DIY Justice
Over the course of renovating a couple of houses, B&Q have had more than their fair share of my hard earned.

I therefore see it as reasonable to secrete as many small items as possible inside packaging or between large items like compost sacks / sand / cement etc. If the till monkey can't be arsed to check, it's a bonus. If they're vigilant, I would have been paying for them anyway.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:39, 2 replies)

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Hat's of to you sir.
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 22:52, closed)

My dad....
...always does this. He’s a bit of a penny pincher.

However his greatest glory came a few years back when we were having an extension done at the back of the house.

He would pop down to Wicks to get some bricks. Now bricks vary in price depending on the design the brick. A solid brick with no groves or holes (just a solid cuboid) would cost about 13p for example. However a brick with a grove on top would cost 19p (I assumed they offer better grip for the cement or are just more difficult to make).

My dad would get a load of these 19p grooved bricks on his trolley and place them upside down so they look like the solid 11p bricks. He would then place the normal solid bricks around the expensive ones hiding them so it looks like they were all the cheap bricks.

The till greasy till boy can’t be arsed to check all the bricks especially if there 2 trolleys worth so he does a rough calculation on the amount of bricks and charges 11p for the lot.

My dad done this quite a few times I have no idea how much he “saved”, but I guess it amount to a fair bit.
(Poo_Pipe_Pirate, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 10:47, closed)