‘I have an extra kettle that cost me a fiver. I use hot water bottles in the winter. Instead of chucking the cold water I put it back in the cheap kettle and reboil it haha. My water bill is like £10 a month.’
–Lunaspoona
14.
‘An ex friend was coming round and asked if anyone wanted anything from the shop, I really fancied a Diet Coke so asked for a can. He asked me to transfer him the money when he arrived… this was a few years back so it was about 60p too.’
–skewiffcorn
15.
‘A friend didn’t want to pay £1.50 for overnight parking across the hotel we were staying, so he made four people walk 15 minutes with luggage so we wouldn’t have to pay.
‘I offered to pay for everyone but he insisted it’s “robbery” to have to pay for parking when there’s free available.’
–Coco_Retsi
16.
‘I used to work in a cafe that had those metal tea pots, and a larger jug of hot water, to top it up. We used to get little old ladies who would come in and get one between them and keep asking for more water. They always looked so smug.
‘But like the tea was only like £1.50, and they’d sit there for a couple of hours drinking this horrible brown water. There was really nothing to be smug about.’
–littlepurplepanda
17.
‘My old boss used to snap the stalks off the broccoli before weighing them and paying, as he claimed that because he didn’t eat that bit he didn’t want to have to pay for it.’
–Jealous_Instance_948
18.
‘My grandfather used to dry out his used tea bags and add the leaves to his pipe tobacco to make it go further. Apparently he started doing it during WWII rationing and kept the habit going.’
–OccidentalTouriste
19.
‘There’s a woman on TikTok who puts pasta in a pan of water on her windowsill on hot days to “start it off cooking.”‘
–TemporaryLucky3637
20.
‘My dad knew a guy that moved into a house and the stairs were creaky, so he nailed some bits of wood to the underside to reinforce them.
‘When he sold the house he took all the lightbulbs, the plug socket panels and the bits of wood he’d put under the stairs 10 years earlier.’
–chadgalaxy
21.
‘My ex-boyfriend would trick me into paying more for our dates. We’d go to the big Odeon in town on 2-4-1 ticket days, one ticket being around £15. One person would buy tickets, the other person would buy two popcorn/drink combos, we’d both pay about £15 each.
‘He started wanting to go to a smaller Odeon, and he’d always volunteer to sort the tickets while sending me for the food. It wasn’t until I went with some mates and paid for a ticket myself that I realised tickets there were only £5.
‘So the bastard was tricking me into paying a tenner more for our dates while pretending it was still an even split.’
–spaceandthewoods_
22.
‘My grandma and her husband used to go to ASDA, take magazines off the shelf in the shop, share one cheap breakfast in the cafe and read the magazines before putting them back on the shelf.’
–GhostLapF1
