and then when I come to take it out again for parking or whatever it has magically disappeared. DW and DKs then chide me for having forgotten about the existence of the 'change fairy' again who works in sort of the opposite manner to the tooth fairy except that I have never got any more teeth?

SingleSue

I dump my 1,2,5 and 10p pieces in a sealed piggy bank, only to be opened when we go away in the summer. The amounts are so tiny the only difference I notice is that my handbag is a little easier to carry but it sure adds up over the year.

Ok, we are not talking mega money but £20 or £30 makes all the difference for us.