Extreme Money Saving things you have done!

AmyGroovy3

zippybungle wrote: »

Smuggled our own drinks/sweets into places (such as the cinema/shows)

Zippy x

doesnt everybody do that lol, im onli young and i do it!

pinstriper

i once seen a £20 note down a drain, unfortunatly there was a car parked on it, so me and my sister jacked up the car, crowbared up the drain cover, and split the money beween us! I also spend about 9 months ever year living in a 36 year old volkswagen van hahaha.

reehsetin

louby_lou wrote: »

I refuse to pay 90p - £1 for a bottle of coke zero every day at work

i just get a box of bottles of coke from costco and take a bottle a day

Charis

kizzykizzywizzy wrote: »

My nan used to save the string off of the Sunday roast - yuk!!

I love this! Did she ever use it? My mother had an enormous mound of things that 'might come in useful one day'. They never did, she had to get rid of the lot when she sold the house and moved into a flat. :rolleyes:

Charis

pinstriper wrote: »

i once seen a £20 note down a drain, unfortunatly there was a car parked on it, so me and my sister jacked up the car, crowbared up the drain cover, and split the money beween us! quote]

One of the best jokes my (aged 20 something) kids played was with one of those advertising leaflets for Family Credit which looked like printed money. They cut out one, folded it to look like currency, wedged it under a car tyre and scattered a few 1p an 2p coins around it. They then went into their gran's bedroom and videoed people stopping to try and pick it up. Instant candid camera. The funniest was a couple we all knew to be extremely frugal. 'Mr and Mrs Tightwad'. I hope we frugal folk don't all come over as quite that eccentric. I never saw the video but the kids still laugh about it when they get together.

Charis

HugoSP

kizzykizzywizzy wrote: »

My nan used to save the string off of the Sunday roast - yuk!!

My aunt used surgical tape instead of string for the roast. She worked as an auxiliary at a local hospital and used to get this stuff, she used it for everything.

Oddly enough we never went for lunch, any day of the week, especially after her chicken sandwich episode. They tasted lovely but spitting the bones out politely was one of life's challenges.

She is now a little older and frailer, so when she has guests she gets in ready made platters from the supermarket (thank heavens). This way we don't need to visit the clinic for e coli screening afterwards.

Sarahsaver

I have made soup from the skin of a baked potato.
Maybe extreme now but it was standard practice during the war not to waste anything;)

Saver95

I was using a vending machine once and as I waited for my change to fall, I felt something that was already there. I found 35p! I do that all the time now and regulaly find odd 20p's!

kittenpea

re using the water out of your dehumidifier does that count!!!

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Annie021063

kittenpea wrote: »

re using the water out of your dehumidifier does that count!!!

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we do that all the time in the summer, it goes straight into water butt for the plants.:D