Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

consultant31

Mashed potato, spread thinly in a flan case and baked blind, makes a much less fattening (and tasty) base for a flan or savoury pie.

Primrose

Primrose wrote: »

I think we need a new thread on "100 interesting ways to use Mashed Potatoes". :rotfl:

Well, I'm just going to start a new thread on using potatoes so we can keep all our suggestions in one place and hopefully gain some new inspiration for this indispensible vegetable !

caroc

When we get parcels these days, the packaging is often long strips of brown paper scrunched up. I 've been flattening it, rolling it up and using it like kitchen roll for messy kitchen jobs like wiping up grease in pots/pans /plates and wiping out tins/jars for recycling, its very absorbent. It then goes in the composter. I also now use it to peel things on instead of newspaper-better for the worms I think.

Siebrie

I have just filled a handsoap container with a shampoo that is just too aggressive for my hair. I figured we could use it for hands, and I'll use it to clean the loo.

Gem-gem

When buying clothes the tags are quite often attached with a piece of ribbon. I save these bits of ribbons and use them to attach homemade tags onto presents.
I also removed ribbon off chocolate boxes and birthday cakes and reuse them when wrapping presents.

Gem-gem

My jeans get holes in places where you don't want them. I always have a pair that I patch up and use in the garden. Other pairs I cut up. I chop off the pockets and use these to mend my husband's trousers when his pockets go. I cut off the less worn parts of the legs and use these for patches and other repairs.

VfM4meplse

You are full of good tips Gem-gem!

I collect the Per Una pink ribbon but have never actually got round to using it

I have a pair of jeans that I have intentionally worn to death. There's just so much material it still seems wasteful to throw them away. I've been googling repurposing ideas and am hoping to persuade my mum to turn them into a couple of aprons for our LO.

purpleybat

Gem-gem wrote: »

My jeans get holes in places where you don't want them. I always have a pair that I patch up and use in the garden. Other pairs I cut up. I chop off the pockets and use these to mend my husband's trousers when his pockets go. I cut off the less worn parts of the legs and use these for patches and other repairs.

i thought of you with those trousers earlier today when I put on my multi-coloured gardening trousers I think they're more patch than trouser now but the extra pockets are sooo handy

mcculloch29

Siebrie wrote: »

I have just filled a handsoap container with a shampoo that is just too aggressive for my hair. I figured we could use it for hands, and I'll use it to clean the loo.

Having successfully used travel laundry wash in the washing machine this week, my thoughts turned to shampoo - would that work as well?. I was sent a bottle of Pantene shampoo to review by Beauty Recommended last year which didn't suit me. I used it a few times to establish this, so donating to a refuge wasn't really on for this half bottle.

I can report that if you have a well functioning washing machine, Pantene, at least, is very well suited to substituting for laundry gel. I put it directly into the gel dispenser and plonked it on top of the wash.

If you don't have a gel dispenser any small shallow plastic or silicone container will do. I've used a silicone individual cake case before now, when my dispenser went AWOL.

Pop_Up_Pirate

I save all my veggie trimmings and freeze them. When I have a very big bag full, I make stock with them all.
Very healthy, very tasty (better than buying stock cubes. Yuk!) and very MSE