Moneysaving tv programmes

Auntycaz

The one with Greg Wallace in is usually only helpful to people with more money than sense. They can skim quite a lot off their budget because they earn a decent wage and are incredibly wasteful. But they don't seem to help people on minimum wage.

Frugalista

Auntycaz said:

The one with Greg Wallace in is usually only helpful to people with more money than sense. They can skim quite a lot off their budget because they earn a decent wage and are incredibly wasteful. But they don't seem to help people on minimum wage.

OH and I have often said this.  I would love to see them tackle one with people who are genuinely living a more thrifty lifestyle on very little money and see how they could help them.  Now that would make for interesting viewing.

MandM90

Not the one you asked for but recently I've been binge watching Til Debt Do Us Part on YouTube. It's a Canadian show filmed in early 2000s where she went in and whipped consumerist couples into shape. She actually since retired from finance-related activities, feeling frustrated that life kept getting harder for working people and didn't want to perpetuate the false notion that young people are generally poor because of avocado toast habits, and now campaigns against poverty and seems like a really lovely lady.

goldfinches

Pollycat said:

There used to be a C4 (I think) similar programme with a very (imho) irritating woman called Mrs Moneypenny who used to wear hats.
Superscrimpers.

I do remember one episode of this programme where she tackled a household in which the adults insisted on buying brands rather than own labels and she had Mary Berry do a spaghetti bolognese taste test between a Dolmio jar and her own recipe. Not surprisingly, both the adults and the children preferred her version which was about a third of the cost and that did rather shake the family concerned. 
I think I remember it mainly because Mary Berry was so nice compared to the presenter who was extremely irritating, she had the habit of referring to her own children as "cost centres" and usually dressed in orange I seem to recall (can this really be accurate, surely I'm imagining this, no wonder I got rid of my TV). 

maman

You aren't wrong @goldfinches, she was an overweight woman wearing a big orange hat. 🤣

goldfinches

maman said:

You aren't wrong @goldfinches, she was an overweight woman wearing a big orange hat. 🤣

Thankyou for that, my imagination/memory has been rather untrustworthy today so I was beginning to wonder if it was leading me down the garden path somewhat. 

Pollycat

maman said:

You aren't wrong @goldfinches, she was an overweight woman wearing a big orange hat. 🤣

And lots of lipstick...

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Was Super*crimpers the one where people used a couple of lemons & a bit of bicarb to clean the whole house 😛 😉

calleyw

PipneyJane said:

I am very frustrated by the ?Channel 4 program “How to save a grand in 24 hours”.  Most of the savings aren’t real.  (Spending £300 to DIY and “save” £1,000 by not hiring professionals, is not a real saving when you didn’t have the £1k to begin with and would just have continued to live with whatever-it-was.).  Very rarely does the audience learn anything useful, unlike on “Your Money Or Your Life”.

- Pip

Pip, Glad I am not the only one who gets annoyed by that sort of thing.And yes I did watch that series and found it rather meh!!!  Saw an article the other day about this couple who had raised the value of their house by 50K but spent 40K doing it and was in the building trade and knew others who could help for mates rates.

Fiona236

Best one was called scrimpers from the 80s or early 90s.  Its on youtube