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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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Free sofa
My mate Kevin's bird got wind of a sofa going free. So being as poor as church mice, it seemed a good idea.

The catch was that it had to be collected... from the other side of the country.
So Kevin obediently hired a clapped out Transit van and they set off one Saturday. When they finally got there, it turned out to be bright pink and looked as if it had been in a pub for twenty years. Anyway, they loaded it and set off. Just as Kevin drove off, he noticed a flash behind him.

Total cost of vile, flea-ridden sofa they didn't want: van hire + £80 in diesel + an entire Saturday + three points on his licence for doing 35 in a 30 mph zone + a fine + the resulting hike in his car insurance premium = not worth it.

The moral of the story: don't listen to your bird.
(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 22:07, 7 replies)
Sexist.

(, Mon 30 Jun 2014, 23:07, closed)
Or rather, don't listen to Kevin's bird.

(, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 8:55, closed)
Don't get in Kevin's van.

(, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 8:56, closed)

of a sofa going free. So being as poor as church mice, it seemed a good idea.

The catch was that it had to be collected... from the other side of the country.
So Kevin obediently hired a clapped out Transit van and they set off one Saturday. When they finally got there, it turned out to be bright pink and looked as if it had been in a pub for twenty years. Anyway, they loaded it and set off. Just as Kevin drove off, he noticed a flash behind him.

Total cost of vile, flea-ridden sofa they didn't want: van hire + £80 in diesel + an entire Saturday + three points on his licence for doing 35 in a 30 mph zone + a fine + the resulting hike in his car insurance premium = not worth it.

The moral of the story: don't listen to your bird.

(, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 10:07, closed)
Totally worth it.

(, Wed 2 Jul 2014, 23:14, closed)
Just how poor ARE church mice, eh?

(, Tue 1 Jul 2014, 10:51, closed)
Not very I'd have thought, free board and lodgings for a starter.

(, Wed 2 Jul 2014, 10:25, closed)

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