Cost benefits of living on your own
Discussion
memps said:
It's been 2 years exactly since I moved in to my flat. It's when I bought this bottle of fairy liquid and yesterday the full two years was complete and I still have some. I view this as a victory for men and sensible use of stuff. I accept I have a dishwasher and the odd girlfriend who sees the whole point of fairy liquid is to use it all in one go but the fairy liquid has outlived them all and become a dear friend. Any other similar stories would be champion.
wolfracesonic said:
The red splash back behind the cooker looks suspiciously clean too for a guy living on his own, wiped down pre photo-shoot?
The cooker is probably never used. Living on takeaways and eating out of the disposable trays would also explain the longevity of the Fairy.
Ive found the biggest saving for me is bog roll! Since the OH moved out a year ago, I have saved a silly amount. Although, everytime I am seeing a young lady, and she stays, well instantly out of crapper sheet!! Its a worrying thought how much they use!
Washing up liquid, I go through too much, but then I cook up big meals most nights, and always have the lads over drinking beer. Last night was 9 pint glasses, plates, and bowls after a massive fajita cook up!
Washing up liquid, I go through too much, but then I cook up big meals most nights, and always have the lads over drinking beer. Last night was 9 pint glasses, plates, and bowls after a massive fajita cook up!
The Crack Fox said:
That crazy b
d is doing it without gloves, with no visable fume extraction and with no protective overalls. He's just slapping it down. I can't believe there's not a NSFW warning on the image. I feel sickened by what might happen next. Just a slip and there's a curly little turd of silicone on the work surface or on his pullover or up his nose or something. This is how revolutions start.
, d is doing it without gloves, with no visable fume extraction and with no protective overalls. He's just slapping it down. I can't believe there's not a NSFW warning on the image. I feel sickened by what might happen next. Just a slip and there's a curly little turd of silicone on the work surface or on his pullover or up his nose or something. This is how revolutions start.Not just revolutions, think on this,;
He leaves a little silicone on the work surface, tries to wipe it off with bare hands, no good because it sticks to his hand, trying to remove the silicone he gets some in his eye, has to run into kitchen, where blinded in one eye he accidentally turns on the electric oven. This being a single guys house the oven has not been used for a long time, but stored in the oven is an old can of petrol ( used at kitchen table for cleaning carbs) this catches fire, and oven explodes. The explosion causes massive damage to flat, and to rest of building which is now engulfed in flames. Building collapses, and because it is built on a flood plain causes massive sinkhole. Due to global warming the ground is friable and the sink hole expands until it reaches the M25 at rush hour, still expanding it causes thousands of cars to crash- the biggest RTA in history with a death toll of over 5K- finally the UK government recruits thousands of Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants to work at backfilling the sink hole, thus creating a political crisis leading to new elections and a UKIP/Communist party coalition and a national refu erendum in which the UK public vote to include Tasmania in the EU.
And all this because the OP did not take adequate precautions.
Adenauer said:
LordHaveMurci said:
Laurel Green said:
A weekends worth for the average woman.
WTF do they do with it?
Not quite the same as living on my own as I live with the wife and youngest daughter; however when the eldest daughter moved out in the summer last year we halved our loo roll consumption, gas and electric use has almost halved; she would whack the heating up and forget about it and almost every TV, stereo and light would be on whilst she was in and I put out half of the food waster now than I did when she was at home; we would regularly fill two of the kitchen caddies over a week, now we fill slightly less than a whole one.
HTP99 said:
Not quite the same as living on my own as I live with the wife and youngest daughter; however when the eldest daughter moved out in the summer last year we halved our loo roll consumption, gas and electric use has almost halved; she would whack the heating up and forget about it and almost every TV, stereo and light would be on whilst she was in and I put out half of the food waster now than I did when she was at home; we would regularly fill two of the kitchen caddies over a week, now we fill slightly less than a whole one.
If you add the following you have my wife.Spending money on:
a pointless pet (ie the cat) and also time spent cleaning up after it.
Tissues when toilet paper does the job. She also puts them in a bin not flush them FFS
Fairy branded washing powder/gel. As a single man I would get whatever was on offer. For some reason these are not good enough and it has to be Fairy.
Using the tumble drier even though it's blazing outside
Buying food in restaurants or takeaways and deciding she wasn't that hungry
A whole range of pillows and cushions. Our bed has so many it's now uncomfortable
Last winter we had a £500 gas and electricity bill for the quarter. Turns out she was leaving the back door open all day so the dog could walk in and out as it pleased. The heating was left on all day with no one in the house and the thermostat is placed so it felt the full benefit of the cold air from outside.
On fairy liquid related activity. My dad gifted us a 4l bottle in Feb 2012 and we have about 1/5 left.
Adenauer said:
B17NNS said:
Dow Corning please. A little goes a long way.
k it all up.Well, I do.
triple5 said:
Negative Creep said:
Ensure you take as many dumps at work as possible. Not only do you save money, but you get paid for it
What's the process where you work, do you have to bag it and pass to accounts with a claim form, never tried it here.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff