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

mary43

I've often used old towels as floor cloths. Never thought of cutting them in half to use as a kitchen hand towel though...........good idea:T

chrissie55

We bought a Woolworth's home-haircutter for £10- & do each other's hair regularly - I have a skinhead-with-fringes (like a chenille tablecloth), & Himself has a short front & sides. The machine has been going over a year & a 1/2; we put the snippings onto the flowerbeds.

Olliebeak

I did learn to 'turn my collars' when I was at school - 40+ years ago. My school's blouses were designed specifically for the school and manufactured by Tootal - couldn't just be bought anywhere like today's school stuff. We also used to darn the elbows of school sweaters/cardigans.

As Sarahsaver says though, I don't think anything these days is of good enough quality to make me want to do that nowadays!

chrissie55

loopy_lass wrote: »

i find myself looking at "rubbish" from every angle before i dump it ... just incase i can use it for anything else... takes me ages to let go of the item, DD usually shouts MOM .... U CANNOT USE OLD WALLPAPER FOR ANYTHING THROW IT OUT

;-)


bless her

loops

~ U can wrap presents with it! Or line drawers, or rubbish/compost bin! -Not that we give many presents...It's good to be among kindred spirits here

Olliebeak

Wallpaper NEVER got binned in our house when we were kids.

It was always used to cover schoolbooks - textbooks as well as homework/writing books! It was a good way of recognising your own books. If you had enough different patterns, you could do each subject in a particular pattern for instant recognition on the bookcase/in the desk!

Mum also used to use it to line kitchen cupboards so that any spills were easily got rid of.

And plain lining paper makes brilliant drawing paper for smaller kiddies.

chrissie55

twistyfing wrote: »

nope i do this too...

the Tesco cheapest wipes r good in the car for oily hands after oil top-up, etc., & cleaned the car's stereo tape-head too.

champys

Sarahsaver wrote: »

I don't think the collars on many modern shirts are good enough quality to turn them!

Correct. I simply take the collars off OH's favourite (gardening) shirts once they start fraying, and leave the collar base. He keeps wearing them Gandhi-style after that for still a long time before they go altogether.

taylorround

I spent hours reading this thread last night and have used my first tip tonight! Took the lint from the dumble dryer and put it in an old toilet roll to make a fire lighter, worked a treat!
I'm trying to help my mum and dad save some money so i'm telling them everything i read on here, they were wondering why i was spending so much time online, i'm addicted to this sight now! So thanks for all the top tips everyone:T

Could someone tell me what Stardrops are? I've seen them mentioned a few times, mum gets throught kitchen cleaner like its water, so that might save us some more pennies if i can find out what it is/how to use it?

Thanks:D

Bobbykins

Hi Taylorround

Stardrops is an all-purpose liquid cleaner. It costs about 70 or 80p and you can use it to clean virtually everything, so it can replace all those expensive "specialist" cleaning gunks you normally have, like washing up liquid, bathroom cleaner, kitchen cleaner, glass cleaner etc etc.

Usually found on the bottom shelf in the supermarket, hidden away so that you are more likely to buy the more expensive stuff!!:rotfl: :rotfl:

noonesperfect

Going back to the collar-thing.
You can see why collars and shirts were bought separately many years ago (and fixed on with collar studs for those too young to remember). The shirts always out-wore the collars.

I might only(:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: ) be in my 40's but my late parents had come through the war and were of the make do and mend generation. I was brought up in a house that had a special "mending basket" till the dog start pinching my Dad's socks and burying them, then everything had to be kept out of her reach! If my OH wore woollen socks it wouldn't faze me to darn them. This *throw-away society we live in pains me......

*all users of this forum excepted, of course.