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Weekly Flylady Thread 9th May 2011
Do not lose heart if you cannot keep up with everyone else or reading the thread, don't try to reply to everyone and please remember to include something about flying in all your posts, chat is for the weekend when your home is looking beautiful!!! Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week…
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daily food waste
I have been reading frugal girls blog and once a week on a friday she photos any food waste before she throws it away. I was thinking maybe we could do the same sort thing of thing without the photos and daily. Today I had some manky looking salad leaves and I was going to sling them. But feed them to the rabbit instead.…
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Black & Redcurrant Jam ?
Hi I have in my freezer 1 1/2 lb blackcurrant and 1 lb of redcurrants + a few blackberries. Picked from my garden last year. There doesn't seem enough to do individual blackcurrant jam and redcurrant jelly so contemplating making a combined jam. Has anyone done anything similar ? Any advice or tips ? I've searched around…
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OS Daily Sunday 8th May 2011
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sunday 8th May. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already.…
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Need a recipe for scampi please
I bought some frozen whitby scampi on a bogof last week and my family loved it. There is no way I would buy it full price ( even at bogof it was a bit much), so I would like to try to make my own. I buy the bags of frozen SP prawns and have tried to cover them with batter and fry them, but I am finding it hard to get them…
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pizza base?
in my cupboard i have some flour-mixed with water/eggs or something(!) could i form some sort of "pizza base" ? thankyou:)
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cleaning hand painted satin
Does anybody have any ideas how to clean a 70 year old hand painted satin cushion please? It is stained as it wasnt properly stored. I'm terrified of spoiling it. Thank you
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OS Daily Saturday 7th May
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Saturday 7th May. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already.…
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Iced Christening Cake
Evening all. It was my DS Christening last weekend and we'd had a cake beautifully iced for him (£50, I know, I know) anyway with one thing and another the cake didn't get cut and has been adorning my sideboard ever since. We don't know what to do with it now and it seems a bit of a waste to eat a £50 cake between us and…
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Great 'Isn't it obvious?' MoneySaving Hunt revisited
Great 'Isn't it obvious?' MoneySaving Hunt revisited Three years ago we asked you in the Great 'Isn't it obvious MoneySaving' Hunt about your MoneySaving ways which you thought were obvious, but weren't necessarily to others. We reckon it's time to revisit this hunt and get loads of new gems. View past Great Hunts.…
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Urgent advice please! Choc butter cream in white carpet!
:eek::eek: Help! We are in rented accom and are hopefully moving in a month. Last night my DD1 sneaked a choc buttercream cupcake upstairs and dropped it all over the white carpet. After the initial panic I zapped it with the 1001 carpet stuff but there is still a few nasty looking stains. I'm sure that the wise money…
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re freezing cake?
Hi guys, I know you are not supposed to re freeze anything, but If I were to re-freeze a cake, what is going to happen to it? will it poison me, or will it just Deteriorate? I made a cake last week, took it out today to add buttercream filling, just realised that it is enormous! so I would like to put half back in the…
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Not much of a store cupboard... what to eat?
Hi guys, Everyone seems to have such clever money saving ideas over here I thought I would see if any one could make any suggestions... I usually spend about £20 a week on food, this covers breakfasts, lunches and dinners for just me. I know some of you could probably feed an army on that! :eek: My main issue is I don't…
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Mealplans WB 09 May 2011
Due to Special Dietary Requirements I sometimes eat an alternative/adapted meal (Specified in Brackets) Saturday 7th – Roast Chicken Legs/Thighs w/ HM Coleslaw and Salad :dance: Sunday 8th – HM Lasagne w/ HM Coleslaw and Salad :dance: Monday 9th – Spicy Vegetarian Sausage w/ Pasta (w/ Pitta) :dance: Tuesday 10th –…
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O S Daily Friday 6th May 2011
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Friday, 6th May. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already.…
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Recycling and redesiging clothes and shoes
I would love to be able to adapt outfits and shoes to get more use out of them but I have no idea what to do. Is there anyone out here who customises stuff to get new life out of them? I love the shabby chic thread and wonder if there shouldnt be one for clothes and shoes. I have got as far as dying some jeans black and…
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Old Hair Styles - 1945 Hair style for VE Day celebrations
My daughter has been told to come dressed in 1945 style clothes tomorrow for VE Day and I hadn't got a clue how to dress her or do her hair (she is 12). Regarding the hair style. If anyone else has school age kids with long hair this YouTube vid may help you, I am going to give it a go later when she arrives home from…
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Couple of quick q's
Anyone know of good os ways to descale a kettle and to clean carpets as for the price of descaler i could buy a new kettle :p and my LO is feeding herself so the carpet gets messy quite frequently despite me putting down sheets to try to prevent this Cheers in advance :)
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O S Daily Thursday 5th May 2011
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Thursday, 5th May 2011. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved…
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Sainsbury's £50 meal plan for the week
Just been reading this in the Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1383443/Sainsburys-launches-Feed-Family-50-campaign.html Think this would be a good idea for people to start trying to meal plan. [threadbanner]box[/threadbanner]
