Sneaky ways to save the pennies

Becky_2

anguk wrote: »

Anyhoo, back to moneysaving tips. I used to spend a fortune on kitchen towel to wipe up spills but now I buy packs of cheap value j-cloths and use that instead, I stick them in the washing machine and re-use them until they start dropping to bits.

Thanks Anguk for the above tip. I would be grateful if you could let me know what a j cloth is?

Thanks

Becky

sabretoothtigger

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=j%20cloth&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Becky_2

Thanks for all your money saving tips.

I am saving money by not buying expensive musli for breakfast instead I buy different seeds and mix them in a separate plastic container and take a couple of spoons with seeds and put it on top of my cereals. I have just finished up my last container with mixed seeds and they must have lasted for at least 2 months if not more but then it's only me who is eating it at home! I find that it's more filling as well compared to eating musli and probably more healthy as well. By the way does anyone know where you can buy seeds / nuts etc. at discounted price?

mark55man

anguk wrote: »

..SNIP..
Someone buys a stamp from the PO, uses it, sends it to someone else and they use it. Are they cheating the PO out of a sale?
Someone buys a book, reads it, gives it to someone else and they read it. Are they cheating Amazon out of a sale?

..SNIP

the difference is the costs to the supplier are one off in amazon's case so whilst they might regret that book sharing decreases the total market they are not incurring a cost by you doing so

with the stamp - a stamp buys you the work required to get a letter from one post box to someone's front door. if you reuse it - they incur two lots of work for one lot of money. unless the PO profit margin on each item is 100% (then by reusing the stamp) you turn it into a loss for them

indirectly this behaviour is why small village post office's can't be afforded (although I will concede PO management inefficiencies and militant workers have a lot more to do with it)

Primrose

Becky - if you're a member of Costco you can buy nuts in huge packages which will probably last you for years. We bought a huge jar of shelled walnuts from them but because there are only two of us, they lasted so long that they went stale and developed a rather bitter acrid taste, but bulk buying for a discount may not be such an economy if you're the only one who eats them.

Aril

When this year's calendar has been finished with [it's got gorgeous paintings of cats on it] I'm going to have a go at reusing the sheets as wrapping paper. If that fails then I shall be cutting them up and adding them to my scrap paper which the small person plunders with unfailing regularity
Aril

Confuzzled

anguk wrote: »

Anyhoo, back to moneysaving tips. I used to spend a fortune on kitchen towel to wipe up spills but now I buy packs of cheap value j-cloths and use that instead, I stick them in the washing machine and re-use them until they start dropping to bits.

i do this too, i also do it with scrubby sponges. after washing them i check them, when the jcloth or the sponges get to the point where they'll need to be thrown away they then get used on something nasty like a big greasy spill, cleaning the loo, or something really grimey then tossed in the bin whilst i smile knowing i squeezed every last bit of goodness out of them!

Confuzzled

Becky_2 wrote: »

. By the way does anyone know where you can buy seeds / nuts etc. at discounted price?

i know that lidl do different bags of seeds for 79p the size of the bag depends on how expensive the ingredients are so if you get the pine nuts its' pretty small, if you get just the sunflower seeds it's a fair size. i got the pumpkin seed, pine nut, sunflower seed mix last time and i think it was a 50g bag but i could be wrong might have been more

i've also had some from my local pound mart , pumpkin, sunflower and linseed that was a quid for around 200grams the linseeds are really good for your fibre intake as you can't actually really chew them (small and hard!) so they are roughage for your bowels (though i'm sure some goodies are probably absorbed from them). i mix mine together and put them in the dough in the bread machine for when i make rolls

i'd check places like holland and barratts for their specials or julian graves (they do have cheap things on offer, i avoid everything else there because non sale items are quite pricey)

if you have a place that caters to veggies near you they will almost definitely offer at least sunflower (and likely pumpkin seeds) in bigger and hopefully cheaper bags

also and i am not at all certain about this so you'd have to check if it's ok but i've seen places selling bird food where it's just sunflower seeds (shelled) so if you can find out if these are fit for human consumption then that might be a viable option as it tends to be much cheaper that way

missychrissy

purpleivy wrote: »

I have one massive roll of gift wrap for Christmas presents that I shall use for stuff for the family. I'm not going to buy paper for the kids stockings, but will use magazines etc etc. It all goes in the bin anyway and they have really nice biiiiiig stockings that I made with my knitting machine when they were very small. (now 16 and 19, might have left dd off the stockings this year, but she missed last year as she was working in Mexico at Christmas)

I have a roll of wallpaper lining paper that has lasted me years for wrapping presents. I can decorate it with whatever I like eg buttons, ribbons etc. I have a box into which I save all the bits that come off things like crackers, gifts etc that can be used for decoraton. I do buy wrapping paper and Christmas paper too but only when it is on very special offer.

cyclingyorkie

all my christmas wrapping paper for this Christmas was bought in the sales for 25p a roll!