08-02-2014, 04:45 PM
I've picked up a couple more.
- Drink pints! I always do but my lass has always drunk vodka and coke, 3 an hour at £2.50 each. Got her on pints of cider, takes her 45 mins to drink 1 pint at £2.10
- Another tip to save money in the pub, don't play pool! Most places are a quid a game now and a game lasts what, 10 minutes if that? Alternatively, go play snooker, my snooker club is £5 for a years membership and charges £2.50 an hour to play pool or £3.50 an hour to play snooker. Plus, no annoying knobheads piling up a tenners worth of pound coins on the table and hogging it for hours! And it's £2 a pint in the club
- When you buy a car part, consider how long you'll keep the car. Yes, Meyle HD wishbone bushes will last years but if a car will get sold in 6 months (as mine often do!) eBay shite will last that long. I probably wouldn't extend that to brakes though...
- Used games. I got my Xbox 360 3 years after it came out, so I got a top-spec machine with all the reliability issues worked out for £120 rather than the £350 people queued to pay for them when they came out. Then, you can buy all the 3 year old games from Gamestation for like £3-£5 each with free delivery rather than paying £35 a game when they first come out. Don't forget games with gold either, just got Dead Island for nowt!
- The gym. Now granted, anyone who's met me in recent years won't think I'll know anything about this, but I used to go regularly when I played rugby seriously before I destroyed my knee, I can only really do swimming now because of the damage to my knee, which I do for £1.50 at the council pool. It was like £60 a month to run on a treadmill (which you can do for nothing in the park) or lift weights (which you can do in your spare room with a £100 weights bench, even less off eBay), with the smell of sweat hanging in the air. The only upside was the hot women in lycra
- I think the best saving, one we ALL make on here, is buying used cars. I paid £400 for my 306, and in over a year, besides tax, MOT, insurance, mods and wear and tear, it's cost me nothing and is still worth what I paid for it, if not more. A new Focus would be £12000, which including finance is more than £18000 over 5 years at the typical APR, yet buy the time that £18000 has been paid, it's worth what, £5000? That's £13000 in depreciation and interest, essentially nothing!!! And you still have to pay for fuel, insurance (usually), wear and tear and tax, fair enough your covered for major mechanical failure but if that happens to me even without breaking the car I can scrap it for £100 and only lose £300, sell my cyclones, Bosch pump, straight through exhaust and stereo and I'm even. Yet people I work with say stuff like "Well I'm glad I bought a new Focus, I only pay £60 a year for tax". Well done genius, that £825 you'll save over 5 years cancels out the £13000 in finance and depreciation...
- Drink pints! I always do but my lass has always drunk vodka and coke, 3 an hour at £2.50 each. Got her on pints of cider, takes her 45 mins to drink 1 pint at £2.10
- Another tip to save money in the pub, don't play pool! Most places are a quid a game now and a game lasts what, 10 minutes if that? Alternatively, go play snooker, my snooker club is £5 for a years membership and charges £2.50 an hour to play pool or £3.50 an hour to play snooker. Plus, no annoying knobheads piling up a tenners worth of pound coins on the table and hogging it for hours! And it's £2 a pint in the club
- When you buy a car part, consider how long you'll keep the car. Yes, Meyle HD wishbone bushes will last years but if a car will get sold in 6 months (as mine often do!) eBay shite will last that long. I probably wouldn't extend that to brakes though...
- Used games. I got my Xbox 360 3 years after it came out, so I got a top-spec machine with all the reliability issues worked out for £120 rather than the £350 people queued to pay for them when they came out. Then, you can buy all the 3 year old games from Gamestation for like £3-£5 each with free delivery rather than paying £35 a game when they first come out. Don't forget games with gold either, just got Dead Island for nowt!
- The gym. Now granted, anyone who's met me in recent years won't think I'll know anything about this, but I used to go regularly when I played rugby seriously before I destroyed my knee, I can only really do swimming now because of the damage to my knee, which I do for £1.50 at the council pool. It was like £60 a month to run on a treadmill (which you can do for nothing in the park) or lift weights (which you can do in your spare room with a £100 weights bench, even less off eBay), with the smell of sweat hanging in the air. The only upside was the hot women in lycra
- I think the best saving, one we ALL make on here, is buying used cars. I paid £400 for my 306, and in over a year, besides tax, MOT, insurance, mods and wear and tear, it's cost me nothing and is still worth what I paid for it, if not more. A new Focus would be £12000, which including finance is more than £18000 over 5 years at the typical APR, yet buy the time that £18000 has been paid, it's worth what, £5000? That's £13000 in depreciation and interest, essentially nothing!!! And you still have to pay for fuel, insurance (usually), wear and tear and tax, fair enough your covered for major mechanical failure but if that happens to me even without breaking the car I can scrap it for £100 and only lose £300, sell my cyclones, Bosch pump, straight through exhaust and stereo and I'm even. Yet people I work with say stuff like "Well I'm glad I bought a new Focus, I only pay £60 a year for tax". Well done genius, that £825 you'll save over 5 years cancels out the £13000 in finance and depreciation...
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