Sarah22
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This made me laugh!! I started to read in pure horror and then realised pretty quickly you were joking!! Lol!! Xx
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This made me laugh!! I started to read in pure horror and then realised pretty quickly you were joking!! Lol!! Xx
Wonda
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I've tried cutting the sizes I need with kitchen foil & they're all odd & very hard to get the same.
My local Sally's have a VAT free day tomorrow, will see if the roll of foil is any cheaper & go from there.
StephR
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I used to use kitchen foil but its too thin and can rip really easily. I now use hairdressing foil. I bought it from my local sallys on a vat free day but they were also 3 for 2. Easy to rip up too, I spend and evening in front of the tv ripping it up and pop it into an old takeaway plastic box. It then saves time when a client arrives because its already cut up xx
mm29
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Great thread!
I love saving money...who doesn't!?
I have recently just rang bt and told them my bills were getting abit expensive and was there anything they could do so they lowered my line rental. I did the same with my card machine and the same with my house bills, mobile phone etc. sometimes its worth being a bit cheeky. My boyfriend was paying 52 a month on his phone and he is now paying 25 for the same contract
Also I only ever go to the warehouse on vat free days and only buy things if I really need it. I also use hairdressing foil instead of the precut foil for gel soak off.
hope this helps xx
I love saving money...who doesn't!?
I have recently just rang bt and told them my bills were getting abit expensive and was there anything they could do so they lowered my line rental. I did the same with my card machine and the same with my house bills, mobile phone etc. sometimes its worth being a bit cheeky. My boyfriend was paying 52 a month on his phone and he is now paying 25 for the same contract
Also I only ever go to the warehouse on vat free days and only buy things if I really need it. I also use hairdressing foil instead of the precut foil for gel soak off.
hope this helps xx
mm29
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How the hell did you contract down by half?
well he had 600mins on his contract and was only using on average 20-50mins a month! (typical man) so they lowered the minutes and that's why its so cheap lol he was also paying for more internet than he was using so I lowered that to xx
*Zoe*
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Loving this thread! Like the idea of timers because it also saves the hassle of thinking 'need to turn the wax pots on ASAP when I get in'
Tip I would like to pass on is energy brokers. I had a guy come round my business and house about 8 months ago and he checked all the gas and electricity bills. He checked all the best deals and I now across my business and home I pay £120 less a month! Very happy with his service and I stayed with my current provider.
His service is free because the energy companies pay him a commission for getting customers to sign up.
Anyone want his details please feel free to PM me. I would also like to point out that I am in no way connected to this company, just wanting to pass on the saving
Tip I would like to pass on is energy brokers. I had a guy come round my business and house about 8 months ago and he checked all the gas and electricity bills. He checked all the best deals and I now across my business and home I pay £120 less a month! Very happy with his service and I stayed with my current provider.
His service is free because the energy companies pay him a commission for getting customers to sign up.
Anyone want his details please feel free to PM me. I would also like to point out that I am in no way connected to this company, just wanting to pass on the saving
lushbeauty
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Oh my god my heart. You gave me such a fright. Ha ha...great thread by the way!
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Ive just done this, rang my provider and I'm only using roughly 90mins of my allowance of 600mins! So they cut down my minutes to 100 and its gone from £36 to £20 a month. I was so happy wish I'd done it sooner.
Used to use my phone a lot for work, but I don't as much now as more salon based so clients call there, and if I need to order I email as have wifi at work x
I just did this same thing. I had a crazy amount of Internet and minutes which I hardly used any of so my provider dropped me right down. Thanks for the tip.
Sarah22
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This isn't really a huge money saving tip, but I've so many comments from clients on it.
A friend of mine who does beauty has a digital photo frame with all of her photos of her work. It cost £70 and although I thought it was a great idea, I couldn't justify it.
Instead, I bought a wall mounted bracket for my iPad (it was £12 off eBay) and I have it mounted in my nail room in perfect view from the client. I have an photo album on my iPad with all of the nails that I have created which I put onto slideshow... It's great when a client is indecisive as to what to have done as they can look at the photos whilst I'm doing their soak off and prep.
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A friend of mine who does beauty has a digital photo frame with all of her photos of her work. It cost £70 and although I thought it was a great idea, I couldn't justify it.
Instead, I bought a wall mounted bracket for my iPad (it was £12 off eBay) and I have it mounted in my nail room in perfect view from the client. I have an photo album on my iPad with all of the nails that I have created which I put onto slideshow... It's great when a client is indecisive as to what to have done as they can look at the photos whilst I'm doing their soak off and prep.
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I also do the same, i put them in the micro-wave for a few minutes it sterilises them
shelly22v2
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I asked a local cafe if he could order me some coffee sticks (told him they were for waxing eyebrows - now he thinks I'm nuts!!) he only charged me £1 for a brand new sealed box of 1000, there quite long so snapped them in half so now have 2000 mini spatulas for a whole £1!
lynn amber
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You got a bargain 1000 5.5" are £1.35+vat at bookers ,will be going for a box when I run out :-D
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Oh gosh, bookers are expensive anyway. Our coffee machine cost about £70 every month or 2, now its £30 if we need to replace everything by traveling that bit further to a makro, and the cost of petrol is off set by the huge saving compared.
Haven't checked, but I want to get them little biscuits in coffee shops, Aston and Fincher have them at £15 I think so hope makro are cheaper (for 300) xoxo
mm29
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Yum I love them, can buy small packets in morrisons now,
The white packet with red writing,
You should get them cheaper than that at makro or Costco
The white packet with red writing,
You should get them cheaper than that at makro or Costco
MrsHBeauty
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I bought the lotus individually wrapped biscuits really cheap from amazon. They worked out at 2pm or a bit over. £6.99 off the top of my head.
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Hi geeks! Not sure if this is the correct thread for this but it will save you money! The personal tax allowance for 2013/2014 is going up to £9440 - so we can earn more before we pay tax!
This is one for those of you that have employees - im sure many will know this but make sure if you provide them with a uniform and they wash it themselves they get their tax rebates from hmrc - they simply require to write a letter to hmrc - pm me if you require this letter.
Also this goes for those of us that worked elsewhere even if we have left if you were supplied with a uniform - i left the bank 2 years ago and my hubby left the firebrigade 3 years ago - we both received our rebates back approx £60 cheque - better than a kick up the toosh!
This is one for those of you that have employees - im sure many will know this but make sure if you provide them with a uniform and they wash it themselves they get their tax rebates from hmrc - they simply require to write a letter to hmrc - pm me if you require this letter.
Also this goes for those of us that worked elsewhere even if we have left if you were supplied with a uniform - i left the bank 2 years ago and my hubby left the firebrigade 3 years ago - we both received our rebates back approx £60 cheque - better than a kick up the toosh!
