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  • I have recently discovered that if we put our dishwasher on it's quick cycle it cleans ok so long as we havem't packed it really full. Only takes 30 minutes so uses less electricity and water.
  • jomary85 wrote:
    I use old microwave turntable for board games e.g. Scrabble to turn the board around to face the player. Old tights I cut the legs around in 1" strips and use for plant ties in the garden Any more ideas for tights?

    I met a West Indian gentleman, who told me that as a kid he used to pinch his mother's stockings, and cut them up to make the tail of a kite.

    Stockings make good masks for bank robberies and for keeping the midges off your face in the Lake District and Scotland.

    If you are selling a car with piston slap, you can dampen the giveaway noise from the buyer by putting the pistons in stockings. It is better than sawdust, because after a few miles, the stockings melt and become part of the engine oil, and are therefore undetectable. As they say, Caveat emptor - let the buyer beware.
    To buy or not to buy, need not be in question
    Stratford Bill
  • I now have two button boxes, having inherited my grandmother's when she died..........but I've never ever found a button in there which matches the garment with the button missing!
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  • FZwanab wrote:
    One of my kids hard back book is falling apart and it was a very expensive book. How would I go about repairing the binding?

    Hi
    What exactly is wrong with the book? Is it just the cover that has fallen off? or are the signatures (bunches of pages) coming to bits, too?
    To buy or not to buy, need not be in question
    Stratford Bill
  • I too use ice cream lids or any white plastic cut up as plant labels- just buy a fine nib permanent marker.
    Also use a steamer to cook veg -you can succesfully go 4 high!! potatoes on bottom then beans ,cabbage etc
    If your making tomorrows sandwiches (egg) put the eggs to hard boil in the steamer water.
    Keep your own chickens -find local barn egg producer. At the end of 1 yr hens are replaced (sent to chicken heaven) because in yr 2 they lay a higher % of bigger eggs (public only want medium size) and also lay a few less. These can be bought 50p/hen and will lay fantastically better than any fancy breed.You are also giving a hen a great life.(free range of course). At yr 3 you could eat them !! (cook in slow cooker)- How medieval do you want to get? - I would rather know where my meat came from and that it had a good life and was humanely killed. Oh - don't forget freshness and flavour .
    Find local farmer buy wheat and use 50/50 with bought chicken feed. Crush egg shells and feed back to hens for essential calcium- no calcium = no shells!
    Use a tin or jar to roll toothpaste or tomato puree tubes.
    I could go on and on but my candle is burning down.
    ecogeorge.
  • After using face wipes (tesco value are great) I give the bathroom basin and other bathroom surfaces a swish, then I give the loo a wipe too.

    They are strong enough to rinse out between wiping each surface if you like....is this just me?


    I do that too - kill 2 birds with 1 stone - I find you can use them several times on your face if you hang them somewhere in between - then I clean the tiles with them whilst I'm showering!
  • Chipps
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    If you are selling a car with piston slap, you can dampen the giveaway noise from the buyer by putting the pistons in stockings. It is better than sawdust, because after a few miles, the stockings melt and become part of the engine oil, and are therefore undetectable. As they say, Caveat emptor - let the buyer beware.

    Remind me never to buy a used car in Stratford upon Avon!!!!
  • 123xyz
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    Smashing wrote:
    My favourite thing to do with the sandwich bags my mum gave me was to blow them up and burst them just behind someone's head. :D

    She switched to foil shortly afterwards.
    :cry:

    That has got to be the best use for old sandwich bags so far!
    Just off the border of your waking mind, there lies another time ....
  • This is great, it's taken me a while to read it all but I've had a few laughs and picked up a couple of ideas too.

    Our local bakers put your purchases in plain brown paper carrier bags, which I recycle as gift bags. If I ever get given a gift bag it obviously gets recycled!!

    Old scrappy bits of soap get chucked in the washing machine.

    When I put a new loo roll on the holder, I flatten it so that it's not perfectly round. It then doesn't tend to run away from you so much, so the kids use less of it!!!!;)
    I like cooking with wine......sometimes I even put it in the food!
  • PoshPaws_3
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    I object to spending a fortune on those sanded sheets for the bottom of the birdcage, so I use folded newspaper and put a dish of sand in there for them to rummage through. At one time I would just throw the sand onto the newspaper, but then it dawned on me that I was throwing an awful lot of it away unnecessarily each time I cleaned them out. So now it goes in a natty little baby's cereal dish and gets topped up from time to time. :)
    :hello: I'm very well, considering the state I'm in. :hello:
    Weight loss since 2 March 10 : 13lbs
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