 Poster: A snowHead
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| lynseyf wrote: |
| Many people think they lead quite a frugal life but in reality don't. |
This is very astute. I recently switched from getting lunch from Pret/M&S/etc. with the rest of the riff raff, to making my own sandwiches* and taking a little plastic lunchbox to work like a schoolboy. I look pretty stupid as a result.
I'm also £1k+ per year better off as a result.
That's two holidays, right there.
I haven't calculated how much I've saved since moving from predominantly takeaways and ready meals to predominantly home cooked food. I bet it's £massive though.
* sig. other makes them for me actually, but that's not the point 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Im filthy rich...well compared to friends with kids/ mortgages etc I am, I earn a decent salary and dont have many financial commitments other than a car loan and my student loan.
I try to go 3 times a year, one long one (2 weeks) and a couple of long weekends.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I have a motorcycle, a mortgage, a daughter (cute as hell), a reasonable job and did two seperate weeks last season and doing two agian this season - how do i do it? i've no idea!!!! 
Oh, yes i do, just looked at credit card bill thru the door 
Seriously, tho, i book with minimum (usualy) of 4, look up on line for the online early booking deals, then visit my usual friendly TO and say i want to better this. She has managed to do so for the past 4 or 5 years.
A lot depends on when you go, i'm off to Serre Chevalier in Jan for on week with three mates, all in for £500 (although we do all have own 'equipment' )
However,......... am off to the USA for a week in half term in Feb and i need a new mortgage! Fuel charge when i booked was based on the high cost of fuel then (against now) and they do NOT reduce if costs down when you do travel.... so a last minute deal here would probably have been better (luckily i got my dollars when rates were good too... was alomost as cheap to spend a week east coast usa in half term as to go to europe..
Bottom line i think tho, is find some like minded individuals (this site i believe 'may have some' ?  and dont go on your lonesome. Hope we see you on the pistes soon! 
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Have you looked at Skitopia? They do all inclusive ski hols to the French Alps (Serre Che and Montgenevre) for just under £600. The price includes flights, transfers, accommodation, ski and boot hire, lift pass, 7 days breakfast, 7 days afternoon tea and 6 out of the 7 days dinner. If you book early enough with them you get a discount, as well as a loyalty discount on top if you've been before with them. The accom. is quite basic, but the foods good (was last year - my first time with them). This year we are going for just over £450 each, knowing that the only spending money we need is for 1 nights dinner and lunches each day. Depending which hotel and which resort you go to, they even run a free bar in the evenings.....
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Kel, is there some kind of stigma attached to making your own lunch then?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| paulio wrote: |
| This time last year my TV blew up... So I scrounged an old broken one off a mate that makes a whining noise for the first 20 minutes after switching it on, and has a large greenish tinged area to the left where the shielding has falling off the nearby speaker magnets. |
Ok, Ok, a joke's a joke mate. What next, you sold your house and now live in a paper bag by the side of the M1 so that you can afford another 48 hours on the slopes?
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paulio, why don't you just ditch the telly altogether and stop paying the licence fee? If that's all you want to watch, you might as well do it via the interwibbit.
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You know it makes sense.
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red 27, That is 100% true. The TV bit, not the paper bag part.
But, really, who gives a rancid dog's toss-pipe about having a fancy TV? Or limp E-coli drenched supermarket sarnies?
We mend clothes sometimes too instead of buying new ones.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| paulio, why don't you just ditch the telly altogether and stop paying the licence fee? If that's all you want to watch, you might as well do it via the interwibbit. |
Don't have a fast enough internet pipe for that sort of thing. And actually, I believe in the license fee on principle. Same reason that I keep my National Trust membership up to date despite that being unquestionably a disposable outgoing. People have different priorities and that, but the point remains: everyone can save money somewhere.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I love the kind of inverse 'American Psycho' tone of this conversation. Having a boastful bun-fight about who is poorest (me).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope..
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Dare I say it but try Bansko .... 4 Wizzair flights to Sofia about £80 return= 320 + return transfer £100 apartment £150 = £570 divide by 4 = £ 142.50 add lift pass £120 equpment hire £40 all in 302.50 plus beer at £1 for a half litre. Meals about £5 per head.
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Paulio, sorry that tip is of no use to me at all. Snigger...
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We do two or three trips a year, trying to make up for starting late! We book late and look for bargains around the time of the ski show, this year we booked 6 weeks in advance, and have gone for the first week of the season staying in a catered chalet, you take a chance that the team in the chalet don't know the ropes yet, but I can be better as they aren't stressed from a season. We normally drive last year (13 Dec) with Ski Amis we had two holidays one for £299, plus the cost of driving, can't remember the cost of the other one but it was lower and in late March. This year we are off with Silverski, with flights its around £250 each, we have also done a few Skiworld trips if your not bothered about were you go you can pick up a good deal. Look for accommodation that is slightly away from the main resort, try Coolchalets near Les Arcs.
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yeah but all those hookers soon add up..
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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why not have 2 weeks in a row, then only one lot of flights and transfers?
I'm going on three seperate weeks this year but it is the transfers and flights that are the boring parts and although cheap, they add up ! so going to do a 2 (or maybe 3 ) week jaunt next year.
what do you work as ?
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| paulio, why don't you just ditch the telly altogether and stop paying the licence fee? If that's all you want to watch, you might as well do it via the interwibbit. |
Can't ditch the licence fee just by watching on teh interwebz, the jackbooted TV Licensing Enforcers will still have you.
On the lunch point - packed lunches are surely a false economy - you get to work, know you've skipped breakfast so scof it immediately then have to buy a sandwich anyway.
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You know it makes sense.
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| fatbob wrote: |
Can't ditch the licence fee just by watching on teh interwebz, the jackbooted TV Licensing Enforcers will still have you.
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Only if you watch it live over the 'net. Watch it behind time, and then it counts as video, so you're OK.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| fatbob wrote: |
| packed lunches are surely a false economy - you get to work, know you've skipped breakfast so scof it immediately then have to buy a sandwich anyway. |
I reckon that would probably happen if, say, you were a fat bloke called 'Bob'.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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2 good incomes, get six weeks holiday, thats's 2 full weeks skiing with wife and kids, 4 days with the boys (mid forties now), 2 weeks surfing in summer, a week sailing in greece october and a big limit on my credit cards . I don't go out very much and my mortgage is small, bought early.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Oi, Paulio, I resent that remark (true as it may be)
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Specialman, did you only have one leg in them?
I'm gone..
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I think we manage to do it because I am retired and we now run a small business from home. Mr DS's brother helps things tick over while we are away. Affording it - well, we have a pretty low income (mainly my pension), but....we don't drink, don't go out, don't smoke, don't have any summer holidays, save a lot and don't replace our three piece suite and lounge carpet every year (or even every 25 years come to think of it...). We run relatively old vehicles which we maintain ourselves. We have no mortgage (house is paid for). We have no loans and pay off our credit cards each month. I grow a lot of our own vegetables. We have no kids although we do provide board and lodging to four cats. We repair and recycle rather than buy new stuff, where possible.
It wasn't always like this - when we both had jobs, we could only manage 2 weeks although we had much more money.
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| Libertine wrote: |
why not have 2 weeks in a row, then only one lot of flights and transfers?
I'm going on three seperate weeks this year but it is the transfers and flights that are the boring parts and although cheap, they add up ! so going to do a 2 (or maybe 3 ) week jaunt next year.
what do you work as ? |
I'm a graphic designer. 2 separate weeks would be easier to negotiate with work but one fortnight's trip wouldn't be impossible if I gave enough notice. However, I think I prefer the idea of 2 separate weeks, although I'm sure it adds considerably to the cost factor...
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docsquid,
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when we both had jobs, we could only manage 2 weeks although we had much more money
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Snap. When I had a 'proper' job and loads of dosh, it was much more difficult to get away!
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things like flying ryanair for £44 return and thing like that you just have to keep an eye on the budget airlines when they are having sales on etc.and not go for the 4-5* hotels there are plenty of nice and clean 3* hotels out there just cause its a 3 * doesn't mean it will be un-clean it just means that it hasn't as many facilities at the hotel and if you ski-ing all day why would you bother if the place has a swimming pool or gym.
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£220 for one trip last season , 4* fully catered chalet , flights ,transfers etc in La Rosier. Mind you that was for 8 of us and booked 2 days before we left. find a loaded SO 
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FAQ
addiction then you will find a way. Drug addicts manage to feed their expensive habits.
Mind you, I do have coffee at work, about 2 cups in the morning at 57p each - very nice coffee though! 