I recently bought a power bank for travel but what I am doing now is charging the power bank at work so that I dont have to use my electricity at home to charge our mobiles and ipads.
I also turn off the gas booster to my solar hot water on sunny days so all my hot water is free…..when the sun is out.
What do you do to save $$
WOW, Thank you all for replying. I didn't expect such a response.
What a community!
Some great ideas and some funny comments too.
Thank You
How do you force yourself to sleep for days? I am not being a smart arse but are you sure you don't have an untreated or undiagnosed health condition? Depression maybe?
I can over sleep sometimes but I cannot just force myself to stay in bed for days. I also get cranky if I don't eat for more than 12-16 hours.
Stop eating. No energy. Sleep. Wake up. No energy. Sleep.
I have anxiety and depression and take medication for it.
I glue back/sticky tape my snapped drumsticks together.
Another option would be to use chicken drumsticks as drumsticks instead :D.
Doesn't the icecream melt?
I haven't had a shower for 3 days. I get to retain my body's natural oil, stop mould in the bath room and save on the power bill.
My BO is distracting me. I must shower. NOW.
Rinse your pits and rub hand sanitiser on them..
I have wet wipes that I use for that. They also work well for numbers 2's. I don't mean to be crude, just sharing my routine.
People like you disgust me. Zero self respect and no dignity.
Yuck!
Nature of my work means we all have to work back late sometimes. I went around and ordered everyone's dinner on menulog (claimed it back on expenses from the company) all the time so I could keep the eigth free meal to myself :-)
I hope you're using cashrewards too!
I used to ring my mum STD from work to save on my phone bill. I’ve taken small amounts of printing paper from work for my printer. On our current trip we are taking public transport, or walking places, even with our full packs, to avoid paying for taxis.
"I’ve taken small amounts of printing paper from work for my printer." That's called stealing…
It was printing paper that had already been used when someone’s print run had gone haywire and was being discarded,
You should've said "printed paper" or "scap paper" - people assumed you meant unused printing paper….
Pilfering?
Only if you're caught.
I was going to say it is pilfering, but that would be closer to putting a pen in your pocket, knowing that you intend to return it, then don't.
You gave your mum an STD
Subscriber Trunk Dialling, I am very old, I can remember when the government actually delivered services.
I Used to grab items from a disused storeroom where I used to work sometimes, you could tell it hadn't been regularly used for ages because all the packaging was very dated and they had heaps cases of floppy disks just sitting in unopened. Paper, pens, batteries. Probably got about $50 worth of stuff over a year and it's probably all still there
Save all glass jars and hard plastic tubs (ice cream etc) , wash and use as pantry storage containers. Wash super oily takeaway containers at work so I save on hot water and dish soap.
Refill up my hand sanitiser bottle at work (them things are expensive!). Use work's wifi to download/update phone apps because I have limited quota at home with abysmal Adsl speed.
Print HJ's vouchers at work because the website sometimes is a pain to get to when you are in a rush and keep them folded up in my wallet.
Only buy treats from Colesworth when they are 50% or more off.
Take dumps at work so I get paid for crap and save on toilet paper ;) bahaha.
Great to know that you steal hand sanitizer from work for your own personal use…
Yup, they don't provide soap at the sinks and I don't wanna go to the toilets just to soap my hands.
Phone is fine for HJ vouchers
In the last 12 months I merely just have to mention the deal through the drive thru or at the counter and they just look it up. Saves you having to waste power on your phone screen!
phone is fine
Reuse the Costco soft drink cups for the machines at the kiosk.
When we visit the states we can stay for a month. I buy one cup at 61 cents when we get there and keep it in the car, and try to stretch the free refills in the one cup for the whole trip.
It's pretty much disintegrating and leaks a little by the end but I save 61 cents! Plus my mother in law really looks down on it so that's added incentive
Also, pretty low, but I've pulled off the coffee cups from the dirty tray conveyor belt at ikea, rinsed them in boiling water from the coffee machine and scored myself free coffee.
Put a plastic cup, inside the costco cup
My local GP bulk bills for kids so I take my kids there to get them a free lollipop
Rofl haha lol for some reason this one has me crying laughing haha lol Jesus Christ.
You make me uncomfortable.
Rolf? Is that you?
It's 50 cent lol.
Your GP thinks you're his best client :) and your dentist loves it too ;)
This is disturbing…is he a good GP, at least?
r/unexpected
Try peeling the skins from onions before you buy! Lol
How about buying half a banana, the inner half. No point paying for the skin when its only going in the bin.
I pull the centres out of capsicums sometimes. That core with the seeds and stem often has the most weight.
why not just steal it entirely? or put it through as onions?
I got caught once at a self checkout by a mad Coles employee who very loudly explained peanuts aren't cashews and apples aren't greens beans. Peanuts were stale after all that and she bruised the apples so had to return them.
Another good one is breaking the stem off the bottom of broccoli as all the weight is there too.
I also see so many people eating half a bag of grapes at the supermarket like it is their god given right to do so.
10,000 grandmas can't be wrong
Things I do
- Peel the outermost layer of lettuce off at shop
- Take the vine off truss tomatoes and then do self serve
- Snip the end of bananas
It goes on and on :)
An old boss of mine was having a house built. The builder phoned him up and told him to put down a half metre square concrete pad and the brickie would knock up a letter box . Boss was on the phone trying to buy half a bag of cement. Reckoned the rest would just sit in the garage and go hard.
Stingy, not Dishonest, or unethical.
I think this crosses into evil territory. Still got to admire the work behind it
Good one.
Dunno why the neg hate, if he seriously only takes 5 mins and makes sure there are still free spots he is unlikely to cause anyone harm. Probably save the environment by not driving around looking for parking.
Winner winner chicken dinner
Not sure what the negs are for.
You dont have to park in disabled spots. Most parking meters would have a tag saying those with disability prrmit can park for free. (In melb anyway).
So iv never parked in disabled spots
I didn't neg, but they are negging because (a) its illegal to copy a disabled permit, (b) its unethical to pretend to be disabled and park anywhere for free benefit, (c) can you imagine all the disabled people that would give anything to not have their disability and would willingly park at full price/park wherever if they were able to? Yet some people feel the need to take advantage of people they know/family members disabled parking permits to save them a few bucks/few meters of walking. Smacks of entitlement.
Wow, you will literally go to hell for doing that I reckon.
People still believe in these delusions in the 21st century?
Just saw a young uni student looking guy raid at least 5 to 10 bananas from the free kids fruit basket at Woolies…
LOL
What a great idea!!!
I have lied on my tax return for 20 years
Yeah, and I know you Dont Care.
alright don't cry
The government has taken more than there fair share to make up for whatever it is you lied about ;)
not from me they haven't.
Weird that this comment has a positive score but the ones about defrauding supermarkets are negative…
I've noticed oddly sometimes the vine ones being cheaper!
This is, largely, straight up stealing, which IMO isn't in the true spirit of OzBargaining. Not trying to judge you but just wanted to share my opinion.
What I also want to share is that apparently the stAlk contains a larger amount of nutrients than the florets. I always hated the stalk as a kid but now as an adult I've grown up and realised the stalk tastes the same so why waste it?
I am sorry to hear you where force to eat the stalks as a child.
Stealing where, free fruits and napkins.
tomayto, tomahto. Lol that's in my opinion
stalk has different texture.
Stalk takes longer to cook, and that's money.
I hope you check if those storks are carrying babies wrapped in blankets before you snap them off.
Yep stalks I see it, did you reply at 1am in the morning? you could post that you only surf the web after midnight to save money on the power bill, :)
Ok mum. Point noted. I'll try and get to bed a bit earlier.
… and hand off snakey.
I have never done anything stingy to remember. But yeah once I didn't have money enough to get a ride home and eat, so I ordered Pizza with free home delivery and got a free ride home with the driver (Yeah, I had a mate working in the shop).
I just went through the mcdonalds trash to get a monopoly token.
Do I feel dirty? Yes
Would I do it again? You're goddamn right I would
Was it at least a free food Monopoly token?
Lol I'm guilty of that too..
But hey got a free coffee out of it!
And haha I would so do it again!!
where are these comments? (not me of course):
people that used to go through bins to get those coke labels during that coke rewards thing.
not scanning or selecting a different product at the self service checkout? i thought there were heaps of people that do that. after all how much do supermarkets claim to lose due to the self serve checkout theft?
personally the only thing i can remember is while drunk i was looking for a table in a food court and found a table with a barely touched plate of food just sitting there. we are talking literally had maybe one spoon eaten from it.
so i finish my meal and by the end still drunk and hungry decided to eat that meal.
no idea who's it was, they never came back.
i swore to never tell a soul but now you guys know.
i swore to never tell a soul but now you guys know.
'salright. When you're drinking you have a temporary form of invincibility.
I used to go to the movies back home where they had the same movie playing over the whole day. I would walk into the cinema and eat any leftover pop corn bags that I could find. Once I had half a hot dog too
Lmao that's awesome.
My sister has been to the cinemas and instead of leaving, gone into another cinema and watched another movie… lol!
Second hand popcorn is just gross dude. People have shoved their dirty hands in those buckets, scoffed the food, and I highly suspect many have licked their salty fingers before going in for another rummage with said hand.
So gross.
… don't forget the ecoli on their dunking fingers.
I used to work with a bloke who would fill 2 thermos flask with water so he did not waste his electricity making coffees at home.Around the same time there was another employee who used to catch his cars oil leak in an icecream container and put it back in the engine before going home.
I guarantee nobody will beat this…
Say you buy something at Coles, costs you $5.50 total.
Using split payment, pay $5.43 by card.
Then you'll owe $0.07.
Select the cash option, and all you'll have to pay is $0.05,
netting you a saving of $0.02 for the transaction.
You can do this either for every transaction, or if you're brave enough for each item in its own transaction…
Thank me later.
You my Sir are a God among men.
He's a god alright. Koalemos to be specific
@outlander: thanks I try to tackle each new day one at a time now instead of just watching it pass by.. still have many struggles but who doesn't just hoping in time it will always get better.. I mean it has to because the only other option is bust.