Sneaky ways to save the pennies

Savvy_sewing

I usually find a penny on the floor here and there, got excited when I find 20p's too. Sad arent I. But if I find a penny a day then I am £3.65 a year better off!!
My kids think I am mad. But I dont care.

Raksha

My OH always says 'see a penny pick it up, and all day long you'll have a penny!'.......... He thinks he's so witty, but believe me, after 16 years, it gets a bit thin

p00

Confuzzled wrote: »

i'm also a dab hand at spying empty irn bru bottles from quite a distance and i'll pick those up and cash them in too. !

whats this about cashing in irn bru bottles?

xxp00

Gigervamp

My dad always walked along the edge of the pavement and looked in the gutters when he was walking. He found quite a lot of money that way.

Also, when we were kids and on holiday, dad would go down to the beach first thing in the morning with his metal detector and get our pocket money for the day! He said beaches that had deckchairs were the best because money would roll out of mens pockets when they sat in one.

Confuzzled

Primrose wrote: »

Diverting to a different type of saving, if you use a shredder to prevent identity theft, don't forget to keep the cutters regularly lubricated to prevent them seizing up and burning out your motor (which you will find is impossible to repair, involving you in buying a new shredder). The stationery shops sell expensive sealed lubricating sachets to do this but you can do it cheaply by smearing a little 3 in 1 oil (or even cheap cooking oil) over a few of sheets of scrap paper or old envelopes and running them through the shredder. Make this a regular practice at the end of each month to keep your shredder well maintained.

not that many will have one BUT we were told by the forestry commission many years ago that expensive chainsaw oil isn't necessary, good old veg oil is fine in chainsaws (best to use clean if you tried used oil the gunk would mess up your chainsaw)

we ran ours like this for years with no problems!

haven't had dear old daisy for sometime but that one tip saved us a LOT of money

Confuzzled

savingqueen wrote: »

3. get hold of plenty of radiator airers, even if you don't have radiators. As well as the obvious, these can be used in strange places to dry washing. We have 2 hanging from the end of our metal bedstead for smalls etc. A complex arrangement is hooked from the landing bannister rail -

one place i used to live got a lot of sun in the large front windows all day, as it was back off the road a fair bit i had no problems with hooking a bunch of airers together and having them hang from the (sturdy) curtain rod above. the rails rested lightly against the window and everything i hung on these dried very quickly!

if you're worried about the weight pulling the curtain rods down you could afix two heavy duty cup hooks into the wood frame around the window and hook them into those to hold them up instead

i found this an incredibly efficient way of drying my clothes, in fact, my bedroom in the home i'm in now gets full sun all day so this winter i'll probably do a similar arrangement in there, it will be out of the way and best utilise the free heat (and i keep my radiators down so low most of the time i'm not sure how much drying power they'll have anyway!)

also, why not hang up fleeces and other things that dry quickly on hangers off your shower curtain rail? as they are usually fairly dry when they come out anyway you won't be adding too much humidity into your bathroom and they're ready to put away as soon as they're dry!

Curious_George_2

a space saving tip - i use one of my airers stood up in the bath, i hate them being in the way all the time so having one stood up in an area of the house that i cant walk in anyway suits me fine!

cuddlymarm

Hi

I put my washing on an airer by the large window in our flat. Rarely takes more than a day to dry anything. Also we have 2 lovely big bannisters which I drape jeans, heavier stuff and sheets over which as well as drying stuff quickly means very little ironong.

Also I am using the electric shower rather than the bath at the moment so we don't need the boiler on at all so the only gas I use is for the hob to cook. We moved in in April and have so far only used 3 units.

Cuddles:rotfl:

Confuzzled

Gigervamp wrote: »

Another way to get cheap wood for burning is to scour the industrial estates for pallets. Companies have to pay to get them taken away, so most don't mind if you take them for firewood. Obviously, check first though!

i used to do this when i had a fireplace, i had friends object because of the nails. well i'm happy to report you can chop the pallets into pieces and chuck them in as is, just be careful to pick the nails out of the ash when you clean up the next day and dispose of them properly, honest it won't hurt your fireplace and we never got sick from any 'fumes' off them

System

seraphina wrote: »

Put soap/fairy liquid into a pump dispenser - this prevents MrS from using half a pint everytime he does the washing up!

Slightly off topic but my partner also does this!! Why do they need so much fairy liquid

:rotfl:

Never thought of the a pump dispenser, will be getting one!