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  • GreyQueen
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    :) I've given tired looking shirt style blouses a lift by unpicking the collar. Quick whizz with the sewing machine or tidy bit of oversewing and you have a mandarin-collared blouse. If cuffs have got grotty, I unpick them and bind the raw sleeve edges with bias binding to create 3/4 length sleeves. Never neglect the wonder of a quick dye job on a natural fibre garment. If you keep your eyes peeled in the c.s. you can sometimes pick up usused machine or hand dyes from Dylon. Unless I see them first, of course.:p

    If a shirt or blouse is feeling a bit sloppy, try resewing the buttons. If you lose a button from an important place, go looking for a spare on the side seam or move a matching one from an inconspicious place and replace it with a slightly-mismatched one. A switcheroonie with buttons can make a so-so garment look special. Esp good with jackets and coats.

    Switchout paper products like napkins and hannkies for cloth ones. If you can't find a design you like, forage for a tablecloth or similar secondhand; cheap fabric and lots of it.

    When you've come to the end of a bottle of washing up liquid, after you've inverted it to get the last dregs, there will be enough stuck in the cap for another session or two gummed up in the lid. Chuck the lid in, and the bottle itself on the next occcasion.

    Use bar soap and have those scratchy wash mitts? When the bar gets too fiddly-small, break out a new one and put the sliver into the mitt and you'll be able to use every last bit up. Soap's always better stored unwrapped before use (airing cupboard?) as it'll last longer if it dries out a bit first.
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  • Uniscots97
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    A good way to keep cool at night in this heat is get a spray bottle (clean) and fill with water, lightly mist yourself before bed and you'll be nice and cool to help you get off to sleep. If you have long hair, tie it up (so it won't dig in if you roll over) or if its really long lay it over the top of the pillow, this will keep your neck cool.
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  • unixgirluk wrote: »
    I was given advice

    She also says no matter what conditioner you have in the house putting it on dry hair, combing through with a wide toothed comb and putting a shower cap over it then washing out in the morning will leave it super soft.


    i do that with the cheapest hair conditioner i can get leaving it over nite definaty works
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  • sparrer
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    Since the start of the fine weather I've been pouring all my grey water - old washing up water, after rinsing my cup, dregs of tea, water that's been soaking dishes/pans, etc etc - into a bucket by the sink. Every evening I have more than enough to water the four pots at the front of the house, and the 2 hanging baskets. The rest gets thrown on any bare patches on the lawn (dog likes digging :mad:). It may look a bit of a dodgy concoction but I always do it in fine weather as I have a water meter, so every little helps.
  • Uniscots97
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    sparrer wrote: »
    Since the start of the fine weather I've been pouring all my grey water - old washing up water, after rinsing my cup, dregs of tea, water that's been soaking dishes/pans, etc etc - into a bucket by the sink. Every evening I have more than enough to water the four pots at the front of the house, and the 2 hanging baskets. The rest gets thrown on any bare patches on the lawn (dog likes digging :mad:). It may look a bit of a dodgy concoction but I always do it in fine weather as I have a water meter, so every little helps.


    Good tip Sparrer, if the drought continues and we get a hose-pipe ban up here I may end up resorting to rigging up a 'dew trap' ala wilderness survival tip :D.
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  • Pips_Mum
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    I am 20 weeks pregnant and trying to figure an easy way to get my bath water downstairs to water my plants as we have a hosepipe ban here and I havent the energy for trotting up and downstairs with buckets. It drives me mad to think of all that water doing no good! Could manage your idea though Sparrer thanks :-)
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  • sparrer
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    Pips_Mum wrote: »
    I am 20 weeks pregnant and trying to figure an easy way to get my bath water downstairs to water my plants as we have a hosepipe ban here and I havent the energy for trotting up and downstairs with buckets. It drives me mad to think of all that water doing no good! Could manage your idea though Sparrer thanks :-)

    I know there is a way of getting it downstairs Pips Mum, but not sure how. I believe it involves a hose out of the window and a good suck, but don't quote me :o. Unixgirl may know more, she's a veritable mine of information :D
  • annie123
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    Pips_Mum wrote: »
    I am 20 weeks pregnant and trying to figure an easy way to get my bath water downstairs to water my plants as we have a hosepipe ban here and I havent the energy for trotting up and downstairs with buckets. It drives me mad to think of all that water doing no good! Could manage your idea though Sparrer thanks :-)

    You need a syphon:
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    I put the hosepipe in the bath held down by a weight, hose out of the window, and into garden. The hose fits onto the plastic tube and a few pumps later the water is flowing through nicely. When it's finished the hosepipe wraps around the window handle and just dangles outside.
    I've always done it (20 years here) being 1st floor as down stairs has access to the gutters for water butts.
  • sparrer
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    Thanks for that annie, sounds much more civilised than my description ;)
  • Uniscots97
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    sparrer wrote: »
    Unixgirl may know more, she's a veritable mine of information :D

    Some more sensible than others. :D

    I would have suggested either:-

    a) a fish tank syphon (only because I have one, cleaned of course)

    or

    b) a garden hose hung out of the bathroom window (tie it to something, I think ours was tied to the curtain pole) with the end sitting in a barrel/container....whatever you have that is large and waterproof (we used an old wine making plastic barrel). Place a funnel in the end upstairs and using a jug pour the water into the funnel to be filtered down to the barrel below.


    ......and yes I've used both! Lol :p.... oh and yes you'll get some strange looks from the neighbours but who cares?! I had a cast on my arm when I did the hose pipe one..... my parents thought it was hilarious, but it worked.
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