Things cheap people do
Discussion
Drew106 said:
That's a good deal on Prime! £38/ year?
It's £79, is it not?
I thought Prime music was a bit crap - like Amazon Prime video. Too much of the stuff you still have to pay for. I keep it because it's handy for the free delivery, but not overly impressed with the music or video.
I go to college once a week, so i get an @ac.uk student discount.It's £79, is it not?
I thought Prime music was a bit crap - like Amazon Prime video. Too much of the stuff you still have to pay for. I keep it because it's handy for the free delivery, but not overly impressed with the music or video.
Everything ive tried to play has been available.
If i start to find stuff is often unavailable i will have to resub.
eltawater said:
Is it not the case that Amazon music included with prime is just 2 million songs? And to get access to the full 50 million library you need to pay for Amazon music unlimited which is 9.99 a month on top?
We have primeFree delivery - used a huge amount
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It’s great for the kids Fire tablets loads of kids films shows etc to watch.
Take those films downloaded with you / or watch it live overseas/anywhere with a WiFi connection.
Free music channel use it now and again does for us with Radio and the sky music channels as extra. Not willing to pay £120/year for Spotify or amazon prime music extra
carreauchompeur said:
MrJuice said:
Peel banana, put in plastic bag, weigh, pay.
Who wants to pay for the skin?
Who wants to pay for the skin?
Although I am a bugger for snapping off broccoli stalks!Just realised this morning something cheap that I do; it is something that I do quite regularly.
If I can't be arsed to polish my shoes or I put them on and they look like they could have done with a clean, I put my left one on and then polish the top and front and as around to the side as I can get, with my right foot in my sock, I then do the right shoe with the same foot before I put it on; the right shoe never comes up as well as my left one!!
Or is it a "lifestyle hack"!!
The Bananas at Tesco used to be sold by weight but now inner city bananas are a flat price yet you still see people snapping off the stalks.
As it's a flat price all the decent sized ones are usually sold out by lunchtime
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45419805
As it's a flat price all the decent sized ones are usually sold out by lunchtime
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45419805
soupdragon1 said:
Couple of recent ones. Spotify subscription bought off eBay.
My son got a laptop and needed the office pack. A 2016 legitimate license key (stripped from a broken laptop) for less than a tenner
That's piqued my interest... those spotify things, how does that work? How are they so cheap?My son got a laptop and needed the office pack. A 2016 legitimate license key (stripped from a broken laptop) for less than a tenner
Otispunkmeyer said:
That's piqued my interest... those spotify things, how does that work? How are they so cheap?
I imagine they're set up in foreign countries (or via a VPN) with a disposable email address.Just guessing, I fell out with Spotify a couple of years ago due to the limit of songs you can save to your library.
Currently on Apple Music...
Two examples spring to mind, concerning my brother-in-law, who makes legendary cheap Scotsmen seem like philanthropists, (actually I know many Scots, who are not frightened of putting their hands in their pockets).
We’ve just had a week in Gran Canaria, where one night I opted for an Argentine churrasco restaurant.
He was very dubious, after perusing the menu outside and seeing steaks from €12.95 up to €28.95, but his sister, (my wife), pushed him through the door.
It was painfully obvious that he wasn’t very happy, “Is this water free, and do we get charged extra for bread?”, “What’s potato gratin?”, (said as grating).
While I was pondering the wine list, a waitress came up with four small plates of tiny skewers of meat with green peppers, and put them in front of us, saying, “Cumplidos de la casa”, which even I with barely minimal Spanish could work out as ‘Compliments of the house.’
He immediately went into overdrive, “We never ordered that, how much are you going to charge us for it?”
I thought his wife was going to die.
Same week, another night.
He’s jonesing for Chinese, and my wife said, “There’s a Chinese buffet there, €6.95, all you can eat.”
He said, “€6.95?, Dave Morgan said he found one for €6.50, let’s walk around and see if we can find it.”
I gave up, and went in a German bar, showing Schalke 04 v Man. City, and I’m not that interested in football.
We’ve just had a week in Gran Canaria, where one night I opted for an Argentine churrasco restaurant.
He was very dubious, after perusing the menu outside and seeing steaks from €12.95 up to €28.95, but his sister, (my wife), pushed him through the door.
It was painfully obvious that he wasn’t very happy, “Is this water free, and do we get charged extra for bread?”, “What’s potato gratin?”, (said as grating).
While I was pondering the wine list, a waitress came up with four small plates of tiny skewers of meat with green peppers, and put them in front of us, saying, “Cumplidos de la casa”, which even I with barely minimal Spanish could work out as ‘Compliments of the house.’
He immediately went into overdrive, “We never ordered that, how much are you going to charge us for it?”
I thought his wife was going to die.
Same week, another night.
He’s jonesing for Chinese, and my wife said, “There’s a Chinese buffet there, €6.95, all you can eat.”
He said, “€6.95?, Dave Morgan said he found one for €6.50, let’s walk around and see if we can find it.”
I gave up, and went in a German bar, showing Schalke 04 v Man. City, and I’m not that interested in football.
If I go on holiday (read Le Mans 24hr) with a friend I am careful to ensure they are similar to myself in spending.
If I fancy a glass or bottle of champagne or a decent wine with some good food, the last thing I want is someone who moans. I also expect to reciprocate.
I have organised trips in the past for a group of people and there are always some who moan about the price of meals especially. I learned it was better to let people find their own evening meal.
If I fancy a glass or bottle of champagne or a decent wine with some good food, the last thing I want is someone who moans. I also expect to reciprocate.
I have organised trips in the past for a group of people and there are always some who moan about the price of meals especially. I learned it was better to let people find their own evening meal.
In the 90's I worked with a bloke who wherever possible slipstreamed lorries in his Metro all the way from Southampton to Portsmouth and back on the M27 each day...once tucked in behind he'd even go from dipped beam to sidelights in winter as he claimed it used less fuel...on a Metro?
He'd also routinely take the nasty cheap toilet rolls home from the stores at work, and had a couple of large jerry-can things that he used to fill with water from the truck washing bay to flush his toilet at home as he was on a meter.
One seriously odd bloke, he was our purchasing manager and on a half decent salary too.
He'd also routinely take the nasty cheap toilet rolls home from the stores at work, and had a couple of large jerry-can things that he used to fill with water from the truck washing bay to flush his toilet at home as he was on a meter.
One seriously odd bloke, he was our purchasing manager and on a half decent salary too.
I don't know if it's been mentioned, but FIRE is a thing you can look and join in with up if interested. It stands for 'financial independence, retire early'. Google will tell you more and it's been on the news and TV lately. Basically as was mentioned earlier in principle it's about being miserly right from the start and investing everything to retire early.
Came across an article about FIRE proponents a while back, the case study they used was really atypical, a young couple of their twenties who had most of the house they bought gifted to them by BOMAD and both of them lived within either walking or cycling distance to work.
I live quite frugally compared to my colleagues who will easily spend £100 a week on justeat whilst I never really get takeaways or pay £50+ in a crappy chain restaurant when I'm quite content just having a £25 curry or getting a pub meal.
I tried living like a skint student for a couple months but it didn't work despite being on a decent wage, once rent and essential bills come out of the wage packet half of it's already gone.
Did a quick breakdown this month and it's been £1300 rent, £200+ for utilities and council tax, £200+ for travel costs £100+ for insurance and VED on my cars so already over half my paycheck had gone before I'd even started on food or anything else
Imo it's best to enjoy life whilst your young rather than scrimp and save simply so you can do the same in retirement, that's how I justify running 2 sub 20mpg cars anyway (I'm not in debt and have savings).
I live quite frugally compared to my colleagues who will easily spend £100 a week on justeat whilst I never really get takeaways or pay £50+ in a crappy chain restaurant when I'm quite content just having a £25 curry or getting a pub meal.
I tried living like a skint student for a couple months but it didn't work despite being on a decent wage, once rent and essential bills come out of the wage packet half of it's already gone.
Did a quick breakdown this month and it's been £1300 rent, £200+ for utilities and council tax, £200+ for travel costs £100+ for insurance and VED on my cars so already over half my paycheck had gone before I'd even started on food or anything else
Imo it's best to enjoy life whilst your young rather than scrimp and save simply so you can do the same in retirement, that's how I justify running 2 sub 20mpg cars anyway (I'm not in debt and have savings).
First time i have looked in for a while and came across this thread searching for something unrelated.I have been laughing out loud at some of the tightness described, highly amusing stuff.Here are some from me.
My uncle has lived in France since '97 and his first place backed on to the third hole of a posh golf course via a vineyard and when my father would go out to visit he would often later in the day sneak through the vineyard with his clubs and play as many holes as he could get in as he refused to pay the high entry price to the course,this would cause a stand up argument between them as my uncle was concerned about the locals playing up.
Another golfing one, years ago we used to play in the summer have a few beers and race the buggies about the course ,one friend who would play infrequently never appeared at the clubhouse to pay but would come rustling through a bush, bag on shoulder and drop his ball onto the fairway having spotted us far enough away from the clubhouse much to our amusement,he would just park on the road close as he could get.
When we had the business one of our more senior drivers would be permitted to fill up with diesel from the company pump and take the van home on the Friday evening so that he could begin his run from home early Monday morning which he did, only problem was it was noticed that he was refueling on the Tuesday,under questioning it turned out he had been enjoying some nice weekend jaunts to the coast and back with the family aboard haha total p*sstake.
One of our friends we call the coupon queen no matter where you go she will be there discounting every penny and they are loaded.She will skip the starter in a restaurant and has even had the calculator out once with a large group eating out to make sure she didn't subsidise someone else,i went to the toilet as i couldn't stop laughing.
One friend in the Indian restaurants would just order a starter claiming to be full up with drink and would wait until we had finished our mains and then collect the leftovers together on a plate and woof it down with relish to much jeering from the rest of us.
Another one drives around on a space saver wheel as they don't wont to buy another tyre and 'never go over sixty anyway'.
Superflow said:
When we had the business one of our more senior drivers would be permitted to fill up with diesel from the company pump and take the van home on the Friday evening so that he could begin his run from home early Monday morning which he did, only problem was it was noticed that he was refueling on the Tuesday,under questioning it turned out he had been enjoying some nice weekend jaunts to the coast and back with the family aboard haha total p*sstake. .
Someone I used to work with did something similar. He would even come into work on his days off, with the f
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