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...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.

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.

Moos Wrote:

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> 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?

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.

Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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>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.

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...

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> 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.

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.

Moos Wrote:

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> 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"

maxxi Wrote:

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> 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 !

womanofdulwich Wrote:

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> 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.

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> 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

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