Super Scrimpers

culpepper

I think the £200 a month on clothes is more what I would spend in a year. I noticed that no mention was made of what to do with all the excess clothing.
It seems that young couples nowadays go straight to the shops and kit out their lives brand new with no waiting for anything. Then they continue on in that vein becoming more and more depressed that their finances cant support their expenditure.
A lot of the last scrimpers I watched seemed extremely basic but if that is what is needed to wake people up, then it cant be a bad thing.
Now what we really need is a 'how to live on next to nothing' with real people giving the advice .

dom300186

i wish the show was on for an hour!!!! lol

RAS

lostinrates wrote: »

RAS, do you have advice on how to start a scheme like this locally? The council? Local ag college? Letter to the paper? I hate seeing the wastage when people go hungry.

LIR Will reply more later (need to go to the plot where I have been rather a lot this last couple of weeks)

The first thing you need is outlets for the produce. Otherwise it is very hard to distribute.

If you have a nice independent greengrocer like this http://www.slaithwaite.coop/ you can raise some cash towards your other activities and offer reasonable priced local food.

or a locally organised farmer's market like this one http://www.oakwoodfarmersmarket.com/

We distribute some food through here http://www.fareshare.org.uk/contact.php

which goes to local community groups. For example, we checked out sending Bramley apples and they went "Oh great, this means that a cooking project can teach apple crumble and pastry-making."

However, I think they make a charge for transport sometimes and so
sometimes stuff went here as well http://www.thecommonplace.org.uk/, where there was a group helping refugees and asylum seekers. Note - they are closing but the building was on a short-term let.

it is worth also talking to your local group at http://www.permaculture.org.uk/ as they often have similar interests and you may find co-workers there.

On a practical side, kit comes from here http://www.vigopresses.co.uk/store/index.php?cPath=63_77 and it is worth buying the best you can afford - getting the mill must have trebled the amount of juice from the same volume of fruit.

If you set up a community group, you may be able to get funding for kit from people like the Co-op.

toasterman

valentina wrote: »

Sounds like a Viz "top tip"
:rotfl:

I love Viz top tips!

I think the best review I've read of last week's show is this.
While it's absurd and slightly sweary, but it did sum up some of the things I was thinking about it.


Did somebody mention a show called Make Do and Mend that was better than SuperScrimpers?
It seems to be on daytimes at the moment: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/make-do-mend

curlytop12

please can you tell me how to watch make do and mend on a catchup?i don't have sky tv.obviously have internet access!:)

Ida_Notion

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/make-do-mend/episode-guide/series-1

curlytop12

thanks.its only got todays ep on,is there any way to watch last weeks?:)

Ida_Notion

As far as I know, it only started today. I might be wrong though

curlytop12

oh.thats fab.i thought it was mentioned last week.cheers!:)

toasterman

Ilona wrote: »

I am being filmed tomorrow for Super Scrimpers, but I have to warn everyone, I will have no say in what they show on the programme. What you will see are snippets of my money saving tips, the rest is on my blog.
Ilona

Good luck. Will keep an eye out for you.