What is your MSE bug bear?

Purpleroses

mines holidays as well! me and a friend went to New York last Christmas and stayed in a hostel - the look on peoples faces when we told them! yes the room was tiny and only had 2 beds in it but for £15 a night in a safe quiet place it was brilliant especially since we were barely in the room! i mean why pay a lot of money for a room your hardly going to be in anyway!!!

sophie27

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Sophie
I'm happy to shop anywhere. I bought a skirt and top set from a charity shop for £4 (original price tags still attached showed they should have been £60). By their reactions you'd have thought i'd confessed to mass murder or something equally heinous.

I need to hit the charity shops for some bargains. When I first moved to London, I popped into one on the Kings Road and it was full of Dior, Armani etc. Was mad!

One girl at work really irritates me as she gets lunch every single day from marks & spencer (the same lunch everyday!). Complains about how much it costs considering everything is going up but her online food shop is exactly the same every week when you could add a few lunch bits and save 100 a month.

Poosmate

Good afternoon all.

I love this thread! Just read through all the posts and there isn't one that I disagree with!

Update on the toilet roll experiment with my lodger:-

The experiment has ended - I know it only started when he got home last night sometime after 9.00pm but he's decided to go back to his gf (again!) and so left today at about 2.00pm.

Even though the experiment was cut so short I still have a result. I placed the remaining toilet roll on top of an unused one and at least half of it has gone! So, within 17 hours, of which about 6-7 were spent asleep, he's managed to use half a toilet roll!!!

Oh dear! What a shame for Anthony Sutil in the Monaco Grand Prix!

Sorry, got side tracked there!

Oooh he's crying! Oh poor Sutil, he was doing so well!

Sorry, back on track......

Ok. When my lodger comes back (probably next week or the week after) I'll have to make a condition of his return that he buys his own toilet roll. That should make him realise firstly how much it costs and secondly how much he wastes! lol!

Off to watch the end of the GP now.

See you soon

Poo

wherediditallgo

Ooh, this thread was meant for me!

• Since acknowledging my financial problems, I make sure that when I go out, I openly tell people I can't afford to get a round so I'll get my own drinks. I then limit myself to two spirits for the night. One of my friends can't wait to open her purse, getting rounds in left, right & centre. The next day, you can bet your life that she'll be saying "Did you see how much so & so drank last night? And they never even got a round in, & I spent loads!" When I suggest to her that she stop buying rounds & just cater for herself, her response is "Oh no, I can't do that - it would look really tight!" :eek: Thanks, mate - Miss Diplomatic she isn't. :rolleyes:

• I like going to bingo, but I refuse to pay their prices for drinks (Oasis - £1.30 a bottle! :eek:). So I buy my 2-litre bottles of "No Added Sugar" drinks from the supermarket (I get the ones where you get a discount for buying 2 bottles), fill an Oasis bottle with some already diluted & take that with me. One bottle is plenty for the evening, & probably works out at around 30p a bottle. I also take a small bag of popcorn or a similar snack from a multi-pack just in case I'm a bit peckish later in the evening. If we're going from home, I have my dinner early at home to save buying the food the bingo hall sells, so that's at least another £4 saved. If I've got no choice but to buy it there, I always ask for it in a foil container with a lid rather than just on a plate, so that whatever I don't finish can be taken home to go towards the next day's lunch. My friends however won't do that, because they don't like eating leftover food they haven't cooked themselves. What's the difference? If it was good enough to eat first time around, why would you have a problem with the leftovers?

• A frend tells me I spend too much time on the internet. I probably save around £50 a month, by the time you take into account freebies, coupons, reading newspapers online instead of buying them, Quidco & earnings from surveys. One of my friends says she hasn't got time for that - what, 5 minutes or so of clicking a day? She spends longer than that in the loo!

• I sell anything I don't have a use for. When I did the Royal Mail survey, I got £6 worth of stamps a month. However, I don't write a lot of letters, so I sold some of the packs at face value & kept the cash.

andan

My mse bug bear has got to be our lodger who insists on having two showers a day, both of which are half an hour long. Now i'm obviously not against people being clean but an hour in the shower everyday for a slim man just seems a bit extreme to me. Also the usual stuff like being in his room with his computer on whilst having the tv and lights on downstairs.

Not many other things bug me, excpet for when you tell people about all the ways they could save or make money and their just not interested, even though they have so little money anyway!

Great thread and great posts by everyone!

headoutthesand

I'm reading through this thread nodding and agreeing with everything.

My bugbear has to be people switching MY lights on during the day. If they want to do it in their own house fine but don't come to mine and have the house like blackpool.

Another is the pitiful looks that people give you when you start to talk about saving money and using this website!!! I've got to the stage now that if people want to think that I am that hard up then I will use it to my advantage.

Oh and the last one has to be people (well my sister) taking the car for a 2 minute journey. It really is 2 mins for her to leave her house and take the boys to school. All she has to do is walk to the end of her street, turn right, turn right again and she can see the school at the end of the road but she takes the car then moans about the price of petrol.

That's all for the time being but i'm sure i'll have more as time goes on

Turtle

This is a very interesting thread. I totally agree about the Quidco thing. We've made nearly £350 in a couple of years solely on stuff we've have bought anyway, but no one I've told has really bothered with it. I'm persevering with one of the people as I think it's just remembering with her.

By the way, for all the people who have an issue with leaving things on standby, you can buy things called 'intelliplugs' which allows you to leave things on standby but it doesn't use electricity. They cost about £15 and no doubt can be bought through Quidco! There are diferent types for different things (ie computer plugs are different to TV plugs) but you can plug more than one thing into the same plug. That all sounds a bit confused but they save power and money! Google them for more info. I'll definately be getting a couple.

hypno06

We have one of those intelliplugs - they are really good, and I am sure it has contributed to the huge reduction we have been able to make in our energy usage.

GirlRacer_2

I'm reading all these posts and they are making me laugh because they all remind me of the old me. I used to buy lunch in M&S, drink bottled water, leave things on standby, always be the first to buy rounds when out, take fabulous holidays, change my car every 3 years. All this was prior to getting into money trouble and coming out of it the other end.

How long will it be before all out wasteful friends and colleagues will be posting their bug bears on here

Skint_Catt

I want to lodge with an MSE'r! We'd have such fun! :j