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Old Style Daily Monday 01 December 2025
Good morning all. Pinch, punch, first of the month. Already!
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Instant pot is it worth it?
Instant pots are half price right now and I'm tempted but also worrying about whether it will be worth the initial outlay to save energy costs when cooking? Does anyone have one? What types of things do you cook n it?
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2025 Frugal Living Challenge
Welcome to the all new 2025 Frugal Living Challenge Challenge yourself to live a frugal lifestyle so you can afford the freedom to enjoy life. This is about household budgeting, simply living and being creative with your money. Frugality can be a fabulous lifestyle choice for debtbusting, boosting savings or investing in…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 24th November 2025
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 task
easier and quicker. We also…
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Old Style Daily Sunday 30 November 2025. St Andrew's Day
Morning all. 🏴🏴
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The best mince pie pastry ever?
My elderly neighbour has at last given me her recipe for her mince pies. Do try it, I promise you will be surprised by how excellent it is. I will reproduce it exactly as she taught me yesterday. Yield - 3 dozen pies. 1 lb Self raising Flour 8 oz Trex 4 oz caster sugar 1 egg little water 2 jars mincemeat. Rub fat into…
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A Very MSE Advent
Happy 9th of December everyone, a tad into the 24 day advent but my MSE advent idea has been met with enthusiasm so rather than waiting until next year, @LadyWithAPlan said I should start this thread this year (and I promise all my posts won't be this long) The MSE Advent idea is this: You choose a piece of jewellery that…
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Let Thrift shopping thrive in 25!
A shiny new thread for the thrift shoppers amongst us - those who haunt car boots, FB marketplace, Vinted, Ebay, jumble sales & charity shops to score bargains galore!
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Is your heating ON or OFF?
hi just wonder how many of you have put the heating on yet i was going to wait untill november but my 7 year old dd woke me up at 430 this morring saying she was cold i swear i saw steam coming from her mouth so i got up and put it on the house was cold though and my ds has woken up a few time durring the night to (his…
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Old Style Daily Saturday 29 November 2025
Morning everyone.
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Whilst it's The Glory Of Porridge season, new recipes required please.
Here's a link to the last (and pretty old) thread that i can find, I thought it a good time as it's so cold out to start a discussion on one of our favourite cupboard staples. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/96553/the-glory-of-porridge-merged/p1 Does anyone have any old favourites or new recipes please?
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O/S Daily Friday November 28 2025
Good morning all.
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Make Do, Mend & Minimise in 2025 (and 2024)
With the cost of living showing little sign of easing soon, I thought I'd start a new thread for this. I'm sure many of us are trying to be as environmentally friendly as we can be as well as stretching our budgets as far as we can. I'm putting together a To Do list towards this end and will publish any achievements as and…
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O/S Daily Thursday November 27 2025
Good morning all
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O/S Daily Wednesday November 26th 2025
Good morning all.
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Preparing for Winter V
Official MoneySavingExpert.com Insert: If you've come through to this discussion from this week's email, welcome to the MSE Forum. You've joined our Old Style MoneySaving forumites chatting about how to prepare for winter. Read below, read the last few pages of the discussion to see their most recent posts and click…
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Could we start a meal plan thread again, so it's not lost in the GC?
Just thought this would be quicker reference than what's for dinner or searching through lots of posts? There used to be one a while back, Meal Plan Monday or obviously whatever day you start yours on 🙂 I did post mine in the Grocery challenge, but will post again for anybody that doesn't join in with that thread. Vegan…
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Old Style Daily Tuesday 25 November 2025
Good morning everyone.
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O/S Daily Monday November 24th 2025
Morning all.
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Calling All Canners!
Hi I did a search but couldn't find any threads specifically dedicated to canning. If you're unsure what canning is, it is a type of food preservation that uses hot water bath or a pressure cooker/canner to preserve foods so they are shelf stable in jars, avoiding the use of freezers that may fail in a power failure, but…
