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

jackieglasgow

I don't dry mine, I just put the straight in the bin from the WM

Emptynester

Another one who grates nutmeg here, although I use the smallest part of my ordinary grater. I love nutmeg and hadn't thought about putting some on hot milk.

Regarding bining old pants I wash them if they are 'sturdy' enough to be used as floor cloths/rags. The few pairs that are too flimsy to be any use as a cloth get binned unwashed. (I did type 'dirty' there but prefer to think of them as unwashed!)

Thank you for the mention about You and Yours will see if I can listen to it. Anything to try and save energy (and my hard earned cash). Trying to think of ideas for next winter to save on heating. Thinking about using the smallest living room with just the gas fire and turning the CH off. Will that be cheaper, we already only heat the room we use and bathroom and hallway?

Thank you for the mention of Rosemary tea, I already make my own mint and Lemon Balm but hadn't thought of Rosemary.

Does any one have any ideas to use orange peel apart from marmalade and cakes, bics etc? It seems such a shame to bin (compost) it, especially the one I had at lunchtime which was lovely but seemed to be more peel than flesh. I am trying to avoid marmalde and baking as I am fighting middleaged spread. :rotfl:

Thank you

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charlies-aunt wrote: »

The paupers were so hungry that they scrambled for the rotting bones" :eek::eek:

So much for the good old days! Lets hope as the workhouse approaches . . . . it does so very, very slowly!

YEUCH! I second that!!

Emptynester Great idea for using the teapot for the herbal teas. I think I should dig mine out and use it more - might need to get my knitting needles out and get a tea-cosy knitted too

culpepper I remember my dad telling me a story about his gran making a huge pot of tea on a Sunday and leaving it over the fire, topping it up with water and occasional tea leaf and using it for a week. He said by the Saturday night it could dissolve a tea-spoon :rotfl:

bertiebots What about adding some tiny chopped up bits of ginger to your lemon balm tea? Oops rachbc beat me to it

On the subject of cupcakes but not IYSWIM - I know someone who pays extra for chopped onions because they don't like crying when cutting them themselves :rotfl:

smileyt_2

For people thinking of getting hens - they don't actually save you any money. I have just spent the best part of £150 at the vet's over the last three weeks and it turns out my little hen has Marek's Disease and will have to be put to sleep So if you keep them as pets they are expensive (one of my other hens also had this and had to be pts last year). They are only money-saving if you are willing to wring their necks at the first sign of illness - which I'm not.

Growing veg is much cheaper!

kidcat

Well its been thunder and lightning and heavy rain here this afternoon, (sorry GQ), I am so glad I hadnt struggled to get the washing on the line as it would have drowned. I did bung the airer outside with a few bits on it and brought it in as soon as I saw the sky darken so at least some has been outside.

Having mixed success with raising funds on ebay at the moment, have sold some baby items - highchair, fire guard etc, but am plagued by silly buyers, one insisted on paying paypay for a 99p item that she was collecting!! which cost me 23p others bid for something then want item posted even though it was listed as collection only. Now have listed DS bed and it had sold as buy it now to have buyer decide she has changed her mind - but has not acknowledged the cancellation request so I am left in limbo - with DS bed half dismantled!! I just wish there was a way of idiot proofing my listings!!

NO news on house front today - so I am harrassing my solicitor again - I swear he must cry when he realises its me again. DD5 came home with her class photo today £10 is cheapest price, and apparently they are having more photos taken in the summer term too???? They have already had individual shots done before Christmas so this just seems a totally money making exercise.

I think my freezer has turned into Mary Poppins bag - it seems that no matter how much stuff I take out it never empties any at all. Which normally wouldnt be an isse but as i need it emptyish to move its starting to bug me.

sammy_kaye18

Hi all

Well Im havin ga funny day - I have completley blitzed the flat

Health Visitor came - stayed for abotu half an hour. Informed me I wasnt feeding holly enough :eek: after shes repeatedly told me that she is way above average on the weight scale, and then left and said she'll come back in august for another 3 month visit. She say mind she has a ready brek for breakfast with full fat milk, a 7 month jar for lunch, a 6oz milk bottle for her nap about 2ish, then a full jar for her dinner and a 9 oz bottle at bedtime with maybe 4/5 ozs in the night. She then gets weak diluted juice or water through out the day - according to her milk box she should only get one beaker of 7ozs! Apparently she is meant to have a meal and a pudding at every meal. confused

Theres thunder rumblign all around and I dont like it Ben is sat up on the window sill wrapped in his blanket watching it and holly is shouting at him. Hail like golf balls :eek:

Right I have decided as well to sit down and write out my shopping list - which I have actually done now - and am going to put it in to my supermarket and see if I can save myself a few quid in some shape or form by finding vouchers etc online. If not I may go in tomorrow night and raid the discounted section to save myself a few quid instead. Also need to do some price comparisons tomorrow between some frozen bits and pieces in Iceland and in Mr T.

Apart from that I have blitzed the flat, sorted bens room, sorted hollys old clothes, scrubbed the hallway, washed the dog, bathed holly, cleaned the kitchen and planned shopping.

Still keeping our fingers crossed to hear about a house. No sign of an offer letter yet
although did have a letter today from T Mobile saying they have given me a £15.32 refund. so have a nice little cheque to put back into my savings now which should help out a bit towards Benjamin's birthday.

Hope yoru all well - wish I had a veggie patch as it would of had a lovely watering today

and my dad has just joined the chicken owners club with his four newest housemates - tikka, kiev, nando and ginger. no eggs yet though.

NOTE : Anyone else seen the feed a family fro £50 a week thing that sainsburys is running?

JillS_2

GreyQueen wrote: »

Hun, I won't iron them as I don't iron the ones I wear, but they will be clean and dried. Just one of my mad little ways....and jackieglasgow does the same, so it's not just me!:rotfl:

Well you can add me as a third. Now that old knickers go in recycling I would wash them on purpose 'cos it just doesn't seem nice putting unwashed undies in recycling but even when they went in the dustbin they were usually washed just because the point at which undies get thrown away is usually when I get a pair out and look at them and think "Admit it, J, these really won't do any more".

jackieglasgow

smileyt I am so sorry to read about your chickens, how sad for you, but well done for not giving up at the first sign of illness, and trying to find a solution for them, I'm sorry it has cost you all that money though. x

Winchelsea

GreyQueen - re knackeredknickers, you asked:

Do you, if you have to junk a pair of drawers, toss them clean or (ahem) used? .

Neither - I don't toss them as they are. I do launder them, then chop them up into cleaning rags. I use them, and other similar rags, instead of kitchen roll (which I never buy) for mucky jobs.

It's the only time I regret being a 12-14. Bigger knix would yield bigger cleaning cloths!

lostinrates

OK, I did something today I've very rarely done EVER. I bought a ''premium'' washing powder. My machine wasn't washing brilliantly this morning, and I don't know why. Its been progressively more temperamental, and for a long time my dirty out doors clothes have been coming out grubby but smelling ok. Today whites came out not white. I'm hoping its a powder issue....I don't want to have to find money for a new machine now. I don't see how it can be though...own brands have always been ok before.

Buying ''proper'' powder made me notice how expensive it is. Gulp. I'd rather have bought the cupcakes.

(edit: I wash knickers before throwing them away, I don't find they make good cleaning rags, personally)