Money Saving Hints and Tips

[markemark]

Mrs D reckons the shopping bill has come down £60 or more a week since I put myself on a strict diet.

Down to £2,000 from £2,060?

 

[Drago]

Down to £2,000 from £2,060?

Well, I do admit to being partial to the occasional bag of Revells.

 

[gbb]

Hay is cheaper than tobacco.

During the pea and green bean processing seasons around the 1980s where I used to work they (well some used to) smoke dried bean leaves that scattered the factory
I tried once.. that was once too many.
Desperation can drive people to desperate things eh ?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

During the pea and green bean processing seasons around the 1980s where I used to work they (well some used to) smoke dried bean leaves that scattered the factory
I tried once.. that was once too many.
Desperation can drive people to desperate things eh ?

When there was too much ash at the end, did they... Erm... Flick the bean... Leaf?

Yeah, sorry. 🤦‍♂️😆

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Freeze your wife's credit card in a block of ice, to allow an emotional cooling off period, before she makes an impulsive purchase(s).

 

[night cycler]

Instead of buying new vacuum cleaner filters I chuck the used ones in an old pillowcase and bung them in the washing machine with the laundry. I get 4 or 5 uses out of them before they require replacing, which saves my change purse a tenner a time and reduces the amount going into landfill.

So what money saving hints and tips do you fine folk have?

If you had put them in an old pillowcase, then in the used bath water, but surely not in with the laundry.

 

[DCLane]

I knew someone who did this with letters.

My brother-in-law and his now ex-wife did this with the Order of Service for their wedding, having used someone else's and Tippexed the names out.

Note that they also got SWMBO and myself to get and display the flowers plus buy wedding shoes on the day of the wedding, together with me using my Mercedes E-class as the wedding car, doing the photographs and sewing the bride into her dress as she'd got larger since doing measurements. The reason for which appeared 5 months later ...

And no, they weren't from Yorkshire.

 

[Drago]

If you had put them in an old pillowcase, then in the used bath water, but surely not in with the laundry.

I chuck them in with the dog blankets, decorating dust sheets, etc.

Theres no way I could bung them in the regular wash. With my Y fronts in there they'd end up dirtier than when they went in.

 

[teeonethousand]

Learn to moonwalk...for those occasions when entering a pub with others. You look like your walking to the bar but will always be last there...just as someone gets the round in.

 

[Moon bunny]

Learn to moonwalk...for those occasions when entering a pub with others. You look like your walking to the bar but will always be last there...just as someone gets the round in.

If you are going on a crawl, arrange to meet in the cheapest pub in town and buy the first round, then feel unwell and need to go just before it’s your turn again.

 

[alicat]

Freeze your wife's credit card in a block of ice, to allow an emotional cooling off period, before she makes an impulsive purchase(s).

And then spend the money saved on a divorce lawyer....

 

[Toshiba Boy]

And then spend the money saved on a divorce lawyer....

You really didn't think I was that brave / daft did you, ......

 

[laurentian]

Boil your kettle about 10 minutes before you make a cup of tea. When you go to make your tea 10 minutes later, the kettle will boil in a fraction of the time thus saving energy and money.

 

[swee'pea99]

My brother-in-law and his now ex-wife did this with the Order of Service for their wedding, having used someone else's and Tippexed the names out.

Classy

 

[markemark]

Boil your kettle about 10 minutes before you make a cup of tea. When you go to make your tea 10 minutes later, the kettle will boil in a fraction of the time thus saving energy and money.

Or be super smart. Boil lots of water in one batch then freeze it so you can simply reheat whenever you need.