Sneaky ways to save the pennies

wizk1

I save quite a chunk off my weekly food costs by visiting the parents at least one for week, conveniently around dinner time:p

wizk1

... Oh. And I charge my mobile phone at work rather than at home. I don't know how much money that saves, but every penny helps.

Natcurvygirl

hi there ive read all of this thread at some time and its fab!! Its just hard to remember all of the clever tips ! I try and charge my mobie at work whenever poss too! A little thing i do to cut down on washing is to fill a plant spray bottle with water and some fabric softner and use this to spray my clothes at the end of the day and then hang them to dry on the curtain pole in my bed room not only does it freshen up skirts and trousers etc which dont need washing after just one wear but it helps creases drop out too and makes my room smell nice

Margaret54

Hi great thread this.:) I do many of the tips myself and now more than ever we will need to be careful. I think we do all this automatically now and even if it seems only a tiny bit of money is saved, it all adds up. I hate waste.

Raksha

ditsy wrote: »

Instead of using loo roll, buy tesco value tissue, the one in a box not packets, about 25p. Because you only take one at a time it stops you wasting so much, one box lasted me two weeks!! xx

This might sound like money saving, but if it's not 'toilet tissue' it might not breakdown in the sewage system and there will be resulting blockages - not very MSE if you have to pay to clear them

Primrose

I couldn't resist a wry smile at the programme last night to "Find the Meanest Person in the Country". Sharing a teabag between more than one cup, re-using foil and plastic bags, cutting a dishwater tablet in half, buying clothes from charity shops, looking for reduce price groceries reaching their "Sell-by" date etc? I think many of us on here do this but we don't call it "Mean". We call it "Frugal". That smug young female presenter got on my nerves.. Doesn't she realise that by the time she's grown into an elderly old lady, many of the world's current resources will have been used up and she will be inheriting the proceeds of today's wasteful policies adopted by so many. I'd much rather they had called the programme "Find the Country's most Frugal Hero" so we could get the message across that Waste of any kind is sinful.

EssexHebridean

I was in Tescos last night - a couple of young girls - probably 13 or thereabouts - walked past me and one of them flicked a penny onto the floor with the comment that "It's not worth bothering with" - needless to say, I waited for them to pass, bent down, and retrieved and pocketed said penny! I love the fact that apparently it's not "cool" to bother keeing your coppers - my OH picks up an amazing amount from the ground each year so thanks to the cool-kiddies for this! :rotfl:

raphanius

I was in Tescos last night - a couple of young girls - probably 13 or thereabouts - walked past me and one of them flicked a penny onto the floor with the comment that "It's not worth bothering with"

the same thing happened when i was leaving my local spar, a teenage boy threw several coppers away and i sneakily picked them all up

i hate the idea that saving money is 'mean' its should be clever to save not spend...if more people were frugal we might not have had the credit drunch at all.

geordie_joe

Raksha wrote: »

This might sound like money saving, but if it's not 'toilet tissue' it might not breakdown in the sewage system and there will be resulting blockages

Don't remember any blockages in the decades when we used cut up newspaper. Nor when we used IZAL at school.

sb44

geordie_joe wrote: »

Don't remember any blockages in the decades when we used cut up newspaper. Nor when we used IZAL at school.

My grandma had an outside loo and cut up newspaper hung on the back of the toilet door.

God knows what our backsides looked like, they must have been full of print!