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

honeybear_2

BEAT_THE_DEBT wrote: »

when candle light is a cheap way to light a room and no longer just romantic!!

When you agree with this & also have to add that it helps with the heat too

Debt_Free_Dreamer

pandapaws wrote: »

...and when you do go, you spend half the evening in the hotel loos topping up your glass from the bottle of value gin you brought in your handbag. Then spend the other half of the evening trying to ram the empty bottle into the sanitary bin!

Please tell me it isn't just me that's done that...

We have had a baby or a toddler for the last six years and I put the gin in the baby bottle. Just have to remember not to give that one to the kid :j:j

Debt_Free_Dreamer

When you offer to book the hotel for a meeting at work in London, so you can get the cashback on Qudico for eveyone's rooms

When you always pay the bill on your Amex and then collect the cash when you go out with your mates for a meal. So you get the Amex cashback.

When you offer to to the shopping for the girl's weekend away, so you can collect the Tesco Points, use a load of MOC's and a cash back card. My food was FREE for the weekend as there were 16 of us

When you no longer have seconds for tea, it goes straight in 2 boxes ready for the freezer, so the OH can have it for his tea on another night.

When you buy in bulk cause there is an offer on and have hundreds of packets of baby wipes stocked up under the stairs. Along with the wine, (Tesco's points dreal) tomatoes, dishwasher tablets.

When your mates ask you get the tickets for the Good Food Show, cause you got them 'BOGOF' last year and they know you can get the best deals.

When you visit an old mate in Oxford and produce from your handbag 6 vouchers for restaurants and ask "which one shall we go to then?"

Kandipandi

I'v often gone to the DVD shelf for certain a movie only for DH to say - I think that went last year when we were broke! I have bought and sold DVD's twice over (bought in charity shops only!.)
I also use half a tablet in dishwasher/washer,
Squeeze loo rolls so they dont use too much,
Stay at work late to save my heating bills - gaining flexi time to take off in the summer (when its warm ),
Drive 5-10 miles to save 40p on a jar of coffee as i am not paying for my fuel - its a company car,
At work offer to do collections and buy all leaving gifts / new baby gifts from boots to get the points,
Add lentils to spag bol to make it stretch,
Use stardrops on everything that needs cleaning,
Charge phone/ipod at work, free electric,
Take empty bottle to kitchen and fill from water cooler to take home - free filtered water,
Often people at work come to ask my advice on money matters,
Swap and share kids clothes with friends - not bought a winter coat for about 6 years now for my kids,
Make all home furnishings - curtains/cushions/bedding etc from old cast offs charity shops etc (on a borrowed sewing machine).......
God the list goes on.............

Sassers

I've thought of something else...when you feel miserable at only eating out of the supermarket bargain bin/buying clothes from the charity shop/constantly `rubber chickening your money, food etc'....after a while it not only becomes second nature, you end up feeling very smug and able to take on the world - well I do - also consider yourself the ultimate recycler. whether that's turning 20 trays of 10p tomatoes into (using reused coffee jars) oven-dried tomatoes, or mashing a 30p bag of nuclear meltdown bananas into a fab cake that will last a week in the tin (you got given free from work).....

It's not that I'm tight - it's just I begrudge paying for things such as a £3.99 spaghetti carbona (that I saw a woman paying for the other day) when this is a meal in my house for when I'm poorer than usual just before payday. And I really wanted to drag this woman aside and say `ere have you heard of MSE and old style' lol....
Love Sassers x

niklepic

you feel ripped off following a trip to the pound shop because the thing you've just bought is 79p in home bargains!

Useless_with_wonga

When you collect deadfall/old pallets/discarded wood to burn on your fire instead of turning on the heating.
When you actually start to enjoy shopping in the charity shops and feel smug when you pick up designer clothes at a fraction of the cost of new
.
When your friends and family comment how smart you look in your new suit little knowing that you picked it up including shirt and tie for £5 from Oxfam.

When you are no longer bothered how old your car is,how many miles it has on the clock and the fact that it is starting to rust. It has four wheels and it is legal cost less than what I would once pay for 4 tyres therefore it is just fine by me.

When the supermarkets valuebrand actually tastes OK and you no longer care what he label looks like.

When you realise no matter the price of toilet roll it does the same job.

When you realise that last year's football computer games cost a fraction of the latest version and work just fine besides they are new to us and therefore just as much fun.

That foreign holidays are nice but short lived and expensive. Discovering the fun to be had by staying in the UK in places that you have never visited before whilst staying in a tent or youth hostel.

Realising that £35 a month Gym membership is downright stupidity when you can run and it costs you nothing other than the trainers that you probably already own.

You start to take an interest in your payslip instead of just reading the bottom line every month.

There are loads more but that will do me for now:D

SarahNeedle1872

Wow, havent seen this thread for a long time! NIce to see some new ones though

Pippilongstocking

'Your children say - MUM!!!!! do you want it?do you need it ?can you get it somewhere else cheaper' (and have you checked quidco?)

Good old Martin and his lovely books!

In_Search_Of_Me

When you make 240 in a day selling your stuff and are exstatic but tired havng been on your feet at the car boot and shifting furniture since 6am but still feel its worth it!