How far do we all go to save money?

bathgatebuyer

Car washing is moneysaving! My car is 7 years old, pristine condition because it's washed and polished every 3 or 4 weeks. Have had someone offer to buy it for £5250 which isn't bad given that it cost £8K 3 and a half years ago and has had 52K miles to the clock. I'm sure it's excellent condition is the reason it's held it's value so well.A car may be a depreciating asset, but you can try and minimise the depreciation a little.

Only thing is, now I want a new car and that ain't moneysaving!

mariagti

lol, some of these are funny! Lighting a candle in the loo for a few minutes to get rid of the pong!:rotfl: Thats one ive never heard of! I just open the window!:rotfl:

I live at home and my dad thinks because its daylight in the day you dont need the heating on until 5pm then its goes off at 9pm. Plus he will only have it set on 18!!!! And thats the temp i put my climate control on in the car when i want it to be cold!:rotfl:

Spendaholic_Chick

18 degrees is supposed to be the optimum temperature - it's what's recommended to have babies rooms set at. However, I feel too cold wit anything less than 20!

savingmore

oohhh - just discovered this thread, right up my street....
i don't think these things are wierd at all...although i haven't tried the lighting the candle in the bathroom one! i too open the window, but will try the candle, does it have to be a fragrance one.
1. i pick up all coins
2. pick up elastic bands from postmen
3. make my own cards, but with all the stuff i have bought, don't think i have saved too much yet
4. make birthday and xmas tags from old cards
5. save all old cards to see what bits i can use for new cards, some work, some don't
6. will park car a little out to save car parking money although we do have alot of on street parking in this town but this limits you to one hour
7. steam all vegs and potatoes etc in one pot, using only one ring on gas hob
8. use slow cooker lots
9. recycle pressies that we don't need or want
10...wash our own car (well DH does!)
11. use up left overs to make soup or something

will try to think of more things, i try to do what i can and would love to learn more things!!!! keep the ideas coming!:T

ZTD

Spendaholic_Chick wrote: »

18 degrees is supposed to be the optimum temperature - it's what's recommended to have babies rooms set at. However, I feel too cold wit anything less than 20!

I must have a hot little bot, because my heating is off and my thermometer says 15C and it's just slightly cool for me.

It's 10C outside though.

Mrs._Irwin

Although I agree that car parking can be very expensive, moneysavers should be good neighbours too - please don't park on residential streets to go into town! When we lived in the town centre, we often couldn't park on our own street because of all the non-permit holders taking up spaces. It used to make me so mad, I wanted to follow them home and park in their driveways. Remember - town-centre dwellers are people too!

Rant over.

I have been cutting my own hair this year, it's curly, so very forgiving. The trick is to grab a small section, and then snip into the ends. I've done it twice, which has saved me £60. I'm more concerned about the shiny greys to be honest, but I'm pregnant which is a good excuse for not shelling out on dye.

Mrs. Irwin

mariagti

savingmore wrote: »

oohhh - just discovered this thread, right up my street....
i don't think these things are wierd at all...although i haven't tried the lighting the candle in the bathroom one! i too open the window, but will try the candle, does it have to be a fragrance one.
1. i pick up all coins
2. pick up elastic bands from postmen
3. make my own cards, but with all the stuff i have bought, don't think i have saved too much yet
4. make birthday and xmas tags from old cards
5. save all old cards to see what bits i can use for new cards, some work, some don't
6. will park car a little out to save car parking money although we do have alot of on street parking in this town but this limits you to one hour
7. steam all vegs and potatoes etc in one pot, using only one ring on gas hob
8. use slow cooker lots
9. recycle pressies that we don't need or want
10...wash our own car (well DH does!)
11. use up left overs to make soup or something

will try to think of more things, i try to do what i can and would love to learn more things!!!! keep the ideas coming!:T

My grandad does this too...but what do you use them for?

Candy0107

PrincessPeach wrote: »

same here, i tend to recycle my presents. xmas cards i'm waiting for them to go down even further in the sales....best times are just before they are due to finish.

No doubt I will be making another trip into Boots - last time it wasn't MSE friendly. I forgot to go the the Ad card machine, and possibly lost out on a voucher!

I think that I might re-cycle the cards from this year, for next years tags.

Candy0107

Ches wrote: »

WM goes on when low rate electric starts at night - I used to put a load on when I was off to bed so it was ready for the morning
TD goes on before low rate electric stops in morning - I thought I was the only one to do this. We lived in a flat, on econ 7 plan, so TD went on at 5 - 6 am
Central Heating is on lowest comfortable setting - what's heating?, me and my husband used to sit in front of the telly with a track suit on with a jumper, and a quilt
We have low energy bulbs in all light fittings - I am a firm believer in this
We use the shower, never the bath - unfortunately, showers are my only option

savingmore

oohh that makes me feel old...what do i do with the elastic bands? good question, put them in my desk in case we need them!!! DS uses them but don't ask me what for, just saves me buying them....