Sneaky ways to save the pennies

hannah:-)_2 · 15 February 2009 at 10:37PM

consultant31 wrote: »

My husband (a true [strike]miserly[/strike] careful, Yorkshireman) gets loads of mail from an insurance company - often up to a dozen at a time - all in different envelopes.

He has complained to the company several times about the waste of envelopes, paper etc and they have taken no notice.

In every envelope there is a franked return envelope, which he has now started to use to send mail to anyone he has dealings with, using a white label with the new name and address on :eek:

It worries me to death, that he's doing something illegal, but he says the insurance company charge him, in a roundabout way, for them so he'll use them as he sees fit :rotfl:

Hi consultant31 - don't worry, it's not illegal, but it can be a pain in the whatnot. Reply paid envelopes are paid for when they're received, not sent out though so the company sending them to him won't be affected.

Whoever he sends them to will have to pay postage plus an admin charge to the post office. It's just like if someone sends out a letter with no stamp, or when the letter's too heavy or big for the stamp on it. And it can mean the letter takes ages to get wherever it's going too.

The company I work for gets letters from time to time where customers have used reply paid envelopes from other companies. I wonder if any of these were from Mr consultant31

Agree it's a pity to waste all that paper, but might be just as well to stick a stamp on if it's going to anyone other than the company that sent them out.

Hawthorn · 15 February 2009 at 10:38PM

I don't know if anyone has said this, but in my really skint days, when I needed tights for work, if I got a ladder in one leg, I would cut it off, and sew on a leg from another pair of tights I'd mutilated (ie one leg laddered). Remember to finish the ends with clear nail polish though LOL.

I looked all smart for work, but underneath I was like raggedy anne!

Patchwork_Quilt · 15 February 2009 at 11:40PM

Thanks, Hawthorn. I was wondering what people do with laddered tights. We have so many of them. The only time they've been remotely useful is for storing onions in ...

Hawthorn · 15 February 2009 at 11:45PM

If the ladder is higher up, you can use the bottom of the tight leg (including foot) for the bath. Fill it with oats, tie it off, run under warm water, wash with it and it's wonderfully softening.

Don't stick it on the side of the bath when you're finished though, because it stinks after a couple of days. I'm ashamed to say I know this, for a fact LOL.

geordie_joe · 15 February 2009 at 11:50PM

Hawthorn wrote: »

I don't know if anyone has said this, but in my really skint days, when I needed tights for work, if I got a ladder in one leg, I would cut it off, and sew on a leg from another pair of tights I'd mutilated (ie one leg laddered). Remember to finish the ends with clear nail polish though LOL.

I looked all smart for work, but underneath I was like raggedy anne!

Why bother?

Why not just cut the laddered leg off two pairs and put them on. Obviously you would put the good leg of the tights on different legs, but it would save all that sewing.

After all, you may spend all that time sewing the tights and ladder them before you get out of the house.

Being a man I have to point out that stockings would be much better.

geordie_joe · 15 February 2009 at 11:52PM

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

Thanks, Hawthorn. I was wondering what people do with laddered tights. We have so many of them. The only time they've been remotely useful is for storing onions in ...

Back in the 70's when I was an apprentice painter we were taught to strain paint through them to get the little lumps out.

Hawthorn · 15 February 2009 at 11:54PM

It would, but um, how can I put this? Two layers of tights on your nether regions would make you, erm, sweat a bit. :rotfl: There, I think that was tactful.

Personally, I love stockings....but back then, they didn't do stockings in my size. I've got a 33" inside leg, and they would come up to just over my knees, sadly. And they would fall down. I'm happy to report that things have improved since then

geordie_joe · 15 February 2009 at 11:59PM

Hawthorn wrote: »

It would, but um, how can I put this? Two layers of tights on your nether regions would make you, erm, sweat a bit. :rotfl: There, I think that was tactful.

Very tactful, lets see if I can be as tactfull.

If you think about it you only need the leg and the elastic around the waist. You can cut most of the "nether region" off one of them.

Hawthorn · 16 February 2009 at 12:01AM

Hmm, that is an idea.......what would happen if you bend down though? A loud tearing sound?

I can't believe I'm discussing patching tights up with a fella LOL.