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This thread will contain links to many of the threads started in Old Style and they'll be organised into various categories to help you find them. I've done my best to put each item into the section where I think it most likely that someone would look first. I shall be starting with the older threads first and moving forward to catch up with everyone.
For those of you new to Old Style and wondering where and how to start there are some threads now listed in Getting Started.
Wear your MoneySaving Old Style Badge with pride
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Each of the sections listed below is actually a single post in this thread, so you can either:-
a) Click on the link provided to go directly to the section that interests you...
b) Simply scroll down the thread until you find it.
APPLIANCES
Various tips on household appliances can be found here. They are each to be found in separate sections such as:-
Dishwasher
Tumble Drier

CLEANING
Everything from the bath, through clothes, to worktops. The list is organised alphabetically by what item you want to clean, and then various er, substances, that you'd like to remove are listed by thread title.

COOKING and RECIPES
Lots of threads which contain recipes for food and drinks that are not as yet indexed in the Old Style Recipe Collection and including other assorted tips to do with cooking. (You might also want to check out the Food section below which, while primarily about growing your own etc, does have a few recipes in there)
But to see the recipes:-

CRAFTWORK
Threads here relate to making your own things for the house or as gifts, and includes making and keeping play dough. Fast becoming a real treasure chest of gift ideas! I've added things like clothes repair and dyeing.

FOOD
This is where you'll find threads about food itself rather than how to cook it. As you'll see it is subdivided into several sections:-
CHICKENS
FOOD FOR FREE
GROW YOUR OWN and GARDENING
HYGIENE & SAFETY
MISC FOOD TOPICS (includes food storage)
ORGANIC BOX SCHEMES

GETTING STARTED
A collection of assorted threads where people have asked "How and where do I start?" There are lots of different answers to browse here.

INSECTS (and other pests)
A section each for the most common ones and the others will be collected as "The Rest" or something.
ANTS
MOSQUITOES
WASPS

KITCHENWARE
I've only got crockery listed here at the time of writing but I do know that we have other threads on knives and pans and even breadmakers and slow cookers yet to be added.

MAKEUP & BODY CARE
From bathtime, through make-up to shower gel. Pamper yourself for pennies while you browse some other great tips.

MISCELLANEOUS TIPS
Pretty much anything that doesn't have its own section can be found here. If enough tips on a similar subject accumulate I'll split them out into a section of their own. Getting organised, and recycling tips are here.

PETS
Fleas and smelly litter trays etc head the list.

SHOPPING
We start with beating the supermarkets and budgeting for Christmas and follow up with budgeting in general and returning dodgy goods. Then there's the three purse system, which shops have the best deals...

The first of the sections listed above is in the post directly below this one. Just scroll down.
...last stop Help - smelly tumble drier pp98 of 191
The MEGA Indexed Thread
This thread will contain links to many of the threads started in Old Style and they'll be organised into various categories to help you find them. I've done my best to put each item into the section where I think it most likely that someone would look first. I shall be starting with the older threads first and moving forward to catch up with everyone.
For those of you new to Old Style and wondering where and how to start there are some threads now listed in Getting Started.
Wear your MoneySaving Old Style Badge with pride

Quote:
Each of the sections listed below is actually a single post in this thread, so you can either:-
a) Click on the link provided to go directly to the section that interests you...
b) Simply scroll down the thread until you find it.
APPLIANCES
Various tips on household appliances can be found here. They are each to be found in separate sections such as:-
Dishwasher
Tumble Drier

CLEANING
Everything from the bath, through clothes, to worktops. The list is organised alphabetically by what item you want to clean, and then various er, substances, that you'd like to remove are listed by thread title.

COOKING and RECIPES
Lots of threads which contain recipes for food and drinks that are not as yet indexed in the Old Style Recipe Collection and including other assorted tips to do with cooking. (You might also want to check out the Food section below which, while primarily about growing your own etc, does have a few recipes in there)
But to see the recipes:-

CRAFTWORK
Threads here relate to making your own things for the house or as gifts, and includes making and keeping play dough. Fast becoming a real treasure chest of gift ideas! I've added things like clothes repair and dyeing.

FOOD
This is where you'll find threads about food itself rather than how to cook it. As you'll see it is subdivided into several sections:-
CHICKENS
FOOD FOR FREE
GROW YOUR OWN and GARDENING
HYGIENE & SAFETY
MISC FOOD TOPICS (includes food storage)
ORGANIC BOX SCHEMES

GETTING STARTED
A collection of assorted threads where people have asked "How and where do I start?" There are lots of different answers to browse here.

INSECTS (and other pests)
A section each for the most common ones and the others will be collected as "The Rest" or something.
ANTS
MOSQUITOES
WASPS

KITCHENWARE
I've only got crockery listed here at the time of writing but I do know that we have other threads on knives and pans and even breadmakers and slow cookers yet to be added.

MAKEUP & BODY CARE
From bathtime, through make-up to shower gel. Pamper yourself for pennies while you browse some other great tips.

MISCELLANEOUS TIPS
Pretty much anything that doesn't have its own section can be found here. If enough tips on a similar subject accumulate I'll split them out into a section of their own. Getting organised, and recycling tips are here.

PETS
Fleas and smelly litter trays etc head the list.

SHOPPING
We start with beating the supermarkets and budgeting for Christmas and follow up with budgeting in general and returning dodgy goods. Then there's the three purse system, which shops have the best deals...

The first of the sections listed above is in the post directly below this one. Just scroll down.
...last stop Help - smelly tumble drier pp98 of 191
Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
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APPLIANCES
...DISHWASHER
Drying time
Film on plates and glasses
Glass blurred - Indesit Dishwasher - result blurred
Glass cloudy
Grainy bits everywhere
Help My Dishwasher Is Not Cleaning Properly!!
Liquid soap - Dishwasher help needed
Loading tips
Odour - Dishwasher freshness
Odour - Stinky Dishwasher
Tablets - Alternatives?
Tablets - Half price dishwasher tablets
Tip
Tips for a dishwasher virgin
...FREEZER
Defrosting
Why do I get lots of ice on my food?
...REFRIGERATOR
Blockage in fridge drainage
Swimming in water
...TUMBLE DRIER
Save on your electricity
Smelly tumble dryer
...WASHING MACHINE
Descaling with vinegar
It DIDN'T smell... but now it does
Manual for hoover? (plus links)
Smelly washing machine
Stinky washing machine
Sharing (and sourcing) manuals and instruction books
.Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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Someone's been busy. Great page:T :T :TComping, Clicking & Saving for Change0
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Comic!!Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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Hope you enjoyed your well earned break.
See you missed us all and couldn't keep away.Keep up the good work.
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LOL that's a straight copy of the MEGA Index. The BG's can't unlock it so I can add stuff, and there's a couple of corrections needed... so we're just testing with the techies at the momentHi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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CLEANING
We have a large thread full of cleaning tips and home made recipes which has been indexed separately to help you find things:-
Save Zillions on Cleaning Index
Air Freshening:
- Ambi Pur Plug In Refils
- Burnt smell
- Cupboards stale
- Fish - something fishy
- Make your own gel freshener
- Odours
- Plug in air fresheners, alternatives?
- Reuse plugin refills
Baby:
- Babies bottles and an update from me
- Baby stains
- Baby smells in bedroom
- Buggy / Pushchair - how to clean a child's buggy?
- Clothes with ink and food stains
- Musty pram
- Pram covers - mold and mildew after storage
- Wooden cot, mold and damp stains
Barbecue grills
Bath:
- Bathroom sink starting to whiff
- Best way to clean a bath?
- Hair dye -Cleaning bath sealant
- How do I clean a manky old bath?
- Limescale
- Stained Bath
- What to scrub a plastic bath with
Bedding:
- Blood stains
- Cleaning a duck down quilt
- Dull whites
- How often should you wash Duvets & Pillows
- Keep duvet smelling fresh?
- Washing a duvet
- Washing a feather duvet
- White bed linen
Bicarb:
- Expensive in bulk
- Source? + links to HM recipes
- Where to buy in bulk please?
Blinds:
- Cleaning blinds
- Hand or machine wash?
- Vertical
Borax:
- Borax - defined and uses
- where to find BORAX
Bottles - Cleaning Old Glass Bottles
Bounce sheets - lots of uses
Brillo pads (and scrubbers)
Car:
- Cleaning inside windscreen
- Home Made car window cleaner
- Oil from carpets?
- Remove vomit smell from car upholstery
- Remove car stickers
- Sand and pet hair
- Screenwash?
Carpets:
- Any alternatives to Shake and Vac?
- Chewing gum
- Cleaning carpets
- Clean spots on my carpet
- Coffee
- Cranberry juice stain on wool carpet
- Drinking chocolate stain
- Foundation
- Lemon tea and honey
- Limeade
- Lipstick
- Mascara
- Olive oil stain
- Pink Jelly
- Pollen - lilly pollen stains
- Removal of unidentifiable carpet stain
- Shampoo suggestions?
- Urine - Cleaning up potty training accidents
- Urine - Toddler stain
- Vomit
- Vomit - Sick on the carpet - sorry!
Carpet sweeper - any good?
Caustic Soda - What's caustic soda for?
Chrome
Cigarette:
- Eliminate tobacco smells
- How can I get the smell of smoke out of a room
- How do I get rid of cigerrette smell?
- Nicotine stains
- Remove the smell?
- Tobacco smell
Cleaning routine (+tips)
Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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Clothes:
- Alien Gloop
- Biro from cotton
- Black grease/grime on white skirt
- Blackberry stain!
- Bleach - how to get it out?
- Candle grease and candle wax
- Cat sick on striped shirt
- Chewing gum on jeans
- Cigarette smell after washing
- Coat - Leather coat smells of the pub
- Coat - Leather coat with sheepskin collar
- Coat - Musty smell
- Collar and Cuff Dirt
- Colour run on shirt
- Cotton top - Rust stains
- Cuprinol
- Decking oil on cream trousers
- Denim in with whites, help!
- Dress shirt - best way to clean?
- Dry cleaning - can I launder?
- Dye - colour run disaster
- Dye run - bleach?
- Dye run - green
- Dye run on whites - now pink
- Fajita sauce on white top
- Fake tan on top
- Felt tip pen
- Fluff removal
- Greasy marks on clothes?
- Grease on white t-shirt
- Ink - black ink on whites
- Jeans - new ones dyed everything else
- Jumper - How to get biro off a jumper?
- Laundry - Cold washing your laundry
- Laundry - hints and tips
- Nail varnish on trousers
- Oil/fat stain on garment
- Oil - motor oil
- Olive oil
- Paint - White gloss paint
- Paint from kids clothes
- Permanent marker
- Perspiration
- Perspiration marks
- Pollen
- Rust stains
- Silk - dryclean only silk skirt and top?
- Skirt - Candle wax
- Skirt - Coffee
- Stain removal naturally (sunlight)
- Sun tan oil on trousers
- Super Glue
- Tea stains
- Ties
- T-shirt, damp, smelly and stained
- Tomato sauce on t-shirt
- Top - mould stains
- Trousers - pritt stick glue
- Urine stains
- Wedding dress handwashing advice needed
- Whites - bright whites?
- Whites dyed grey - help!
- White sgirt - stained
- White shorts fiasco
- White spot on dry clean only suit
- Wool - Remove body odour smell from wool?
Coins (+stuff)
Computer - Screen
Copper - cleaning copper
Curtains musty (and jamming)
Dish cloths - Go back to good old fashioned Dish Cloths!!!
Doors:
- Door Handles - Brass
- Newsprint
- UPVC
Drains - Drain cleaner?
Driveways and Paths:
- Drive - Cleaning car oil
- Drive - Paint
- Path - stone
Dry Cleaning - Save £££'s on dry cleaning!
Fire surround - brushed steel
Fish Tank
Flat - cleaning up for deposit
Flooring:
- Cork tiles - urine
- Laminate
- Laminate - scuff marks on laminate or lino?
- Lino - Ink
- Quarry tiles
- Toilet floor boards
- Woodblock floor (and tables)
Flowers - Artificial flowers
Fur throw
Furniture Polish - build up removal?
Garden shed - Green algae
Glasses and glassware:
- Crystal glassware - limescale
- Drinking glasses shine up
- Glass jars smelly
GLOOP:
- laundry cleaner recipe
- Laundry Gloop - Gloopy Thread !!!
Glue:
- brown sticky tape residue
- Labels - sticky residue?
- sticky mess
- Sticky plaster residue
Grouting:
- Grout with bleach and bicarb?
- White grouting - what's best to clean?
- No need to regrout
Hair Clippers - What oil is good to clean hair clippers?
Handbag - Biro On Cream Leather Handbag
Hip flask
Iron:
- Dirty iron
- sole plate of iron (cleaning)
Kettle:
- De-scaling kettle
- Mirrored Stainless Steel
- New one tastes of plastic
Keyboard
Kitchen slicer
Kitchen Cleaner recipe?
More Cleaning hints and tips are listed in the post immediately below this one. Please just scroll down...
.Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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CRAFTWORK
Birthday cards - 21st cards and 18th cards
Birthday cards - making your own (+links)
Blinds - Dye or bleach?
Bra - Repairing under wires
Buttons - Uses for old buttons
Calendars on your puter
Christmas:
- Christmas card advice
- Christmas Thread Links
- Decoration help
- Foody gifts
- Hampers
- Home made gifts for kids
- Home made Xmas gifts
- Wrapping xmas pressies
Conkers - any ideas for conkers????
Crayons - multicoloured wax ones
Creative Ribbons & Bows for Gift Wrapping & Presents
Cross stitch cushion covers
Curtains - Lining
Darning tips
Designer Decorations
Doily patterns
Dressmaking:
- Dressmaking
- Making and adapting clothes
- Overlockers?
- Sewing my clothes
Dye - Bedding, how?
Easter - Cheap oldstyle alternative to easter eggs
Fabric shops in London
Father's Day Gifts
Flowers - drying help
FrugalVillage (link)
Gift Cupboard
Gifts - presentation, wrapping/hamper/packaging?
Hobbies/Crafts and MoneySaving
Homemade Gifts
Household Notebook
How do I cover a bottle top?
Interior design, Old Style
Knitting:
- Free 1940's knitting patterns
- French Knitting - money saving?
- Knitting patterns
- Knitting wool doorstep exchange scheme?
- Wool sources?
Lavender and rag dolls
Oranges for pot pourri
Origami and paper folding projects for children
Painting plastic planters
Papier mache - something for the kids
Plastic storage pots - customising
Playdough:
Play doh
Playdough
Playdough - Recipe for the cooked version?
Quilting
Rag doll
Rag rugs
Repair:
- Dying over bleach?
- Dying - To dye or not to dye - that is the question.
- How to repair a tear in silk?
- Patches
- Shoes, the heels
- Torn jeans into a skirt?
Sewing:
- Curtains - Wanted: Idiot guide to making curtains
- Dental floss - great for sewing
- Hangar loop into a coat?
- Mop cap pattern?
- sewing ideas for 14 yr daughter?
- Sewing machine instruction book?
- Sewing, Dressmaking Patterns
- Sofa covers
- Teaching yourself to sew
- Tote bag pattern
Sewing machine - handheld / portable
Sofa - Hollowfibre cushions are tired and lumpy
Superglue on my fingers - help!
Valentines - How to wrap my valentines gift
Wedding gift - help!
Wrapping Paper DIY
Zip replacement
Zip on handbag - repair?
Websites:
- Download and print off craft projects
- http://www.craft-fair.co.uk/Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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FOOD
...CHICKENS
Cheap eggs - Keep some chickens!
EGLU - Does anyone keep chickens in an EGLU?
Hen house corner
How often does a chicken lay.
Rescuing battery chickens / end of lay
Sexing chickens
Sourcing hens?
...FOOD FOR FREE
Acorns
Blackberries
Blackberry season
Black berries
Books
Elderberries
Nettle soup
Plants that are pretty, but you can eat as well!
River Cottage Style freebies
Rosehips
Safety while picking
Snails
Wild Garlic
...GROW YOUR OWN and GARDENING
Acers?
Allotment advice needed
Blackberries
Companion Planting
Compost:
- Cabbages Savaged By Caterpillars - OK to Compost?
- Compost
- Composting
- Can I put the hoover bag contents in the compost bin?
- Green Cone Composter
- How to start a compost bin?
- Is this a good price for a composter?
- Mini compost heap for the single household
- Waste food for compost...
- Worm composting
Damsons
Flowers - Azelia (& hydrangea)
Garden produce, toms and chillies
Garlic
Ginger
Growing veg indoors?
Harvesting (potatoes and onions)
Herbs:
- Coriander
- Growing herbs
- Herb garden (box)
- Suggestions of what to grow
Harvesting seeds
How do I kill a tree?
Just harvested my first crop
Manure
Melons
Mushrooms:
- Growing kits?
- How do you dry mushrooms?
- Mushroom lawn
Organic - price prohibitive? (so grow some)
Ornamental Gourds
Peppers
Pests:
- Caterpillars on cabbages
- Garden pests
- Greenfly and Black Spot
- Slugs and other bugs
- Vine weevils
- White flies on Basil
- White fly, green fly, and woolly aphids
Plant database - New ideas for an edible garden (Link)
Plant sale
Potatoes:
- Can I plant them now (late august)
- Potato peelings
Raspberry plants...why are just some of them yellow?
Runner beans not doing well
Seeds - Has anyone started their seeds off yet?
Self sufficiency
Self-sufficiency/small smallholding
Sieving vegetable patch
Sprouting Ginger
Square foot gardening
Strawberries - the runners?
Sulphur - plant diseases
Sunflower seeds - harvest and storage
Sweetcorn
Tomato:
- Home Grown Tomatoes
- Flowers and thirsty - now what?
- Pinching out
- Tomatoes In A Hanging Basket?
- Tomatoes not ripe yet
- Tomato Plants
- Top tip - tomatoes - multiply and stagger from only one plant
Water butt question
Watering the garden (when on holiday)
Weed Killer:
Weeds - clearing?
- Weed Killer (plus pets warning)
- Weed Killer
- Weed killer, home made (link)
- Weed Killer - Hot vinegar
Wormery - Green cone or...?
...HYGIENE & SAFETY
Can you drink milk straight from the cow?
Casserole - How many times can you reheat a casserole?
- Food safety - cooking meat in slow cooker
- Home baking for sale?
- Leftovers (plus link)
- Meat, please advise
- Mince gone brown
- No use by dates (keeping home made food)
Reheating food - pot on the go
Chicken:
- Freezing chicken after it's been cooked
- Refreezing chicken
Eggs - when's an egg gone off?
Eggs - how can I tell when mine have gone off?
Help me preserve casserole (!?!)
Meat and vinegar
Reheat from frozen in a slow cooker?
Turkey - Refreezing turkey
Would you eat/drink out-of-date food/drink?
...MISC FOOD TOPICS
Additives - Eating old style has a lot going for it
Aduki beans
African supermarket - meali maize
Apricots - a source?
Aspartame
Beekeeping
Beer and wine making:
- Elderberry wine
Chocolate - Out of date chocolate
[post=885422]Cut apples - how to stop them turning brown?[post]
Diet induced behaviour
Dried herbs - sources?
Drying wooden spoons
Eggs - Fresh eggs and the codes
Fruit - Ripening fruit in a hurry
- Gloucester Old Spot sausages direct mail
Herbs - "Best before" dates on herbs and spices (+ginger tips)
Honey - is solid
How do you prune grapevines ?
Less is more (discussion)
Limp lettuce??
Milk:
- Full cream milk
- Not keeping
- Skimmed milk query
Mouldy chocolate (includes how to complain)
Organic meat - Rick Steins programme
Pick your own fruit?
Potato - Home Grown Potatoes ???
Soya Milk substitutes?
What's in season? (links)
Storing food:
- Bread - Where to keep all this home made bread
- Bread - Storing bread
- Butter
- Celery
- Coffee
- Containers for stroing cooked food?
- Cucumbers
- Food flasks?
- Frozen meat?
- Fruit and veg keep fresh bags
- How long to keep pulses/dried beans etc?
- How do you stop potatoes sprouting?
- Lemon curd in the fridge - how long?
- Meat - How long can you freeze it for?
- New freezer, advice needed
- Preserving veggies
- Shortbread
- Storing fruit
- Storage Times - link
- Storing and keeping oil
- Food storage without a fridge or freezer
Sugar - Rock hard sugar
Tinned tomatoes (salt content!)
Vegetarian - how do I turn veggie?
Wheatgrass
...ORGANIC BOX SCHEMES & SUPPLIERS
Farmer's markets (+links)
Farmers markets - what to look for?
Going organic (meat)
Organic and free range meat
Organic vs normal fruit and vegetables (discussion)
- Organic veg box
...WEBSITES
Downsizer dot net
Great website for gardeners and recipes
http://www.overthegardengate.net/gar...reci_hedge.asp
www.practicalpoultry.co.uk
www.forum.rivercottage.net
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html (herbs)
self sufficient-ish
http://www.brooklandwhite.co.uk/
.Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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Getting Started
These are threads where people have asked "How do I start?"
Everyone's needs and circumstances are different so there are as many different ways as there are posters.
The best way to start is gently. Do things you think you can do that stay inside your own personal comfort zone.
If it gets to be hard work, or downright miserable then you are likely to get discouraged and quit. Do it gently, and when you think your budget is right, and you haven't given up things that you personally do not want to give up... then fine, fix it there. This is much more about shopping wisely and thriftily than it is about "spending less money" and many posters have found that as they learn the tricks of the trade, so to speak, they also find that they are actually eating better for less!
You wouldn't expect to pass a GCSA after just a few days in school and you shouldn't expect to be able to "do" Old Style in one easy go either. It's a learning process, and instead of trying to do it all at once it's a good idea to pick one or two things that catch your eye and you think "YES! I can do that!" and do them until they become second nature before picking out another thing (or two) to do. Honest
If you keep it as a nice easy process you'll find things change almost without effort and then one fine morning you'll wake up and think...
Hey! I am Old Style
Budgeting (in the Shopping section)
Can you do OS and work full time too?
First ever shop - and doing it OS
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Help please - fallen off the Old Style wagon
How to be Old Style when there are only two of you
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My first OS shop
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The OS starter pack
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Where do I start?
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