Economic Living Is The Exercise

zippydooda

locarr wrote: »

hello mate, £7 worth of papers for £10 (prob less than that as daily papers cheaper) but see you get a £2 bet as well
but not for me unless there are codes on the coupons for on line entries.
but great if you buy the paper anyway.

David.

zippydooda wrote: »

hello mate, £7 worth of papers for £10 but see you get a £2 bet as well
but not for me unless there are codes on the coupons for on line enteries.
but great if you buy the paper anyway.

Maybe it is cheaper during the week

zippydooda

David. wrote: »

Maybe it is cheaper during the week

yes edited,

zippydooda

good night D. and locarr & streetlights :beer:
oh and lurkers

double episode of wentworth to watch, then off to western super tomorrow.

zippydooda

locarr wrote: »

on reflection, if (and i have no idea of cost) the sun costs 50p in the week. if you can collect multiple vouchers to use. it could be a great deal reduce the cost of petrol. :beer:

WishI'dReadSooner

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

RatedPeople.com is pretty good for finding reliable, cost-effective tradespeople, if you don't know anyone by the word-of-mouth route. I've used it a couple of times in the past and been pleased with the results. Just specify the kind of work you want doing (can be any job small or big), and tradespeople will quote on the job; website also gives guide prices as to what the quotes should be. Tradespeople are also rated by their previous customers on the website (bit like fleabay) so you can instantly see if they're getting good feedback or not.
hth

I had a good quote from someone on rated people with LOADS of great feedback. He re-roofed our garage - his quote was about £100 cheaper than I'd gotten from calling around but he explained he was teaching his son. All looked OK.

Six months later the flat roof started to tear off. Turned out he had used very poor quality roofing felt - the type used for sheds NOT for garages. It was a very expensive lesson. Went back on rated people after I couldn't get his phone number to be answered or mobile to ring to find loads of complaints a few months down the line. I'm gonna stick to 'proper tradespeople' from now on. My dad always hated going back to clear up messes from other 'so called builders' that were often untrained and unable to do a 'proper' job.

Use rated people at your peril - some may be OK but make sure their feedback goes back years.

WishI'dReadSooner

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

My kitchen cost me

MDG £20 - auction
Doors £30 - auction
Iroko £110 - off the dock
Door handles £10 - auction
Flooring - tiles which they dropped when they delivered them, so they sent us another lot FOC (which did the conservatory)
Wall tiles - home made

Although I have to admit I have seen some good Howden's kitchens and my next kitchen may be from them (subject to a flipping good deal!)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I'll be honest & say I've actually looked for kitchens on auction sites. I'm not adverse to getting a bargain. All the ones I've seen that I've been vaguely interested in have been from up North. However, although I have a garage there is no room for a car or anything in it. It's full of stuff including 2 households worth of very nice carpet tiles, about 10 still boxed chests of drawers (Schreiber from when I worked in MFI about 20yrs ago) Now why didn't I buy a kitchen then?

fairclaire

WishI'dReadSooner wrote: »

I'll be honest & say I've actually looked for kitchens on auction sites. I'm not adverse to getting a bargain. All the ones I've seen that I've been vaguely interested in have been from up North. However, although I have a garage there is no room for a car or anything in it. It's full of stuff including 2 households worth of very nice carpet tiles, about 10 still boxed chests of drawers (Schreiber from when I worked in MFI about 20yrs ago) Now why didn't I buy a kitchen then?

When we first bought this house.....and it was a total wreck :eek: we won a whole fitted kitchen on eBay for 99p. No one else bid on it. I felt terribly embarrassed going to pick it up it was in good condition but very dated.
Turns out that the people getting rid of it wanted just that....to be rid of it and we were taking it off their hands. We used the carcasses as there was nothing wrong with them and we bought another kitchen.....also off eBay for much cheapness and used the doors and drawer facings on the 99p carcasses
It wasn't the prettiest but it was functional and it lasted us until I got my new kitchen fitted about 18 months/2 years ago.

The seller of the 99p kitchen phoned us twice after the sale to say they'd found 'bits' lying around from it and we could come and get them if we wanted.

The whole thing was a bit of a saga. I 'won' some kitchen cupboard doors....also on eBay in the midst of all this. When I went to pick them up, the seller lived directly across the road from b&q and had obviously been raiding their bins :eek: They had a garage full of b&q items that had obviously been chucked out as unusable. :rotfl::rotfl:
I look back on it all now as a good experience

fairclaire

I must get to bed.

Had a fab night at the fireworks and an unexpectedly nice night when I got home

HG......you have not changed a bit

altojack

I'm off to bed too, been looking for my password for FB. Found it and see I'm no longer a member of any groups :eek: