As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

7_week_wonder

A fresh crust of HM rye bread (with added hemp flour):D!

And Mardatha given the time you posted about eating greens: did you eat them for breakfast?!?!

imataloss

Hello everyone - we used to have a lady who walked her dog past our house. Every day they used to stop outside our back gate which is next to the driveway where we parked. She never cleaned up after the dog.
One day when my husband was watering the garden with the hose, they stopped outside again. ACCIDENTALLY he aimed the hosepipe in the direction of the gate.
She never did stop there again!
OS wise I`m trying to get my weekly shopping budget under control. I am still buying the same amount of food as when all the family were at home and cooking the same quantities.
Need to meal plan more (I always used to) and use all of the leftovers.

smileyt_2

Well, the jam-making was a success and I now have four and a bit jars of lovely, deep red tayberry jam yum yum yum. I will be going down to the allotment today to do some weeding and get a raised bed ready for sowing some French beans after the new moon on 1st July (I try to garden by phases of the moon).

Has anyone ever tried to make jam without sugar, but using something like fruit concentrate? I bought some stuff from the local health food shop which was made with raspberries and apple concentrate. Very similar to jam but without the massive amount of refined sugar. I am going to do an online search but just wondered if anyone on here had any experience?

As far as scrap metal collectors go - the ones round here are awful. A bloke a couple of streets away is a wheelchair user, and he will wheel himself to the park at the end of my street and walk round the playground holding onto the railings. He has taught himself to walk again by doing this, going from taking only a couple of steps to being able to walk round the perimeter of the playground, with his stick and the railings for support. I don't know what's wrong with him but he also has no voice and can only speak in a whisper. A couple of weeks ago some scrappy barstewards only came and nicked his wheelchair whilst he was on the far side of the playground! How despicable can you get? If I'd have been there I'm afraid I would have rammed them in the nuts with the wheelchair (pardon my bluntness)!!!!! If it's not nailed down round here, it goes.

Dog poo. Eugh. I am a responsible dog owner and I pick my dogs' poop up, but there are loads round here who don't. Similarly with the rubbish. No idea why people don't take responsibility for their own waste of whatever kind.

Anyway, have a lovely day, everyone. It looks like we might have sunshine :T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

GreyQueen

imataloss wrote: »

Hello everyone - we used to have a lady who walked her dog past our house. Every day they used to stop outside our back gate which is next to the driveway where we parked. She never cleaned up after the dog.
One day when my husband was watering the garden with the hose, they stopped outside again. ACCIDENTALLY he aimed the hosepipe in the direction of the gate.
She never did stop there again!
OS wise I`m trying to get my weekly shopping budget under control. I am still buying the same amount of food as when all the family were at home and cooking the same quantities.
Need to meal plan more (I always used to) and use all of the leftovers.

:rotfl:Oh, to have seen it. My friend and neighbour SuperGran told me what one of my ex-neighbours did to another of my ex-neighbours (before my time here at Shoebox Towers) when the basket puked all over the communal walkway outside his flat and refused to clear it up (even well after he was recovered from the alcohol binge which caused it). The neighbour scooped it up in an old cereal box and posted it thru the letter box.:rotfl:

Not nice but quite funny IMO.

westlothianlass

Mardatha well done lass:D
Well after my optimistic comments earlier about housework i have done shockingly little:o but i am "playing" at sorting out recipes that i have in a folder (do you think that could count as being domesticated?).
x

anguk

Has anyone else noticed that Tesco have started to put security protection on all their packs of fresh meat? I've done a quick google and found reports from a couple of years ago saying Tesco were security protecting their expensive meat but now even the packs of mince have a big yellow security sticker thing on them!

I wonder if prices have become so high and money so tight that shoplifting of food is on the rise.

maryb

VJsmum wrote: »

HOnestly, :mad: i think i am the only one in this house who gives 2 hoots about the money and the MSE factors and the OS ness - unless it involves eating the yummy stuff i cook - Oh yes they're all for it then.

Who finishes off the shampoo dregs in the bottom of the bottles - me
Ditto conditioner
Ditto shower gel
Who uses up toothpaste that no one likes - me
Ditto deodorant
Who is going to be the one to use up the shampoo that OH bought (for £1.50 more than i could have bought it!) but has now decided he dosen't like the smell of - me
Who will drink up the lemon squash that's been in the cupboard for months - me
Who turns off lights, taps, electrical equipment

You get the picture.

Is it always the women do you think? I am no plaster saint by any means but i can't bear waste - but the others in this house think nothing of e.g. opening a new ketchup bottle if they have to start shaking the old one.

Grrrrrrr:mad:

That's better

It's not just you, believe me. I keep any additional supplies well away from the kitchen and bathroom. It helps a little (not much) but only because they are too idle to go and get fresh supplies so are more likely to use up the last scrapings

culpepper

Just had scrummy beans on toast for lunch! and a stiff cup of tea:)

I remember when we had a dog ,my MIL was horrified to see dog poo bags.
She said she wouldn't bother doing that, it was disgusting.
This is a lady who had 5 children and also owned 2 very large doggies back in the day.

My family are quite amused at my frugal ways. OH will talk the talk but doesn't always walk the walk.
The kids have been students and so have HAD to become more frugal but I still find the lights on at night ,etc when they are home.

I have a savings account in my name which holds the salted away housekeeping from these eccentricities which comes in very handy whenever anyone mentions 'misers' LOL and has paid for a few disasters over the last 2 or 3 years which previously would have needed a loan.

So I bumble along regardless.

My attempt at raspberry jam went okay, a little bit runny still but super yum. It was a microwave recipe so most likely needed a bit longer zap wise .

ChocClare

shelley_crow wrote: »

I found out by chance the identity of the dog owner who was letting their dog foul on my front garden. I spotted her one day and asked her to clean it up, she didn't. She came along a few weeks later to buy my old car and trod straight in it, it was all over her flip flops and feet and also up her trouser egs, how i laughed! funnily enough it's been picked up ever since x

Not that I am condoning this because I'm not, and the man is a complete nutter; but a friend's neighbour who was having trouble with another neighbour allowing their dog to foul his garden went out, grabbed the dog, went round to his neighbour's and held a shotgun to the dog, asking if he needed to make it any clearer what would happen if the dog was allowed to foul again.

Like I say, not that I'm condoning it AT ALL but it did have the desired effect. I think a local reputation as a headcase probably also helps...

Broomstick

I've just realised, following Mardatha's amazing news (well done!), that this little smiley must be a picture of her, so incredibly happy and so incredibly green after just one small spoonful. I'll never feel the same about that smiley again.:D

B x