Thank you OS and everyone - Merged

katiekittykat

This thread is one of the reasons that MSE is such a great place to be

I love it when people are nice

Keep it up :T


xxxxxx

mum2many

Just a great big THANK YOU to everyone on the OS board. you've encouraged me to bake more, save more food and money, and become the wife and mother i want to be.

tattycath

Thank you for the warmth and friendship I have been shown since I joined MSE.
Thank you for all the helpful advice
Thank you for making me think of different ways of saving money on food etc
Thanks for the recipes
Thank you for helping me decide to get my slow cooker out again-it's now a Godsend and I can buy cheaper cuts of meat and slow cook them knowing they will be tender and not like old boots!!!
Thank you for the cleaning advice
Thank you for introducing me to quidco, pigsback and lots of other money saving sites
Thanks for the challenge threads
Thank you for the social aspect and community feeling
Thank you for the laughs we have on here too
Thank you for keeping me motivated and on track when I would otherwise have crumbled and given up
Thank you for starting this thread
And thank you MSE-just for being here

saversarn

I love it, it's like Pollyannas Glad game and accepting an Oscar all rolled into one :-)
I love this site I just wanted my bank charges back but got soo much more than just money.

Olliebeak

Thank you all for making me realise that I'm not just a 'tight-fisted crank' but a 'money-saving fan' - and to my critics - .

Thank you to you all for your ideas, recipes and sense of humour that help me get through the day.

Thank you to all the younger money savers - it's wonderful when the grandmothers among us get taught 'how to suck eggs' - your modern money-saving ways are such a revelation. Why did I never ever think about doing my laundry 'by the weather forecast'. The number of times, in the past, that I've done my laundry on an unsuitable day and had to use the tumble dryer - then discovering that the next day is gorgeous and it could have been dried outdoors instead :mad: .

Thank you for all the information about SC's - what a godsend in my life! Alongside my Pressure Cooker, this has become one of life's necessities.

And finally, my family thank you - for getting me back into baking again! They now walk in, sniff the air and ask 'What's in the tin?' - knowing that there's, at the very least, Twink's Hobnobs plus a cake of some kind (yoghourt, banana, jam sandwich, rich fruit).

Ollie xxx

meanmarie

Thank you for all the tips I would never have thought of which have helped me cut down on my outgoings since I joined
Thank you for telling me about Pigsback and Quidco
But most of all thank you for all the friends I have made and all the love and support I have felt since becoming an OSer that alone has made my life so much richer
Marie

zarazara

all I can say is THANKYOU for lots and lots of tips and suggestions, all detailed abouve in other peoples posts.
I want to do a special thankyou for the change in mindset. Instead of it being "right" to buy branded stuff and expensive stuff because its "better" than theotherstuff, i now think its WRONG to think like that.
Its wrong to be sniffy about people who are saving the pennies and cutting back, they are the clever ones, not the keep up with the Jones types.
So great big THANKYOU for putting me on the right trackafter 40 odd years on the wrong one.

joanie

Thanks to everyone who posts on this site.... when I found you in February after I lost my job..... I just knew we were going to be ok and we could cope with what we had coming in on one salary.

xxx

outrageous_monkey

Thank you for the slow cooker receipes.

Thank you for showing me the light with Stardrops

Thank you for Pigsback, Quidco and the discount voucher thread

Thank you for menu planning

Thank you for Twinks Hobnobs

Thank you for answering any questions I have ever posted

Olliebeak

oooooo another one - many thanks for the freebie laundry powder measure that I was steered towards on the Freebie board. You won't believe how much that has saved me since I got it. My over-use of powder was appalling! I was so impressed that I even sent for one for my daughter!!!