TightwadsThere's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.
Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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I went back to incandescent bulbsI tried to do my smug but completely ineffectual bit for teh environments and spent a small fortune on those allegedly eco-friendly, low-power compact fluorescent bulbs. You know, the ones which save 1p off your electricity bill in a year, but cost a tenner each and are loaded with mercury so can't be chucked in the bin when they do finally fail. Yeah, them.
Did they last several times longer than incandescents, and did they reduce my electricity bill by enough to offset the cost of purchase? Did they, fuck. They burnt out in less time than the incandescents they replaced.
Fuck this going green malarkey, if that's how much it's going to cost me. Incandescents FTW.
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flake has nothing against your right leg, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 9:00,
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Better start stocking upThey are going to phase out the incandescents very soon.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2543056.ece
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full of mercury...made in china rather than germany and spain where many of our incandescents were made, due to the warm up time people tend to leave them on, and not simply turn on and off when required. Cost in materials alone, healthwise for the manufacturer/environment - the exceptionally higher rate of component 'carbon foot print' - all adds up to a typical government spin on something that at best saves the UK a tiny bit of energy, offsetting it to China...
Hmmm... now let me think which bulb I'll buy...
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