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What is the most moneysaving/stingy thing you do?
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Drying out my tea bag after I make a mug of tea, the second one still tastes ok!0
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I'm going to save my 2014 calendar and reuse it in 2025.
Not my idea - just saw it on one of the Freebies threads!0 -
I'm thinking of saving lint from my belly button, Bear Grylls says it makes excellent tinder for lighting fires and cheaper than cotton wool0
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Since reading it on here, i buy full fat milk and Tesco dried skimmed nilk powder, then make-up a pint of milk powder and mix it with the blue top milk.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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Impressed with the suggestions so far! I do some of those, my other is making sure that I fill up the car at the cheapest petrol station when I pass it rather than running low and needing to fill on motorway or without choice.
Also servicing my cars at home. Basic oil change service is very easy and saves about £100 a time.Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0 -
I stick the last sliver of a bar of soap onto the side of the new bar. I keep a written account of every penny I spend.0
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When my human thinks I deserve a treat or a biscuit, he takes me for a walk, hoping to bump into someone who will give me one...I am one of the Dogs of the Index.0
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pay for all insurances premiums annually, but save (in highest AER account) what they would have charged me if I paid monthly (compounding interest etc)Debt is a symptom, solve the problem.0
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Polishing my shoes with banana skins.Free the dunston one next time too.0
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Most toilet tissue is multi ply, so ...0
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