Recession tips from 1929!

Scarlett25

Here are some thrifty tips from a leather-bound book dating from 1929, found at a carboot on the Isle of Wight. Someone had pasted cuttings of tips in the book...they make interesting reading!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2194999.ece

nodwah

that's good, now where did I put my old hats?

Bongedone

How about this one from Mrs Erskine of the Isle of Wight: “Do not throw old tennis rackets away. They make most excellent carpet beaters, with or without the strings.”

Or attach them to your feet for walking on top of the snow.

wogglemaker

Bongedone wrote: »

How about this one from Mrs Erskine of the Isle of Wight: “Do not throw old tennis rackets away. They make most excellent carpet beaters, with or without the strings.”

Or attach them to your feet for walking on top of the snow.

could do with those rackets in gloucester at the moment, been snow bound on a hill for 2 days.

oystercatcher

I can remember my mother using an old hot water bottle stuffed with rags as a kneeling mat back in the sixties !

It's a shame they didn't post more tips from the book

Oystercatcher

rosieben

I always save pickled onion vinegar for my fish and chips!!

oystercatcher

I use pickled onion vingar to descale the kitchen sink!

Oystercatcher

Olliebeak

rosieben wrote: »

I always save pickled onion vinegar for my fish and chips!!

ooooooh me too, rosieben ! My family think I'm crazy so I'm delighted to find somebody else who does this :j.

tessie_bear

i use vinegar from pickled onion to descale the toilet....i love the felt hat idea...must try that

Tibbie's_mum

rosieben wrote: »

I always save pickled onion vinegar for my fish and chips!!

mmmmmmmm yum, mouth's watering already.

tessiebear wrote: »

i use vinegar from pickled onion to descale the toilet....

not so yum, but great idea.