The Other Way, or the MSE Way: My Personal Challenge

JoS1972

Mine are black bags and T bags, have tried many a cheap black bag and have had many of them split all over my kitchen floor :mad: much to the amusement of the dog and the daughter, so ended up using at least two in the bin.

robsmum_2

Mine have to be loo rolls, black bags and coffee - have yet to find decent, drinkable coffee.

I haven't had any food waste for a month now am very impressed but we have had some apparently weird meals, strangely enough they have worked:jCooked chicken, turkey stock, cooked cabbage and stilton turned into a chicken hot pot type meal and was delicious.:j

cha97michelle

Black bags for me too. Nothing worse than picking up the contents when they tear.

Also tea bags and coffee. Other than that, i am not overly fussy, and try to get nice things at a cheap price. My pantry has loads in and i could probably feed us from it for weeks.

Winchelsea

Re tea bags - I read on one of the other forums that S**nsb*ry basics teabags were OK. Had tried them once before, and they WERE like floor sweepings, so vowed not to repeat. But, have tried again, and now they're fine - and are even Fairtrade. (And very cheap!)

kaz0705

millionaire_in_training wrote: »

I wish I had the bottle to tell folks that Dizzy but I just don't. Everyone knows I am economising but they have no idea how skint I actually am as I am too embarrassed to say.

You don't necessarily need to tell them. I found groupon and ebay were my saviours this Christmas- I barely spent the £10 limits me and my friends had placed.

BUT I would also add that, using these limits, one of my friends learned to knit and made us all scarves. I can not express how much I love mine. It is, without doubt, the best gift she has ever given me- way better than when we used to spend £50 on each other! :eek:

So I'm certainly advocating that 'make it' is a winner- and every time I put my scarf on I think of her!

youareallhelpingme

Mr T's value tea bags are still _pale_

millionaire_in_training

Kaz I am definitely looking to try and do gifts this year for a minimum. Aran jumpers seem to be making a comeback and I can practically knit those with my eyes shut so I am about to get busy busy

nat21luv

The only thing that springs to mind is tomatoes! I hate with a passion basics/value tomatoes! No one eats them because they're like golf balls so I buy vine ripened-they stay fresh and juicy for WEEKS if still on the vine-ruddy lovely! I dont find black bags too bad, we have to recycle everything down my way so nothing too heavy goes in them!

And yes, 3 toilets! 1 en suite, 1 kids bathroom and downstairs loo. You wont envy me when you have to clean them....*shudder*

gemini12

nat21luv wrote: »

And yes, 3 toilets! 1 en suite, 1 kids bathroom and downstairs loo. You wont envy me when you have to clean them....*shudder*

Every silver lining has a cloud:rotfl:

nat21luv

RE; Teabags. Im not a great tea lover but I buy 100 Tetley teabags for £1 in Poundland for the other half-are they cheaper than this elsewhere?? Cant get much cheaper than a penny each surely...?