Things you've done when things got desperate!

Strapped

olibearhorse wrote: »

I had to sneaka toilet roll home from work once because we couldn't afford to buy any. Felt terrible and replaced it when I got paid the following month! Sorry, couldn't do the yellow pages thing!

You're not the only one! Hubby sells washroom stuff for a living, and he often gets companies wanting to fit secure dispensers because the employees are costing them a fortune nicking the bog roll!

PasturesNew

If you're going to nick the bog roll, take the insert back the next day and swap it for a half finished roll. That way, with enough inserts still around, nobody suspects the whole rolls are going missing.

And just keep doing that. Swap an insert for the next roll all the time.

If they counted them over time to check, it would be: 20 new loo rolls put out, 19 empty inserts collected. So they would be able to see 1 person nicked 1 roll. Not that you had 3/week for the last month.

Strapped

Good tip, but sadly "usage" is also monitored in the bigger companies and compared with an average. (As you can imagine, my hubby is great at parties lol. And the long winter evenings just rush by :rotfl: )

dreams_R_free

Good grief, Strapped! Monitoring usage against the average:eek: . Whatever next?

My DH has a 'thing' about my overuse of toilet roll, even though I pay for it. He can hear me pulling sheets off the roll and always makes some snide comment when I come out of the bathroom:o. It's just one of his many nit-picking habits:rolleyes: .

115K

Impomdasp wrote: »

My DH has a 'thing' about my overuse of toilet roll, even though I pay for it. He can hear me pulling sheets off the roll and always makes some snide comment when I come out of the bathroom:o. It's just one of his many nit-picking habits:rolleyes: .

OMG I thought my hubbie was bad with complaining about my fetish for toilet roll but at least he doesn't stand outside bathroom door counting.:rotfl:

dreams_R_free

I don't think he stands outside the door counting, 115K:rotfl: . He's got super-human hearing though and can hear me muttering about him from the other end of the house:eek: . He can hear the roll-holder turning as I pull sheets off. Maybe I should play the radio really loud in there whenever I need to use the loo:rotfl: .

maddriver

I have driven without MOT for a while cos there was a problem with the emission control I couldn't afford to get fixed.
Paid for petrol with a cheque on guarantee card when I knew there was no money in bank.
"forgot" my wallet at my local petrol station, cos they let you fill out a form and bring the payment within 7 days (untill I tried it at a different station and found that one only gave 24 hours) - wallet was in car so there wasn't a suspisious lump in pocket.
Spent the night in the car cos electric ran out the day before payday, and heating didn't work without electric to run the pump (I had petrol to run the engine for heat tho)

AND that was all before I reached LBM. That wasn't untill credit cards stopped increasing my limit and bank asked for the cheque book and guarantee card back.

Since then I've got an evening job to top up income from day job, which now cover all of my bills and help to clear the CC's.

tooties

TheAble wrote: »

I used to buy Tesco value tea bags. I didn't really need to though, they were just the cheapest option.

i use them all the time 32p a box bargain

silkglade

azjh77 wrote: »

I have also gone into my Mum's house while she is at work and 'borrowed' some tins from her cupboard....

I have done this and had a nose in the freezer too .

Years ago I had to borrow teabags, milk and toilet rolls from work too...

I used to eat the really cheap noodles with the cheapo tinned tomatoes for months too when my ex and I first moved in together, sometimes we had a treat and got some cheese to grate on it too:D - He moved from another area to where I was.. I got a 2nd job just to be able to pay the rent for start.

We had the massive budget of £5 per week for food... Good old days.. Would not go back to that for anything,

pennyfrog

Again, so many of these sound so familiar to me!!!! (Yep, rolled up loo roll user here!)

Several years ago we lived in a ground floor flat which backed onto the side of a house that had its entrance facing our back door- away from the road. (iyswim).
The people moved out of the house but had obviously forgotten to let the milkman know. The property didn't look empty- they left the old curtains up. The milkman carried on delivering two pints of milk. Being very hard up, and knowing nobody was there to take the milk in, I popped out and nabbed it. Very naughty of us, but we carried on collecting the milk each day. This particular milkman really did call at the crack of dawn before most people were up. Having a baby and a toddler at the time, I was always up early, so was able to get the milk unseen. We sometimes left a note in the empties for extra milk or things that they also delivered, like bags of spuds, cheese, other dairy produce and so on. He carried on delivering for quite a while, until I suppose he got fed up with no-one answering the door when he called for the money- then stopped delivering. Still, it helped no end at the time.