I'm going to fewer and fewer first run films. Over here its literally chaeper just to buy the DVD when it comes out three months later.Films are costing $10.00 now.Take a date its $20.00.Feed her its another $20.00 minimum.confused2

Question in the UK are discounts given for students, military , the elderly?

Cashmoney is right when it comes to the cinema. I do the same thing. Why am I paying £7 for Nachos with cheese and a cola when I can buy a pack of crisps for 35pence and coke for 50pence on road and bring it in to the cinema? I have seen families go to the cinema with a packed lunch, no joke, but it makes sense when tickets for 4 people including 2 adults at £6.50 and kids at £3.50 totals £20 then they want you to pay another £20 on food, not me!. Also despite what the adverts say, Asda is way cheaper than Tesco. For legitimate CDs go online to CDWow ora similar website where you will get aCDs shipped fromHong Kong for£8 instead of the£13.99 they want for it in HMV.A friend of mines buys all his Diesel jeans on EBay from a good supplier and they are brand new, real and half price than the shops.

@ Cashmoney,

Bwoy, you cheap, eh??? blkdevillol

I hear you about ebay....most of my wedding favours were bought from there, and my son decided he wanted a Megadrive for Xmas (don't ask me why!), so I bought one from there for £10. He now wants a Gameboy for his birthday.....guess where I'm bidding this week?

@Coltrane,

Sorry, but when it comes to food it has to be a name I recognise. Netto and Aldi tend to have brands I've never heard of, therefore I don't shop there.

What we try to do is buy in bulk in Makro or Costco, but of course this doesn't apply to meat or veg. There is no way I'm buying from any butcher on a high street, so webuy in Tesco or Sainsburys.

My cheapskate tips

Buy a book called the good deal directory - that book isa lifesaver, every discount shop in the UKfrom furniture to theatre tickets is listed there.

Go to Shoreditch they have the living amount of sample sales, Boxfresh, Duffer of Saint George et al... actually for all sample sales in general just look in the metro et al.

Go shopping during the weekdays especially, most meat veg is reduced due to stock turnover... I think about 3 weeks ago, I bought £40 worth of food from Sainsbury's for £20.

Like Cashmoney and DM do the discount cinema thing. I am watching 3 films there on Saturday... £3.50 how I love the way that sounds : - )

Its funny when it comes to dates..........then you lot are cheap

but lets look at the prices of boys toys

playbox, xbox, every game (twice released a month of the same ols same ole bang bang shooting crap), plasma tv, next year double plasma tv size, ipod, gpod ,more gadgets, new car stero with subwoofer XYZ.= £1000000..........FALSE ECONOMY.............you don't all of them

look at my dad.........simple as an amoeba..........basics........listens to radio, eats food and sleeps...............and works.



)))kiss teet((((

crying over popcorn

When we were teenagers, we went in department stores before going out and put on their "tester" cologne...

Free, I can go one better on the meat thing. There is a grimey ass pub next to where I live. The asian youth in the manor (junkies) rob the Iceland across the road, run through the estate and come into the pub and sell their stuff to the landlord who sells it behind the bar.
Now you can get, all the meats, ridicolously low priced Sirloin etc, and deoderants, wines etc etc all for silly money and boxed properly. If you are THAT grimey. Only reason I don't anymore is because there is a new Tescoes next door and that is better food.

Cashconverters is a good shop for those scared of ebay. At least you get a garuntee there. Oh you can get jewelry there too and then polish it an resell it if you have time.





@ SF
What can I say? Priorities innit!

@LadyV

can't your kids tell between used and new................or do they even mind!

we are from different worlds at sofresh, your parents bought 3 houses in clean cash.

If all your assets weres old I'm guessing it will shoot past right past 1m

not player hating, just stating a fact

So I will cry over popcorn, especiallya s I'm jobless and have been or a while.

@Cashmoney

no no no no

you are always bying latest Xbox games.............expensive

so you are not getting away with this

LOL

@ Soofresh,

My son will be 6 in two weeks, and luckily all this designer/PS2 etc crap hasn't caught up with him.

My daughter is great. She's not that into designer (unheard of for an 18 year old!), and she still likes clothes I buy for her.

That said, there's a little market near where I work in Barbican, where there's a stall that sells Moschino/frenchconnectionuk etc at a fraction of the price, which she loves. I also buy her and my son's clothes in Leather Lane market when I get down there.


@ DM,

Thanks for the Cashconverters heads up....niceone.gif

@DM ROTFLMAO... that is seriously grimey...