Squeaky's Old Style Indexed Collections

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Sadly our wonderful board guide Squeaky who was the driving force behind this huge index passed away in 2013 his (see book of remembrance). This index was renamed in his memory.

Back to squeaky's fantastic index...

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We have a number of different indexes here on Old Style. Listed immediately below here are indexes on many of the subjects that come up most often. Each of these indexes are in different threads and each has been compiled and is maintained by one of our members, thank you all.

Further down this thread is the MEGA Index which is list of around 3,000 threads on subjects not covered by an index of its own.

Also read: Getting to Know You and Quick Questions on anything

Individual Indexes:-

These indexes are currently undergoing extensive updates - so please bear with us for the moment.

Building - new links added:-

• The Complete Kenwood Chef Collection - CFC
• Complete Makeup and Body Care Index - jessicamb
• The Complete Laundry and Clothes Collection - Alisonpennypincher
• The Complete Breadmaking Collection - RacyRed
• Flooring and carpets - Alisonpennypincher
• The Complete Slow Cooker Collection - Kiwichick
• The Complete 'Buying Organic Food' Collection (not gardening) - bluemoon
• The Complete Thank You Old Style Collection - Squishy
• The Complete Freecycle Collection - vivw
• The Complete Old Style Book Collection - Penny-Wise
• The Complete Pets Collection - aimeelister
• The Complete Kitchen Equipment and must have OS gadgets Collection - vivw
• The Complete SHOPPING Collection. - hazzie123
• Losing Weight Recipes Collection
  
• The Complete Cooking Collection - rosieben

Confirmed:

• The Complete Menu Plans Collection - Penelope Penguin
• The Complete Jam, Chutney and other Preserves collection - Apprentice Tycoon
• Old Style Recipes Collection - clu
  
• Getting Started - Money~Bunny
• Gardening - angelavdavis
• Breadmaking hints tips and recipes. - Racy Red
• Daily thread archives - cha97michelle
• Slow cooker recipe index - Murtle
• The Complete Old Style Books Collection - Penny-Wise
• The Complete Pizza Collection - Iwantahouse
• The complete 'how to declutter and organise your home' collection - cha97michelle
• The Complete HM Gifts Collection - debbym

Test layout:

Books:

The Complete Book colln.

Cleaning:

The Complete Laundry and Clothes Collection - Alisonpennypincher

Flooring and carpets - Alisonpennypincher

etc

Cooking:

The Complete Jam, Chutney and other Preserves collection - Apprentice Tycoon

The Complete Pizza Collection - Iwantahouse

Slow cooker recipe index - Murtle

The MEGA Indexed Thread (2nd edition)


This index, as has been said, is a collection of a large number of threads, sorted into groups, which do not have an index of their own.

The first part of the MEGA Index is in the post immediately below this one, so please just scroll down.

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The MEGA Indexed Thread (2nd edition)

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



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

Various links for the manuals of Old Style appliances can be found here. A similar set of link for household goods can be found on this board:- In my home (includes DIY) MoneySaving

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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.

Many of these links have been added to in:-

The Complete Laundry and Clothes Collection
Flooring and carpets

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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)

Note:- The Cooking Section of the MEGA Index is now being looked after by rosieben, so the link on the button below takes you to our new "Complete Cooking Collection"

But to see the recipes:-





CRAFTWORK

See also Special Occasions and Celebrations for special gift ideas.

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.

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FOOD

We now have a board dedicated to growing your own:-

Greenfingered MoneySaving

New questions should be asked there.

Here is where you'll find our older 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

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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.

This is now a new Complete Getting Started Collection:-




INSECTS (and other pests)

Other threads on pest control can be found here:- In my home (includes DIY) MoneySaving

A section each for the most common ones and the others will be collected as "The Rest" or something.

ANTS

MOSQUITOES

WASPS

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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.

This now the The Complete Kitchen Equipment and must have OS gadgets Collection





MAKEUP & BODY CARE

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

This now our Complete Makeup and Body Care Collection:-





MISCELLANEOUS TIPS

See also:- Green and Ethical MoneySaving

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.

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PETS

New posts should be made to our new Pet Care board:-

Pets & Pet Care


Fleas and smelly litter trays etc head the list.

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SHOPPING

Various other boards that can help with shopping and strectching your budget are listed first.

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...

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The first of the sections listed above is in the post directly below this one. Just scroll down.



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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

Also:-

http://www.instruction-manuals.co.uk/

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squeaky

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)



More Cleaning hints and tips are listed in the post immediately below this one. Please just scroll down...

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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
- 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...


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Laminate cabinets - ink

Laundry:
- Be Canny With Fabric Softener
- Colour run cloths - cheaper alternative?
- Collar and Cuff Grime - The Final Solution
- Crusty jeans
- Drying clothes indoors?
- Dye bleeding - tip to monitor
- Eco Balls (wash balls) (laundry balls)
- Fabric Conditioner - home made?
- Fabric Freshener - Any Ideas on a cheap version?
- Fabric softener warning
- Folding clothes before hanging out to dry
- Hard water?
- Hardened washing powder
- Home made laundry stain remover
- How much vinegar and soda crystals to use?
- If only they knew
- Ironing emergency!!!!!
- Ironing - Silver marks on black trousers!
- Ironing - Sweet smelling clothes
- Ironing - Very Creased Curtain fabric
- Keeping whites white and blacks black
- Linen trousers - dry clean or wash?
- Making towels soft
- Net laundry bags for delicates
- Pegging out sheets
- Quick washing by machine
- Rose water
- Silk tie ruined
- Smell after being trapped in Washing Machine
- Spin and spin again
- Sweet smelling laundry? (machine)
- T-shirts shrinking!
- Tea towels - keeping them white?
- Vinegar as fabric conditioner
- Washing line or rotary
- Washing powder - explained
- Washing powder versus liquid

Leather belt smells

Light bulbs

Marble - How to clean marble table?

Microwave - cleaning the microwave

Milton's sterilising fluid - tips

Mirror - Gilt frame

Mugs - Can I revive white tea stained mugs?

Oven:
- Black marks on hob
- Burnt olive oil on base of oven
- Burnt on food
- Ceramic glass hob
- Ceramic hob - cleaner?
- Cooker hood
- Greasy oven dishes
- Grill element cleaning
- Heavy duty oven cleaner
- Plastic melted onto hob
- Shelves help please
- Stinky Oven!!!
- what's the best way to clean my oven
- Wood stove

Oxiclean - Home made Oxiclean

Pans:
- Burnt on rice
- Burnt Porridge
- Burnt pan...what to use?
- Pans dull after being in dishwasher

Patio & Paving:
- Cleaning patio stones
- Oil stains
- Weed killing - see under Gardening in the Food section

Permanent Marker (from garage door)

Photocopier Glass?

Plasticware - Stained plasticware

Polish - Alternatives

Pyrex - carbon deposits on pyrex

Radiators:
- Dusting down the back
- Radiators

Roasting tin:
- cleaning?
- rusty

Rugs:
- Cheap way to clean a rug
- Cleaning vomit from a wool rug

Shampoo - double up on shampoo

Shoes:
- Biro
- Chewing gum
- Cleaning/Waterproofing Walking Boots?
- Grease spot on beige suede shoes
- Grubby trainers
- Leather sandals
- Leather shoes stinky
- Shoe Polish
- Smartening up heels on shoes
- Stinky shoes
- Suede - Pale Pink Suede Boots
- Suede - Pink Suede Shoes
- Suede - Pongy suede mules
- Suede - Water marks
- Whiffy Shoes and Trainers!!!

Shopping list - new convert shopping list items

Shower:
- Black Marks On Silicone In Shower
- Black mildew from bathroom please!
- Curtain
- Daily Shower Spray
- Descaling a shower head
- Door - How do I keep a shower door sparkling?
- Marked shower tray
- Mouldy shower
- Mouldy shower curtain
- Rain repellant on shower screens
- Stains in shower tray
- Substitute for shower spray

Silver:
- Cleaning silver jewellry
- Silver cup
- Sterling Silver

Sink:
- Blocked seriously
- Scum around sink
- Shiny Sink
- Smelly plug hole
- Stainless Steel Sink
- Stainless steel sink completely discoloured

Sofa:
- Cleaning a cream coloured suite
- Cleaning removable sofa covers
- Leather - Cleaning leather suite
- Leather - How can I clean cream leather suite
- Leather - Permanent marker
- Olive oil
- PVC
- Tea stains

Sportswear:
- Grease mark on football shirt
- Mud
- Washing Top Tip Required

Sticking plaster residue

Suede:
- Cleaning
- Dry Cleaning, can I avoid it?
- Jacket

Stainless steel

Suitcases smelly

Super Glue - how to remove it (link)

Swarfega - dont buy swarfega anymore

Table - Cup ring on wooden table

Taps - How do I clean gold plated taps?

Tea tree oil as disinfectant

Teddy smells

Toilet:
- One NOT to use
- Clean Toilet Brush
- Limescale
- manky toilet bowl
- toilet cleaners --- refill

Towel - removing leg wax

Tupperware - Smelly tupperware

TV:
- Clean & Clear Static From The TV
- Spilt perfume marks

UPVC Window frames

Vacuum freshener?

Velcro - cleaning out the bits of lint?

Vinegar & White Vinegar:
- Brown (malt) vinegar will not stain your clothes!
- Cleaning product replacement?
- Concealing the smell of vinegar?
- Confused about white vinegar
- For more than just cleaning
- How do you mix it / use it?
- Masking the smell
- Sources
- The great Bleach v Vinegar debate
- ..The search for cheap vinegar
- Uses
- What is it?
- White vinegar?

Walls:
- Candle wax on wallpaper
- Crayon (& felt tip) off the wall
- Red wine

Washing up:
- Bottle holes getting bigger
- Using less

Wheelie (and other) bins:
- Maggots
- Taken over by flies
- Wheelie bin

Wallpaper - biro

Windows:
- Best cloths for cleaning windows/mirrors/glass?
- Streak free windows?
- What to use?

Wipes:
- Anti septic wipes for less
- Can we MAKE cleaning wipes????
- Dettol and flash wipes

Wood burner

Worktops:
- Burn marks on unit top?
- Gloss Worktops
- Wax

Wundaweb - removal?

Websites:
Organised Home (cleaning recipes and more)
Allergy sensitive cleaning tips
Laundry symbols on clothes
http://www.inspection1.com/buyer/stain.htm
http://www.dylon.co.uk/main.htm (dyes, stain removal and whitening)
Laundry labels - what they mean
The World's Longest List of Uses for Vinegar
http://www.wen.org.uk/health/Report...g_factsheet.pdf (OS cleaning factsheet)
http://www.tefal.co.uk/tefal/product...oval/index.asp
http://www.soda-crystals.co.uk/



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COOKING and RECIPES

If you came here from a bookmark, or simply scrolled down from the first page, please see the note.

Note:- The Cooking Section of the MEGA Index is now being looked after by rosieben, so the link on the button below takes you to our new "Complete Cooking Collection"

But to see the recipes:-

squeaky

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/



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squeaky

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


Planning a year of veg growing

What are you growing in 2006

February Update: What are you growing in 2006

March Update: What are you growing in 2006?

April Update: What are you growing in 2006?

May Update: What are you growing in 2006? (Tips here for Fruit, Veggies and Flowers!)

June Update: What are you growing in 2006? Tips here for Fruit, Veggies and Flowers!

July Update: What are your growing in 2006? (Tips on fruit/flowers/veggies)

August Update: What are you growing in 2006? Tips for fruit/veggies/flowers

growing herbs

Fruit and Veg to grow in pots, tubs, etc.

What veg can I start growing this time of the year?

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

Cut apples - how to stop them turning brown?

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/




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INSECTS

...ANTS

Ants ants and more ants
Ants in the patio (+link)
Cheap Ant Killer?
Help with ants please
House full of ants


...FLIES

- Fly killer
- Swarms of flies
- Wheelie bin


...MOSQUITOES

Mosquitoes


...WASPS

Help Wasps! Water & soap trick??



...THE REST

Moth repellant?
Plaster beetles
Slugs indoors
Woodlice



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MISCELLANEOUS TIPS

Aluminium cans worth 1p each

Anniversary treats (link)

Auctions - Furnish your house for buttons

Bamboo - dye it?

Barbecue:
- Fir cones as fuel
- Party ideas please?

Birds:
- Feed the ducks?
- Feeding wild birds
- Starlings
- Two little birds

Birthday Party ideas (7yo)

Bonfire night - free and legal tipping

Books:
- How to beat the system


Bounce - a million and one uses

Bubbles

Car - Fuel efficiency

Car boots - A clever way to make or save a few pounds...
Car boot sale tips

Central heating:
- economy?
- reduce temp or timings?
- save money

Cheats refills/swaps/exchanges

Chicken pox....how to stop a four year old scratching?

Clothes:
- Basic Tip for clothes addicts
- Essential clothes for winter?
- How do you 'de-shine' a suit?
- Itchy Linen clothes
- Sizes? What do the numbers mean?

Clothes Airer/Horse/Maiden

Coal / smokeless fuel

Cocktail sticks

Coffee grounds

Cooking oil Used as Diesel!

Cooking without a kitchen

Christmas lights - How to stick xmas lights to new upvc windows?
Christmas Money Saving Tips

Days out:
- cheapest leisure you can get
- free museums and galleries
- Old Style


Don't just throw them away...

Drinks:
- Delivered milk
- Keeping opened Pop fizzy
- Sugar free is best?

Duct Tape - The joys of...

Elastic bands - from marigolds

Energy saving

Fancy dress ideas

Filing - Is it possible to drown in paper???

Free food at work
Free Petrol Leaf Blower

Freecycle

Furniture Dents in Carpets

Get help for free (includes LETS)
Get it all out

Getting organised:
- Help needed in throwing things out
- How do you do it?
- Organising cupboards
- Shoe storage
- Time saving tips
- The benefits of beingorganised

Hair conditioner - other uses?

Halloween - trick or treat??

Handkerchiefs vs Tissues

Help needed to throw things out

Holidays - Old Style

Holidays - decanting shampoo etc to take away

Hot nights

House sharing, Old Style

How do you use less?

Hydrogen Peroxide

Keeping opened pop fizzy

Kitchen tap - another use

Laundry:
- Be Canny With Fabric Softener
- Fabric Freshener - Any Ideas on a cheap version?

Lavender

Leather - looking after leather

Library

lots of questions can you help?

Make trousers and jackets last longer

Marmite

Mayonnaise - not just for salads

Missing parts? Order them.

Money - How do you think your kids would cope?

Muslin cloths

Nappies

Newspaper - Read them all on line
Newspaper - using up old newspapers

Obvious tips collected

Old Magazines

Old wine rack??

Orchids - care of

Paint stripping with hot vinegar

Pistachio shells

Plastic lids - Mis-shapen plastic container lids

Plastic tubes of toothpaste,shampoos,hand cream,etc. (teabags)

Proper old-fashioned saving the pennies

Recycling:
- Charity shop, recycle, or bin?
- Cutting back reduces packaging?
- For avid recyclers and freecyclers and LETS enthusiasts
- ironing board cover
- Junk mail
- Making paper bricks
- Old Bras
- Photographs
- Recycling tips
- Take away containers
- Throw away society
- Any uses for shredded paper?
- Waste not want not...

Relaxation - Thrifty Relaxation Tips

Rings - Getting a ring off my finger

Rock salt source?

Roses wilting

Rubber Gloves:
- make them last longer
- uses

Salt - 60 uses for salt

Scavenging

Sea fishing

Sea shells

School holidays, cheap days out?

Shocked by shocks


Shoes:
- How can I stretch a pair of trainers?
- New sandals rub
- Shoe repair DIY
- Squeaky shoes

Shredded paper waste

Slow Cooker - Another use for slow cookers

Smoke Alarm - Burnt the dinner ?????

Soap - using up old soap

Socks:
- How to make socks last longer
- Use for old socks???!

Stamps - unglue stamps

Students:
- What to send them off with? Items and tips?

Table - Cracked wooden table

Tea:
- Leftover tea
- Tea Bags
- Tea Bags versus Loose Tea

Tights - uses for holed tights

Tin Foil as a scourer/ Brillo Pad..handy hint!!

Tips:
- Ask your mum...
- Double Duty

Toilet:
- Reduce water use per flush
- Unblocking the toilet - any ideas?

Turpentine substitute / source?

Vacuum cleaner bags

Wall paper - self adhesive border removal

Water:
- Saving water - tips
- Saving water revisited
- Washing up water

Waterproof sheets?

Wedding gift - how much money to give?

What can be watered down

What do with some old watches...

Wind up radios and torches

Wine rack - uses for old ones?



Websites:
- Other Ol'Style Sites (links)
- Organised home - Printable forms
- Robbies Household Tips
http://freecycle.org/display.php?reg...ited%20Kingdom





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