Do you throw money away - literally?

missprice

meritaten wrote: »

are you joking? do you know how much they charge in late fees? the last time I went they wanted £2 for each book - That's £20 quid - and it made no difference I had been in hospital and couldn't return books on time!

Check with your local council, mine let you renew online or by phone as well as in the library.

Agree late fees are too much now, but I only ever had maybe 4 late books ( in 20 years).
Also you can keep them for 13 weeks and longer if no one has asked for the same book to be kept for them.

Anatidaephobia

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

I'm exactly like the OP's partner. Life is too short and just as I loathe being stuck in a supermarket queue behind someone that has packed their shopping and while the checkout operator and everyone else waits for them to pay, they spend five minutes sorting through 52 vouchers to work out which ones they can use today, I refuse to do the same to others.

I don't understand the concept that using vouchers is time consuming. I've never been in a supermarket queue stuck behind someone who was messing about with vouchers. Using my own vouchers is not time consuming either - it takes about an extra second to hand over the voucher! It only takes the sales assistant another second to scan it.

Judging from posts I've seen on MSE I guess I'm in a lucky minority - no doubt next time I go to the shops, I'll get stuck behind someone trying to use 20 out of date vouchers and then the shop will refuse to accept my own voucher!

Anatidaephobia

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Looking in the desk draw I have:

Supermarkets: Sainsburys, Tesco, Waitrose

Fuel: Shell

Shops: Boots, House of Frasers, Harrods, Holland & Barrett, Monsoon, Waterstones, Superdrug, Debenhams Beauty, Bodyshop, The Perfume Shop, Heathrow Rewards, Ikea, Liberty, Co-op, WHSmiths, Space NK


Restaurants: Nandos, GBK, Redcard (local pub chain), Mexican Kitchen, Burrito Kitchen, Eat, Starbucks, Caf! Nero, Costa, Pret, Brassiere Blanc

Travel: BA, Virgin, Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa, Hilton, Starwoods, Hyatt, Carlson, Accor , Hertz, Avis, eurostar



There are possibly more as the Mrs isnt good at putting them back when ones been used and these are just the UK ones, we probably have more of international ones.

My wallet holds 6 cards including credit cards, driving license etc. How bid do you want my wallet to be carrying this 40+ cards around with me? How big do you think my trouser pockets are to hold them all?

I didn't realise there were so many cards. WH Smith, Waterstones, Debenhams, I didn't know these shops had loyalty cards.

I have the following: Nectar card, Tesco clubcard, Boots advantage card, Ikea card.

That's it. We don't have a local Waitrose. I don't bother with high street stores because I shop mainly in supermarkets, local stores, or online.

74jax

My hubby can frequently forget (?!?!) to pay in cheques..... i might find them a year later and he'll say 'it was only £12'............. I'd have it paid in the moment I got it....

DKLS

I have my last bonus cheque and letter from a large corporate framed and put on my office wall, the value of the cheque is massively outweighed by the motivation it provides me.