What's your non OS guilty secret?

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internet
car

karren

tryingtocutback wrote: »

bobble-hat - I was the same, I couldnt live without my liz earle cleanse and polish UNTIL some kind people on here recommended the superdrug vitamin E hot cloth cleanser. Its £5.99 for a massive 200ml and comes with a muslin cloth.

I was very dubious about it but, if Im honest, I actually prefer it to the Liz Earle one and it has cleared up the stubborn congestion around my nose area (sorry if thats TMI!).

Its definitely worth a go as a stop gap until you can afford the liz earle - like me, you may prefer it!

does this work on sensitive dry skin too????

jannyannie

Hi all

Two things I won't give up, my gym membership, I go most days and it stops me from being a complete alcoholic (probably works out cheaper) and getting my hair cut and coloured every 8 weeks. Have tried cheaper options with my hair and it's been a nightmare for years really thick, curly, prone to frizz and long. I would rather live on baked beans than not see my hairdresser.

Am really lucky I never started smoking and I try not to drink too much these days.

I guess it depends what you value, like most people I work really hard and I don't see why I shouldn't have something nice for all the slogging I do.

x

happy35

i wouldnt want to give up my car, takes about 30 minutes to get to work but would take about 2 hours on public transport

I also wouldnt want to give up takeaways, we normally get a takeaway or fish and chips once a week costs about £10 for the 3 of us, usually get the set price offer on a Thursday or Friday. I work full time and think of this as my night off as cook from scratch the other nights and to be honest prefer this to going out for something to eat as cant usually be bothered to get ready

minniemaus1970

Hi everyone,

love this forum, great thread!!!

I have given up just about everything, Sky+, smoking, cut down going out to now and then with the girls.

I also work in a corporate enviroment and used to have false nails, it ruined my nails but also got me out of the habbit of biting them. I now file buff and polish them, then apply Sally Hanson's "Diamond Hard" then 2 coats of pale pink ( out of the french polish kits) and everyone thinks I get them done at the salon :jI actually find it very therapeutic, I do it while watching TV - once a week

I will not give up
- organic real freerange local eggs ( £1 for 6), I get them at work , one of our managers gets them from his neighbour, they are sooooooooooo nice.
PG tips
-Carr's Flour (it makes really nice bread and cakes )
-going out with the girls from work ( £30- 6x year )
-my dishwasher, frugaled away and saved for 18 months until I could pay for another one.
H&S shampoo - everything else just makes me itch
My little Car - got to earn the pennys, but will walk everywhere else!
apart from that - happy to cut down on everything and save the planet.

MM :rotfl:

jpscloud

Olokia wrote: »

My cats - (Thanks to quidco though, one of them costs only £10 insurance, the other is going to cost loads thanks to her allergies)

Cats are very OS though if you consider they probably put mice off moving into our homes (mine also eats spiders and other assorted creatures that find their way into the house!) They're warm to snuggle with too

Ceirdwyn

Sky, we don't have movies but we have everything else. Including broadband.
Smartphones, I love mine, and it's cheaper than an iPhone
My snakes, but they don't cost a lot really, they only get fed once every 2 or three weeks and their heat is on a thermostat.
My hubby would never give up his guitars/piano but he hasn't bought a new guitar in years, it's just strings. He can fix and set them up himself too, so that's good.

ETA: And my laptop with broadband, I don't need it as such, but it's a big link to the outside world when I'm bed bound for days.

security_solutions

I couldn't be without my car (need it for work), my home and its some good home security. I also could not do without my laptop. I'd be lost without it.

adelight

I can skip annual treats, travel form london to glasgow on an all night coach, get up an hour earlier to walk somewhere, do my own highlights, have replaced most of my posh cosmetics/toiletries with home made ones- ANYTHING! but I just can't give up my clipper organic green tea habit. I've tried all the other cheaper green teas but they're no where near as nice.
On occasion I have been known to choose tea over dinner, and I lost a stone in a particularly tight month in my first year of uni when I decided I'd rather spend most of my £20ish I had left on tea, tobacco and a night at the pub than food :eek: I lived off porridge made with water, lentils and whatever fruit or veg I could get for free or close to at the end of the day at market. I always put tea and tobacco ahead of food in my first year of uni, my family were always horrified when I came home looking like a rake and they had to fatten me up. Then I gave up smoking and got a better job :rotfl:

cheeswright

a cold stella at the end of a days summer gardening
heinz cream of tomatoe soup when i'm ill ( i dont know what the put in it but nothing else will do)
a bag of chips at the seaside