anyone else os but not good at it...

tessie_bear

i do the os stuff i like....cooking from scratch mostly but cant sew or knit to save my life....i try and recycle and not be wasteful.....and im getting quite good at meal planning and hardly through any food away

wendywitch

Ok, here we go . . .
I can cook but hate it, I love to bake and eat
Can't use my mums bread machine to save my life (always get flat bread)
I can knit and slowly follow a pattern (sometimes I need help from my mum)
I can sew on a button and take up a hem and I've been know to make curtains
I like crafting and decorating (don't like glossing much )
I hate house work :mad: , I don't iron and I wish I lived in a flat so I wouldn't have a garden (but I need the attic space )
Only the dogs use the garden and I know it's a waste cos it would grow loads of veg

justpeyton4now

I quite enjoy cooking from scratch, baking goodies and now bread. To me it's usually relaxing, feels good to feed DH and myself foods and dishes I've made myself. I like to experiment with cooking and have had some really good dishes. And of course some that even the dog wouldn't touch. :rotfl: With time, I don't have quite as many of the really bad results.

Stardrops does seem to work wonders for me with cleaning so it's a great multi-purpose cleaner for me. And the price of it is so much better than many of the cleaners for just kitchens, baths etc. But there are a few other cleaning products I like to have such as barkeepers friend when I burn a pan and bleach for our toilet.

I have no farmer's markets anywhere near us and we don't drive so I comparison shop and get the best deals I can. In our financial situation, even if we had one nearby, it would have to beat the cost of produce/fruit in the supermarkets or it wouldn't work for us.

OS for me is taking the best parts that work for me and using them in my life. If using jarred or tinned sauces works better for some then use them. The OS part of that could be stocking up when they're on offer. Above all, enjoy your successes and learn from those less than sterling moments. Like any new skill, it takes time and practice. It's not a competition and if you've found you're comfortable with how you're doing, that's all that counts.

MrsE_2

wendywitch wrote: »

Can't use my mums bread machine to save my life (always get flat bread

I though bread machines were idiot proof

I'm a useless baker (but a decent cook:D ) I though anyone could use them

celyn90

I hate cleaning. OS or not, I just hate it I don't iron. I buy things that don't need ironing and anything else gets flattened by the weight of the laundry basket.

I can knit squares in garter stitch. Nothing else. I've tried soooo hard, but patterns are a foriegn language to me and I'm horribly impatient with things like that. I can crochet circles too, but only circles. I have so much yarn at home and so many aspirations

My bread maker had two settings, dough and bricks.

Plants should live outside where they can be ignored. OH likes growing things though, but we live in a first floor flat. We (meaning OH) grow basil on the windowsill. If I had my way I would chuck it out because the clutter drives me mad and the damp is marking the paint. Yesterday he planted more spinach in a tray on the windowsill. The last lot didn't grow.

Might have been the stardrops in the plant mister.