What is the most moneysaving/stingy thing you do?

Mistermeaner

chucknorris wrote: »

I might just be doing the most stingy thing right now. I am making turkey carcass soup for my dog, it is more about treating him though than saving money.

I'll eat that. Love proper soup

lalman

I "recycle" gifts that I recieve from loved ones that I would never use- I.e. I received some m&s chocolates from work and I rewrapped them (with free wrapping paper) and gave them to a family friend for christmas....

3 cups of tea = 2 tea bags

tejero23f

Three things I do on principle to save money
1) I have never bought a costa coffee
2) I have never paid to withdraw from a cash machine
3) I have never used a car wash

In addition like another contributor I have always changed my own oil, filters and plugs. I made up my own ply ramps about 30 years ago and they are still going strong.

I buy in bulk the everyday things- 800 tea bags or biscuits when they are reduced.

The money I save goes on things I enjoy doing in life, helping my children, good food, cigars and wine-The savings make the taste even sweeter!

jimjames

tejero23f wrote: »

Three things I do on principle to save money
1) I have never bought a costa coffee
2) I have never paid to withdraw from a cash machine
3) I have never used a car wash

Same here. We have free coffee and tea provided at work. Also Costa on site. I'm one of the few that has the free coffee not £2 Costa. 2 a day and that's £20 per week. £80 a month on one item yet people claim they are unable to save.

ColdIron

Pret do filter coffee for £0.99, life is for living

Primrose

Painstakingly pulling out and emptying all the fluff out of the vacuum cleaner collection bag over the dustbin so the bag can be reused.

Mickygg

So mine are:

Driving carefully to save fuel
Turning down heating by one degree
Charging phone at work
Amazon prime free 30 day trial to watch walking dead

ffacoffipawb

Primrose wrote: »

Can you enlighten us which ones you use please? The only daily clicks I was aware of were for charity sites like Saving the Rainforest, where sponsors donate a small amount to the charity for every click made.

www.imutual.co.uk


I won't post a referral link.


Daily clicks are under Easy Cashback -- Daily Clicks. Some daily clicks are also sent via e-mail.

brightonman123

Fruit_and_Nut_Case wrote: »

Don't forget to re-gift the cheap wine too.

no chance of that happening

usernamealreadytaken

Oh so many!
Only flush when it's brown (or very dark yellow!)
If you run the tap to get cold or hot water, run it in to a four pint milk bottle then use that to either water plants or flush the toilet.
Shop in the whoopsies section and fill your freezer.
Stock up on non perishable BOGOFs.
Haggle haggle haggle - we've got down to £18/mth for unlimited broadband, anytime landline calls and four mobile phone SIMs with inclusive calls, texts and 200mb data.
Tesco vouchers - never spend on shopping, always double, triple or quadruple up. We use them for RAC full cover every year, meals out, and last year bought an iPad on the double up.
Buy electric hair trimmers - I've been doing hubby and 2x DS hair for over 7 years now, saved a fortune. Still can't persuade hubby to trim mine though! But he does help me to do my home hair colouring.
Learn to cook from scratch - pizza, curry, Thai, Chinese, American BBQ - all at a fraction of the takeaway or pre prepared price.
And the best advice of all - read MSE every week for more tips!!
Love reading all the tips here - hadn't thought of the shower/bucket one, so that's on my list now too!
Happy New Year money savers, my frugal friends x