You know your'e a DFW when you...

Lemon_Tree

when you work out you save 1p by getting 2 books of 6 first class stamps from Superdrug on their offer instead of buying a book of 12.

dozy_dora

bellsbells wrote: »

Well for me it is when I find myself starting sentences with 'Martin says....' or 'The Boards say......' on anything from birthday presents, homemade bread to computers:rotfl:

Or
you surfed this site all evening and the ONLY conversation you had went something like...'it says on here...'

And...
when the moisturising cream I'd specifically gone to Aldi to get was sold out, thought about charging my sis petrol money for the stuff I did get for her!

budicca

you know you're a dfw when...

...you go for a walk in the woods with a log basket to collect kindling

sillyvixen

when most of your christmas shopping is done by the end of january.

when you have one roll of soft toilet roll and only put it out when you have visitors (in place of value roll).

UnlikelyButTrue

you know you are a DFW when-
- you go to the supermarket and everything you buy has a reduced label on it.
-you find yourself tutting at prices in charity shops.
-you walk four times as far because the milk is 4p cheaper there.
-you feed cats tinned tuna because its cheaper than tinned food.
-everything your friends buy results in you saying 'well, you could have got that cheaper'
-you take a calculator to tesco.
-freecycle and MSE forums are the highlight of your day
reading this thread makes me feel so pleased that i'm not the only penny pincher here- in fact, it makes me feel like theres a whole community out there- no more apologising- i'm a skinflint and proud!

tudorfan22

- you take a calculator to tesco

lol!!!

mama67

tudorfan22 wrote: »

- you take a calculator to tesco

lol!!!

Done this for years lol!!

Couple more to add

- when your kids know something must have been on offer or reduced etc as "that's the only time we get that Mum".
- when you put your grocery list into mysupermarket.co.uk to make sure you are getting the best deals and are signed up to email newsletters from all supermarkets for their weekly specials/offers.

got-it-spend-it

This thread is great- I keep finding myself thinking "Yep, that's me..." to loads of the posts. Mine are:

• You plan your weekend around your mystery shopping assignments
• You have a cupboard full of teabags, sachets of coffee, sachets of hot chocolate and mini jars of jam, procured from hotels- the best ones are from work trips where it wasn't even you paying for the hotel:o ...(I haven't bought tea bags for ages because of my light fingers in hotels)
• One of your favourite pastimes is l surfing the internet to find out how much the freebies you've received this week are worth (so you can update your spreadsheet, obviously)

Keep them coming people!:rotfl:

Lucy x

Curveygirl

"Im only a newbie but just rang hubby who is out for drinks with his boss to tell him that ive saved us £15 a month on our electric bill"

:T
Full belly laugh when I read this one (dog came to see what the game was).
I LOVE this thread -makes me feel like I'm not the only weirdo.

elantan

UnlikelyButTrue wrote: »

you know you are a DFW when-
- you go to the supermarket and everything you buy has a reduced label on it.
-you find yourself tutting at prices in charity shops.
-you walk four times as far because the milk is 4p cheaper there.
-you feed cats tinned tuna because its cheaper than tinned food.
-everything your friends buy results in you saying 'well, you could have got that cheaper'
-you take a calculator to tesco.
-freecycle and MSE forums are the highlight of your day
reading this thread makes me feel so pleased that i'm not the only penny pincher here- in fact, it makes me feel like theres a whole community out there- no more apologising- i'm a skinflint and proud!

its the cat food one that got me i used to have a cat he loved tuna but i always said it was too expensive so he got whiskas !!!!!! was i thinking ...think i should go get another cat now to try to make up for it lol