Our Old Style description

juno

I think 2 or 5!

squeaky

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Good morning every one.

It was quite clear yesterday that two and four were the main favourites, each with a slight modification suggested. To save you having to skip up and down the thread I've quoted them here again.

We're a bit constrained for size (about thirty words) but with a couple of small suugested changes in two and pinching the best line from four I could combine them into what I'll call Post Twenty Four.

Originally Posted by Two
Old Style is about Lifestyle. Making best use of budgets by shopping wisely and thriftily, cooking healthy food with no E numbers, cleaning your house for pennies, growing food, and much much more.

Originally Posted by Four
Day-to-day moneysaving for everyone: shop thriftily and wisely; clean without overpriced chemicals; cook nutritious meals on a budget; grow and make things from scratch. Take control of your home!

Removing the reference to E-numbers from the second line of two we'd be left with "..eating healthily..." or "..eating healthy meals..."

Also removing from the the last line "..and much much more..."

Would leave us spave for the best line in four which would be slightly changed as suggested to "..take control of your life..."


So this combination would give us:=

Twenty_Four wrote:

Old Style is about Lifestyle. Making best use of budgets by shopping wisely and thriftily, cooking from scratch, cleaning your house for pennies, growing food, and more. Take control of your life.

What do you all think, please?

Queenie

I still think that cooking healthy meals should be "cooking from scratch" - not everyone *wants* to cook "healthy" meals

One of the things I first noticed when I began visiting this forum were the numbers of people who came under the category of either
a) I was never taught to cook or
b) never learned anthing from my own Mother, she never cooked!

I think the "from scratch" is far more pertinent (and less patronising, perhaps?) than "healthy" - besides, quite a number of the recipes in the recipe section couldn't possibly be deemed *healthy* (ie: my own HM Ice Cream's made with double cream!) but they most definately *all* fit in the definition of "from scratch"

I'm still going with Option 5 :rotfl:
Back to basics: cooking from scratch, homemade cleaners, menu planning, shopping wisdom. Make it, grow it, save, don't waste it. Pinch that penny and squeeze that pound.

squeaky

You're right. I'll mod it to cooking from scratch
Option Twenty Four IS Option Five. I just modified it a bit

tru

Option 24 aka 5 is good :T


But I really love this -

Make it, grow it, save, don't waste it. Pinch that penny and squeeze that pound.

Queenie

:rotfl: Oh Squeaky, you are a tease!

Option Twenty Four IS Option Five. I just modified it a bit

Modified? it's completely different to my Option 5! :rotfl: :rotfl:

squeaky

Actually, a bit off topic and PLEASE don't start a new discussion, but after this and a couple of other bits and pieces are sorted, MSE Martin has asked me to put together a Beginners Guide...

Any comments and good Old Style phrases won't go to waste, I promise. They'll be used within that guide.

This is just to let you know, and any further comments on that in this thread will be ruthlessly exterminated...

Signed: Ruthless Exterminator.

Murtle

i like option 5!!!! I think it sums it up perfectly.....but why be so worried about ages....not all young people may "want to get to know you"....no offence intended!!!!! I'm 28 and love this forum. I wouldn't have had time when I was younger....maybe things have changed???!!!

squeaky

It's not just about our younglings

Lets start with our WW2 tag... nobody under sixty has actually experienced world war two making do... though we've been told of it perhaps.

We don't ration ourselves these days - we try to shop wisely to a budget.

While vinegar is indeed useful stuff - it isn't the main-stay of what Old Style has become as a forum.

Everybody under thirty has had the constant temptation of instant food available to them and there'll be a good few now who have never tasted real food.

And as has been said before - if you haven't already learned these Old Style good habits at your mother's knee - late teens and early twenties is the first time many people have to learn how to budget, shop, and cook for themselves.

We older ones (like oh... twenty one and up) have a lot of experience we can share...

..and a whole lot of younger people have ready access to the web - which means access to us... if only they knew we were here

Murtle

But i've had ready access to the web for over 10years and I still say I wouldn't have had the time in my late teens early twenties!!! My mother hated sewing, hated cooking and most things domesticated...loves her garden though....but mainly for plants but I was brought up as very independent and sufficient!!! When you first leave home is when you can first learn to do things for youself when you are slightly older...you realise you don't know it all.....(not saying everyone is like that, but most people do like to learn from their own mistakes!!) My late twenties is when I have realised I don't wish to live beyond my means and have been cutting back....paying back the student loans etc!! I have cooked for myself for nearly 15years, and lived away from home for 10years, but as my requirements change so do my requests!! I think it was spendless who mentioned "promoting" this board on the debt free wanabee....I do as well as many other people. I don't think the description puts people but if it is then I still vote for number 5!!! Maybe people should be reading the student board and promoting this one....!!!!