Money Saving gone TOO far?

valk_scot

Frugal wrote: »

Just pick the absolutely worst thing that you really wouldn't do even if faced with no other choice whatsoever....

Its great to see how different we all are in what we could or couldn't tolerate doing... What is perfectly acceptable to one person can be absolutely abhorrent to another.

Well, I would like to say I'd never want to be one of the unfortunate people that scavanges food out of supermarket dustbins. But if the option was starving or seeing my kids starve, I bet I'd be right in there.

On a day to day basis though? I really, really gag at the thought of eating leftovers that have been on someone else's plate and pushed around by the fork that's been in their mouths. I don't even mean strangers plates, I mean the plates of my own family. Barf! You know these diet books that say "Don't eat the kids' leftovers "? I've never felt the slightest inclination to do this.

Fruball

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Please - I do want to try to enjoy them the next time I have them!:D



Oh I don't - I used to eat it a lot when I was little (DGM made fantastic oxtail soup) not had it for years tho'

ahhhh but you will think of me next time you have them and my ears will be burning as you curse me :rotfl:

I am stopping now

raven83

newlywed wrote: »

Washable squares of material and a bucket - instead of loo paper
Sorry!

not read the whole thread yet but do people really do this?:eek:

Fruball

valk_scot wrote: »

Well, I would like to say I'd never want to be one of the unfortunate people that scavanges food out of supermarket dustbins. But if the option was starving or seeing my kids starve, I bet I'd be right in there.

On a day to day basis though? I really, really gag at the thought of eating leftovers that have been on someone else's plate and pushed around by the fork that's been in their mouths. I don't even mean strangers plates, I mean the plates of my own family. Barf! You know these diet books that say "Don't eat the kids' leftovers "? I've never felt the slightest inclination to do this.

ahhh that reminds me of the person/people who posted that they collected up the KFC bones from friends plates who have chewed on the bones, and made them into soup _pale_

Now the thought of that really turns my stomach - I would be ill.

Where is the throwing up smiley when you need it?

rising_from_the_ashes

Frugal wrote: »

ahhhh but you will think of me next time you have them and my ears will be burning as you curse me :rotfl:

Yup, I bet I will! I'll probably be heard at both ends of the UK!

Frugal wrote: »

ahhh that reminds me of the person/people who posted that they collected up the KFC bones from friends plates who have chewed on the bones, and made them into soup _pale_

Nooooooooooo :eek: yuk - wouldn't ever want to go for a HM dinner, just in case.....

Fruball

raven83 wrote: »

not read the whole thread yet but do people really do this?:eek:

Yep! Just for wees I [STRIKE]think[/STRIKE] hope, one use, into the bucket and washed

(not me btw but I would if it became necessary - I would rather do that than eat brains!)

rising_from_the_ashes

Stop talking about wee!

valk_scot

raven83 wrote: »

not read the whole thread yet but do people really do this?:eek:

Now here's a TMI...if you've got recurring genital warts one of the things the docs used to tell you to do was to stop using loo paper because it caused microscopic scratches in your sensitive bits and you'd basically be reinnoculating yourself with the virus. You were told to use soft bits of old t-shirt fabric instead (which you then disposed of, not washed them), or air dry. That was as well as the treatment itself of course. Now given that half the population carries or has carried some sort of HPV at some point, I wonder why more women don't avoid using loo paper when they have infections like thrush or gardenella or HPV, given it does have this scratching effect? I know that I much preferred using cloth wipes after childbirth for example, because they were much more gentle.

Plumjam

A step to far? I won't steal anything. I don't take toilet rolls, pens, paper or anything from anyone or any business that I haven't been given legitimately (not even pencils from Argos) and I won't let my children do it either. I won't even charge my phone at work - that's stealing electricity that someone else has to pay for (and as I work in public service, that's the tax payer). For me, stealing is just wrong and somebody, somewhere will be at a disadvantage if I do it.

AppleTurnover

Emstick14 wrote: »

Blowing your nose in a tissue and then using it to wipe your "bits and pieces"! Im sorry but that is way too far for me, it grosses me out just thinking about. I can't actually believe that people do this! _pale_

Could be worse. Bits and pieces first! :rotfl::eek: