Sneaky ways to save the pennies

Aril

Make sure you have a spatula in your kitchen. It makes it soooooo much easier for scraping the last bits of mixture out of the bowl or jars rather than using a metal or wooden spoon
Aril

consultant31

irish_eyes wrote: »

Hi great thread. I bought a pair of hair clippers 5 years ago in the local chemist for £15. Saves my OH a fortune on haircuts at the barbers.

I did this years ago and it was fine until the day I was overcome by a sudden sneeze as I was cutting DHs hair and didn't take my clipper hand away from his head................let's just say he had a very original haircut until it grew out :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

It wasn't until our daughter qualified as a hairdresser that he had another home cut

abaxas

consultant31 wrote: »

I did this years ago and it was fine until the day I was overcome by a sudden sneeze as I was cutting DHs hair and didn't take my clipper hand away from his head................let's just say he had a very original haircut until it grew out :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

It wasn't until our daughter qualified as a hairdresser that he had another home cut

Aghghg dont remind me.

Wor lass cuts my hair. Sadly, we had an incident with a 'go faster stripe'.

Had to take the guard off and go into convict mode for a few weeks.

EssexHebridean

Like many others we holiday each year in a self catering cottage. It works well for us, and is certainly cheaper than B&B or hotels. It's nice when you're on holiday to have little luxuries on the food front, so we set aside things like nice jars of jam or marmalade if we're given them, or a posh tin of biscuits we've had as a present, and take those with us. We try to buy the majority of our food in the local shops but luxury bits and pieces like that are often either not available, or would be too expensive to justify, so it's a good way of saving some cash.

nellsbells

teenages throw away 1p 2p 5p and 20p because its considered scaffie to
have change its best to pay by card or notes

queen_of_string

When you buy the spatula Aril recommends above, also use it for scraping out the last of mince and stews etc when you are serving or portioning them out, I was stunned how much was left in the pan when it looked pretty much emtpy.

Also, if your company sends you to a conference or exhibition, collect all the free pens and post it notes you are offered. We usually get enough to last the year, just by taking one where they are offered. DS likes this as when people ask where his pen's from, he just says "oh my mum has her own business", which apparently, now is a good thing .

clutterydrawer

Aril wrote: »

Make sure you have a spatula in your kitchen. It makes it soooooo much easier for scraping the last bits of mixture out of the bowl or jars rather than using a metal or wooden spoon
Aril

A side note - my friend's family call a spatula a "mean spoon" - because it's spo efficient at clearing out the cake mixture, there's none left in the bowl for sneaky nibbles!

consultant31

abaxas wrote: »

Aghghg dont remind me.

Wor lass cuts my hair. Sadly, we had an incident with a 'go faster stripe'.

Had to take the guard off and go into convict mode for a few weeks.

:rotfl: That's it exactly:rotfl: :rotfl:

Uniscots97

If you like using a skin cleanser that you'd normally use cotton wool to remove, switch to using a flannel instead (soaked in warm water and wrung out, then wipe off the cleanser). I bought some cheap Tesco Value ones and use those instead, washing them in with my normal load of washing. Saves binning all that cotton wool!

sunset_gold

purplevamp wrote: »

There was a programme on last week called In Search of Britains Meanest Person (if I remember correctly) and a man on that put old candles in a dish/jar and popped it on the radiator to melt down, he then put the wick in the middle and let it go hard - not that anyone here is mean, we're called frugal

Well I tried putting it on the radiator and all I can say is that he must have his heating on very high to melt the wax! I tried and it barely went soft on the edges. In the end I put some bits of left over candle in an empty sweetcorn tin in a pot of water, brought it up to almost bubbling and then turned it down to no.1. The wax melted! Hurrah! I put a sustainer on the end of some wick and popped it into an old clean honey jar (from the garage so it was cold), laid the wick over a wick pin and poured the melted wax into it. Hey presto! A new candle. It filled up to about a quarter of the jar so I am melting some more wax now and will add it to jar.

I didn't really know what I was ordering on line, but what I plumped for seems to be ok. If anyone is interested 10 wick pins (which sit over the holder you are using to make the new candle to hold the excess wick and keep it straight) for £1.20, 100 15mm sustainers (the little metal tabs at the bottom on the wick) for 80p, 25meters of 3x6c wick for £1.90 and a pack of 50 sustainers with wicks already attached and cut to size (80mm) for £3.10 plus vat and delivery of £1.55 it totalled £9.83.

It may not save me that much with candles being so cheap, but it saves on wasting all that left over candle and it's quite fun. Not sure how it will burn yet thou!