Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

Shropshirelass

Similar method used with washing  Ziplock bags here,  but I wait till I have a dozen or so. Wash them in a bowl of the hottest soapy water I can stand, then turn inside out and wash inside of bags, then rinse inside and out in a bowl of clean hot water. Stand on a big tray to dry for a day, then turn right side out to finish drying. Using very hot water lets them dry quicker.
When freezing food, I tend to freeze it solid in a plastic box, e.g. takeaway or margarine box, then move the block of food into a Ziplock, label it , and store in freezer. At present I have a small wall of apple bricks, another of chicken stock and various soups, filling in the back of the freezer shelves.

balabooberlies

Great idea with the blocks Shropshire lass.............

Primrose

Yea, good idea, as blocks pack more neatly and are good space savers.  It,a the awkward shaped frozen bags of stuff which take up more space than they need to!

Siebrie

ruthber said:

My daughter asked me to dye a pair of trousers black. the dye is expensive (around £5 in Tesco). So to make it go further I chucked in some assorted orphan socks and now have 5 newish pairs of black socks!

If you are just re-dying faded items, you can dye at least 3 pairs of trousers and some minor items with 1 tin. The weight listed on the tin is to dye 1 white item into the required colour.

Siebrie

When dds were born, my 2 best friends and my sister had just finished having kids, and gave me quite a lot of there baby stuff.  I used up the oldest stuff first, especially sheets that were rather washed and faded. DDs didn't realise yet, and the nice stuff lasted me a bit longer by the time they did notice colours and patterns.

kimwp

gt568 said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

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KxMx said:

When I need water for the garden I use the run off before washing up, combi boiler so it's hot quickly but not instantly. 

If really desperate I pop a bucket into the shower to catch the water while it's warming up, pop it out as I get in then when I'm done put it back to catch the "clearing" water before it switches off. 

If you had a really big bucket, like one of those 2 handled flexible garden tubs, you could stand in it whilst showering and collect even more water

You jest but I might just do that. Water is a precious resource.

Get a water butt as well if you don't already.

Shower in the garden?

babyshoes

PipneyJane said

I have a confession to make....   I do like heavy duty, Ziploc-brand freezer bags and will wash and reuse them as much as possible.  (I know other people do similar but the Ziploc ones last longest.)   You used to be able to get them in large, size-specific multipacks of boxes in C0stco, but now they only sell a variety multipack  (quart and gallon freezer bags, skimpy "snack" bags and thin sided "sandwich" bags). A box of the gallon size lasts us for years, since I'll reuse a bread bag first.  Very little fits in the snack bags and while I'm using the sandwich bags as substitutes for the quarts, since they're a similar size, they aren't as good and tend to rip.  (I will use them up, though.)  Sunday, I used up my last proper quart bag and, after much searching, resorted to ordering a box of 216 quart sized freezer bags from Amaz0n.com, via their UK website.  With P&P, they cost £44.58, so 21p a bag.   I know it's not very MSE but that's at least a couple of years' supply.

- Pip   

PS, the final use for many of the gallon Ziplocs is for wool storage.   

I've found the snack bags to be an ideal size for face masks, folded over. 

The gallon bags are the right size for home made bacon, if one chooses an appropriately sized pork belly to start with. 

PipneyJane

babyshoes said:

PipneyJane said

I have a confession to make....   I do like heavy duty, Ziploc-brand freezer bags and will wash and reuse them as much as possible.  (I know other people do similar but the Ziploc ones last longest.)   You used to be able to get them in large, size-specific multipacks of boxes in C0stco, but now they only sell a variety multipack  (quart and gallon freezer bags, skimpy "snack" bags and thin sided "sandwich" bags). A box of the gallon size lasts us for years, since I'll reuse a bread bag first.  Very little fits in the snack bags and while I'm using the sandwich bags as substitutes for the quarts, since they're a similar size, they aren't as good and tend to rip.  (I will use them up, though.)  Sunday, I used up my last proper quart bag and, after much searching, resorted to ordering a box of 216 quart sized freezer bags from Amaz0n.com, via their UK website.  With P&P, they cost £44.58, so 21p a bag.   I know it's not very MSE but that's at least a couple of years' supply.

- Pip   

PS, the final use for many of the gallon Ziplocs is for wool storage.   

I've found the snack bags to be an ideal size for face masks, folded over. 

The gallon bags are the right size for home made bacon, if one chooses an appropriately sized pork belly to start with. 

Homemade bacon, @babyshoes?  Please tell me more! 

Thanks,

Pip

retiredinfrance

I use the bags that cereals come in for freezing stuff and they work quite well for slices of cooked meat and for bread. I've not tried them for anything else. I use the brick method for soups and stews.
Keep safe everyone.

givememoney

I've put this on before but for people who never saw it. If the grout between the tiles in your bathroom in the shower or round the bath start looking dingy, maybe going a bit yellow, or black bits appearing, I do this.
When it's dry get neat bleach and an old toothbrush and apply along the grout working it in a bit.  DON'T rinse, just leave overnight and rinse before anyone uses the next day. Bright white grouting. I leave the bleach bottle in the bath to remind me it needs rinsing down.