Oldstyle 'witnessing'

rlm_3

My boyfriend was horrified when I mentioned the idea of looking for other people's Tesco receipts to claim the points off them. I know he was well on his way to being converted when he arrived home yesterday to proudly tell me he'd found a '19-pointer'!

FZwanab

swampytiggaa wrote:

I work in Tesco on the checkout at weekends - and have to bite my tongue sometimes as the shopping is going thru......

the amount of people who buy a tiny bag of diced onion for about 89p when for the same price they could get a kilo of onions and dice them themselves [and freeze the extra in portion sizes ]

and i am sooooooooooooo tempted to ask people if they have considered cloth nappies/washable wipes/re-usable san-pro....... and don't get me started on jars of baby food

You mentioned washable wipes. I have a 1 year old and it is costing me a fortune to buy baby wipes. What do you use, how many do you need and how do you clean them, I haven't a clue. Thanks

soba

Ticklemouse wrote:

I mentioned I use bicarb as a deodorant! (Best I've ever used, actually)

How's that done then? Just coming to the end of my deodorant now.

SusanCarter

soba wrote:

How's that done then? Just coming to the end of my deodorant now.

I was wondering the same.

tawnyowls

JCL wrote:

It's amazing to me that people turn up their noses at the thought of not wasting money. Guess some people just can't see the sense in being savvy about how you spend your hard earned cash.

It's weird, isn't it? If you told them to take out a tenner and set fire to it, would they do it? But what's the difference between that and wasting it by paying too much for something? I really think it comes down to snobbery. I find it amusing how so many people who formerly turned up their noses at places like Aldi and Lidl now think it's fine to shop there because they (apparently!) have now gained a type of cult status.

Dale Carnegie once mentioned a story about a lady who pulls off her earring to show her friend and says they were really cheap and the other woman (also wearing inexpensive earrings) says nothing. Later, someone else is overheard describing woman A as 'the one with the cheap earrings'. Moral was supposed to be not to undersell yourself; I prefer to think of it as 'most of the time, no-one has a clue how much that stuff cost'. I find it interesting to read the last page of Saturday's Daily Mail where they get look-a-likes of expensive goods, and you know what? A lot of the time the cheaper stuff actually looks better!

doddsy

rlm wrote:

My boyfriend was horrified when I mentioned the idea of looking for other people's Tesco receipts to claim the points off them. I know he was well on his way to being converted when he arrived home yesterday to proudly tell me he'd found a '19-pointer'!

RLM

I am intrigued - how do you do that? (I don't go to Tescos myself) Do go to sainsburys sometimes though, would it work there?

doddsy

Zed42

FZwanab wrote:

You mentioned washable wipes. I have a 1 year old and it is costing me a fortune to buy baby wipes. What do you use, how many do you need and how do you clean them, I haven't a clue. Thanks

When dd was in nappies I used washable wipes, my favourite were made out of fleece on one side and towelling on the other, just soak in water when you want to use them.. The easiest wipes to have are to cut up some old towels. To wash, I just lobbed them in to the washing machine with the nappies.

Now DD is no longer in nappies, I still use flannels instead of wipes in the kitchen, with these, I lob them in to an old ice cream tub at the end of a meal and soak them in soda crystals and then wash them with the towels when I have enough ....

joannasmum

Zed42 wrote:

When dd was in nappies I used washable wipes, my favourite were made out of fleece on one side and towelling on the other, just soak in water when you want to use them.. The easiest wipes to have are to cut up some old towels. To wash, I just lobbed them in to the washing machine with the nappies.

Now DD is no longer in nappies, I still use flannels instead of wipes in the kitchen, with these, I lob them in to an old ice cream tub at the end of a meal and soak them in soda crystals and then wash them with the towels when I have enough ....

We use Tesco value flannels as wipes have about 30 think they were 10p each. I have put 10 in a old ice cream tub with boiled water tipped over them and we wash them in with the nappies

Sarahsaver

tawnyowls wrote:

Dale Carnegie once mentioned a story about a lady who pulls off her earring to show her friend and says they were really cheap and the other woman (also wearing inexpensive earrings) says nothing. Later, someone else is overheard describing woman A as 'the one with the cheap earrings'. Moral was supposed to be not to undersell yourself; I prefer to think of it as 'most of the time, no-one has a clue how much that stuff cost'. I find it interesting to read the last page of Saturday's Daily Mail where they get look-a-likes of expensive goods, and you know what? A lot of the time the cheaper stuff actually looks better!

Very good point. It took a habit of years to break but at last I can take a complement. Instead of saying 'i bought it from the charity shop/market/sale for £3/had it for years' I say ...thankyou

jazzyjustlaw

Sarahsaver wrote:

Very good point. It took a habit of years to break but at last I can take a complement. Instead of saying 'i bought it from the charity shop/market/sale for £3/had it for years' I say ...thankyou

When people saying I look nice etc and are looking at what Im wearing, I always say "yes it was a bargain costs me £. Did it on Sat night to a top I got last year at next for £3.00." I just get funny looks. My family and friends think I am lucky!! They never find things like that - they cannot be bothered to look. Next time I cam just going to say "thank you."

So thank you SarahSaver for that - that was extremely helpful and it has made my day xx:beer: