Old style things that 'only you' do...

debtworrier

pollys wrote: »

Pizza Hut Salad. I use cucumber to make the bowl deeper, pile it high but just carry the cherry tomatoes, saves them rolling off:D

Ref! Ref! I call foul!

debtworrier

shariatlanta wrote: »

Had a real giggle reading some of these, I also put water in the bottom of sauce jars to get the last bit out, hair from my hairbrush goes out the window for the birds to use for nests ( my mum taught me that one ).

When I've shredded all my old bills it get used for rabbit bedding, tend to buy cheap pictures in the pound shop or at boot sales then reuse the frames for my cross stitch pics.
Now if I could only find a use for all the dog hairs I've hoovered up over the past 3 years I'd be laughing short of making another Jack Russell.

I remember years ago seeing on Blue Peter a family that had saved all the grooming from their two English Sheepdogs, twisted the hair to make yarn and knitted sweaters from them. Might take you a while with a JR - start with a scarf, maybe?

debtworrier

Anyone else put the squeezed half of a lemon in the egg rack in their fridge instead of binning it? Keeps the fridge smelling fresh.

jollymummy

I save buttons and zips from old clothes. If my sons old baby clothes aren't good enough to send to the charity shop i use his old vests as dusters. I use old marge boxes to keep my craft stuff and recycle sweet wrappers/magazines to make cards. Use old bath water/paddling pool water to water the garden and like everyone else make sure I have every last drop out of bottles - shampoo that is, not wine !!! Here's a question ~I have loads of milk scoops from my sons formula, I can't bear to throw them away - what can I use them for ???

katmad99

jollymummy wrote: »

Here's a question ~I have loads of milk scoops from my sons formula, I can't bear to throw them away - what can I use them for ???

could you keep them to use like measuring scoops for cooking? (you know like the plastic ones you can buy)

katmad99

I keep all buttons and bits too. One of my faves is the small ribbon hoops that you get in the shoulders of tops (to keep them on the hanger in shops). They always stick out and make me look silly, so now i always cut them out and put them in my sewing box..so i always have lots of different sizes/colours of ribbon for arts&crafts etc.

also a new (and very moneysaving) idea of mine is this:
it's freezing cold at the moment, and we live in quite a cold house and are poor students so can only have the heating on mornings and evenings...we are writing essays/working on our computers all day and out hands get frozen!! So...my OH and I got an old pair of gloves and cut the tips off...so you can type and keep your hands warm at the same time!!!

jollymummy

thanks Katmad, good idea, if anyone wants a few, let me know.

meerkatgirl

I'm sitting here reading all this in the thermal clothes I bought for a holiday in Lapland so I don't have to put the heating on!

jennyjelly

I bring home all the layers of bubble wrap I see in the supermarket veg aisle to use for packing my ebay items. I did ask if it was ok, and was told it was as it is only binned anyway - what a waste. It saves me buying packing most of the time.

The other thing I am paranoid about is clothes pegs. I honestly believe that if I hang an item of washing with different coloured pegs I will bring down flood and pestilence on out house! The kids think it's hilarious to keep muddling them up and have me running in and out of the garden all day. I have resolved to buy plain wooden ones in future.

Aril

When my son was little he was always biting through the tips of his gloves. In the end I cut the tops of the fingers off, dabbed fray check round the raw edges and made them into fingerless gloves.
One I saw on the TV last night so can't claim it as my own...mince up old sponges and soak in water. You can then use them in hanging baskets rather than the gel you buy for retaining moisture.
Have found that the cafe in hospitals run by the League of Friends are very cheap and also local colleges with catering departments do a very good cheap evening meal for non students [or ours does anyway]
Aril