Help need your money saving tips to help survive - you guessed it - the credit crunch (and can anyone think of another name for the credit crunch while we're at it?)

Thanks wmmc

Thanks wmmc

Play 'storecupboard challenge': make a tasty meal out of the bizarre stuff that has been lurking in the back of your cupboard instead of going to the shops. 5kgs of brown rice with a bottle of Tamari anyone?

Sorry if this has been said already but can't read the whole thread as need to go to bed but...buy loose fruit and veg not the stuff all packaged up - much cheaper and you can buy in more flexible quantities.

No, making bread is rarely worth it. Bread flour costs about 80p a bag which makes two loaves but you have to add yeast and most folks add milk powder. When you factor in the time and electricity plus the cost of the breadmaker it works out about 50p a loaf and the majority of my loaves are crap.

Is making bread actually worth it?
Im thinking of getting a bread maker off ebay, but a loaf of bread costs about a quid, and Id have to buy all the ingredients, and the maker, and the electric.

Is it worth it?

Have a 'cheapy' day once a week where you strive to spend no money whatsoever. Extra points for leaving the house, eating and having fun. We spent a day blackberry picking (and eating) and then jumped in puddles for an hour.

have one child only - save money on going out and not as expensive as multiple children

Keep your shoes and socks on in the house. I can't believe the amount of times I visit overheated houses and people are wandering around in teeshirt, thin trousers and socked feet moaning about how they've had to put the heating on.

I'm warm blooded anyway, I am wearing a vest top, but my feet are toasty in socks and boots with insoles. If your feet are warm, you will be warm, and if it's not coat-and-wooly-jumper-weather outside, you don't really need the heating on,.

At least buy some really decent slippers and WEAR them!

Definitely give up coffees etc from Stealbucks totally waste of money and do you really want a pint of pissy coffee?!

Dare I say it - Don't drink in the week - saves money, makes you less tired and therefore you have the energy to put dinner together yourself rather than buy a takeaway.

I supermarket shop after about 4.30pm, when my Waitrose marks down all the meat... which I then freeze for later use.

Sellotape the thermostat so DP doesn't keep wacking the heating up!!

I think if you have a great skill outside of work you should exploit it - Like ComeOVeneer's cake decorating prowess!! - she could have a nice little sideline there!

following memoo - put scruffiest child in pram outside post office with 'penny for guy' sign during late october.

get pregnant - save on sanitary towels

Stop spending 27 hours a day on Mumsnet - save electricity

Make children wear same dirty clothes for weeks on end - save even more electricity

Second hand school uniform - it all looks the same after 2 weeks anyway.

Get elected as an MP. Complain about your basic wage but keep very quiet about the fact you are employing your entire family in your constituency office and can claim absolutely everything on expenses.

expat - briquettes no, logs yes. You can make the briquettes with kids using a margarine tub and some newspapers - great fun but the log maker itself is much better.

lololol at damian hirst

he is the fecking emperor

diamond skull my arse

[mutter]

Oh God yes CrackFox. Speaking of Emperor's New Clothes...

Following lilymaid: instead of wasting money on dummies, pop a nipple in your baby's mouth. NB this also saves on formula and keeps your boobs warm

Find a cow and paint bits of it gold and then pickle it. Sell it at an art auction for £10 million.

"If I know The Sunday Times, and I do know The Sunday Times, their key money saving tips will involve massive outlay."

it will be 'buy a slightly smaller Mulberry bag and don't carry as much crap around in it'

Have an early menopause and save on sanitary products and heating (hot flushes so no need for putting on the central heating).

Anyway, it's not a bloody credit crunch it's an economic evolution. This has been coming for a while, it's sort of our own fault (collectively as a country, rather than mumsnetters in particular although shopping at Boden accounts for at least 10% of the blame ) and it will right itself, but it will probably take a couple of years.

make like the Emperor and his New Clothes and stroll about in the nude

if you get arrested you save on rent while incarcerated (which I don't think I can spell)

tis a win win

oooo, whomoved, i need to find the thread, but there was one here yesterday asking if those log maker things were worth it.

(Rosie Millard! How very dare you, I am Carol Thatcher)