The Great 'What do you regret skimping on?' Hunt Revisited

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charlieheard wrote: »

A few years ago on a "Credit Crunch Tour" (TM), we stayed at a Formule1 hotel in France. They are very cheap, as they don't have staff to check you in - it's all electronic, including key codes for the doors. The rooms can only sleep 3, so we had one for the kids. Everything was shabby, and showers and toilets were shared. It made Travelodge seem up-market!

Wouldn't recommend it!

I actually loved these. At about £27 a night where else can you stay in paris that's clean and not next to a brothel.I took my daughter and friend to formula 1 once for her birthday treat. Three people in a room for £27 - that's moneysaving .they do have some hotels with different bed arrangements but what do you expect for £27.
Also you can cancel your booking at very short notice .Great value and great idea.

StacFace

Since I buy pretty much everything as cheap as possible there's been quite a few for me.

Cola (hated the taste), lemonade (tasted of nothing), pineapple juice (like a watery cordial), chicken soup (smelt and tasted awful, though not sure if that's just because it was 'cream of' since the non-'cream of' tomato one was fine), cornflakes (funny taste to them, thought it was my milk going off at first), tights (laddered them almost immediately), bubble bath (hardly any bubbles unless you used loads and even then disappeared pretty quickly), tin opener (stopped working after a few months), kitchen scales (stopped working after a year) and batteries (run out so quickly you don't even save when accounting for how much cheaper they are and some rusted before I even got chance to use them). Cheap washing up liquid I didn't buy but I've seen others use plenty of it whilst I was still getting through a bottle of Persil my Mum gave me when I moved, so decided to switch straight to Aldi's once the reduced Fairy I bought since runs out.

Not sure I really regret the purchases though, with small everyday things I'd rather get it cheap, not like it and decide to go up to own brand next time than buy everything own brand to avoid the odd value thing I don't like, which is going to be much more expensive in the long run when you consider how many things I didn't list above because I did like the cheapest version. Bit different when it comes to more 'permanent' things like buying/renting a house or things like holidays/special occassions.

Diabolical wrote: »

Tin cans should be recycled, not put into bin bags!!!!

Depends on your area - the rules on what does and doesn't get recycled can vary a lot depending on where you live. Just as an example where I live recyclable items are plastic (bottles only), cardboard, drinks cans but not food tins, textiles, aerosols, newspapers/magazines/catalogues/paper/etc except envelopes with windows, cartons, glass bottles/jars and batteries. Where my parents live they only recycle food tins but not drinks cans, newspapers but no other form of cardboard/paper and glass bottles/jars. Caused no end of confusion when I first moved into a student house with 4 others from all different parts of the country, all of us having been used to a different set of rules and none of them now being correct.

1trainer1

Tea Bags - PG tips are the only ones for me as they are a good brew.

Washing up liquid - Fairy by a mile, have tried loads of others but nothing ever cleans as good as fairy