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

adelight

I cut open all my toiletries to get the last bits out and have been reusing the same travel size bottles for ages for holidays. Veg peelings in stew when I remember, so I might have to start freezing them too

anguk

ceridwen wrote: »

That aint economising though - thats theft - as the vegetables will have been priced according to the stems remaining on. If the supermarket cut all the stems off first themselves - then they would charge a price that reflected the amount of the produce they had just thrown in the bin and we'd all have to pay extra to allow for women like that....:mad:. Those shop assistants werent doing their job properly - I would have marched straight up to the woman concerned and put the stalks back onto her scales and asked her (in a firm tone of voice) if she still wanted the broccoli - and pointed out the thief to the manager anyway, so that he could keep an eye out for her in future in case she tried it again.

One can eat broccoli stalks actually - just peel off the knobbly bits and cut up the remainder small and use in a stirfry.

EDIT: Note to peeps reading this thread in future - please stop and think about it before using the ideas - a few of the other ideas mentioned recently are also theft actually. Perhaps we ought to have an official "warning" on this thread "WARNING...WARNING...not all the ideas given are legal/honest. Please work out for yourselves which ones arent and don't use them yourselves".

I'm not going to get into the rights and wrongs of cutting stalks off because I don't think this is the place for it (I cut mine off at home, freeze them then use them for soup) but one thing I have noticed is when I first started buying broccoli years ago the stalks used to be very short. Over the years the stalks seem to be getting longer and longer so you now get less actual florets for your money, sometimes there's more stalk than floret, another way for the supermarkets to get more money out of you perhaps?

compforus

I flush the loo with my saved bath/shower (shower in bath) water. Keep a bucket handy and a jug to get the remains that the bucket doesn't reach.

PeskyPants

This thread has cost me money - I used two tissues to dry the tears of laughter!

Thanks
PP

Emuchops

Ages ago there was a great (and funny)TV programme-Britains Meanest Man or something. Anyway he removed the "spiders"from the tops of tomato's before weighing them in the supermarket, and when buying anything liquid he checked the level and got the fullest. Ive found myself doing the latter-its amazing what a difference there is with some products. I do it with milk (not much difference, maybe a cup of teas worth), fabric conditioner-(big differences) and booze(sometimes a massive difference) amongst others-well worth doing.
There was another man who refused to buy new trainers despite his current pair literally falling apart-so he used duct tape on them-in the end there was more tape than trainer.
They both seemed happy enough-good luck to them (they might even be reading...)

PeskyPants

Re :
"I love having pets but I have to vacuum several times a day then on carpets it just doesn't get enough hair up, as I prove with the amount I take off. I do sometimes do the whole carpet with sticky tape wrapped round my hand or with a rubber glove but I have myself a friction burn on my hand last time I did the whole carpet with a glove and made a hole in the glove so the rollers back out to save my hands."

Sometimes there are 'specials' on those brooms and hand brushes with rubber bristles at Lidl/Aldi. They're brilliant at lifting pet hairs that the vacuum doesn't suck up.

Thanks so much for all the fantastic ideas everyone!

PP:beer:

marmiterulesok

PeskyPants wrote: »

Re :
"I love having pets but I have to vacuum several times a day then on carpets it just doesn't get enough hair up, as I prove with the amount I take off. I do sometimes do the whole carpet with sticky tape wrapped round my hand or with a rubber glove but I have myself a friction burn on my hand last time I did the whole carpet with a glove and made a hole in the glove so the rollers back out to save my hands."

Sometimes there are 'specials' on those brooms and hand brushes with rubber bristles at Lidl/Aldi. They're brilliant at lifting pet hairs that the vacuum doesn't suck up.

Thanks so much for all the fantastic ideas everyone!

PP:beer:

I have a simpler method if a rug gets hairy with cat hair.

First I brush the rug with a dustpan and brush,amazing what it picks up!Then I used wrung out flat cloth to wipe over the rug,going in the same direction.The cloth is one that I keep under the kitchen sink and that I don't use for anything elseIt picks up all the hairs,and is as good as getting the hoover out.I only hoover once a week.

Anyway,I'm curious to know if anyone else does this:I re use greaseproof paper when I've been baking.Do you think that this is taking things too far?

PeskyPants

marmiterulesok wrote: »

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Anyway,I'm curious to know if anyone else does this:I re use greaseproof paper when I've been baking.Do you think that this is taking things too far?

I do this with baking parchment. Sometimes get 3 uses out of it.

PP :j

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in_my_wellies wrote: »

I've started buying loose tea and using a stainless steel teapot (50p from carboot) It works out much cheaper than teabags

Also, when the right hand rubber glove wears out I turn the left inside out to make another right hand glove until that wears out too

Happy hour spent reading this - thanks![/QUOTE

Have you worked out the costing? I asked on a (long) thread here about cost difference between loose tea and tea-bags. The consensus was, that it wasn't any cheaper.

marmiterulesok

PeskyPants wrote: »

I do this with baking parchment. Sometimes get 3 uses out of it.

PP :j

Hi Peskypants,

Isn't baking parchment and greaseproof paper the same thing?

I meant what you use to line cake tins before baking,is that called baking parchment or greaseproof paper in the UK?I'm just curious cos I can't remember!

Love your name BTW!