Great 'ways To Cut Back' Hunt

Domthemon

givememoney wrote: »

I do this with cotton wool pads as well. I use toilet roll instead of tissues to remove make up.

Another tip with the toilet roll, crush it slightly this more awkward shape means children cannot easily pull off yards of the paper in one go.

Another tip is to remove the toilet roll, and pin up a single small sheet of newspaper. This reduces your toilet roll costs to zero! You can pick up newspapers free on the park bench or on trains etc. :rolleyes:

Dom

dreams_R_free

DomtheMon wrote: »

Another tip is to remove the toilet roll, and pin up a single small sheet of newspaper. This reduces your toilet roll costs to zero! You can pick up newspapers free on the park bench or on trains etc. :rolleyes:

Dom

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nancypearl

I don't understand why there are so many posts promoting cheap nasty food and clothes.

3 t shirts for a tenner that will go baggy and shapeless, out of fashion and fall to bits that you won't be wearing in a year's time or a 15-20 quid t shirt that you will still be wearing in 4 years time?

LEARN TO COOK (watch 'Ready Steady Cook for tips on how to make things out of what you have got). I would rather have six basic homecooked meals that cost pence and one slap up meal a week (something to look forward to) than 7 meals of cheap processed food that tastes like crap.

Make a shopping list, only take cash and walk to the shops. You physically can't buy or carry those impulse buys!!

Deferred gratification and priorities.

selfemployeddebtbuster

1) Buy in bulk, then have one day of cooking & freeze meals portioned out rather than buying ready meals
2) Cut your own kids & husbands hair, saves a fortune
3) Buy own brand everything ( most of it is made by the big companies anyway)
4) Put £1 a day in a jar and dont touch it.. helps with the holiday fund for next year
5) dont go on holiday and use the £365 to pay off another card payment!!

beemuzed

dunnomate wrote: »

Instead of spending out on a new carpet, just go down to the local carpet store and strap a couple of those 30cm square samples to your feet - much cheaper !

We got our first house in 1973 and could only afford carpet in the livingroom. A friend gave us a length of stair carpet - but the local carpet shop gave us a couple of books of old sample squares and we used them on our landing for the six years we lived there! The quality far outstripped the rest!!!

sweetchilly

1. Stretch your grocery shopping date as much you can.

2. Use www.cookingbynumbers.com, give you nice recipes with your few items left in the fridge or cupboard.

3. Make a shopping list, and compare the prices with online or comparison sites.

4. Split shopping list into two or three, depends on the prices, do not buy all your shopping from same store.

I do split my shopping from Asda, Tesco, Lidil. It saves me around £20 out of my weekly £100 shopping;

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sweetchilly

DomtheMon wrote: »

Another tip is to remove the toilet roll, and pin up a single small sheet of newspaper. This reduces your toilet roll costs to zero! You can pick up newspapers free on the park bench or on trains etc. :rolleyes:

Dom

Another tip to save toilet tissue is wash and clean yourself with water, our ancestors used on the stone age periods. :rotfl: :rotfl:

chickadee

givememoney wrote: »

I do this with cotton wool pads as well. I use toilet roll instead of tissues to remove make up.

Another tip with the toilet roll, crush it slightly this more awkward shape means children cannot easily pull off yards of the paper in one go.

I never use cotton wool at all. I buy inexpensive make-up remover then remove it with a dampened flannel (I have about a dozen for this purpose). I wash the flannels with my towels then re-use them. I haven't used cotton wool for years.

saveaholic68

Hi, I'm new here, but thought I would throw a couple of my tips in - sorry if any of these have been mentioned before.

* On the subject of cotton wool, I always buy it in a roll, as you get much more and it lasts longer than pleats/balls/pads. Poundland sometimes sell the rolls.
* If you have leftover bread, freeze it and use for toast
* The same with vegetables -most veg can be frozen. I chop it up and seperate into little bags - it has the added benefit of being ready prepared next time I'm cooking
* Use a body puff in the bath or shower (you know those scrunched up net things). Since I started using one, my shower gel lasts 3 times longer.
* Keep your freezer full, so it will use less energy

tigerfeet2006

Hi Louise,

I would suggest that you start your own thread on this as more people will see it and be able to offer you advise. It will probably get lost in here.