Things I have just learned on the fabulous Super Scrimpers....

[????]

....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 cash

Well fook my old boots. It's a treasure chest of money saving tips I'll tell ya

[Isla]

...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.

[Isla]

PS did you manage to sell your old jewellery then?

[maxxi]

Isla Wrote:

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> PS did you manage to sell your old jewellery then?

Nah, diamond signet rings and 'five-sov' bracelets don't fetch much these days...

[Moos]

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.

[Annette Curtain]

This is starting to sound like the ol' "Tips for life/ Top tips thread"

(which I myself quite liked)

[Michael Palaeologus]

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?

[Huguenot]

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.

[*Bob*]

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?

[Loz]

Not only that, I personally blame them for the situation in Syria, as well.

[*Bob*]

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.

[Huguenot]

Correct!

Every 30 mins of Scrimpers costs 10 jobs in Peterborough and a stevedore at Lowestoft.

[*Bob*]

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.

[Moos]

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.

[womanofdulwich]

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...

[Ridgley]

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.

[red devil]

I think sharing a bath makes good economical sense...

[maxxi]

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.

[Moos]

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.

[Isla]

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"

[uncleglen]

I've decided to give up exercising because it makes me hungry and then I buy more food.

[Annette Curtain]

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 !

[Salsaboy]

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.

[Alan Medic]

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.

[maxxi]

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