What's your non OS guilty secret?

Cadi

Molton Brown handwash.

I have to wash my hands frequently at work, in other people's houses, so I get to know handwashes very well (I think Carex is evil, skin-knackering stuff...). I often get it for Christmas and I look out for money-off vouchers on the Grabbit forum so I don't need to spend too much on it though. When I'm running low I sometimes cheat and pore some Baylis and Harding stuff into the bottle .

Molly41

I love Elemis products. I never buy them full price though and always get them for presents too. I am also very frugal with them and use sparingly but they last ages.

catch_me_if_you_can

snowleopard61 wrote: »

Aaron's mummy - you may well have thought of this one already but if not (and you're fairly brave!), try your local FE college. Mine has a proper salon and I had my hair cut there by a third year trainee for £7. She did a perfectly reasonable job although it did take ages because she kept checking the details with her tutor. If you have a very precise short style it probably isn't ideal, but mine isn't and I was happy with it - happier than I've sometimes been after a salon visit, although that may reflect the standard of the cheap salons I've tended to use!

College near us has a hair/beauty salon and 2 restaurants. Have to say the food in both the bistro and the main restaurant is head and shoulders over any other restaurant we've eaten in. And they often do offers such as £15 for 3 courses,(think Masterchef!) canapes on arrival, petit fours and coffee included.

Thats why my diet doesn't work.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

Lurking in time honoured fashion. Lovely thread and particular 'Hi' to all the Iphone owners.
My Iphone is an essential not luxury. I would never give it up or advise others to do so, it is too useful and multifunctional a device and best smartphone available (and yes I hate Apple along with Microsoft, Google etc).

Kaz2904

Can't give up my car. If I did, I would have to leg it out of work in the morning to get home for DH to get the kids to school and himself to work. I would then have to get up at 2.15 instead of 2.50 to go and get DD. We would both then have to run up to DS's school and I think the hill would kill me. I have 15 minutes between the school finishing times and can't get that far in that time . No way I could do it straight from bed with no breakfast especially as I generally wake up a bit shaky/ juddery and take about 5 minutes to get my co-ordination up together.
Could give up sky and love film but DH won't even entertain the thought.
Nice smellies, but these are bought in bulk when on offer. Good quality make-up. This works out cheaper because it has a higher pigment anyway.

Kaz2904

Just remembered another- sheepskin slippers. Cost about £20 per pair but keep my feet warm

zcrat41

Frizz ease.

I'd scare the neighbours without it.

snowleopard61

zcrat41 wrote: »

Frizz ease.

I'd scare the neighbours without it.

This is off topic so hope I don't get into trouble. On the subject of scaring neighbours - when my children were small, I was on the PTA and was responsible for hiring a gorilla suit from the local amdram company for a school event. The kids hadn't seen it so when I got them up in the morning I put it on to amuse them. My (then) husband was just going off to work and it was v early so I didn't expect anyone to be around, so stood at the door with the two girls waving him off, still in the gorilla suit - and my elderly neighbour across the road came out to her car.:rotfl:I meant to explain next time I bumped into her but it happened to be so long afterwards that I didn't feel I could bring the subject up and (perhaps more disturbingly) she didn't mention it so obviously felt it was quite usual for our family ...:D

valk_scot

The second car. My Hubby uses his to commute to work...one hour to drive, three hours by public transport. I live in a small town and it would be perfectly possible to walk most places but...30 minutes each way to the allotment, carrying all the food home from the supermarket three times a week, getting the kids to rugby/swimming/Scouts on the outskirts of town would be a non-starter, given that they're a 30 minute walk in opposite directions. And Hubby is often not at home till 7 or 8pm. Also, my health is a bit ropey and I find walking increasingly tiring. To walk to the allotment and back would leave me prostrate with exhaustion for the rest of the day. Still, when Hubby is having a work from home day and I look out the window to see two cars sitting eating money on the side of the road, it's annoying. We really need 1.5 cars tbh. The other 0.5 is a total waste of money.

Still, I don't drink, don't smoke, have never got my nails done or a massage or gone to a beauty salon in my life, cut my own hair, don't wear make-up, use supermarket beauty products and dress mostly out of charity shops. Sod it, I'm having my car! We don't buy new cars btw. Six month old ex-rental fleet with low milage then we run them into the ground. I got 13 years out my last one, until it became uneconomic to repair it.

My other non-OS habit that I'm not giving up is my very OS hobbies. You can't get much more OS than spinning and weaving, sewing and knitting etc! But you can get a bit carried away with buying equipment and high-end supplies. You can pay up to £1000 for a top quality spinning wheel, eek. Not that I have, of course, I buy second hand. But my hobbies certainly don't save money, quite the opposite, if you only think of it in terms of the final result. But that's like comparing home made bread using quality ingredients to Value white sliced. No comparison, really. However once again I don't eat out much, buy takeaways or have a gym membership. I go to craft classes, meetings and exhibitions instead for my outings and social life.

imogen-p

The main ones are internet and contact lenses. The internet has helped with the lack of a car (got rid a couple of year back when I couldn't afford to repair it any more), as I use it one heavy goods shop per month online (tinned things like tomatoes and beans, rice, pasta, soya milk) @sda is fairly cheap, £2, for delivery if you don't mind having one of the six hour delivery slots, so it's definitely cheaper than running the car.

Contact lenses I won't do without, as every time I used glasses for more than a month or two by perscription has deteriorated, and on contacts it's stayed the same for a couple of years at a time. Contact lenses probably aren't very OS, but being able to see okay matters more.