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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,…
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O/S Daily Sunday 1 st June 2025
Good morning, I'll pop back later.
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Old Style Daily Saturday 31 May 2025
Morning everyone.
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Old Style Daily Friday 30 May 2025
Good morning everyone.
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Save Water, Save Money, Save The Planet
Over the last month, the News has been full of stories of the UK facing an impending drought. Having grown up in Australia - and lived through several droughts plus water restrictions - I thought it might be worth us having a place where all water saving tips were collected. Here are mine: * Switch off the tap while you're…
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O/S Daily Thursday 29th May 2025
Good morning, it's raining here, I'll pop back later.
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O/S daily Wednesday 28th May
Good morning all from a sleep deprived Mehefinland Something has been banging about outside all night in the strong winds. For the life of me I can not work out what and where it is. A daylight foray required, although it is quite light already and the sun is peeking out from behind the clouds. Hopefully a better day than…
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Old Style Daily Tuesday 27 May 2025
Morning all.
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Old Style Daily Monday 26 May 2025
Morning all from a foggy Glasgow.
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Weekly Flylady Thread 19 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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Slow Living - Doing It Old Style!
It's a bit early to be starting this thread but it's the last day of 2023 that I will have the time so I'm doing it now! I have decided that 2024 is going to be the opportunity to put into practice all the things that I have thought about, wanted to do and dabbled with in 2023. I have a few diaries on the forum which touch…
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O/S Daily Sunday 25th May 2025
Good morning, it's a fine start here, and feels as if it's going to be warmish. I would like to get some bedding plants into containers in the back yard today - we'll surely not be getting any frost now, even here in the N East! Our backyard faces south west anyway, and is sheltered. Yesterday was an ok day, I had a…
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Lakeland compressor ice cream maker
Just bought this. Very disappointed with the first recipe I made, from the booklet but with the addition of fruit. The condensed milk no beating recipe I previously made was much creamier and more delicious. Does anyone have one and is pleased with the results? If I can’t do better than this it’s going back!
