To ask what small cheeky things you do to save money?

[monroeagogo]

DH routinely reuses stamps. His excitement when an envelope arrives and the stamp isn't marked is a wonder to behold.

Franking is the enemy.

What cheeky things do you do to save the pennies?

Normal non-barcode stamps aren’t valid at all after the end of this year, even new.

From the 4/4 first class stamps will be 95p, I think i will save money by just not sending anyone anything.

@AldiCandlesArePerfectlyLovely

I really like ironing water but once I use a bit of it I’ll top it up with tap water - it lasts months - it just gets watered down a bit more with every use, but still smells lovely and is better than pure tap water.

I only buy it on offer for £1 a bottle too

what the heck is ironing water?

I don't know the full story but the post office are doing away with stamps, it will all be bar codes and you will have to trade your stamps in at the post office!!

I save one of those plastic umbrella bags you sometimes get in museums /art galleries /posh shops so i never have to put a wet umbrella in my bag

Ironing water £1.20 from Waitrose. Water that goes in the iron.

@MincePieandBaileys

I cut wipes in half, it makes them half price.

Also, use empty loaf plastic bags, vegetable bags and others and use as dog poo bags when out walking my dog.

It's the little things that count.

Now THAT's sensible!

I use charity bags as bin bags and always save Jiffy bags to reuse for when I sell stuff on eBay

@katepilar
Ironing water is ionised water that you can pour into a steam iron; usually with lovely scents.

When I moved to the South East from the West Midlands, I couldn't understand why I was getting through so many irons. After about a year, or even less, when I pressed the extra steam function, I'd get this brown residue and dry crumbs.
Took me a while to realise that I was in a very hard water area. The fact that soap wouldn't quickly lather escaped me.

Once I started using ironing water , all was saved and my iron hasn't been changed for over a decade.
( Not that I iron much since I retired.)

at all the Waynetta Slobs half inching their donuts and pastries

I try and buy cosmetic products either in tubs or tubes, rather than bottles.
Bottles usually mean there is product left at the bottom that can't be used and goes to waste.
Tubs mean than all the product is usable right up to the end, and tubes have the top snipped off them so all of the product can be reached and used.

We have terribly hard water and we use a Brita filter for drinking so put that water in the iron, and there's no limescale.

@monroeagogo

I've also been known to add extra rolls or cakes at the self checkout scale. Quite often, actually.

I'm like a big time thief.

FFS. That’s just stealing.

@AldiCandlesArePerfectlyLovely, deionised (soft) water that doesn’t build up limescale and other mineral deposits in your iron.

@Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese
You do THAT?
Good grief, what a cheapskate. I always have the whole 600g tub with toasted tiger bread and maybe a sprinkling of cheese on some of their soups (which are delicious)
600g fills a soup bowl so 1/3 full would be hardly worth bothering to heat up.

@Sparklingbrook I do the same and also use it for the kettle or I'm
Constantly needing to descale it

@Cluelessbeetroot

Fivemoreminutes1 This can’t be real

I used to run a pub and somebody brought their own tea bag and wasn't happy they had to do at for the hot water, milk and sugar they requested

I wouldn’t call my money saving “cheeky” but I have apps “olio” and “too good to go” and most of my fruit and veg / treat foods come from there. All my weekly fruit and veg for £3 a week.

I buy larger packs of things ie chicken, mince etc and batch cook meals and freeze one, saves me time and also money.

I only buy what I need, when I need it, sounds obvious but, I haven’t done a full food shop since before Xmas. My main meal elements are in the freezer and my fruit and veg comes from the apps above, I’m plastic free as much as possible at home so I use fabric instead of kitchen roll, I use wax wraps rather than sandwich bags, cling film etc and my toiletries are in bar form which get delivered to my door every 8 weeks and last longer than bottled shampoo etc.

Not paying for things at the self checkout is stealing. You seem to find it funny. I hope you get caught.

ok by that logic should we still go along with things that used to be socially acceptable such as slavery, drink driving, homophobia, women having no rights etc?

Didn’t expect to open a thread with this title and see these words mentioned!

Mine is limited to finding a fiver or let's face it a quid in a pocket. Today I struck gold I tell ya. TEN POUNDS OF THR REALM in the back of my desk drawer when I was emptying it to replace with a new one. Ok. New one cost but still. Tenner was a winner imo👌🏼

@monroeagogo

I've also been known to add extra rolls or cakes at the self checkout scale. Quite often, actually.

I'm like a big time thief.

Out of interest Do you do that when your children, if you have any, are with you?

@Sparklingbrook

Ironing water £1.20 from Waitrose. Water that goes in the iron.

isnt the entire point of it is that its distilled water so soft and wont cause limescale in your iron, so topping it up with tap water renders buying it utterly pointless?

my dad used to make distilled water for the iron.

I’ve set the shop alarms off in Lidl several times by taking my basket outside to the car to fill my own shopping bags that I forget to take in the store because I will not pay for carrier bags. Usually security are fine because they watch me bring the basket back (I point out my car and tell them to note the reg if it makes them happy). I do buy the coop bags if I forget though because they go in the green food waste bin outside to act as a liner.

@ButtercupOfFlorin

Just popping on to remind folks that meanness is a very unattractive quality

Thanks for the reminder. I'd like to remind you that there's a difference between frugality (out of necessity) and meanness.