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  • Triker
    Triker Posts: 7,247 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    When you're the only person to gleefully pick up the 2p that's lying on the floor, when you're out in public, and look at your childrens faces and say 'what'?;)
    DFW Nerd 267. DEBT FREE 11.06.08
    Stick to It by R.B. Stanfield
    It matters not if you try and fail,     And fail, and try again; But it matters much if you try and fail, And fail to try again.
  • Gemmzie
    Gemmzie Posts: 14,876 Forumite
    Store cards aren't evil! Use them in the right way and they are very useful rewarding things to have!
    No longer using this account for new posts from 2013
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    you know your a dfw when hubby turns the light off without needing to be asked any more...i used to go around turning lights off and moaning ...finally it has sunk in
  • Gemmzie
    Gemmzie Posts: 14,876 Forumite
    elantan wrote: »
    you know your a dfw when hubby turns the light off without needing to be asked any more...i used to go around turning lights off and moaning ...finally it has sunk in

    How did you do it? Fess up! We're still working on this one here
    No longer using this account for new posts from 2013
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    i honestly dont know but something mustve worked cause it happened... i wish i had taken a picture to see me through the dark nights of non belief though...was it a one off i wonder
  • immoral_angeluk
    immoral_angeluk Posts: 24,506 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    When having a £25 haircut at 'supercuts' is a once every 4 yearly treat....

    when Cherry Lambrini becomes a totally logical substitute for pink champagne.

    ;)
    Total 'Failed Business' Debt £29,043
    Que sera, sera. <3
  • sophiesmum_2
    sophiesmum_2 Posts: 4,965 Forumite
    When your kids think "leftovers" is a major food group:D :D:D
    Reduce,re-use, recycle.






  • Triker
    Triker Posts: 7,247 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    when you have a 'pretend' baby in order to collect clubcard points and yup I have no shame.:p
    DFW Nerd 267. DEBT FREE 11.06.08
    Stick to It by R.B. Stanfield
    It matters not if you try and fail,     And fail, and try again; But it matters much if you try and fail, And fail to try again.
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,538 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    when your PC flicks through your photos as a screensaver they are mainly photos from ebaying! DS was very confused that I had pics of his old clothes on there...
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7050/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £34,965

    Money making challenge £78/400

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • buxtonrabbitgreen
    buxtonrabbitgreen Posts: 2,856 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    When your kids come back from a school trip to Alton Towers with discount vouchers for you.
    When OH also buys 4 Sun's for the free energy saving lightbulbs, then proceeds to tell you how much electricity you are going to save this year.
    When you go to work and everyone asks you what bargains have you got to tell us aobut today then.
    Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination:beer:

    Oscar Wilde
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