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What do you refuse to scrimp on?

  • 31-01-2011 10:47pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    In the last year or two most of us have had to economize – people who used to shop in Superquinn are now shopping in Dunnes, people who used to shop in Dunnes are now shopping in Aldi, people who used to shop in Aldi are now.... :mad:ed, but is there anything you’re still holding out on?



    For example, do you still buy fancy-ass “name-brand” deodorant or do you make a special trip for the TV-advertised toilet paper? Has anyone tried Aldi/Lidl/€2-Store condoms? Any wimmens still buying Cosmopolitian instead of looking online? Any mens still buying Nuts :P instead of looking online?



    For me, it's teabags. I refuse to buy German teabags. And I buy brand-name toothpaste. I don't even have a solid reason for this, I just like all the empty promises of "Fresh, Whitening, Blah, blah, blah technology". It'd make slightly more sense if I smoked or drank coffee. I also only like Wrigleys chewing gum.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    is there anything you’re still holding out on?

    A hero.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭Loopie


    ...you might be waiting til the end of the night....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Electricity. I refuse to use DC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭finnegan2010


    KETCHUP I GOTTA Have Chef Ketchup or Heinz
    BEANS Gotta have my Heinz hate them hard lidl ones
    LUXURY TOILET ROLL Have a pretty sensitive snare on me so need something nice and soft here so i go the extra mile. Dont want a japanese flag going on ya know, recession or none:D
    TEA Barrys or Lyons cant do the cheap stuff yuck


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Maryland Cookies, once you've had the best you can say fùck off to the rest.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Baby Wipes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    fanny stuff

    duracell batteries

    toothpaste

    make up

    clothes, fcuk off penneys!! :mad:

    meat

    shampoo/conditioner

    barrys teabags too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    Everyone has their own personal preferences...
    Most of the things can be the same in Dunnes and Lidl. As in shower gel is shower gel ... soap is soap.

    When it comes to personal taste of food ... yeah sure lidl fish fingers taste sick compared to Birds Eye :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Condoms Durex is the daddy! (ironic n'est pas?)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Bedsheets.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    I refuse to scrimp on hair products. I'll gladly starve for a week so I can maintain my lovely hair.
    And I love fake tan. Not Oompah Lompah type tan but more of a golden glow tht can be found in a bottle of Dove moisturising tan lotion applied twice a week to give an even but healthy looking tan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    I refuse to go without my Um Bongo.

    The idea of drinking some fly by night fizzy beverage appalls me.

    Plus, I'm supporting jobs in the Congo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,378 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Caviar and champers dahling. Now that Nama has taken those dusty old properties off my shoulders


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭eilo1


    fanny stuff

    duracell batteries

    toothpaste

    make up

    clothes, fcuk off penneys!! :mad:

    meat

    shampoo/conditioner

    barrys teabags too

    Clearly your not on the dole..............

    Im very unhappy when I cant buy diet coke :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    Caviar and champers dahling.

    Read that as "clampers" for some reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Gneez


    Condoms, you scrimp on them you pay for it for the rest of your life


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭niallo76


    im with Finnegan with the Heinz ketchup,same with Chef Brown Sauce
    Coca-Cola is another one-
    Runners/Trainers/Shoes-wouldn't wear ones from Lidl,anything else from t-shirts,socks,but the runners and shoes-ah lads c'mon,
    don't think i'd be that keen on telling everyone i got the suit from Lidl/Aldi either,but thats just me, and i have to live with me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Bog Roll, it's got to be top quality.

    "Wipe dat ass with class."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    Eggs - Superquinn 'Sillan Or' eggs are incredible. The yolk is the brightest yellow. They're gorgeous.
    Bewleys tea bags make an amazing cup of tea.
    Skin products. I use Clinique and it's brilliant. Their make up, moisturiser, cleansers etc.
    Good chocolate. Lindor (the red eggs), Green and Blacks.
    Beans - Bachelors or Heinz only.
    Ketchup - Heinz or Chef.
    Mayonnaise - Hellmans


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭lil'bug


    hand soap and washing up liquid
    the cheap stuff makes my skin break out in blisters


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Headphones. Tried the dirty cheap, 99p Tesco value ones a few times. Evvvvveerrrryyy time, the fuckin things were already broken the second they came out of the box.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Alcohol. I don't drink that much, so when I do I don't want it to be dutch gold or similar urine in a can.

    I will make an exception though for Excelsior from Lidl, it's actually half decent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Bra's.... They don't do cheapo 36 FF's anywhere that are any good. Have to pay a fortune for a good bra in my size.


    Also Coca-Cola; the shop brand cola tastes like fizzy pond water.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭Debthree


    I nearly fell for it but this is clearly a trick question isn't it? The sanctimonious AH brigade are taking notes so if I put here that I refuse to give up Lily O'Brien chocolates* it'll come back to haunt me in the next 'I'm so poor / unemployed / f**ked by the economy / depressed by the recession' thread. Yeah? I'm right aren't I?




    * DISCLAIMER: That was just an example. I do not, nor have I ever, indulged in any chocolate treat whatsoever. I eek out a week's worth of meals from scraps I take from the tax-paying neighbours trash cans.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    For me its food, only the best will do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    eilo1 wrote: »
    Clearly your not on the dole..............

    Im very unhappy when I cant buy diet coke :o

    i am on the dole... thats not that much ye know. only three of those things are weekly groceries.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Don't scrimp on shrimp!





    Or scampi for that matter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    Oxygen.Fcuk that sh#t..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭bowsie010


    fanny stuff

    duracell batteries

    toothpaste

    make up

    clothes, fcuk off penneys!! :mad:

    meat

    shampoo/conditioner

    barrys teabags too


    No recession in that house anyway

    joking


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    I just thought of another myself. I have recently returned to "brand name" detergents (Surf, Bold, Ariel etc) but this isn't a refusal-to-compromise thing. I tried the cheap-ass versions and my bedspread came out of the washing machine with paw-prints! The cheapo fabric softener is grand though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Vodka. Has to be at least smirnoff. Who buys Grants vodka, or tesco value vodka?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭The Agogo


    Well, since emigrating to Poland, haven't really been able to buy any name-brand stuff.

    My toilet-paper has actually gotten softer though (and cheaper!)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭yank_in_eire


    Toilet Paper - none of that visible wood chips ****e
    Bush's Baked Beans - eat them once and you won't care that they have to be smuggled in from the US
    Gin - only Bombay Sapphire will do
    Sage Fly rods - everything else is just a stick

    You know......I have pretty expensive tastes:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    Who buys tesco value vodka?

    :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    The Agogo wrote: »
    Well, since emigrating to Poland, haven't really been able to buy any name-brand stuff.

    My toilet-paper has actually gotten softer though (and cheaper!)

    no surprise there, the cost of cleanin your arsehole in this country is ridiculous


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Where did the op get German tea bags???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭dan185


    fanny stuff

    duracell batteries

    toothpaste

    make up

    clothes, fcuk off penneys!! :mad:

    meat

    shampoo/conditioner

    barrys teabags too


    like dildos and vag pumps?


    sorry:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    zerks wrote: »
    Where did the op get German tea bags???

    In Germany?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Marlboro Cigarettes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 758 ✭✭✭whydoibother?


    going out for a latte (and possibly cake:D)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Fairy washing powder-it's the only one i'm not allergic to.

    Milk. Can't drink the stuff from Aldi.

    Meat. Cheap meat is horrible.

    And skincare stuff to a certain point-can't afford my Clinique at the minute but have to have certain cheaper name brands or else my skin does be in bits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭Debthree


    fanny stuff

    duracell batteries
    toothpaste

    make up

    clothes, fcuk off penneys!!

    meat

    shampoo/conditioner

    barrys teabags too


    dan185 wrote: »
    like dildos and vag pumps?


    sorry:(

    Um, I'm pretty sure you emboldened the wrong item. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    easyeason3 wrote: »
    so I can maintain my lovely hair blah blah..
    more of a golden glow that can be found in a bottle of Dove moisturising tan lotion applied twice a week to give an even but healthy looking tan blah blah...
    Shut up you've pulled:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    Ariel washing powder - love the smell from it and it seems to clean the best

    Hellmans mayonnaise

    Meat and Fish

    Lots of things when it comes to shopping actually, since we don't get many take aways anymore I tend to spend a decent amount on food every week.

    Ooh and cornfed eggs are delicious mmmmm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭Doop


    eggs and also chicken... have to be free range at least.

    well meat in general really, cant buy the cheap processed stuff.

    Id rather eat veggie one or two nights and have better quality meat the other nights...
    not that theres anything wrong with veggie dinners!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Noodleworm


    Batteries, because you do notice the difference
    Good boots, cheap ones never fit right.
    Also I just don't see how anyone can feel comfortable being cheap with condoms >.<


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Trí wrote: »
    :o

    I meant to drink, not to remove adhesive


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭grungepants


    Freshly made pesto from the saturday market,
    American apparel clothing,
    pay per view porn+wreslting+movies,
    Cigarettes....

    Im joking i dont watch wrestling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭niallo76


    crisps-tayto or king
    bisto gravy
    kellogs cereal
    flahavans porridge
    bird's eye potato waffles-anything else is like 'atin cardboard..
    same with a lot of frozen veg-like the stuff that bird's eye throw out,tesco says='where ya going with that,in our bag lad'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭SomeFool


    Special K :)


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