Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

Rowan9

Does no-one remember Sunday night baths? I was born in 1960 though:rotfl:. We washed at the sink inbetween and I remember lying on the draining board with my massively long hair being washed in the kitchen sink at other time ie when it needed it!
Surely I'm not the only one to remember this:)
W

balmaiden

No wmf, I most certainly remember Sunday night baths. Not only that but I remember Sunday night baths in a tin bath by the fire. I was born in 1956 and lived with my family in the back of beyond, all water was drawn from the well and heated on the range. The good old days? I am not so sure.

Mind you me and the old man have a shower three times a week and strip washes the rest of the time, anything to try and stop paying southwest waters extortionate charges. So maybe times haven't changed that much after all.

frosty

wmf wrote: »

Does no-one remember Sunday night baths? I was born in 1960 though:rotfl:. We washed at the sink inbetween and I remember lying on the draining board with my massively long hair being washed in the kitchen sink at other time ie when it needed it!
Surely I'm not the only one to remember this:)
W

I remember it well,the tin bath in front of the fire.It took ages to heat the water and then fill the bath up.Sunday night was bath night then we had our hair checked for head lice.I was born in 62.

consultant31

balmaiden wrote: »

No wmf, I most certainly remember Sunday night baths. Not only that but I remember Sunday night baths in a tin bath by the fire. I was born in 1956 and lived with my family in the back of beyond, all water was drawn from the well and heated on the range. The good old days? I am not so sure.

:rotfl:I remember this too. Dad used to drag the tin bath in front of the fire, fill it with kettles of hot water and I had my bath, Mum got in after me and Dad got the scummy water third hand :eek:

I actually remember it with fondness, but then I was very young and didn't have to do the work..........emptying it must have been a nightmare. I think I must have been in bed by that time as I can't remember seeing that bit done.

I do try and be very frugal with water though as it is a finite resource and if we don't do something now, what will the future be like?

pws52

I was born in 1952. I remember having the same hair wash experience in the sink and the tin bath bath was on a Saturday followed by a dose of California Syrup of Figs.......I suppose if we had had this on a Sunday the effects would have been evident during school on the Monday and we were only allowed 5 sheets of Izal toilet paper counted out to us on request by the Head and the toilets were outside....extremely cold in the winter.

I will admit to strip washing my children in the kitchen sink during the 1970s. Such fun.

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When I was small bath night was when it was dragged in from the back of the coal house door, and filled up with water from the pans boiling up on the kitchen range .Usually Sunday night as we had school on Monday morning.We had this huge old house with 14 rooms in it and the bathroom upstairs cost a fortune to heat a bathfull so Mum got the tin bath out and each child was plonked in it in front of the fire and scoured from head to toe.Hair was washed and keenly inspected .
wrapped in a big towels and dried off then placed into flannelette PJs and given a steaming mug of cocoa and a piece of hot buttered toast, that was Sunday nights in our house for both of my brothers and I.
We all lived on the ground floor of this barn of a house that my Dad had bought in a fit of madness my Mum always said.The middle and top floors were used by my brothers and I as places to play as they were far to big to furnish or heat
We lived there until 1957 when my Dad finally gave in to my Mum and we moved to a smaller more managable place. Mind you the garden was very big, and I did miss having so much space to play in. I took my grandchildren past the old place last year when we went to Blackheath and they said 'Wow Granny it was huge', part of the back garden had been sold off, and four houses now stood where I used to play, but the house itself was still there and had been divided up into four apartments.My Dad paid around £1200.00 for it in 1944.Mum had been bombed out twice and he wanted her to live in what was then a relatively safe almost country like place God knows what it would go for now.But a great place to grow up in even if we did only use the ground floor rooms.nowadays I have a shower in the morning and another one in the evening and think nothing of it , my Mum would be horrified at the profligacy and in her eyes waste of hot water, but times have moved on from those days thank goodness.

Starrystarrynight

I'm a bit obsessive about clean hands and am never without handwash. I don't turn on the hot water tap, though, as the water won't even have had a chance to heat up by the time I've washed my hands. No point wasting gas (and money) firing up the combi boiler and then turning the tap back off before the hot water arrives. I just use the cold tap instead.
Hope that makes sense!

ali-t

pws52 wrote: »

I will admit to strip washing my children in the kitchen sink during the 1970s. Such fun.

I was one of those poor children who got washed in the sink, the shame of having the other children in the street laughing at us getting washed in the sink

My moneysaving tip is for original decor in the house. I had leather cushions made years ago from leather mini skirts that were in a clearance sale. They look amazing even now and I often get comments on them. The same can be done with old bits of clothing and when things have been shrunk in the wash. Unusual tops, denim skirts or jeans and scarves make fabulous cushions and no-one else will have the same ones.

Patchwork_Quilt

DD has a scarf I am hoping to cushionise when she is not looking.

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Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

DD has a scarf I am hoping to cushionise when she is not looking.

Love that word 'cushionise' so descriptive and spot on