Money saving tips for the festival, advice needed !

[swede]

Hi all...............I was planning to take about £250 with me but it seems like fate is just trying to take my festival spends away from me, my washers flooded and leaked under my kitchen floor. My insurance company is covering it but I have to pay £100 excess plus £45 to get the pipe on the washer re-fitted and have my dishwasher plumbed in so it taken my spends to between £100-150 by the time I go. How much do other people take and have you got any money saving tips while im at the festiavl.

I was planning on getting a couple more crates of Gaymers from Asda (£5 each at the mo) and taking a small back pack with me and carrying a few beers round with me each day to save the expense of the bar but has anyone else got anymore money saving tips.

Also, its been ten years since Ive been, i'll be getting there Thursday morning, wheres the best place to camp to avoid flooding, im not too bothered where i camp just as long as its dry.

[chad7]

Hi all...............I was planning to take about £250 with me but it seems like fate is just trying to take my festival spends away from me, my washers flooded and leaked under my kitchen floor. My insurance company is covering it but I have to pay £100 excess plus £45 to get the pipe on the washer re-fitted and have my dishwasher plumbed in so it taken my spends to between £100-150 by the time I go. How much do other people take and have you got any money saving tips while im at the festiavl.

I was planning on getting a couple more crates of Gaymers from Asda (£5 each at the mo) and taking a small back pack with me and carrying a few beers round with me each day to save the expense of the bar but has anyone else got anymore money saving tips.

Also, its been ten years since Ive been, i'll be getting there Thursday morning, wheres the best place to camp to avoid flooding, im not too bothered where i camp just as long as its dry.

[sureth1ng]

JodiB is the one to ask on this

(sorry, couldn't resist, and someone had to)

[Greenish]

take bread and hard boiled eggs for cheap easy breakfasts. snack bars, buscuits etc

i hope the gaymers in in cans, otherwise you'll have to decant it into plastic bottles as no glass is allowed on site. i take a bottle of spirits for evening drinking to save bar prices.

no-where really floods since the improvements.

use the hari krishna tent for free meals if you get desperate.

then managing on £20 a day shouldnt' be hard.

[swede]

take bread and hard boiled eggs for cheap easy breakfasts. snack bars, buscuits etc

i hope the gaymers in in cans, otherwise you'll have to decant it into plastic bottles as no glass is allowed on site. i take a bottle of spirits for evening drinking to save bar prices.

no-where really floods since the improvements.

use the hari krishna tent for free meals if you get desperate.

then managing on £20 a day shouldnt' be hard.

[LusciousLucy]

Right...please dont shoot me down here folks...

my sugggestion would be...pre-order a delivery of Burrowhill to your house! That way for only £6 for 4 litres you can have cider bus cider wherever you go instead of parting with £3.50 per pint for the privilege. Although exceptions can be made for Hot & Spicy.

Here you go...DAMN...I forgot how cheap this stuff actually is...I'm ordering meself some too!!!!

[llcoolphil]

If you take some drink and chuck in some food, £100 -150 sounds plenty - that'd be on or around my budget without a knackered washing machine

[sureth1ng]

take bread and hard boiled eggs for cheap easy breakfasts. snack bars, buscuits etc

[swede]

If you take some drink and chuck in some food, £100 -150 sounds plenty - that'd be on or around my budget without a knackered washing machine

[pie_and_a_pint]

I'd recommend taking stuff like cereal bars and crisps - that helps with the budget as if you feel peckish you can eat something like that rather than thinking 'ooh, I'll get some chips / a crepe / an ice cream / a veggieburger / an oggie from that stall' and that's another fiver gone...

[llcoolphil]

Right...please dont shoot me down here folks...

my sugggestion would be...pre-order a delivery of Burrowhill to your house! That way for only £6 for 4 litres you can have cider bus cider wherever you go instead of parting with £3.50 per pint for the privilege. Although exceptions can be made for Hot & Spicy.

Here you go...DAMN...I forgot how cheap this stuff actually is...I'm ordering meself some too!!!!

[swede]

I wish Id known that link earlier - those prices seem ludicrously cheap

I find it best to say 'f*ck the house' in these circumstances. As I constantly tell people, I have a whole year to decorate but a very limited festival season

[ramragon]

if youve got a small portable stove then the cans of heinz big breakfasts are a good idea for the morning, as everyone says cereal bars are good if you get peckish as well

[laid back in the sun]

try putting the pipe on the washer yourself, its just about as easy a job as there is and that'll save you £45 to start with

[lofichic]

Yeah put the pipe on yourself - it's dead easy. I plumbed my entire machine in and it really wasn't that hard. Look for some guides online.