Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

roslancaster

A tip I discovered/invented. Fill your water bottle half-full and put in freezer overnight. In the morning top up with water. You have lovely cool water to drink all day - and if you use a backpack to carry it, it also keeps your back cool when out and about. Dont do what I did tho and fill bottle right up before freezing. My bottle split! I will re-use bottles as long as possible. PLEASE DO NOT KEEP BUYING BOTTLES OF WATER!!!!:j

Primrose

Why not use one pint plastic milk bottles to carry your drinking water? I use them to freeeze homemade soups in. They don,t split and the same bottle can be use over And over again once it's been well washed out.

micky2phones

sock-knitter wrote: »

earlier this weeks one of my ds's picked up a dirty bit of paper, i told him to put it down, he continued to unfold it, and it turned out to be a five pound note

Hi, just started reading this thread in 2019 and had to smile at the above, as i was about 7 at the time and as a family we walked a lot

This one time when walking i remember picking up bits of paper and as above told to put down,but once my mum took a bit of paper off me.

Which as a child you think nothing of it, many years later my mum told me that bit of paper i picked up was a pound note, yes for people who don't know we did have pound notes lol

omendata

Old candle jars make great drinking glasses or vases.

When abroad put your contact lenses in the fridge that way they will last all next day and much longer and after a hard night its so cool and refreshing in your eyes in the morning it sure wakes you up fresh as a daisy!

Living_proof

Primrose wrote: »

Why not use one pint plastic milk bottles to carry your drinking water? I use them to freeeze homemade soups in. They don,t split and the same bottle can be use over And over again once it's been well washed out.

I've been doing this for years, although less often now I have upright rather than chest freezers because they don't slot in quite so nicely. I always try and give plastic three or four outings before they are recycled!

oldhaggis

micky2phones wrote: »

Hi, just started reading this thread in 2019 and had to smile at the above, as i was about 7 at the time and as a family we walked a lot

This one time when walking i remember picking up bits of paper and as above told to put down,but once my mum took a bit of paper off me.

Which as a child you think nothing of it, many years later my mum told me that bit of paper i picked up was a pound note, yes for people who don't know we did have pound notes lol

In the same vein as micky2phones, I have a childhood memory from the late 1950's of walking along a woodland path with my mum and finding a man's handkerchief with a 10 shilling note wrapped inside it. Mum pounced on it.

For those too young to remember, 10 shillings is 50p in today's currency. It was a decent amount of money to find in those days. Mum was grateful for the money and the handkerchief which she boil washed for my dad to use. Nothing went to waste in our house, mum had lived through the hardship of two world wars.

From that day forward I have kept my eyes peeled for roadkill money. My best ever find was a £20 note blowing in the wind one dark rainy night. DD, who was about to go out for the night with friends, snaffled it for a post midnight taxi home. Easy come, easy go.

Living_proof

oldhaggis wrote: »

In the same vein as micky2phones, I have a childhood memory from the late 1950's of walking along a woodland path with my mum and finding a man's handkerchief with a 10 shilling note wrapped inside it. Mum pounced on it.

For those too young to remember, 10 shillings is 50p in today's currency. It was a decent amount of money to find in those days. Mum was grateful for the money and the handkerchief which she boil washed for my dad to use. Nothing went to waste in our house, mum had lived through the hardship of two world wars.

From that day forward I have kept my eyes peeled for roadkill money. My best ever find was a £20 note blowing in the wind one dark rainy night. DD, who was about to go out for the night with friends, snaffled it for a post midnight taxi home. Easy come, easy go.

When I was a young teenager and first going out in the evenings, a ten-bob note would enable you to buy a drink, spare pair of tights and a taxi home from the nearest social event.

I remember my mum washing out plastic bags and putting them on the line for future use when they first became available. They were expensive and treasured items. I now almost do the same (dry them on a radiator!) for entirely different reasons. I am gobsmacked by how many perfectly good plastic bags people throw away after one use. At the very least you can put some unpleasant rubbish in them to put straight in the bin.

Primrose

Living_proof wrote: »

I remember my mum washing out plastic bags and putting them on the line for future use when they first became available. They were expensive and treasured items. I now almost do the same (dry them on a radiator!) for entirely different reasons. I am gobsmacked by how many perfectly good plastic bags people throw away after one use. At the very least you can put some unpleasant rubbish in them to put straight in the bin.

I've been doing this for years, long before we had plastic environmental crisis. I also dry them over the radiator in winter or on the line outside in summer and then fold and store them "small, medium & large" labelled size bags in a kitchen drawer so one is always handy when I need one.

And I,ve been reusing my gardening plastic pots ever. Some must be about 30 years old!

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I always use assorted milk carton, 1pt to put new milk in and then freeze, larger ones for pasta, lentils etc. Plastic bags, yes, always, like the idea about the water, not that I do hiking or similar but handy for "summer" drinks, people BUY bottled water !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mistral001

I live alone and thus when I buy a large vegetable like a cabbage or cauliflower, I have found it difficult to use it all as I cannot eat it all at once. I have found that if I treat these vegetables like cut flowers in a vase of water, they will start to sprout roots and they will keep fresh for weeks. I can cut a little bit off every few days for making my evening meal and finish the whole vegetable.