You know MSE/DFW is taking over when...

jamtart6

You know MSE is taking over your life (and that of friends and family) when they refer to you as Martina Lewis ... I think Martina suits me !!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

EDIT: and when a certain member of the family refers to the website as "tight-gits.com" ..... (we'll be rich-gits.com one day!!)

Warriorsith

You know your doing your bit to help other people/friends when you sign them up for weekly newsletter and tell them to claim back bank charges and check out other moneysaving tips.

Then they come back to you and tell you which of the freebies they've received through the site.

I'm forever promoting this site, the more that join the smarter we'll all become at managing our money.

chocaholic110

• When you only go out for a meal or drink when it is paid for by a mystery shopping company
• When you get cross when other people are looking through the "whoops" section in the supermarket in case they pick up your bargain
• When you won't buy a paperback from the market for £1.95 (your previous bargain books) because you can get them at a car boot fair for 20p or free at the library
• When you are now your library's best customer
• When your 8 year old daughter says "Mum, this top is too short, you can put it on ebay"
• When you look at other people in shops buying loads of things and think smugly "I bet they haven't had their lightbulb moment yet"
• When you check your online balances every day and are disappointed when there is no change
• When you talk about Martin as if he is someone you actually know

Embarrasingly these are all true! I have been calling OH tight for years and I think these days I am probably tighter than he is!

OliveOyl_2

You have mixed feelings about recommending Mystery Shopping to someone, yes that's £1.50 to your account, but it also means increased competition for local assignments:o

Tou get deleriously excited at spending a Threshers £30 coupon that OH received from work, and are able to combine it with a 30% discount voucher from the MSE freebie boards Wahay!:j

Cazzdevil

Skint_Catt wrote: »

I would have just washed my body with the shampoo. Same stuff! :rotfl:

C xx

I keep telling my OH that, he's got the hairiest chest known to man so washing with shampoo would make it lovely and soft

Toto

When you ask your partner what he thinks is the most romantic thing he does and he replies... I give you all of my £2 coins, and you go all warm and fuzzy, because that is the ultimate romance.

When you're in a studio recording and it's taking forever, you look at the clock and see it's 11.30pm and you break out in a cold sweat panicing because you haven't done your piggy comps yet.

angelavdavis

You know MSE/DFW is taking over when...

....you ponder over your meager fridge contents wondering what you can add to tomato and turnip to make the soup vaguely palletable!

....your mother calls you tight!

....you regularly speak to your veggie plants asking them to grow faster so you won't have to buy any veg at the supermarket!

....you still have a full freezer after eating out of it for over two weeks because you have loads of "leftover" meals!

....you log on whilst holidaying the other side of the world to see what has been happening while you have been away

....your OH yells upstairs that "your mate is on telly" when Martin comes on!

....you tell your bank that you have no need for a special rate loan, but thanks for asking!

SarahNeedle1872

U know MSE/DFW is taking over when:

• Everytime u walk past the computer, you just HAVE to switch it on again to see if I-A has updated her diary
• U edit ur sig everytime u put a few pence in ur debt account
• When u have a bank account/money pot for EVERYTHING (I'm on 3 money pots, 8 accounts and I'm just about to open another one!
• When ur reason for not giving OH money is 'u don't have a budget for it'
• When ur OH is convinced ur having an affair with Martin/every other MSE'r because that's all u can talk about.
• When ur OH refuses to go anywhere in the car just because u have an MSE car sticker

Hello, my name is SarahNeedle1872 and I am an MSE-aholic:D

DontDoDebtKids

CAFCGirl wrote: »

You break out in a cold sweat at the point of breaking into a £2 coin

When the forum page is set as your internet homepage

You see it as a personal challenge to make a rubber chicken stretch further than 4 complete meals.

Every single bank/credit card/utility bill ahs its own folder and is in chronological date order

You keep a pile of open envelopes/junk mail leaflets to write your shopping lists on

You spend an extra 45 mins shopping going between Superdrug.Boots and Wilkinson to see who has the better offers!

Although maybe thats just me

Nope, not just you.

hambrook

catewithers wrote: »

You know MSE/DFW is taking over when...

....when you're in the shower and realise that instead of squeezing out shower gel, you've got shampoo in your hand. But you've already shampooed your hair. So you spend alomst 10 minutes trying to get the shampoo back into the bottle, even though it has the tiniest hole in the world for it to go back through, but that's got to be better than wasting it by rinsing it down the plughole right???

However, it dawns on you, after 10 minutes of trying to do this, that you've probably wasted so much water with the shower on while you were completely absorbed in this ridiculous task, that you've more than likely wasted even more money than you would have done by simply washing said offending shampoo down the plughole!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

We buy Tesco bubble bath and decant that into the pump soap dispensers in the loo! And no it doesnt dry your skin or cause rashes or anything else. What it does do is clean your hands. I don't for one moment believe that Smithkline Beecham or Tescos have a dedicated factory exclusively making super moisture rich, extra tripple creamy milk of mermaid shower gel.

And do you HONESTLY think there is THAT much difference between shower gel and shampoo? I shower ever morning with shampoo on one of those exfoliating puff things. No dry skin or problems ever