Five OS Pleasures in your day today

pigpen

• knowing my children have a lovely healthy home made pack up.
• my warm snuggly home knitted sweater
• laundry off the line
• warm cakes from the oven
• bread baking

daleigha

hi all!! :hello:

mine are:
1. washing my laundry with soapnuts, essential oil and soda crystals
2. drying my laundry on clothes horses - no TD use for me!!
3. just finished eating HM veggie soup for lunch
4. Making HM potato & chickpea curry for dinner
5. cleaning my whole kitchen at the weekend using soda crystals (i love them!!)

daleigha xx

Beccah_3

mine are:
1. Staring at my gorgeously shiney sink and draining board after cleaning them with Vinegar and soda crystals.
2. Burying my face into the basket of freshly washed clothes that smell delcious after adding some essential oils to the wash.
3. My newly organised kitchen cupboards...thank you fly-lady thread for the kick up the bum!!!!!!
4. My sparkly windows after cleaning them with stardrops and a micro-fibre cloth.
5. The unbelivably delicious apricot pavlova that I made this morning......and that I can't seem to stop eating,

newlywed

Today mine are:
-hm butternut squash and parsnip soup
-hm apple and blackberry crumble (free apples and free blackberries so tastes even better!!!)
-knowing I have lots more apples and blackberries in the freezer so can make it again
-planning my next batch of soup for lunches... (butterbean or parsnip I think )
-knowing that a year ago, the donated free blackberries would have gone off before I did anything with them (these went straight in the freezer) and that the apples would have sat on the side till they were gone but these too were peeled chopped and used or frozen

RosyRed

Ooh I like this thread.My OS pleasures today are:-
The smell of my bread baking
The smell of the brisket that is in the slow cooker
Anticipating the bread and butter pudding I've just put in the oven(made from the last 3 slices of hm spicy fruit loaf and some Aldi tropical dried fruit mix)
Taking the dog out this morning
Visiting a neighbour who has just come out of hospital and doing an errand for her.

OrkneyStar

I like this thread.
1. The smell of ginger cake/pudding cooking.
2. Packing away in to the freezer some of the aforementioned cake and some HM fruit crumble- for another day I have less energy and NEED a pudding!
3. The fresh smell of DS real nappies drying on the airer.
4. Realising how much money I save buying things second hand (yet still having a new outfit or two!).
5. Taking DS to park and watching a smile bigger than any electronic toy could give him!
x

Cinny91

Mine are:

Making bread on my own for the first time.
Smell of banana bread cooking.
Passing on OS tips to my mum to save money.
Starting to bake a cake then putting the book away because I know the recipe by heart.
Talking to my Grandma about OS cooking, and getting most of her phrases.

thriftlady_2

1)Picking some rose hips, michaelmas daisies and sedum from my garden and putting them in a jug on the mantelpiece -DS1 says it looks very autumnal.

2)Collecting a few more raspberries -might have enough for a small batch of jam, or I might try raspberry brandy for Christmas.

3)3 more tubs of chicken stock to add to my stock glacier in the freezer.

4) 30 rolls and 4 loaves stashed in the freezer.

5) My new parcel from Amazon! Yes it's another book recommendation from me:rolleyes: I really recommend this one and it is so appropriate to this thread. Ask your library to get it for you if you aren't a spendthriftlady like me;) The Wonderful Weekend Book : Reclaiming Life's Simple Pleasures. Ideas from the book that I'm going to think about putting into action are; keeping a gratitude journal, taking more photos, starting an anthology, making a proper recipe book of all our favourite recipes and having a nature table (or a nature tray at least).

frugalswan

What a lovely thread

1) Kicking through piles of red and gold leaves on my way to the station tonight, with the sunlight slanting low over the rooftops to bathe everything prettily. (Yes, I'm feeling poetic)

2) Looking through the yellow stickered items in Mr M's at lunchtime and not buying anything I didn't need.

3) Having a nice catch up conversation with my Mum.

4) Knitting the scarf my niece asked for as a Christmas present, as she liked the one I gave her so much last year and it's too small now.

5) Talking about baking and thrifty ways at work, and finding the office offering all kinds of helpful suggestions.

balmaiden

1. Picking turnips and courgettes from the garden for 3 small Grandchildren to take to their school harvest festival.

2. chicken and mushroom pie for tea 3rd meal from our organic Sunday chick. So worth paying the extra for organic when you know about rubber chicken.

3. chicken stock simmering in the slow cooker.

4. Another one who had a forage crumble ( blackberry and apple ) for tea.

5 Sitting warm and snug wrapped in my fleece blanket Husband by my side no heating on yet in this house.

Bliss..........