Tips for being thrifty

road_2_damascus

Tips for being thrifty in this 'current climate' (apologies for using this phrase we keep hearing)... Ok here is tip, may sound Scrouge-like so dont say I didnt warn you... the household items that are sore on your electricity consumption are things with an element. ie. Kettle, emersion, tumble drier etc. We have a large, cattering type thermos water container for beside the kettle...the one that you see in canteens for hot water...the water can be dispensed from pushing a button on the top etc. Well anyway, I used to boil the kettle for a cuppa, then forget about it ...sometimes Id boil the kettle 3 times to make a cup. Now I just boil whtever is in the kettle, make my cuppa, and dump the remaining hot water in the thermos water container. It stays hot for hours, and I make all tea and coffee from boiling the kettle once...

feylya

Go to the toilet in McDonalds - saves on toilet paper

Yillan

Close your PaddyPower Account

SoWatchaWant

Reuse tea bags and condoms.

Save money on insulin needles-a junkie will have an abundance of them, and will be happy to sort you out.

Jack Sheehan

Hibernate.

The guy

Instead of using a heater I developed Hypothermia, what I lose in Gangrene I get back in Money.

ShooterSF

feylya wrote: »

Go to the toilet in McDonalds - saves on toilet paper

They put a buzzer lock on the one beside me. You now have to eat there to be allowed in. It's across from my local I watch the footie in, used to be great to avoid the half time toilet queue in the pub.

craiginireland

Don't eat. Ever. Say your doing it for charity and you'll get lots of donations!

road_2_damascus

slow down you meter :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQAp328yefA

this one looks more effective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeVdwiewVcM&feature=related

mikom

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q315/kimandchris2/Redneck%20Stuff/RedneckHotWater.jpg

Oopps, maybe not so thrifty after all.

Jumpy

11850

Kirnsy

have a look at the STINGY thread on AH

JIZZLORD

do a nixer

Kinetic^

OP, are you Eddie Hobbs? I really feel I should be giving you money for tips like that. PM me your bank account and sort code and I'll make a donation.

Browney7

ShooterSF wrote: »

They put a buzzer lock on the one beside me. You now have to eat there to be allowed in. It's across from my local I watch the footie in, used to be great to avoid the half time toilet queue in the pub.

Just order something off the eurosaver menu and then rob all the toilet paper from each cubicle. That'll show em:D

acid.rain

i live under a bridge; its shelter over my head

fredmc

Check out this movie for some money saving tips:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4azAT_VRy8

acid.rain wrote: »

i live under a bridge; its shelter over my head

So you're a troll:eek:

sneakerfreak

find your most lonely,seldom visited by theur relatives old person.Kill them and eat them.

994

Steal books. Bookshops think readers are geeks who lack expensive social lives and can thus afford to be honest. That's only half-true!!

BaconZombie

Order the cheapest thing on the menu {sauce =30c}, problem solved.

ShooterSF wrote: »

They put a buzzer lock on the one beside me. You now have to eat there to be allowed in. It's across from my local I watch the footie in, used to be great to avoid the half time toilet queue in the pub.

BaconZombie

How did you get eircom to run a phone line to the bridge ?

acid.rain wrote: »

i live under a bridge; its shelter over my head

Alter-Ego

Save on milk and sugar for your tea by robbing it from "McCafe".

30 of those little milk sachets and you have yourself a tasty glass of UHT milk.

donmeister

Alter-Ego wrote: »

Save on milk and sugar for your tea by robbing it from "McCafe".

30 of those little milk sachets and you have yourself a tasty glass of UHT milk.

But nobody likes UHT milk cos its ****e!

Charlie

Have a chat with this bloke.

MikeStrutington

Charlie wrote: »

Have a chat with this bloke.

Arsene Wenger?

longshanks

when you go to the supermarket don't bother queuing and paying for your groceries, fill your bags and walk out. in other words, dont buy...steal

Lynskey

Get young couples who are thinking about having kids to "rent" yours for the evening. They get to see what it will be like, and you can get paid instead of paying for sitters.

ScumLord

Beg, borrow, steal, sign on and sell drugs.

Vain

Charge your mobile at work.

SV

Buy everything in bulk.

I do shopping for 3 months at a time.
Much savings to be made.

Poutbutton

Charlie wrote: »

Have a chat with this bloke.

I thought I burned that photo of my ex :rolleyes:

Riddle101

-Use the shower at the gym if you go to one

-Never leave a hotel without stealing towels, shampoo, showerjel and other such complemataries because now is the time to be using them. We knew this day would come eventually:)