Double Duty

sb44

We thought we were doing my parents a favour by giving them a nice microwave when we upgraded.

They used it as a flippin' bread bin!

:rolleyes:

sophiesmum_2

shetitasatic wrote: »

I found a good use this week for hanging basket brackets! Ours are at the back, on the house wall in full sun, so I hung my 'small, round plastic multi peg drier-thingy' on them with socks and underwear - I've actually got a couple which we use camping. I used a bit of string to make them easier to hang up. The washing got the full sun and reflected heat from the wall, and as we've got several brackets I could move the driers around so they were always in the sun. When I took them in they went straight into the airing cupboard.
Another bonus was that as it was cold when I put the washing out, I hung the drier from a kitchen wall cupboard handle and pegged out all those fiddly small things in the nice warm kitchen!

We have a lot of hanging baskets in use in the summer, during winter they are taken down and we use the brackets to hang fat balls for the birds, nets of bird nuts and other seed feeders. The birds don't need it in summer when there is enough food about for them but the brackets are great in winter and high enough up to be away from cats:D

Bongedone

sb44 wrote: »

We thought we were doing my parents a favour by giving them a nice microwave when we upgraded.

They used it as a flippin' bread bin!

:rolleyes:

Good one

juno

Blairweech wrote: »

Can anyone think of another use for a bread bin other than storing bread? It is the hoizontal flip-front kind.

Also, what about the little plastic canisters that spices come in?

My bread bin currently contains:

Chinese takeaway leaflets
Bus timetables
Plastic sandwich bags
Those clips you put round bags in the freezer so you don't pea on the floor
Plastic drinking straws
A necklace
A bag of nuts

exlibris

Those clips you put round bags in the freezer so you don't pea on the floor

How does this work. I have a vision of you with very cold bags soaking up the liquid lol

savingmore

thanks for this site, just spent the last hour reading all the posts...do alot of these things but many are new, so will try them out......and will try and come up with some original ones, i am sure i think of at least one......:j

savingmore

got one...though not a very good one!
we live in an old flat and have sash cord windows. well one is broken so we use an old wooden spoon to prop the window open with....works really well!
i guess that counts.

mrs-moneypenny

i use a tea strainer when im dusting cakes with icing sugar and only want to use a little bit.

squeaky

Me too. And for small quanitities of other things such as cocoa when baking

carriebradshaw

I have one of those round mini trampolines and although it's foldable to make it smaller for storage it's quite tough to do,but it's exactly the same size as my dog's donut bed so when not in use it is now stored underneath his bed so it takes up no extra room and my dog has now got a bouncy sprung mattress which he loves and his bed is off the floor away from any draughts too