Save money at Christmas and birthdays by returning last year's cards with the inscription "Same to you".

don't visit the stw classifieds.

Buy a £1 gift card from Boots. That way you get them a card and they also get £1 to spend on something.

And Clinton's cards et al cost about £2 anyway.

Give up cycling. Watch day-time TV instead.

Don't waste money on booze, just be happy instead :o)

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Examples of Thrift from the last few days…

*Sewed up badly ripped biking shorts.

*Attached pump to frame with surgical tape, as a replacement for missing clip mount.

*Bought four quiches on special offer. Cut each into three, and froze 'em.

But I behaved like this before the recession, tbh. 😀

buy less

Highly repressed lawyer alert…. BD's posts are forming a pattern. 😈

Oh yes, and Buy Brake Pads From Superstar Components. They are really good.

🙂

Don't crash your bike so often
Don't buy ready made meals – do some cooking
Turn the heating down and wear a fleece

don't fall for the shite they advertise on the telly

no, your hair isn't going to be any more shiny if you spend £5 on a bottle of shampoo when you can get supermarket stuff for 99p

When visiting the bank to withdraw money, use a shotgun to encourage staff to take money from other people's accounts to give to you. Since you won't be touching the money in your account, ask that it be moved to high interest while you're there.

We're constantly being told that there are economical ways of driving so rather than slowing down and stopping at junctions which wastes fuel just maintain the same speed right the way through.

What my wife does is interrogate me on how much money I think I'll need during the week. I will say something like '£40' and she will then withdraw this amount and give it to me and tell me not to use my debit card unless it's an emergency. She will do the same for herself. Where this process seems to differ is that she will carry on using her debit card, but we're saving money because I'm not using mine she tells me.

See?

Always borrow money from a pessimist, they never expect you to pay them back!

Always borrow money from an optimist – they always believe you'll pay them back!

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Cant afford contact lenses? Simply cut out small circles of cling film
and press them into your eyes.

Save money on expensive personalised car number plates by simply
changing your name to match your existing plate.

Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars. Simply stand closer to
the object you wish to view.

Invent alternative currencies: i.e. time = money, access to well-stocked library = a million quid, good ride on lush singletrack = a billion quid.*

(*only works if you don't have lots of kids to feed, a wife to keep in the manner to which she is accustomed, a high maintenance full-susser, a car, a gambling/crack habit etc etc…).

ah, viz tips… Need to re-carpet the house? Simply buy two small pieces of the material, and attach them to the soles of your feet.

Sound wisdom.

We're meant to be spending our way out of recession not tightening our purse strings. Mr Brown & Mr Darling won't be happy if they see this thread.

Get your cards out and spend spend spend, tomorrow never comes.

noteeth you beat me to that one

Also from Viz:

Don't buy the kids expensive toy Formula 1 cars. Just glue some buttons to the sides of a fag packet.

And my favourite:

Shove a cocktail stick up a centipede's arse to make an inexpensive mascara brush.

Dobbo – Member

We're meant to be spending our way out of recession not tightening our purse strings. Mr Brown & Mr Darling won't be happy if they see this thread.

Get your cards out and spend spend spend, tomorrow never comes.

That's funny, my Visa bill comes TOMORROW! 😆

Make sure you claim for odd little expenses like having your moat cleaned.

Why pay the earth for expensive jigsaws? Just take a bag of frozen
chips from the freezer and try piecing together potatoes.

Well I just placed an decent sized wiggle order and in doing so signed up to the email news letter thus saving myself £5 off the order total, I'm spending money to save money!

Don't buy expensive "ribbed" condoms, just buy an ordinary one and
slip a handful of frozen peas inside it before you put it on.

Don't ride your bike. That way it's not going to wear out or get broken and you can save a fortune on spares and repairs.