???? Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 ....buying things on the Internet is usually cheaper....drinks in the pub are more expensive than from a supermarket...you can sell old jewellery you don't want for cashWell fook my old boots. It's a treasure chest of money saving tips I'll tell ya Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isla Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 ...do you mean the money-saving expert website? I found it quite helpful when looking around for a new mobile contract - you can sign up for a service called Billmonitor and it will email you the best contract for you based on your usage on a monthly basis (until you tell it to stop).oh and it also had a useful section on savings which explained why the return on premium bonds wasn't, in fact, any good. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isla Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 PS did you manage to sell your old jewellery then? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Isla Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> PS did you manage to sell your old jewellery then?Nah, diamond signet rings and 'five-sov' bracelets don't fetch much these days... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Two fantastic tips offered on the radio recently:-- Soap wears away 50% faster in the wet, don't leave your cake of soap in a wet dish.- If you buy a coffee or drink every morning this costs money, try NOT having itBrilliant. Thus are recession woes avoided. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annette Curtain Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 This is starting to sound like the ol' "Tips for life/ Top tips thread"(which I myself quite liked) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Palaeologus Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Moos Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Two fantastic tips offered on the radio> recently:-> > - Soap wears away 50% faster in the wet, don't> leave your cake of soap in a wet dish.> - If you buy a coffee or drink every morning this> costs money, try NOT having it> > Brilliant. Thus are recession woes avoided.Bit of an arse of you are a soapie-product worker or a Barista though. Even worse if you are a Barista and your partner is a pope-on-a-rope manufacturer. Your children will starve, you will lose your house and end up as a crack-whore, turning cheap tricks to numb the pain.Is all this scrimping really worth the cost? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huguenot Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 An economy is about the exchange of goods and services.Scrimping can NEVER work - you have to spend your way out of a recession. There's quite literally NO alternative - it's just a question of how long it takes us to realize it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Are you saying that C4's lighthearted household tips half-hour is failing to get to grips with - and may even be partly responsible for - the realities of the global economic crisis? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loz Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Not only that, I personally blame them for the situation in Syria, as well. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 It's like the Butterfly Effect. Every time somebody in Basildon turns a left-handed rubber glove inside out to make a new pair, another ten thousand gather to protest in Hama. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huguenot Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Correct!Every 30 mins of Scrimpers costs 10 jobs in Peterborough and a stevedore at Lowestoft. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 On the upside, if you listen carefully, you can hear me whistling a jolly little tune in a little bit of the background muzak. So it's not all bad news. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Michael Palaeologus Wrote:------------------------------------------------------- ----- >Your children will starve, you will> lose your house and end up as a crack-whore,> turning cheap tricks to numb the pain.Mickey Plinkyplonk's been watching too much Les Miserables again. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
womanofdulwich Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 If your parents lived thorugh world war 2 and rationing this still has a huge influence on them. My Dad is 87 and last time I saw him all the scraps of soap were in a saucer in the windowsill ready to be made into a bigger soap tablet... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgley Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Nothing wrong in being frugal, that is the way I was raised and it has served me well. Too much of a throwaway society I am actually holding a class at work in how to make an old T-shirt into a shopping bag. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
red devil Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I think sharing a bath makes good economical sense... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Annette Curtain Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> This is starting to sound like the ol' "Tips for> life/ Top tips thread"> > (which I myself quite liked)By failing to avoid the tautology you have wasted (thereby demonstrably un-scrimping) a perfectly good word which, in these bleak times, is not quite the spirit. May I suggest missing out the odd verb in future posts to make up for it?*I am typing this with one finger and using one eye thus making a substantial saving. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Nothing at all wrong with being frugal, there is a particular slightly miserable pleasure in re-using ribbon and adding water to the last of the washing-up liquid.It's the blimmin obvious being offered as wonderful advice that makes me snigger. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607743 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isla Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Moos Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> It's the blimmin obvious being offered as> wonderful advice that makes me snigger.also known as 'Pippa tips':"restaurants are great places to combine eating & socialising, reserve a table over the phone to ensure you get somewhere to sit" Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleglen Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I've decided to give up exercising because it makes me hungry and then I buy more food. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-607961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annette Curtain Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 maxxi Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Annette Curtain Wrote:> --------------------------------------------------> -----> > This is starting to sound like the ol' "Tips> for> > life/ Top tips thread"> > > > (which I myself quite liked)> > > By failing to avoid the tautology you have wasted> (thereby demonstrably un-scrimping) a perfectly> good word which, in these bleak times, is not> quite the spirit. May I suggest missing out the> odd verb in future posts to make up for it?> > *I am typing this with one finger and using one> eye thus making a substantial saving.You're still sore from the steak/stake thing aren't you maxxi(see what I did there, digging up an old "forgotten" barbed jibe as a retort, rather than creating a new one)Hey, and were taking over ???'s thread rather than creating a new one.Thrifty ! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-608026 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salsaboy Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 When I fancy a bubble bath in the morning, I eat beans for tea the evening before. Voila - a healthy meal and a saving on fancy bath products. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-608041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Medic Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 womanofdulwich Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> If your parents lived thorugh world war 2 and> rationing this still has a huge influence on them.> My Dad is 87 and last time I saw him all the> scraps of soap were in a saucer in the windowsill> ready to be made into a bigger soap tablet..How does he do that WOD? Bars of soap annoy me as you can't really use all of it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-608171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Annette Curtain Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> You're still sore from the steak/stake thing> aren't you maxxi> > (see what I did there, digging up an old> "forgotten" barbed jibe as a retort, rather than> creating a new one)> > Hey, and were taking over ???'s thread rather than> creating a new one.> > Thrifty !If you think I'm gong to trawl through past posts just to prove my short/long-term memory isn't proper fucked you're-... damn what did I come in here for again?*typed with one thumb and squinting to save on light absorbtion Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/28030-things-i-have-just-learned-on-the-fabulous-super-scrimpers/#findComment-608174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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