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Old Adages: Money style!
Queenie
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A few have come up in threads recently and I wondered which old adages you were brought up that still ring inside your head and remind you of thrifty ways to behave
For example:
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For example:
- Waste not, want not
- You can't make a silk purse out a sow's ear
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be
- Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
- Money doesn't grow on trees
- You can't take it with you when you die
- Rather be skint than have nowt
- A fool and his money are soon parted
- What the eye doesn't see they heart doesn't grieve over
- Money can't by happiness
- All things come to those who wait
- Never let your possessions, possess you!
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A few I can remember are:
Where there's a will there's a way.
When the going gets tough, watch the tough get going.
Pride goes before a fall.
Don't get above your station in life.
Ifits. (In reply to what's for dinner: if its in the fridge/cupboard)0 -
:rotfl:Trying2Save wrote:.......Ifits. (In reply to what's for dinner: if its in the fridge/cupboard)
Oooh, you were *rich* - most of my childhood anyone asking what's for dinner got the standard reply: Bread & Pullit!!! I was sick and tired of Bread & Pullit by the age of 8yo!
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Heard of bread and drippin but not pullit?0
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Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow, but Never Jam Today.0
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What goes around, comes around
if something's worth doing, it's worth doing well
and my favourite
If you don't like the way I do it ...0 -
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Oh, i got it. LOL. Brain's not working today, must have been when I bathed the dog in the vinegar wash! LOL.0
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If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen
Organised people are just too lazy to look for things
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You got it quicker than me T2S - I got to 15yo and was still none the wiser, 'til I asked
:rotfl: Could never say that to my wormy lot ... they'd not only sleep there, but eat throughout the night too! No way would I save any money on that one LOLmoggins wrote:If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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piddles make puddles
every little helps - to which my dad added 'said the old lady as she peed in the sea'Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.0
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