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

KipKip_2

Nargleblast made me smile! i been watching Martin lewis on GMTV every monring for last few weeks!!! :money:

YAY!!!

Kitten_Pie

When you ask work if you can book all the travel even though it doubles your work load just so you can go through ipoints.

BeautyandtheBeast_3

I love ALDI!

kate_pixie

When you have taken your parent's debit cards away and now give them "pocket money" once a week!! :rotfl:

(I learned my bad habits from somewhere!)

In_Search_Of_Me

when you flog the contents of your flat, then your flat cos you realise its costing a bomb and you cant afford it! The hardest dfw thing so far though has been rehoming my pets cos they cost a bomb too...:(

Katy83

Fairly new to this DFW malarky but this is what I have noticed so far:

1. When you know which supermarkets have good whoops sections, when they are most full and it is the first place you visit in the shop.
2. Getting excited at the thought of going on MSE at lunchtimes.
3. Trying to keep the car below 2500rpm at all times and turning into an old-man driver in the process!
4. Baking/cooking so much that the freezer door will barely close.
5. Buying a sack of lentils from the asian supermarket to add to meals for bulk.
6. Taking the bananas from the free fruit bowl at work home and making banana bread with them.
7. The warm fuzzy feeling of a really nice lunch from the store cupboards which looks 10-times better than the soggy sandwiches everyone else in the office is eating.
8. Spending hours and hours tweaking the finances spreadsheet!

Sassers

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

when you flog the contents of your flat, then your flat cos you realise its costing a bomb and you cant afford it! The hardest dfw thing so far though has been rehoming my pets cos they cost a bomb too...:(

Sending you some of these :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: aww bl**dy hell, that must be horrible....

You know when you're DFW:

......when you buy shedloads of whoopsied fruit and veg for £2.42 like I did last night - and use online survey vouchers to pay for it and still have two vouchers left. Then `rubber chicken' the lot with storecupboard staples to last 10 days lunches and dinners for one.

....when you go into the posh homeware section of M&S, take a pic of their felt flower cushions at £30-odd quid a pop, then make the same thing at home using fabric you got for a £1 from a recycling centre. (And yer best mate likes yours so much she keeps nagging to buy them off you.)

...when you turn large coffee jars into lovely vases with fabric and raffia tied round them to hold the huge bunch of lilac and blue hydrangeas you've ponced while out on a mystery shopping trip (driving past a house where workmen were cutting down this huge bush full of flowers. Screetched to a halt on double yellow lines, leapt out the car - to their amusement - and asked if I could have the lot...lol) Tiny bunch from Mr Tesco's ...about a fiver. err no I don't think so.....

.....when the only mobile phone reception you get at home is standing out in the front garden and one night while on phone to boyfriend, you seriously consider whether the snails climbing up the planters to munch your herbs are edible. Chive flavoured snail anyone?

.....when you and the boyf are too tight/poor/MSE and you spy in the charity shop something you both like so you both chip in and end up having a communal jumper and a pair of trainers between you. (the only clothing we share and we do have more - honest lol)....

love sassers xx

Tixy

Sassers wrote: »

....when you go into the posh homeware section of M&S, take a pic of their felt flower cushions at £30-odd quid a pop, then make the same thing at home using fabric you got for a £1 from a recycling centre. (And yer best mate likes yours so much she keeps nagging to buy them off you.)

C'mon tell me you sold them to her for a healthy profit? - even more DFW!!
Or at least that you now know what she's getting for her birthday :rotfl:

Sassers wrote: »

.....when you and the boyf are too tight/poor/MSE and you spy in the charity shop something you both like so you both chip in and end up having a communal jumper and a pair of trainers between you. (the only clothing we share and we do have more - honest lol)....

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

In_Search_Of_Me

Sassers actually it feels quite liberating-appart from the cats which is absolutely heartbreaking tbh but needs must and I will have contact with them and they will be well looked after! Have kept hugely sentimental things but the rest is gone or boxed!!

Sassers

Tixy - I hate to admit it but the trainers are black with leopard print on...yes honestly. Boyf loves them lol

In Search of Me - I sold a lot of my stuff on ebay and only keep sentimental things. I honestly could load my household items in the back of a transit van. Yes it is liberating.
Glad you're still going to see your cats - I threaten my mog with eviction sometimes lol. Mind you, if she could speak she'd probably say the same thing lol
Sassers x