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  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    MrsMW wrote:
    I just used a teaspoon to !!!!!! out some seedlings. Does that count?

    Absolutely!!!! ;)
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  • moggins
    moggins Posts: 5,190 Forumite
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    I use eggboxes to grow seeds in, but I think everybody does this?
    Organised people are just too lazy to look for things

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  • MATH
    MATH Posts: 2,941 Forumite
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    Queenie wrote:
    Our garden chairs will perform double duty as dining chairs when all the family are home and the table is extended.

    LOL - we do this too all the garden furniture is dragged in plus a motley selection of vanity stools and the chair I use for decorating jobs. One Christmas when we had loads round one guest had to perch on a low set of step ladders and another poor so-and-so had to eat roast turkey atop a rocking footstool. All you could see of him was the feather on his paper hat. He climed he was sea sick by the end of the meal.:D
    Life's a beach! Take your shoes off and feel the sand between your toes.
  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    LOL @ MATH - bet the guy wasn't complaining about the view though ;)

    My Mum really was the Queen when it came to arranging furniture to fit in mulitudes of visitors around a dining table (garden furniture wasn't high on the list of priorities in those days ;) )
    One year, there were so many of us that she borrowed a couple of planks from a neighbour, laid each one between 2 chairs and covering it with a blanket (2 planks and 4 chairs) leaving the rest of the real chairs for the less supple. Later, when a few of the "grown-ups" forgot themselves and behaved like kids and had a few two much Christmas Spirit ... she pushed two single beds together against the wall in two of the bedrooms, placed pillows down the long side of the beds and squeezed in ... 5 to each "double" bed!! She was amazing. I daren't even think what she would have conjured up if she'd had the luxury of your step ladder ;)
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  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    No pestle and mortar?

    I used the knob end of my wooden rolling pin and an enamel bowl :D

    My cutting mat is "temporarily" being utilised for the kids 1000 piece puzzle. (They'd better hurry up and finish it, I've got quilting to do!)
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  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    Never throw away outgrown :o belts - they can be linked together and serve many purposes. I use two to secure the cat's travelling basket, as the catch has broken, and another two to hold open the "summerhouse" (shed with attitude ;)) door, by looping the belts around the door handle and a nearby treetrunk.

    You could use them for strapping luggage on bikes, or holding things in place in the garage. No end of uses. I am not in the least tempted to diet my way back into wearing them as originally intended! :D
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • Pooky
    Pooky Posts: 7,023 Forumite
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    I've currently got chop sticks in plant pots to support my sunflower seedlings.....and mighty fine they look too!
    "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with" - W. C. Field.
  • Luis
    Luis Posts: 637 Forumite
    Old ice cream tubs / chinese cartons become lunchboxes or tubs for a cook'n'freeze fest.

    Old cableknit / chunky cardis - turn into really nice cushion covers.

    Old duvet covers / sheets / curtains - dust sheets / dog bed covers.

    Old jamjars - use for putting gloss paint in when painting (easier to hold and no drips).

    old tights - stuff to make a door sausage.

    Spare bits of old wool left over from spinning - stuff cushions.

    old shoeboxes - cover with material, make partitions to make sewing boxes (good gift)
    "It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that, I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'."

    Overlord for the Axis of Evil (part time) :D
  • Bargain_Rzl
    Bargain_Rzl Posts: 6,254 Forumite
    Luis wrote:
    Old ice cream tubs / chinese cartons become lunchboxes or tubs for a cook'n'freeze fest.
    Yes, the best ice cream tubs for the purpose are the 1 litre ones most of the major supermarkets do that are sort of the ownbrand version of Carte d'Or. They make brilliant lunchboxes for the plated meal (i.e. pasta, big salad, or risotto) style of lunch, because they actually have more space in them than a 1 litre Tesco Value plastic box.

    There's also the added advantage of getting to eat the ice cream first :o

    Their only disadvantage is that they are oval so they don't tesselate together in the freezer.
    :)Operation Get in Shape :)
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  • pavlovs_dog
    pavlovs_dog Posts: 10,215 Forumite
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    old pop bottles filled with sand/water.soil etc etc can make some cheap and cheerful skittles for kids, or targets for hoop-la


    old biscuit tins double up as cake tins

    train tickets/old envelopes get re-used as bookmarks! (envelopes are particularly good as you can slot the page you've stoppped on into the envelope...guaranteed never to lose your place again!

    gift bags/pretty paper etc get recycled for other people

    bubble wrap/shredded paper/boxes/jiffy bags are kept and used as packaging for ebay-ed items

    newspaper is re-used as cat litter lining/mopping up spillages/wrapping broken glass, protecting things when doing messy work

    thats all i can think of for now :)
    know thyself
    Nid wy'n gofyn bywyd moethus...
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