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    How to Beat the Credit Crunch

    I was lucky enough to receive lots of helpful advice to save expenses in an e-mail this morning:

    DON'T waste money on expensive ipods. Simply think of your favourite tune and hum it. If you want to "switch tracks", simply think of another song you like and hum that instead.

    DON'T waste money on expensive paper shredders to avoid having your identity stolen. Simply place a few dog turds in the bin bags along with your old bank statements.

    HOMEOWNERS: Prevent burglars stealing everything in the house by simply moving everything in the house into your bedroom when you go to bed. In the morning, simply move it all back again.

    SAVE money on expensive personalised car number plates by simply changing your name to match your existing plate. - Mr. KVL 741Y,

    DON'T waste money buying expensive binoculars; simply stand closer to the object you wish to view.

    AN empty aluminium cigar tube filled with angry wasps makes an inexpensive vibrator. Not sure how to make contented wasps angry ? -
    just put some into an empty cigar tube and you'll know.

    SAVE electricity by turning off all the lights in your house and walking around wearing a miner's hat.

    HOUSEWIVES, the best way to get two bottles of washing-up liquid for the price of one is by putting one in your shopping trolley and the other
    in your coat pocket.

    OLD telephone directories make ideal personal address books, simply cross out the names and address of people you don't know.

    SAVE on booze by drinking cold tea instead of whisky. The following morning you can create the effects of a hangover by drinking a thimble full of washing up liquid and banging your head repeatedly against the wall.

    SAVE a fortune on laundry bills. Give your dirty shirts to Oxfam, they will wash and iron them and you can buy them back for fifty pence.

    OLD people, if you feel cold indoors this winter, simply pop outside for ten minutes without a coat, when you go back inside you will really feel
    the benefit.

    CAN'T afford contact lenses? Simply cut out small circles of cling film and press them into your eyes.

    WHY pay the earth for expensive jigsaws? Just take a bag of frozen chips from the freezer and try piecing together potatoes.

    MIX tea with coffee, and leave in the fridge to cool. Hey presto! Toffee.

    MAKE your own inexpensive mints by leaving blobs of toothpaste to dry on a window sill. Use striped toothpaste to make humbugs.

    SHOPPERS, when buying oranges, get more for your money by peeling them before taking them to the counter to be weighed.

    WOMEN: Don't waste energy faking orgasms. Most men couldn't care less anyway and you could use the saved energy to Hoover the house afterwards.

    I think I recognise some of them from the old VIZ 'Top Tips' section. Naturally I do not endorse these activities, but made me laugh.
    S J



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    "SAVE electricity by turning off all the lights in your house and walking around wearing a miner's hat."

    Like the idea we'll try this sometime


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    HOUSEWIVES, the best way to get two bottles of washing-up liquid for the price of one is by putting one in your shopping trolley and the other
    in your coat pocket. - Isn't this called stealing?

    OLD telephone directories make ideal personal address books, simply cross out the names and address of people you don't know. - Well, you'll be wasting your pen's ink or marker hehehe because 99.9% listed there are people you don't know


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    GOOD ONE


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    "Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars; simply stand closer to the object you wish to view."

    But should have been "Don't waste money on a widescreen TV...just move your sofa closer to your old TV!"

    There are 7 Planes Of Existance:

    7 — Material Plane: The earth, where you are right now.
    6 — Plane of Forces
    5 — Astral Plane
    4 — Mental Plane
    3 — Too mysterious to describe.
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    dont buy expensive vibrators --buy an electric toothbrush think about it


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    Funny one Shawn....lol but you caught my attention on the Housewife to steal something.....you are included on that ""accesories on the crime".....is youuuuu


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    Very very funny. Thanks for making me laugh


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    Already was up to 60% on these I must look at the rest
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs.JMajor View Post
    Funny one Shawn....lol but you caught my attention on the Housewife to steal something.....you are included on that ""accesories on the crime".....is youuuuu
    I cannot possibly comment, but when we were looking at 2 for 1 offers in Sainsburys last weekend Judy called them 'Buy one, take one'! We are now the Criminal Element!?!
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    CAN'T afford contact lenses? Simply cut out small circles of cling film and press them into your eyes.



    I guess better stay w/ old pair of specs


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