False Economies
Sometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.
( , Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
Sometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.
( , Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
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Or.. put another way
Would you give up half a day's holiday to do a 60 mile round trip to save £10?
( , Wed 25 Jun 2014, 10:52, 1 reply)
Would you give up half a day's holiday to do a 60 mile round trip to save £10?
( , Wed 25 Jun 2014, 10:52, 1 reply)
Granted, getting it delivered to the wrong house was a stupid decision.
Maybe you should take over the running of his operations, and he can retire to a care home by the sea?
( , Wed 25 Jun 2014, 11:18, closed)
Maybe you should take over the running of his operations, and he can retire to a care home by the sea?
( , Wed 25 Jun 2014, 11:18, closed)
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