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

Justamum

Olliebeak wrote: »

I've been collecting all the small handsoaps, and also the ones when I've been on coach tours with my mother. If you hide the toiletries in your suitcase, the cleaners always put fresh out each day! Same goeas for the tea/coffee/sugar supplies as well - always come back home again with a ready supply!:rolleyes: .

My MIL used to do that when she went away because of work. She was always put up in good hotels and had loads of those little soaps, shampoos etc. She had so many she didn't have to buy any for a few years! She even came back with a couple of bathrobes once!

consultant31

Justamum wrote: »

My MIL used to do that when she went away because of work. She was always put up in good hotels and had loads of those little soaps, shampoos etc. She had so many she didn't have to buy any for a few years! She even came back with a couple of bathrobes once!

It's one thing to swipe the shampoo and soap, but not the bathrobes????:eek:

Olliebeak

consultant31 wrote: »

It's one thing to swipe the shampoo and soap, but not the bathrobes????:eek:

I usually take my own soap/shower supplies as you can't always guarantee that they will be provided. So I reckon I'm entitled to those - but I wouldn't dream of taking the bathrobes - not that I've ever stayed in the sort of hotel that provides those unfortunately!

pavlovs_dog

for those of you who cut facial cloths in half, how do you do this? each wipe as you go along, or do you do the whole pack in one sitting?

ive started to use them, cutting them in half to make them go further, but am having great difficulty getting the 'spare' half back into the pack.

Olliebeak

It doesn't have to go back in again neatly. Just stuff it back into the opening in the top of the packet. As long as you use the 'sticky thing' to reseal the pack - it will stay fresh and moist enough to use again.

pavlovs_dog

thats what i've been doing so far, but it upsets the neat freak in me :rotfl: i was hoping that there must be a better way

ubamother

Hello, I have just had my morning coffee reading this thread - you all make me laugh so much - not because I think you're all mad - but with recognition of things that I do or my mother does, or my aunt did etc. etc! Some great ideas in this thread too

Joolzr68

This one very OS and is is something that my mother and her mother before her used to and still do. I don't do it as the kinds of fat I use I buy in tubs.

They keep the wrappers that block butter, lard / white cooking fat comes in and use the residue on the wrappers to grease baking tins for cooking cakes etc.

Its a bit of a family joke actually as my Mum seems to have a fixation with always keeping the wrappers in the fridge, just in case, although she hardly ever bakes anymore as she lives alone. My brother confessed to me that each time he visits he throws just a few of them away but not enough so she would notice....lol :eek: .

I guess old habits die hard! Bless her.

Aril

I very carefully tacked up the hems on my son's school trousers and then when I was happy with them and had stitched them properly then I undid the tacking and reused the thread on the other pair. Is this normal I ask myself?:rotfl: :rotfl:
Aril

tiredandanxious

Kelinik wrote: »

Better than sauce sachets, my sister treated me to a cup of tea and a bun in a posh department store when we were out shopping (well she was shopping, I was there to keep her company) and much to her embarrasement I came home with a whole handbag full of those mini glass jars of jam and 10g flora tubs!!! I was subtle, well subtle ish and didn't stand there shovelling them in my bag or anything and no one noticed. Sis said it was a bad as stealing but as we bought stuff in there its not.......is it? :undecided

Anyhoo they lasted ages and hubbie felt spoilt on his birthday when I took him breakfast in bed and he had proper hotel style individual pots of jam and butter.

OK farrrrrr too excited about free pots of jam!! (when the men with white coats come for me I'll go quietly I promise)!

Thank you so much for that, im crying with laughter now,when 5 minutes ago i was crying, thank you for making a big difference to a very depressed person:T :T