To save money/look good, what have you switched and passed off ......

Lucie_2

Ticklemouse wrote:

I bought my MIL's birthday pressie from TJ Hughes a couple of years ago

Standard birthday present buying fayre for me too. Cheap perfume/aftershave, toiletries & designer t shirts if you look hard enough. Not to mention some quite nice crockery/wine glasses too.
They do sell a lot of tat, but there's always something decent if you look hard enough.

Ticklemouse

Pal wrote:

Anyone else got any ideas for how they can spend lots of money while making themselves look like a skinflint/old style money-saver?

1) Buy all those MSE kitchen gadgets (slow cookers, bread makers etc), top of the range and from the most expensive shops, then never use them and buy ready made from the most expensive shops again.

2) Buy all that healthy, make it from scratch food, then don't use it, bin it and buy the same next week. At least if we look in your fridge, you'll look the part.

3) Buy a £60K car, then tell the charity collectors you'd put more/some in but you're really struggling to keep life and limb together.

4) Spend in Harvey Nicks etc whilst wearing a personalised "I'm a skinflint, so don't ask" t-shirt.

Pal

LOL

Ticklemouse wrote:

1) Buy all those MSE kitchen gadgets (slow cookers, bread makers etc), top of the range and from the most expensive shops, then never use them and buy ready made from the most expensive shops again.

Hey! I'll have you know that I have used my £270 food processor at least twice in the last three months!

System

Hey! I'll have you know that I have used my £270 food processor at least twice in the last three months!

Why was that? Did she 'indoors' threaten to hit you over the head with it?

Pal

How else do you suggest I dispose of the body?

System

Pal wrote:

How else do you suggest I dispose of the body?

Someone pass me a bucket!!! oh you cant cause Pal's wearing it.:D

Pal

That bucket would never fit on my head.

System

Pal wrote:

That bucket would never fit on my head.

and dont we know it.;)

megasaver

:rotfl: :rotfl: Sorry to interrupt the hillarious bucket jokes for a mo, but just realised there is a very similar thread to this one on the shop but don’t drop forum called Crafty shampoo Trick that I have just spotted with some fantastic ideas on it. If you want to go and have a look at it click here . I will of course be posting a link to this thread too, but then again maybe I wont, as I don't want eveybody on MSE knowing what mad people we old stylers are!!!!:rotfl: :rotfl:



Edit: What I meant was (big penny dropping here) that I started this thread we are on now, about 10 days after the one in Shop but don't drop forum, so maybe others like me hadn't noticed it existed! You can tell I am new to all this :rotfl: and don't visit the other forums as much as I should, unlike some of you more experienced lot!!!!

Queenie

megasaver - this one in Old Style appeared after I had mentioned in "shop but don't drop" about our existence Hence, two threads, same theme, different locations