Cut out the non-essentials
Make your own lunch: skip going to the canteen or buying a limp sandwich and packet of crisps from the garage. Use leftovers from previous nights meals to make a lunch. Invest in one of these for keeping soups, stews and curries hot if you don't have access to a microwave. Even if you buy soup in a can you'll save a fortune.

Cut down on the TV: Do you need that extra Sky package? Do you need Sky at all? Come to that, how often do you watch live TV? Block off your aerial sockets and cancel your licence fee. Watch only DVDs (borrowed, of course). When the TV people knock on your door, show them the setup and how you don't receive live TV, then tell them to bugger off.

Don't waste money on petrol: Don't drive unless you absolutely have to. Walk, cycle, or cadge a lift off someone going the same way as you.

Grow your own veg and piss all over them: If you have space to do so grow your own veggies, if nothing else its a cheap hobby which will keep you busy most weekends. Urine can act as a decent fertiliser, especially for tomatoes, saving money on that (you just want to dilute it first, and its not a great idea if you are taking any medication).

Get free stuff: if you don't mind getting your name stuck on all sorts of mailing lists (temporary email addresses are good for this particular problem) you can get all sorts of free stuff online.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sat 12 Nov 2011, 13:50, 7 replies)

Didn't Scaryduck
do an experiment where he ate tomatoes, pooed in the garden and waited to see if any sprouted? What becoma of that?

or am I thinking of a different loon?
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Sat 12 Nov 2011, 18:49, closed)

Night soil is excellent for tomatoes,
providing you can cleanse your mind of the growing proccess whilst you eat them.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sat 12 Nov 2011, 19:24, closed)

problem with the tv licence is that it is for the receiving equipment not the broadcast it self
so if you do have a tv with no broadcast feed it is still a full cost licence unless you have black and white or are blind or a pensioner over the age of dead
( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Sat 12 Nov 2011, 19:24, closed)

I went for years without a TV licence but still had two TVs in the house. I wrote to them telling them that the TVs were only used for watching videos/dvds. They wrote back telling me that so long as they were tuned away from regular channels and thus incapable of receiving them that was ok.. however, should I be discovered with a tv capable of receiving broadcasts (by dint of being tuned into them) then because I'd already told them I wouldn't, then I'd be prosecuted to the full extent they could. This was a few years back though, perhaps they changed the laws.
(Freakmandu, Sat 12 Nov 2011, 19:41, closed)

I don't think it is for the recieving equipment.
It's for installing it.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 2:17, closed)

that's what they want you to think

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 17:09, closed)

Don't forget to water down the liquid waste for the delicate little plants.
Although anything my own size or bigger is fair game for a liberal helping of the neat stuff.
(Connor Lingus is running this monkey farm now, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 14:59, closed)