Money Saving gone TOO far?

oldtractor

LOL. Sounds like my house.................................

roosterpotatoes

oldtractor wrote: »

LOL. Sounds like my house.................................

Mine too

I'm sharing my old styleness with a lady from my sons old toddler group, she is the cook and we got onto the subject of damson jam and green tomato chutney, my apple tree is in abundance with apples so I swapped her for empty jars, win win situation all round. The great thing is there must be at least 45 years between us and we seem to have so much in common

Pink.

Hi Val,

You sound just like me! I'll add this to our existing thread later:

Money Saving gone TOO far?

Pink

Flibsey

I agree with all of the above and wish to add: being willing to take two busses to go get a tesco bargain rather than wait until night-shift hubby is awake and risk not getting the bargains and also justifying this in a few ways:
already having subsidised bus tickets to use up (use by date is end of 2013, but that doesn't matter!!)
needing a few groceries... but being so excited about bargainous findings I forgot my corriandar AND margarine.

and also forgetting the vouchers I was gonna use on my groceries and feeling annoyed at only realising on the bus home!!!!!

oh, and your child arrives home and asks "any bargains today?" or "have you cooked cookies?" :rotfl:

JulieGeorgiana

... when you can't sleep because you are so excited about the 'money you saved' or 'the new idea you've had' or the new 'bread machine you got' and you just keep going on and on about it to anyone who will listen...

...and you Husband tells you it's late, there is work in the morning, and asks you to go to sleep...!

Any

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Brilliant post OP!

valk_scot wrote: »

...when you find yourself planning tomorrow night's dinner/the next five days dinners round what won't fit in your freezer.

That is completely normal, isn't it??? Because if not no one told me!!:eek::rotfl:

valk_scot wrote: »

,,,when you get so excited about the bargains you've got in your trolley that you forget to buy the rest of your shopping list.

Yep, that is also me... :rotfl:

euronorris

valk_scot wrote: »

Anyway, I've calmed down a bit now. Sad, innit? So when exactly did you realise you'd taken this OS stuff a wee bit too far, maybe?

When, two days after fixing the hem on my work trousers, I am STILL disproportionately proud of my small achievment and am still fighting the urge to tell all of my colleagues about it.

They won't 'get it'.

Nicky2905

oh, and your child arrives home and asks "any bargains today?" or "have you cooked cookies?" :rotfl:[/QUOTE]

Hahaha!! Oh yes!! I've only been doing this OS malarky for a month and already dd comes home and asks what have I baked today?? She's loving having homemade cakes (with little messages like "I love you" written on in icing) and jellies in her lunchbox - I was worried she might feel odd because she's not getting branded stuff anymore, but she tells me all her friends are jealous of her homemade goodies and she has the best lunch!!

ruthber

When you buy 5 sacks of charcoal just when the winter is drawing in as it was reduced to £1 per sack. Now all I have to do is find the space to store it.

Sunnyday

This made me chuckle

Val you sound like you`ve got it sussed :rotfl: Sounds as if you have great neighbours too so you`re a sucess all round!

I`ve gone a bit OTT with the bargains too, yesterday i made a new freezer inventory and moved everything around between the two freezers and the only space that i made was enough to shove half a loaf in that hubs didn`t take fishing

I bought tins that won`t fit into the huge tin cupboard as all shelves are full and stacked so high that the drawer at the top won`t open as the bottom catches them, my larder cupboard which isn`t even properly finished is so full thati can`t find anything when i need it without emptying at least half a shelf

The spare bedroom is a cat food, dogfood and anything else that won`t fit into the kitchen overspill and that is getting a bit out of control too, the additional under bed lidded storage box is already full of emergency vac packed packs of flour and yeast and cartons of UHT milk (this was a godsend last year so started early this time) the shed is full of loo rolls and i`m struggling for more space.

I`ve a cupboard full of hm wine and shelves of pickles and chutneys and have almost run out of jars, after a couple of years of nagging colleagues peeps are now growing their own and we are exchanging goodies at work, yesterday i gave away a bottle of wine and some tomatoes and recieved loads of runner beans and some chillies, today i will receive a huge bag of cooking apples and give away chutney. Some of the runners will be used in some piccalilli that i`ve been meaning to make for a few days now and we shall have to eat the rest pretty quickly as the fridge is also full:o

After the C event in December i probably won`t have to shop until summer :rotfl: Everything was a bargain so i`ve saved tons and yes i even have the Cmas dinner stashed - as soon as the 3 bird roasts in Ald! had decent dates on i bought mine and stashed it

*Goes off with a big daft grin on face*

SD