To ask for your most ingenious money saving tips

[Toothiehurtie]

my Best one is…

a visit to the card factory for cheap cards and gift bags and then picking up presents from car boot sales or charity shops. I have got some brilliant kids party presents for 50p so with the card and a cheap gift bag I have brought the cost of a present in for a pound before.

looking for any tips at all, obviously you can buy porridge oats in bulk cheaper than buying expensive kids cereal etc but anything clever or that people might not have thought of before.

don’t know how bad the fuel crisis will be but considering charging battery packs to charge phones at work and taking a thermos of boiled water home 😂

[ohffsomg]

@Jumpking live that story.

[mackthepony]

Forget official combinations for food.

General tao chicken with cubed potatoes? Alright then

Saves a fortune

[KurtCobainsColourfulCarpet]

@ohffsomg

Really?

Sure, once the funeral is over and done with.

[coodawoodashooda]

To just not go to the shops. And to physically look at the item and then imagine the amount of money it costs as a pile of cash.

[coodawoodashooda]

@mackthepony

Forget official combinations for food.

General tao chicken with cubed potatoes? Alright then

Saves a fortune

Totally agree.

[tillytoodles1]

@tenbob

There is always one, isn’t there 🙄🙄🙄

Using works electricity to charge phones or boiling water to take home just to avoid paying for it yourself is stealing. Someone is paying for it, just not you.

[TheEggChair]

@KurtCobainsColourfulCarpet

Death.

It's expensive to die, funeral costs around £7k if you go for a mid range one with a few bells and whistles.

[Twillow]

@tenbob

There is always one, isn’t there 🙄🙄🙄

It is though. It's not really money-saving if it's costing someone else, is it.

[martinsmoneysaver]

We managed to get put water bill down to a mere £1.00 a month by
▪︎cutting baths out
▪︎very quick showers, whole family jumps in and out with eachother (2 adults plus 4 kids)
▪︎keep the plug in the bath to save shower water to mop floors, water garden, even flush toilet and when I get round to it, clean the bathroom.
I don't need fresh water to wash my toilet.

Visually it helps to see just how much water things use. It cam be a pain carrying the water in the watering can outside at first but its saving me my whole water bill. (it's so low because we were in so much credit. I'm expecting a £10 another bill next year down from 40)

This came for us just as prices were increasing, the original reason was an ethical one. I hated the idea of wasting water, but I didn't think we would get our usage down so low we would have a year of virtually no bills for minimal effort really.
I only mop once a week, so it's not that big of a task.

I know it seems overkill but its easy enough and the benefits outweigh the minor chores.
Plus I can easily carry 10 litres of water with one arm now so double win!

[hangrylady]

@SavoirFlair

My money saving tip @Toothiehurtie is using the search function on Mumsnet for “money saving tips

Who pissed on your chips 🙄

[Twillow]

Use washing powder, not liquid (better for the machine anyway) and half the amount of washing powder it says unless it's really dirty stuff. Don't bother with fabric conditioner either, you honestly won't notice the difference. If you like a fragrance, put a capful of zoflora-type stuff in instead.

[NuffSaidSam]

@Twillow

It is though. It's not really money-saving if it's costing someone else, is it.

If you're allowed to charge your phone at work then doing so is just good planning. The same as showering at the gym, you're not stealing water from the gym, you're allowed to use the shower and doing that instead of using your own water etc. making best use of the resources available to you.

[Twillow]

@martinsmoneysaver ▪︎very quick showers, whole family jumps in and out with eachother

You tag team in the shower?

[hangrylady]

@tillytoodles1

The people charging their phones and filling flasks at work do know it stealing electricity don't they?

Yeah, throw away the key 🙄

[Justmuddlingalong]

If you're thinking of buying anything that isn't a necessity, work out how much of your hourly rate at work it costs. I find it generally puts me off.

[Discovereads]

@TheEggChair

It's expensive to die, funeral costs around £7k if you go for a mid range one with a few bells and whistles.

Who says you need a funeral? It’s £1000 to direct cremate and £7 for a scatter tube. Can skip the scatter tube even and bring your own container. See, just saved you £6k.

[martinsmoneysaver]

@Twillow

@martinsmoneysaver ▪︎very quick showers, whole family jumps in and out with eachother

You tag team in the shower?

Don't you tag team showers with kids? pretty normal.
Same as sharing a bath, one in one out?

[martinsmoneysaver]

Woops just read that back properly.
We all jump in one after another. Kids are still small enough it's not weird yet.

[Babyroobs]

@Applebark

My brother has worked out that 10 minute shower will cost £2.50 on the new rates. It cheaper to pay for gym membership each month and shower there everyday.

Until the Gyms go out of business with their huge energy bills.

[Kerrrmieee]

Batch cook. Everything.

Admittedly we are a family that likes stews, lasagna, bolognaise, curry, soup. We do a mix of mince or completely vegan - 5 bean chilli for example.

If you can afford to buy bigger - like ricewise then do it.

So if you eat like we do - I'm think wet food. Cook it all at once and freeze. I was given an old chest freezer, so I'm lucky in that respect.

I found some potatoes the other day, that had been boiled and fluffed ready for a roasting (🤔). Home made Auntie Bessie's... I hope 🤣

I don't have a dishwasher or a tumble. But I only wash on quick eco 30 min setting.

Use economy noodles (like plain super noodles) instead of Blue Dragon or supermarket in own egg noodles.

I don't know. Stuff like that.

Bloody cat's would rather starve than eat a box different to their preferred brand though. Wankers. 🙄

[Newrumpus]

Storing the water in the bath would cause damp in the bathroom wouldn’t it?

[DahliaMacNamara]

Someone on Twitter says that her electricity costs were noticeably reduced by switching everything off at the sockets when not in use. I always thought that would be pennies rather than pounds saved, but perhaps it depends what kind of appliances you normally have plugged in. Worth a go, anyway.

[Babyroobs]

@martinsmoneysaver

We managed to get put water bill down to a mere £1.00 a month by
▪︎cutting baths out
▪︎very quick showers, whole family jumps in and out with eachother (2 adults plus 4 kids)
▪︎keep the plug in the bath to save shower water to mop floors, water garden, even flush toilet and when I get round to it, clean the bathroom.
I don't need fresh water to wash my toilet.

Visually it helps to see just how much water things use. It cam be a pain carrying the water in the watering can outside at first but its saving me my whole water bill. (it's so low because we were in so much credit. I'm expecting a £10 another bill next year down from 40)

This came for us just as prices were increasing, the original reason was an ethical one. I hated the idea of wasting water, but I didn't think we would get our usage down so low we would have a year of virtually no bills for minimal effort really.
I only mop once a week, so it's not that big of a task.

I know it seems overkill but its easy enough and the benefits outweigh the minor chores.
Plus I can easily carry 10 litres of water with one arm now so double win!

not sure my teens would be keen on me hopping into the shower with them😂