The tight gits thread ...

[sasguru]

circa 1985, I crashed on a mate's floor in Norf London. Wandered round to the tube station: no wallet, no change, no nuffink.

I found enough loose change on the floor round the station (plus about 100 yards) to pay my tube fare to West London.

(Let's see you do that with an Oyster card!)

Lets see you do that with current tube fares!

[BrowneIssue]

I like raiding the fountain at the local shopping centre, pretend the kiddie has fallen in and snatch a handful while "rescuing" her.

I employ a small dwarf as a child decoy - I throw it into fountains so I can scoop up large handfuls of the loose change.

HTH

[BrowneIssue]

DigiGuide is far cheaper than the Radio Times.

http://www.digiguide.com/

[BrowneIssue]

Enjoy permanent '2 for 1' promotions on all your favourite goods by placing one item into your shopping basket, and the other in your coat pocket.

You and friend take a shopping trolley each around the supermarket. Each put identical goods in.

One goes and pays and passes receipt to friend with full trolley then goes and dumps their shopping in the car.

Friend goes through a till carrying the receipt and a pint of milk and says at the till "Oops, had to come back for this milk".

THIS IS VERY ILLEGAL AND YOU DIDN'T HEAR IT FROM ME. I WAS NEVER A UNIVERSITY STUDENT SO HAVE NEVER NEEDED TO DO SUCH THINGS TO EAT. I ALSO SUSPECT THE SUPERMARKETS ARE WISE TO IT NOW.

[NickFitz]

Save money on beer by becoming a bird, wear a low cut top, and get blokes to buy yer ale.

Ah, you've met Carling Wotsit too

[cailin maith]

Ah, you've met Carling Wotsit too

you cheeky fecker.... there is no way I'm ever getting in your wheelbarrow again

[NickFitz]

you cheeky fliper.... there is no way I'm ever getting in your wheelbarrow again

That reminds me...

Save money on taxi fares by getting your drunken sister to trundle you home in a stolen wheelbarrow

[cailin maith]

That reminds me...

Save money on taxi fares by getting your drunken sister to trundle you home in a stolen wheelbarrow

Ah yes but we didn't factor in the dry cleaning costs of the coats afterwards...

[lilelvis2000]

Shop at charity shop and second-hand markets. I picked up a perfectly good bread maker for £2.

Though I might add that the wife took the £65 savings and bought a set of Monet (whatever that is)

However it is still a great tip if you are single.

[darmstadt]

Move to foreign country where everything is cheaper and charge extortionet rates to gullible UK companies