FabSwingers.com forum: for those who are worrying

By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Over price increases

There are lots of ways to cut your

Costs and save money .

In choosing the brands you buy

The shops you shop at.

Buying in bulk items and getting

A discount .

Pls add all your money saving tips

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sell your kids.

Sell your organs. (from your body, not your church)

Put a jumper on.

Share your bath water.

Drink your bath water.

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

Walk instead of drive when possible.

Drink more water instead of buying fizzy drinks.

Look for clothes in charity shops as many bargains can be found.

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

I've always been poor but have always and have learnt how to save

Money .

But drinking your bath water No

But recycling. Yes . using it flush

Your loo saves you a fortune .

Same goes for your washing up water . two exsteam. Ideas but some people do it .I don't but where ever you can use your water twice before letting go down the drain .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Buy what you need not what you want

Meal plan and bulk cook ahead.

Walk if close to supermarkets if only getting small amount of shopping, instead of driving.

Same with work

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

I don't drive so big savings there cycle everywhere cook from scratch shall b using the washing up water on the garden in summer don't waste anything make own compost for garden! Have had name down for allotment a year hopefully get one soon! Although like gold dust these days quite a frugal person just as well x

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By *oah VailMan
over a year ago

Dover

Be aware of the raw cost of the energy you’re using. If you have a gas hob, a gas kettle on there will cost less than an electric one to boil the same amount of water.

Same with your heating. No point saving gas at 9p/kWh and using electric at 28p/kWh instead.

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By *icassolifelikeMan
over a year ago

Luton

Blame the government

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By *drian HardthrobMan
over a year ago

Worcester

Just stop paying your bills and file for bankruptcy when it all gets a little too much

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Started walking 35 minutes to work instead of bus.

£15 a week saved.

Make own lunch for work and stay out of canteen.

Could have decent health benefits too

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"Be aware of the raw cost of the energy you’re using. If you have a gas hob, a gas kettle on there will cost less than an electric one to boil the same amount of water.

Same with your heating. No point saving gas at 9p/kWh and using

electric at 28p/kWh instead.

Really good tip but for those all electric like me ?

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

"I don't drive so big savings there cycle everywhere cook from scratch shall b using the washing up water on the garden in summer don't waste anything make own compost for garden! Have had name down for allotment a year hopefully get one soon! Although like gold dust these days quite a frugal person just as well x"

If you get your allotment you will have to get a shed, you would be amazed at what goes on in allotment sheds during the summer months.

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

Stop buying coffee from overpriced chains like Starbucks and costa.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sell your kids.

Sell your organs. (from your body, not your church)

Put a jumper on.

Share your bath water.

Drink your bath water.

Nasty

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you get your allotment you will have to get a shed, you would be amazed at what goes on in allotment sheds during the summer months. "

Win win

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sell your kids.

Sell your organs. (from your body, not your church)

Put a jumper on.

Share your bath water.

Drink your bath water.

Nasty"

Desperate times require desperate measures.

I’m just helping the people.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Utterly shameful what’s happening everyone should rip out there smart meters and rig the supply

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

If you get your allotment you will have to get a shed, you would be amazed at what goes on in allotment sheds during the summer months. "

Now there's a idea! All sorts of images in my head now!

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

I've been using my laptop for day to day tech usage at last. It's cut my electic down by a huge amount. Before I was using the power hungry main rig every day. I took that for granted and did not pay much attention until now.

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By *oah VailMan
over a year ago

Dover

"Be aware of the raw cost of the energy you’re using. If you have a gas hob, a gas kettle on there will cost less than an electric one to boil the same amount of water.

Same with your heating. No point saving gas at 9p/kWh and using

electric at 28p/kWh instead.

Really good tip but for those all electric like me ?

There’s not much you can do if you’re all electric except keep a tight rein on what you use. Stuff like, if you want a mug of tea, you boil a mug full, not a kettle full.

What’s your heating and hot water setup? If you have an immersion heater, you can usually turn it down a bit. 55° is plenty hot enough. Some hot water tanks have two immersion elements, if you live alone then using just the upper one means you heat less water. Also, look at the timer settings; no point having the tank heat up hours before you want to use the water. Not unless you have cheaper overnight electric.

If you do have cheaper overnight (usually because you have storage heaters), then look at having a couple of sockets, or even another ring main installed so you can take advantage of it to run your washing machine etc overnight.

People should also be aware of unintended consequences of poor planning. A colleague stopped using their gas heating to “save money”, but the electric heaters they used in their two rooms instead cost more than the gas had been to heat the whole house.

Spot comfort heating with fan or convector heaters can be ruinously expensive. Another friend ran a wall mounted convector heater in his workshop, that cost more than the entire rest of his house put together.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Unfortunately it’s the cheaper brands in food, hospitality, fashion retail etc seeing the rises. Premium and high end brands are hardly affected as the margins are already high so can take additional costs.

The biggest savings for most on low incomes will come from reducing gas so practical things like insulation, draft excluders, sealing patio doors, DIY cavity wall with expanding foam , less use of washers and dryers , spending more time out walking and less time sat in a cold house , fewer take aways, alcohol and cigarettes and more home cooking from raw ingredients

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By *uitednbooted2Man
over a year ago

Berkshire

Shop at Aldi or Lidl you can save hundreds of pounds a month

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By *oody HuddsonMan
over a year ago

sexy town

"Unfortunately it’s the cheaper brands in food, hospitality, fashion retail etc seeing the rises. Premium and high end brands are hardly affected as the margins are already high so can take additional costs.

Do not seal cavity walls with expanding foam. Worst thing you could do and why so many properties now suffer with huge damp / mould issues.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Buy bread and freeze it, only take out what you need - it defrosts quickly or toast it.

Boil your kettle ONCE make sure it’s full, then transfer into a flask. Should keep hot all day for coffee’s & tea’s

Don’t split colours of clothes for two washes, do them together and was on a lower temp, colours won’t run.

Use washing line outside when possible

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By *for2Man
over a year ago

Bristol

Back to growing up. Lots of layers to keep warm home made knitted blankets to snuggle under when reading watching tv etc. When making tea or coffee, make a flask. Homemade soups stews and casseroles with lots of veg and cheaper cuts of meat. Use a slow cooker rather than oven. Grow veggies in back garden, if enough space keep chickens. Keep daylight hours if you can. Shower rather than bath. Turn down/off central heating. All things we did growing up cos we had no money.

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Flask idea very clever .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It’s like going back to the days of Charles Dickens

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its 2022 Energy should be free !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If I don’t batch cook, I make enough food for dinner, and lunch the following day.

I put a timer on for my shower.

Slow cooker use.

Airing the laundry instead of using dryers/radiators.

I’ve trimmed a few hours from my heating programs.

Walking to the supermarket not only saves me money on fuel, but also means I buy less. I can’t carry it. I don’t buy it.

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By *ed and WolfieCouple
over a year ago

Gravesend

At last, a forum entry that adds value and has some good ideas.

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By *ed and WolfieCouple
over a year ago

Gravesend

The gas kettle idea is genius. Must get my camping kettle out and use that rather than the electric kettle. Then fill a flask with it.

Double win!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If I don’t batch cook, I make enough food for dinner, and lunch the following day.

I put a timer on for my shower.

Slow cooker use.

Airing the laundry instead of using dryers/radiators.

I’ve trimmed a few hours from my heating programs.

Walking to the supermarket not only saves me money on fuel, but also means I buy less. I can’t carry it. I don’t buy it. "
but that means visiting more often lol

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By *ed and WolfieCouple
over a year ago

Gravesend

Unplug your TV, PCs, gaming consoles etc as all those standbye lights are using electric.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If I don’t batch cook, I make enough food for dinner, and lunch the following day.

I put a timer on for my shower.

Slow cooker use.

Airing the laundry instead of using dryers/radiators.

I’ve trimmed a few hours from my heating programs.

Walking to the supermarket not only saves me money on fuel, but also means I buy less. I can’t carry it. I don’t buy it. but that means visiting more often lol "

Which keeps me active and fit.

No lose there.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"At last, a forum entry that adds value and has some good ideas."

Thanks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x "

Fuck me, who pissed on your chips?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Probably 'tips' everyone already knows

Close the doors of each room. It retains the heat longer and uses less energy to keep it heated.

Turn the heating down or off in long term unused rooms and close the doors.

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By *elshcouple18Couple
over a year ago

Cardiff

Shoot he robbing b******s who have put the costs up in the first place.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x "

Survival of the fittest of the species, is that the idea?

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By *elshcouple18Couple
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Probably 'tips' everyone already knows

Close the doors of each room. It retains the heat longer and uses less energy to keep it heated.

Turn the heating down or off in long term unused rooms and close the doors.

"
join us in our bed, that'd keep us all toasty warm..

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x

Fuck me, who pissed on your chips? "

This isn't one of

what am I thinking threads but incase it would appear you right

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Learn to hunt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Go to swinging clubs. They are lovely and warm, you can have a shower and on occasion a buffet is available. Lost count of the number of pork sausages mrsN has taken! M

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x

Fuck me, who pissed on your chips? "
lol haven’t you noticed the eugenics game being played out in real-time ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Probably 'tips' everyone already knows

Close the doors of each room. It retains the heat longer and uses less energy to keep it heated.

Turn the heating down or off in long term unused rooms and close the doors.

join us in our bed, that'd keep us all toasty warm..

An excellent idea. Move over

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x

Fuck me, who pissed on your chips? lol haven’t you noticed the eugenics game being played out in real-time ? "

I don’t even know what the word means.

I’m too busy doing stuff I enjoy to worry about shit over which I have zero control.

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x

Fuck me, who pissed on your chips? lol haven’t you noticed the eugenics game being played out in real-time ? "

It would seam we have a prophet in our gathering. Any other moneysaveing tips that might help while we are still here.

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By *illloganMan
over a year ago

Essex

Great idea for a post, however saving the odd penny or pound is not the answer anymore.

The current rise seen across everything from taxes, energy and food cannot simply be avoided by money saving tips , where does it stop? Until we are all living in the dark around an open fire in a barrel?

As Martin Lewis has said, there are no tips, tricks or hacks this time around, it is far too expensive to live now. A sad truth for many that will be plunged in to poverty this year.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x

Fuck me, who pissed on your chips? lol haven’t you noticed the eugenics game being played out in real-time ?

I don’t even know what the word means.

I’m too busy doing stuff I enjoy to worry about shit over which I have zero control. "
me to I gave up giving a shit a while ago, I couldn’t give a shit about the mass morons anymore if you can’t beat em join em

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Great idea for a post, however saving the odd penny or pound is not the answer anymore.

As Martin Lewis has said, there are no tips, tricks or hacks this time around, it is far too expensive to live now. A sad truth for many that will be plunged in to poverty this year. "
yeah next winter old dears will die of hyperthermia 100%

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Great idea for a post, however saving the odd penny or pound is not the answer anymore.

As Martin Lewis has said, there are no tips, tricks or hacks this time around, it is far too expensive to live now. A sad truth for many that will be plunged in to poverty this year. yeah next winter old dears will die of hyperthermia 100%"
all part of the plan of the worlds freemasonry governments controlled by the occult which runs the worlds banking systems backed up with thin air x great isn’t it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Flask idea very clever ."

Used to do that when recovering from a hip replacement

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It’s like going back to the days of Charles Dickens"

Is it? Were you there?

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

I'll say martin lewis has lots of money saving ideas and lot of goodones here .but every one can save money on what they buy simply takes thought and more people thinking about it and others give tips helps .

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

"Unplug your TV, PCs, gaming consoles etc as all those standbye lights are using electric."

Well yes but no. It's literally pennies a year.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It’s like going back to the days of Charles Dickens

Is it? Were you there? "
no I can read his books he left us

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x

Survival of the fittest of the species, is that the idea?"

That's always been the idea, Darwin proved that

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"Unplug your TV, PCs, gaming consoles etc as all those standbye lights are using electric.

Well yes but no. It's literally pennies a year."

Well its pennies that add up and your not paying them unessarly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x

Survival of the fittest of the species, is that the idea?

That's always been the idea, Darwin proved that"
Darwin was a Freemason

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By *ick270Man
over a year ago

Here

Turn off microwave at the socket it uses more energy being on all day than for cooking

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x "

How about you take your negativity and shove it somewhere the sun don’t shine? FFS!!

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Set the boiler so the water temperature is hot enough to touch that you don't burn yourself nor need to add cold water this saves both ways.water and electric if you have a water meter.you will only use the cold tape when you want not need.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Unplug your TV, PCs, gaming consoles etc as all those standbye lights are using electric.

Well yes but no. It's literally pennies a year.

Well its pennies that add up and your not paying them unessarly"

If you hardly watch TV, cancel your TV licence, get rid of any viewing box you have. You can still watch programs on OnDemand channels except Iplayer (BBC) YouTube, Netflix, and Disney+ ., if you haven’t watched a subscription for a while, get rid of it. You can always resubscribe later. Watch DVDs.

You cannot watch things like Amazon Prime/Now as these stream live, without a license

This is what I’ve done. I do pay for Spotify on Alexa, but this is less than the monthly DD for a TV License

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By *aiseiMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

"How about we all fcuking die that’s the overall plan x

Survival of the fittest of the species, is that the idea?

That's always been the idea, Darwin proved that Darwin was a Freemason "

Good, an Expensivemason is the last thing anyone needs….

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By *osaint1971Couple
over a year ago

Near Taunton

Stop voting in corrupt morons. Yes, that's all of them.

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"Stop voting in corrupt morons. Yes, that's all of them."

Sadly there all a shower whatever. Side gets in .they pay them too much so wrong people go for the job

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By *hagTonightMan
over a year ago

From the land of haribos.

[Removed by poster at 01/04/22 12:46:12]

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By *hagTonightMan
over a year ago

From the land of haribos.

"Great idea for a post, however saving the odd penny or pound is not the answer anymore.

As Martin Lewis has said, there are no tips, tricks or hacks this time around, it is far too expensive to live now. A sad truth for many that will be plunged in to poverty this year. yeah next winter old dears will die of hyperthermia 100% all part of the plan of the worlds freemasonry governments controlled by the occult which runs the worlds banking systems backed up with thin air x great isn’t it "
Yes, it is the agenda 2030 as well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you use a gym save on your water and heating bills by using their facilities all the time. Less spent on heating your shower water the better, plus it’s an excuse to get healthy and train.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I agree that will save people lots of money, there are so many subscriptions!

People will just have to do with our thier "luxury items"

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

"Turn off microwave at the socket it uses more energy being on all day than for cooking "

Nope. No doesn't.

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

"Unplug your TV, PCs, gaming consoles etc as all those standbye lights are using electric.

Well yes but no. It's literally pennies a year.

Well its pennies that add up and your not paying them unessarly"

Pennies that add up to more pennies.

There are a lot of things to do to save money before you consider switching off things on standby

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Great idea for a post, however saving the odd penny or pound is not the answer anymore.

As Martin Lewis has said, there are no tips, tricks or hacks this time around, it is far too expensive to live now. A sad truth for many that will be plunged in to poverty this year. yeah next winter old dears will die of hyperthermia 100% all part of the plan of the worlds freemasonry governments controlled by the occult which runs the worlds banking systems backed up with thin air x great isn’t it Yes, it is the agenda 2030 as well."
21 it’s happening a lot quicker than 2030 xXx but I careless just pointing out I’m awake x

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Seam to have got sidetracked here

This threads for money saving tips

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh well the best ones wonder off

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Seam to have got sidetracked here

This threads for money saving tips "

They never stay on topic, don’t sweat it.

How do you feel about the club entry fees?

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By *ick270Man
over a year ago

Here

"Turn off microwave at the socket it uses more energy being on all day than for cooking

Nope. No doesn't."

Yes it does go try

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By *asterR and slut maya OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"Turn off microwave at the socket it uses more energy being on all day than for cooking "

That's a great tip

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