Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

Aril

Buy lime cordial rather than other flavour squashes- for some reason it's much cheaper.
Much cheaper per litre to buy cans of cider than by the bottle.
Use up spare wool to make pompoms with the children- I've just made a rather delicious black spider with a pompom body for Halloween using stuff I already had:D
You can make beads by rolling strips of paper up or by blanket stitching leftover embroidery thread over the edges of a plastic curtain rings.
Fairly ordinary plastic buttons always seem very expensive- I've found that by googling Dorest buttons and Singleton buttons it's fairly easy to make your own.

Aril

mama67

Instead of buying firelighters for starting coal/open fires, stuff the inner from a toilet roll with bits of junk mail and newspaper

Diflower

What a good read:)
Almost forgot to make soup for lunch!

We don't have a compost heap but I hate to waste veg peel. Carrots & parsnips, I wash before peeling, chop the ends & peel and add to the dog's food.
Potatoes, wash before peeling; if you have the oven on, toss peel in just enough oil to coat, put in tin in oven - free crisps. You can add eg salt & pepper, garlic powder, herbs, spices too.
I think you could do this with the carrot & parsnip peel too but the dog loves those:)

OneStepATaTime_3

unixgirluk wrote: »

If getting to the bottom of nail varnish and its gloopy, I add a drop of nail varnish remover, close the lid give it a good shake then use.

I dont know if this has been said already but keeping half empty bottles of nail varnish in the fridge will stop them going gloopy

lostinrates

NualaBuala wrote: »

I'm another fan of face flannels. They're much greener (and cheaper) than disposable wipes. I use them with the OCM (oil cleansing method). You need them to be really clean so you don't get spots. I only ever use the washing machine when it's full so I wait till I've a load of them and towels and do them (soapnuts with a scoop of washing soda gets the oil out fine) - that meant I was running out of flannels so I cut up an ancient towel that was ripped and tatty looking. Now I have tonnes!

I too, use face clothes daily for my face (OCM and very temperamental skin) BUT rather than wash my face then laundry bin the cloth I wash my face then do a quick wipe around the bathroom with them. The bathroom gets deep cleaned weekly, but this daily quick wipe around skin and bath, shelves and window is a great time saving way of cleaning.

Eenymeeny

PinkPeach wrote: »

When buying cotton wool opt for pleated cotton wool as this is usually cheaper than the balls and you get a lot more in the bag. It's also sometimes cheaper to buy the pleated version from the baby section in shops, rather than the cosmetics section.

If you do buy cotton wool balls tear each one in half. I find that doing this not only makes it last twice as long, but when putting skin toner onto the wool you are able to put more of it on your face as it's not all soaked up into the fibres.

You've reminded me that when I used to use cotton wool for cleaning baby we always used to spread it out and leave it in the airing cupboard to puff up. Goes a lot further... Then we used to tear pieces off and roll them into balls.:)

nykied

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I wonder sometimes what some landlords are thinking putting cream carpets in a rented property. It must soooo very difficult to return the carpets in as clean a condition as they were at the start.

The house that myself and the OH rent has carpet in a rather fetching shade of dark blue throughout. The LLs must have got it on special offer, as nobody would actually choose this carpet

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<<When opening a packet eg tea once empty open the other end just to get that last few bits out that get trapped in between the folds of the paper. >>

My late ma-in-law always used loose leaf tea and when she emptied the packet she would remove the inner lining of paper and also the inner lining of paper from cereal packets and wipe them over and fold them carefully and put them in the kitchen drawer.when she made chips she used the papar to drain off the fat/oil with instead of using kitchen roll.She was an amazing widowed lady who had brought her two sons up on 'shoestring and pennies' as she used to say.

exlibris

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My late ma-in-law would remove the inner lining of paper from cereal packets and wipe them over and fold them carefully and put them in the kitchen drawer.when she made chips she used the papar to drain off the fat/oil with instead of using kitchen roll.She was an amazing widowed lady who had brought her two sons up on 'shoestring and pennies' as she used to say.
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I also used it cut in squares to separate home-made beefburgers before freezing them.

toffee65

greengoblin wrote: »

As a serial roll up smoker I often find that I have left over odd papers and filters when I come to the end of a pouch of tobacco. Rather than carry round a 1/4 of a pack when I buy new tobacco I just buy new filters/papers and discard the rest. For the last month I have conscientiously been putting remnant packets to one side and tonight have made up full packets. Surprised to find I have 2 whole packets of filters (240!) and over 50 papers. In fairness that is a net saving of under £2 but hey its £2 for the savings pot and I haven't wasted them and also £2 off next weeks food shop. ( or £24 over a year. £24 potentially wasted on little bits of foam!!! :eek:) Hurrah for small victories :beer:

http://www.octopusshop.com/catalog/product/view/id/2035/s/flowers-case-bqdf65ae0002/category/3/

Take a look at these...I have the red with flowers on. When I have loads of papers and filters laying about I sit for half an hour and fill with tin with pre rolled cigs. I also bought a tobacco tin in Cromer from an old fashioned tobacconist with would have been the old 50g GV tins...helps a lot and looks much nicer taking a roll up from a posh tin rather than sitting rolling up in public....I'm a little stuck up about that of lady behaviour when out lol