If someone snuck into your house right now...what OS things would they spot?

katieowl_2

It occured to me last night, that lots of the things we do we sort of 'all' do...like buying YS stuff and value brands and stretching chickens! But is there any little OS thing that you are doing right now that someone else might say 'oh I hadn't thought of that!' ?Here's two of mine to start you off

I'm using a bottle of 'good oil' to take my make up off. Ridiculously expensive stuff, that in my defence I spotted Mr T had mispriced :rotfl: but it goes rancid really quickly and I couldn't bear to throw it away so it went into the bathroom!

I've got two cream fleeces doubled up and thrown down the back of my bedroom curtain rails...to the untrained eye from outside it looks like a cream curtain lining fabric - but it's keeping the warm in!!!

Kate

catznine

Well this has got me thinking! Some of the things that my friends and family give me strange looks for are:-

Washing and re-using plastic food bags (unless used for meat)

tubs of left overs in the fridge all ready for reusing

Freezer soup fairy

thermos flask by the kettle to save the hot water for next time

frozen breadcrumbs (use these a lot for baked fish/veg toppings)

hm frozen grated cheese

re use gift bags and gift wrap if good enough

recycle old clothes/bedding into patchwork (still new to this but keen)

make granny squares from oddments of leftover yarn (made 2 throws already)

Save the string from the veg box deliveries for use in the garden

Save all decent jam jars for preserves or storage pots

I had a thrifty Mum who married just after the war (rationing) so my sister and I cannot imagine living any other way. It is a cluttered way to live though!

simplet

haha, don't you mean the things I would run around sorting out if I suddenly found out I had company coming?

take the scarf off my head that I am currently using to keep warm instead of turning up the heat, turn up the heat, pick up assorted laundry that is drying over the curtain rods, remove from the kitchen counter the supplies used to make liquid laundry detergent that I have not sorted into smaller useable containers yet-the grated soap looks like cheddar cheese so that would surely raise some questions, remove the overripe onions that are sprouting on my windowsill-that I use to cut the fresh green tops as they sprout from them. I think that is enough for now!

VJsmum

Fleece blankets thrown over the backs of sofas for use while watching TV
my knitting
Value baby bath when there are no babies in the house (for soap dispensers)
Yes, olive oil in the bathroom
Bread machine

blossomhill_2

If someone snuck into my house right now...what OS things would they spot?
Me pointing a loaded blunderbuss at them!

Butterfly_Brain

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Me too after the break in at our house just before Christmas

moggins

Blankets in the living room, bubble wrap taped to the back of the front door.

honeythewitch

I have homemade spreadable butter in the fridge.
It isnt always cheaper, but it is sometimes difficult to get the unsalted version so i put a packet of butter (Lidl unsalted is good and only £1) and a splash of oil into the food processor for a few seconds. :cool:
When Cream is reduced to twenty pence or so, i make the butter too.

kettlenic

My second hand freeview box (all the other have sky etc!!)
random things in the deepfreeze - ripe bananas, pink icing, frozen corriander in ice cubes, YS wraps....
lots of homemade jam and chutney
cut up cereal boxes in my drawer for shopping lists...

cant think what else

mi_jardin

I suppose the most obvious things would be the number of blankets in the lounge, and the cheap Ik*a fleeces pinned to every pair of curtains in the house, and the poorly made curtains on the front door!

In the kitchen I don't think you'd notice anything unless the airer was up with washing on, and you looked in the cupboards and saw all the basic tins. There would be the bread machine and the slow cooker on the side.

boultdj

Me waiting with a copper bottomed frying pan!

But also the door curtain,fleece blanket's in the room,knitting, flask next to the kettle, hot water bottle's.