Any "embarrassing" money saving things you do?

moneyistooshorttomention

On the donating blood front - I'm in favour in theory and have done so before now.

In practice - I've got a female body and that means periods were depleting my body of iron (I gather) for many years. I had severe problems with periods whilst in the relevant agegroup and am still feeling the after-effects now some years later imo. I've found the iron (ie ferritin) levels in my blood are okay by British standards - but blimmin' awful by international standards and could well be the explanation for why I'm having hair and energy problems. Working on sorting that out at the moment....

But I do think that's one of the things where people need to be aware that Mother Nature has decreed that womens bodies arent identical to male ones in some respects. Yep.....discrimination....but whatcanyado when its Mother Nature doing the discriminating:cool:. So - I do think people with female bodies need to be aware that our bodies may be lower on iron than male bodies before we decide whether to be a blood donor.

It does say something when the levels of ferritin in the blood that are stated to be adequate do seem to be rather a lot lower for people with female bodies than people with male bodies:eek:

NewShadow

happyinflorida wrote: »

What on earth for? Most charities in the UK pay their CEO's around £150K a year or more!! I stopped giving to all charities when I found that out.

I would suggest (if you were so inclined) to consider some of the smaller local charities in your area.

Where I am (as an example) are several community based groups that have 'taken over' the running of the local youth clubs and community hall due to cutbacks at the local government level.

There are also a number of stray cat charities that operate a catch, spay, and release locally.

Both are not affiliated to any larger organisations and therefore my donations go to work 'on the ground' - and both directly improve the quality of life in my immediate vicinity.

Pollycat

mcculloch29 wrote: »

When I was out of work and doing voluntary work (which became a paid job) I made sure I donated blood. I can no longer do so as I am on strong painkillers, but when I didn't have much money for charity donations, I could do this for society, at least.
Being on the bed and equal with everyone else who was donating their pint made me feel better about my own situation. I did manage to get to my Bronze award before I had to stop.
I would have been well past Silver by now if I'd been able to carry on , c'est la vie.
I urge everybody who can do so to do this. I might add that I'm not too keen on needles, but I still made it.

I was a blood donor at age 17. If was encouraged by my company (talking 46 years ago).
I went regularly, got my bronze & silver badge, on my way to my gold & was rejected because I'd been to Thailand.
I went 4 times & was rejected every time.
Couldn't be a*sed to spend the time going again.

nataliajasm wrote: »

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hilstep2000

I gave blood 31 times, then got MS so they wouldn't let me.
Three years ago I got adrenal cancer. I had to have 11 pints of blood. Glad I put some in!

VfM4meplse

hilstep2000 wrote: »

I gave blood 31 times, then got MS so they wouldn't let me.
Three years ago I got adrenal cancer. I had to have 11 pints of blood. Glad I put some in!

Bless you! You have really had it rough, time to look after yourself.

I'm another one who cannot give blood, but I make up for it in it other ways (give my professional time freely to support the causes I believe in).

LameWolf

'Nuvver one here who isn't allowed to give blood - lupus and RA precludes it. Would if I was able though, despite pretty hefty needle-phobia.

Getting back on topic, it doesn't embarrass me, but my DH cringes when I tell him to HALT!! the wheelchair cos I just spotted a 1p coin on the ground. :rotfl:

VfM4meplse

I bought this yesterday from the chazzer about wartime rationing, it looks fascinating and I'm hoping it will bolster my OS ways:



I'm enjoying the history lesson, there are helpful "sucking eggs" tips translating this to the present day at the end of each chapter. I'll post again if I find anything particularly embarrassing.

charlies-aunt

happyinflorida wrote: »

What on earth for? Most charities in the UK pay their CEO's around £150K a year or more!! I stopped giving to all charities when I found that out.

I stopped giving to any charity like cancer research and british heart foundation etc when I found out they experimented on animals - no thank you, I don't want animals tortured to death with my money.

Apologies happyinflorida did not intend to cause offence

Fruball

Great thread. Bumping so I can find it tomorrow.

Pollycat

Fruball wrote: »

Great thread. Bumping so I can find it tomorrow.

You can subscribe to a thread - when viewing a thread, you will see a second green bar and 'thread tools' is in the middle of the lower one.

Click on that and you can 'subscribe' to the thread you're viewing.

It will then show in your 'User CP' (CP = control panel) along with all the other threads you've posted on.

I click on 'user cp' when I first log on.

Hope this makes sense and is useful.