Frugal Tips Competition

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #60 on: June 28, 2009, 00:21 »
My tip is to use a 'hay box' for cooking rice.
I use a cardboard box filled with shredded paper; bring pan of rice to boil on hob; nestle pan in box and cover with towel to insulate top. Forget about pan until you need the rice later. (Turn off hob!)
Isn't it soggy by the time you remember it though?

No - I put in only the amount of water needed (stick a finger or equivalent in and water should be to level of rice plus same height again).

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #61 on: June 28, 2009, 16:17 »
hi. if you have a baby, instead of buying expensive baby food, puree, then freeze your left over vegtables in ice cube trays.when you come to need them , just pop the veg of your choice on a plate and heat in the microwave. its great  because as your baby gets bigger, and they need a bt more, just add a few cubes of each veg instead of one. you will be suprised how much money it saves you.

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #62 on: June 28, 2009, 18:03 »
Am I allowed two go's ?

It was the tea bag suggestion that reminded me of this frugal tip...

If you have a combi boiler ie, one that fires up instantly on demand, use the cold tap all the time where possible ie, washing hands, cleaning freshly dug veg, rinsing mugs etc, then the boiler doesn't fire up unnecessarily and waste money

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #63 on: June 28, 2009, 19:04 »
Surely I should win just for being able to spell unnecessarily  :D

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #64 on: June 28, 2009, 19:30 »
I had a friend once. 

No  that isn't the tip.  Her boyfriend/fiance, now husband...  long winded isn't it..  used to work in a newsagents.  They entered every competition he could find in the magazines and newspapers. I mean they were doing maybe 100 or more a month. Take a Break , crosswords everything. And they won loads.  A car ( a pink cadallic I kid you not ) holidays, as well as all the other stuff like free cornflakes, nappies (no babies mind lol)

So my tip is never miss the chance to enter a competition. You never know  you might win!
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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #65 on: June 28, 2009, 20:00 »
I always think I shpuld have a go at that after seeing a film based around that idea. Think it was called Big Fish or something like that.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #66 on: June 28, 2009, 20:23 »
But entering those competitions cost money! The postage................ I did them for about 5 years and all i ever won was a small cheese hamper :(
So i think i lost money by doing them  :ohmy:

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #67 on: June 28, 2009, 21:20 »
I had a new years resolution about them.   I did them religiously for about two months


and won nothing

Then the first week the lottery was run I won 5000 quid with 4 numbers   so I wasn't complaining about being in it to win it  lol.


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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #68 on: June 28, 2009, 21:29 »
Surely I should win just for being able to spell unnecessarily  :D
Not necessarily. :lol:
Cheese makes everything better.

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #69 on: June 28, 2009, 21:32 »
Never eat cheese eat salmon sandwiches and raspberry yoghurt,
did any one else learn that rhyme to spell necessary correctly ::)

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #70 on: June 28, 2009, 21:35 »
No, and on reading the first line of that I thought thats not frugal salmon costs more than cheese - doh!  :lol: :lol:
Staffies are softer than you think.

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #71 on: June 28, 2009, 21:45 »
mmmm ok I'll try another angle

I've never won anything  :(

Well actually I have but I was too shy to go up and collect my raffle prize so I just kept quite that my ticket number had won  :blush:

Anyway it was only a naff prize...not like winning a veg book  :D

I'm a bit braver now  :)

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #72 on: June 28, 2009, 22:09 »
Ermmm, nope, sympathy angle hasn't worked either  ;) :lol: :tongue2:
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days all attack me at once...

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #73 on: June 28, 2009, 22:14 »
 :D :D

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Re: Frugal Tips Competition
« Reply #74 on: June 29, 2009, 08:28 »
"If you have a combi boiler ie, one that fires up instantly on demand, use the cold tap all the time where possible ie, washing hands, cleaning freshly dug veg, rinsing mugs etc, then the boiler doesn't fire up unnecessarily and waste money"

We have a mixer tap with a single "lever" - left for hot, right for cold, pull for off, push for on.

If the previous user left it in the hot position and you just push it, and then rotate to "cold", that triggers the boiler :(

I wouldn't have a tap like that again.  Separate Hot and Cold levers will save the boiler coming on accidentally.



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