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off the current governmnet.
Anyone else doing the same,by cancelling non essential expediture.
I am cancelling spelling and grammar checks on STW posts as per your example.
I switched to the digital only sub.
Partly due to costs and partly because piles of unread PDFs are far less annoying to the wife 🙂
That reminds me - must switch to the digital sub too...
i have the last copies sat unread under the coffee table.
anyone want em?
I think it's £15 for a basic online digital subs, I spent more than that on a curry at the weekend, why not go for that basic online option.
c£35 a year for the mag and on-line subscription. Less than 70p a week. I can save more on toilet roll by only shitting at work. There is other stuff I'll be cutting down on first.
other stuff to cut down on.. dont switch the light on when you go to the loo.. sit on it and you cant miss.. dont flush it , double up at least and half your water bill
Why dont we sit in the dark and wear 5 jumpers and only use the laptop at the pub while we are at it? stop heating any food and just hang a bag out a shady window as a refridgerator.
I do honestly use a ridiculous amount of power I dont need to. C- Must do better.
Then again I could just quit smoking.....nah
Austerity is the new buzz word in the Ho hum house!
Been cutting back on lots for a while now.
saving a tank of diesel a month by cycling to work (c£70/month)
packed lunch at work rather than using the canteen (c£40/month)
not drinking at home (c£40/month)
...no great loss in terms of sacrifice.
so that's an extra £150 / month to spend on bits for the bike.
happy to help subsidise your use of the forum ....we are all in this together
On a related note..
I notice that according to the poll stats on the home page it seems that depressingly (in my opinion) product tests are the most popular articles in the mag..
I find that a little saddening..
due to income minimalisation policy off the current governmnet.
The government pays your wages project ?
I never had you down as a public sector worker.
we have a solution!
Singletrack have kindly donated 18ish subs in a bottle, these will be part of the rider (for the keen)/ marshal (for the karma seekers) prize pots for our last two events, the next one this Sunday!
www.brownbacksracing.co.uk
£4.50 for a mag nowadays, thats the price of a pint and a half of cider!
Minimalist cutting back in the Bouy household, we're still paying for stuff that gets chucked away unsed. I've cycling mags unread, sailing mags unread, I threw a huge tray of tomatoes in the bin because thay'd gawn awf, so too a cucumber.. This kinda thing often happens in our little bit of the coast.
Although I have found that heating the water tank by electricity is far far cheeper than using the gas central heating thingy, so thats a bonus.
Other than that it seems like we're still proping up our local food and wine producers, but thats ok, it's local yeah.
serious tips to save some cash at no cost!! if you have a hot water cylinder turn the temperature down on the side of the tank ( no less than 58 though) and reduse how long the hot water is on for by ten minutes each cycle over a year thats a lot of gas.. if your curtains overhang the radiators cut them short unless you like heating the window not the room. if your sofa is pushed up to a radiator pulling it just 6 inches forward will double the heat coming off it.
£4.50 for a mag nowadays, thats the price of a pint and a half of cider!
Not around here its not!
"double up at least and half your water bill"
Ha ha and can do as many as I like because I'm not on a water meter.
£4.50 for a mag nowadays, thats the price of a pint and a half of cider!
And that's the precise reason I don't drink cider, overpriced pish! 😉
I never had you down as a public sector worker.
What has he ever posted that might have made anybody jump to that conclusion? 😀
Austerity measures in Casa del Spider
Only 1 bottle of wine per week.
Cycle to work 2 days a week.
Look for food that is on offer and bulk / multi-buy.
Buy “ugly” fruit and veg. Who cares if a green pepper isn’t symmetrical about its north-south axis?
Stopped going on long haul days out.
Cut back the SKY TV package.
Ploughing everything we can into paying the mortgage whilst interest rates are low.
And the biggy… spent £160 on a smart thermostat / boiler controller and got a £600 gas rebate compared to the year before!
Ohhh theres a thermostat on my hot water tank?? Ohhh, well I never knew that.. I'm going off to find that, that damn waters always been far too hot.
Thanks for that.
I ol uig vy eod etr n l m wr'
I found everything a false economy.
Cut down on everything drastically and then alcohol consumption rose to compensate.
off the current governmnet.
Who are trying to sort out the massive debt created by the last Government?
Maybe you need to start looking upwards when you walk instead of at the pavement fella.
if your curtains overhang the radiators cut them short unless you like heating the window not the room
Or tuck them behind the radiator.
...and fit a metallic heat reflector behind them.
Downsizing house, upsizing bike collection. Happy.
Who are trying to sort out the massive debt created by the last Government?
You tell 'em hora.
Even Osborne is forgetting his lines.
Last night I heard him blame the steep rise in unemployment announced yesterday on 'the global situation'.
TBH I don't think Cameron is the man for the job/what is needed in strong leadership.
Same goes for Smeg and that weird looking schoolboy from the other party.
Who are trying to sort out the massive debt created by the last Government?Maybe you need to start looking upwards when you walk instead of at the pavement fella.
I know nothing actually happened to cause the last govt to spend or have a shortfall did they - the whole economic meltdown was their fault....you need to follow your own advice and look up
You do realise Labour was in power from as early as 1997 don't you? OR do you think the Tories are making spending cuts/austerity measures because of something that just happened out of the blue?
Or go on. Its Thatchers fault that you and me aren't Doctors?
You do realise Labour was in power from as early as 1997 don't you?
What I didn't realise was that they were also in power in Greece, Iceland, Spain, Ireland, and the US.
I saw the thread title and thought, 'oh no!'.. then read it and thought, 'can we use that in an ad campaign?' 🙂
Every time we add another mag to the archive the cost per mag for a digital sub gets cheaper.. negative inflation!
Just doing our bit for the economy 🙂
good choice of quote for the Twitter update Mark 🙂
Takes glasses off face and slowly rubs eyes.
What? So our own national debt thats been growing for years is from Greece?
Jesus wept.
Last night I heard him blame the steep rise on unemployment announced yesterday on the 'global situation'.
True-ish if you are an exporter and your customers on the continent are not buying for the same reasons as us. We are not the only country in the mire. I need loads of people to buy PV panels to keep me in work but mainland Europe have reduced or stopped lots of subsidies, the Spanish house building and power generation projects have stalled. So there is truth in what he says but you will only know that if you are affected.
atm the haves can afford stuff and the have nots still cannot anyway. Those of us in the middle are contributing to this thread 💡
Locally, like everywhere else probably lots of council workers have lost their jobs, maybe they were non-jobs only time will tell. A good number of these jobs were low paid the same as a lot of the shos that were selling "cheap" goods that are disappearing from our high streets.
Rumour has it our local award winning Honda dealer has not sold a new car for 3mths!!! In a small town like mine the usual flood of new reg cars is noticeable by it`s absence.
As for my austerity measures my only pleasures are my bikes and grand kids, just risen to 4. I rarely drink out, have never smoked, have cut down on magazines certainly and the number of trips to ride away from home have decreased dramatically as has eating out. I am only using 1 bike instead of 2 😥
And the biggy… spent £160 on a smart thermostat / boiler controller and got a £600 gas rebate compared to the year before!
What's one of those then? Any links?
On a wider note I'll be using the heating a whole lot less this winter. Thankfully we don't smoke, go out that often anyway and we've ALWAYS shopped in the sales for clothes. Probably part of being 70's children when our parents suffered from the 70's problems.
Wife has arthritis and other health issues so dropping the heating is not really an option in our house. She is already wearing extra clothing to work atm. Tucking herself up in bed with a book is her usual mode in winter tho.
Same with my parents. Dad has serious chest problems and arthritis. Mum had a stoke and is chair bound so both need as much heating as possible.
As for all these people fitting wood burners or opening up old fire places I remember the days when we only had one living room fire and scraping the ice off the windows due to the condensation freezing on them!! Plus all the smoke from their chimneys really makes me suffer with my asthma. One of the many reasons smokeless zones were created 👿
Yes labour were in power and responsible for the entire global economic downturn triggered by the collapse of the sub prime market in the USA and the way they had been bought and sold in security markets. The fact the Tories were matching the labour spending plans till this happened and praising the Irish and Icelandic economies further demonstrates that it was all just down to labour and if we had a Tory govt there would have been no worldwide economic downturn and it would have been so different.You do realise Labour was in power from as early as 1997 don't you? OR do you think the Tories are making spending cuts/austerity measures because of something that just happened out of the blue?Or go on. Its Thatchers fault that you and me aren't Doctors?
Judge the govt in how they responded labour no more cause it hat the Tories did buy there actions will either make weathering the storm better or worse. This is like you blaming the captain of the ship for the storm.
I would love to have a rational debate with you on the subject but life has taught me that this is not possible.
hora - MemberTakes glasses off face and slowly rubs eyes.
What? So our own national debt thats been growing for years is from Greece?
Try splashing some cold water on your face as well.
And when you have eventually woken up, you might realise that no one has said that.
If not, go back to sleep 💡
What's one of those then? Any links?
We've got one of these.