Sneaky ways to save the pennies

freedom2b

Hawthorn wrote: »

Stardrops are on offer at ASDA at the moment - 40p a bottle

Hurrah:beer: have an Asda, quite close. Thanks for all your replies:j

Sujamjen

Sainsburys also sell Stardrops at approx 74p per bottle. It is brilliant stuff!

Pippilongstocking

Hey all - only half way through reading this thread and have used over 20 of the ideas already and put them in my diary to remind myself - will think up a suitable list of my own - wee saving bits and add them in.

This is such a helpful and fun thread....................xxxx

ampersand

ampersand wrote: »

A request for Old-Style ms on new-style toothpaste.
Had a lot of success with a Mr T DTD, grâce of H&B brochure error a while back and wonder what to do with the empty pumps.

Any ideas, please?

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Please may I bump own post?

It seems so anti-mse and this Thread to dump them.

Sian_the_Green

I remember that leaflet. I can't think of anything though I am afraid. Do you have the ability to recycle them?

ampersand

They made the same error on consecutive brochures with two different toothpastes.

redmandarin

Here are some bathroom things that I do that might come in handy for other people!

• Using one bath towel for each person (to last the week) saves money and time & effort on repeated wash loads and gathering up towels! [Women may want to have two towels!] I personally have a large bath sheet for body and a smaller one for hair. To avoid confusion between who is who's, each person can be allocated towels in a different colour from the rest or name labels can be put on each, if it helps. After use, each person's towel/s can then be folded and put on an upstairs radiator to dry until needed again.
• When going for a wee during the night(!), you don't need to turn on the mains light/s - you can use one of those little stick on battery operated lights instead. It can be stuck onto the wall or placed on top of the toilet cistern so that people can find it easily in the dark (sold in pound shops, B&M, Wilkinsons, Ikea etc). The light not only saves elec, but it is less bright and helps you to not wake up too much, when sleepy!
• Having a shower or bath during daylight hours means no need to turn the bathroom light/s on.
• After dark, if someone is going to be in the bathroom for a while, it pays to turn off the hall (and bedroom) light/s until they come out (unless there are other people in those rooms, of course)!
• After washing hair, rubbing it vigorously with a towel saves on hair dryer costs (and time).
• Wrapping up hair in a towel and leaving on for a few minutes also saves hair dryer use.
• Switching off the hairdryer when the hair is almost dry saves a couple of minutes elec each time.

Shower:

• Try to have a shower instead of a bath as this uses less water (and therefore less gas/elec - and water meter costs).
• Putting on the radio whilst in the shower (music station) - [most songs last approx 3 minutes], helps to easily gauge how quick you can be! I've got my shower time down to about 4 mins so far!
• Turning down the hot water thermostat means lower heating costs.
• Turning down the shower stream to a lower speed also uses less hot water.

Bath:

• Filling the bath an inch or two below its usual level uses less hot water. It also means less bath foam/bombs are needed!
• Adding more cold water and using less hot means a slightly cooler bath and saves hot water.

generaloneill

angchris wrote: »

i buy whole milk and when nobody is looking the milk gets a good glug of water from the tap to eek it out a little further. neither my son or my oh have twigged that i do this yet, i reckon this has saved me a small fortune over the years because both of them eat huge bowls of cereal everyday and sometimes they eat 2 bowls each, i certainly notice the difference doing my shopping monthly as i don`t buy nearly as much milk as i used to :j

remind me never to accept a drink in your house.:beer:

sazzledazzle

Just want to say what a great thread. Going to read a page a day and write down some of the ideas and put a min of 2 a day into use.

geordie_joe

redmandarin wrote: »

• When going for a wee during the night(!), you don't need to turn on the mains light/s -

You do if you live in my house!

The toilet is one floor below the bedroom and there is no door, or landing, between the bedroom and the stairs. To make it worse the stairs curve, so the top three stairs are triangle shaped. They are only two inches wide at the left side, so you have to "step out" with your right foot first, and if you are too far to the left of the doorway then the stair isn't wide enough for your foot. You slide down the stairs with your right leg stretched out in front of you, and your left leg dragging behind, with the delicate bits in between bouncing off every step!

:eek:

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redmandarin wrote: »

• Putting on the radio whilst in the shower (music station) - [most songs last approx 3 minutes], helps to easily gauge how quick you can be! I've

Don't get tempted to stay a bit longer to listen to the end of the song