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May 2025 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the fifth Grocery Challenge of 2025! As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery budget to levels that you will be pleased with, not forgetting that we always recommend that you stay inside your own comfort levels and take things gently one step at a time. Remember that this is not a…
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Tiger rolls and doughnuts
I ordered two TGTG bakery boxes from Morrisons, and I received 28 rock hard tiger rolls and 15 sugared ring doughnuts (also a couple of loaves of bread which are now in the freezer and will be fine for toast. Any ideas on what to do with the rolls and doughnuts, apart from the obvious!! Was thinking of cutting the rolls…
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O/S Daily Thursday 12th June 2025
Good morning, I'm a bit early this mornng, after a bad night. It's a nice morning, fine and dry. I've just been out in the garden admiring the results of my labours yesterday - I finally got out there, weeded and did a general tidy. I washed the front door and window frames, even the front gate!! I know it won't stay like…
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O/S Daily Wednesday 11th June 2025
Morning, just starting off.
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Solutions to tiny annoying problems
Back in the day there were some huge OS tips - where have they gone? This is too good not to share: 52 tiny annoying problems, solved! (Because when you can’t control the big stuff, start small) Forum gods, feel free to resurrect and merge!
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Old Style Daily Tuesday 10 June 2025
Morning all. Bull 1 - Gers 0.
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O/S Daily Sunday 8th June 2025
Good morning, I'll be back soon.
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O/S Daily Monday 9th June 2025
Morning all, just starting off.
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Weekly Flylady Thread 2 June 2025
Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to make the whole…
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O/S Daily Saturday 7th June 2025
Good morning, be back soon
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Old Style Daily Friday 6th June
Morning all, where is everybody today? x
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Probiotics
Hi there just wondered if you take them and which ones? So many thanks choose from
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How to track grocery spends?
Does anyone have any genius ideas for tracing grocery spends in detail? Ie I want to be able to see how much we've spent (for example) on diet c*ke in a month, and hopefully over a year. I am at present worrying I'll just have to type out each receipt onto a spreadsheet and I have no clue how to structure that anyway! All…
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Old Style Daily Thursday 05 June 2025
Morning all.
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Old Style Daily Wednesday 04 June 2025
Morning all. I'll be back.
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How to best clean - degrease - a universal knife block (plastic bristles, within a wood frame) ?
Has anybody else found their universal knife block (plastic fibres/rods/bristles, within a wood frame) needs cleaning (i.e. degreasing), and only then found that they - like me! - don't know how to do so ?! Our old knife block is still in v.g. shape. BUT over the years the grease in the air in the kitchen has caused the…
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OS Daily - Tuesday 3rd June 2025
Where is everyone 😂……
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O/S Daily Monday 2nd June 2025
Good morning, just starting off.
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Weekly Flylady Thread 26th May 2025
Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on
the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is
often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to
provide the support we all need and to make the whole…
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Till May Be Out
I keep quoting the phrase 'Ne'er cast a clout till May be out', because I love it (and because I'm quite annoying 😁) But it rings true not just for clothing (though obvs take a layer with you) but for OATs, our Outstanding Annoying Tasks So May's thread is all about not shrugging off the tasks we know we should get done,…
