Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2016

Minihauk

Well the repair man has been - fridge freezer cannot be repaired. He is going to report it and hopefully they will replace with the same one. Not sure how long I'll have to wait though.

FunBrum

I have been making do with a few leftover Pringles today. Not exactly healthy but I'm going g for a meal this evening and want to make sure I'm hungry!;)
The meal is for my friends birthday, so I'm treating him using a £20 gift card I have for the restaurant, plus there is a 20% off the bill, so shouldn't have to pay anything. My sister will be waiting on us and refuses a tip, plus she has just informed me that the birthday boy gets a free dessert! Bargain!:beer:

When I get home after, I'm going to be mending two works polo shirts for a friend. They are never long enough so I lengthen them using a third shirt!..:D

I will also be minimising my electricity by listening to my wind up radio, instead of watching tv!:rotfl:

savingpennies

Trying to repair my under bed drawer didn't quite work out. I've managed to repair the base but the drawer front won't stay put as the holes in the drawer base have got bigger so the wooden dowels keep coming out. Tried super glue but no luck. So now all my jumpers/cardigans on lying on the floor in the corner:(

4 cheese Pizza for tea using up some of the left over cheese from Christmas.

angela110660

Just wanted to mention re books to be cleared out. I used We Buy Books website after it was recommended by someone else on another thread. You register, then type or scan in bar codes of your books and it says if they want the book or not and if so, the price they will offer you. If you accept their offers you print off their postage label, box it up and send it off for free. I got nearly £17 for my books which I was very happy about and it was very easy to sort out.

nicki_2

angela110660 wrote: »

Just wanted to mention re books to be cleared out. I used We Buy Books website after it was recommended by someone else on another thread. You register, then type or scan in bar codes of your books and it says if they want the book or not and if so, the price they will offer you. If you accept their offers you print off their postage label, box it up and send it off for free. I got nearly £17 for my books which I was very happy about and it was very easy to sort out.

Thanks for this info. I have quite a big pile of books to leave but I hate selling them online myself. I might try this website and see if I can get rid of any that way as every penny counts!

mrs-moneypenny

I've used ziffit in the past for selling books same principle so it might be worth comparing what they are both offering to see where the best deal is. With ziffit you can choose to get a cheque sent to you, via PayPal or be paid direct into your bank -if you are happy to give them your details. They pay the postage you just have to box up print off the label and take it to your nearest collection point.
Hth

angela110660

I received my payment via Paypal but could have chosen other ways for payment too. Thanks for the heads up re Ziffit.

iamsalt

Evening all.

My screen free night was successful. I didn't get the seeds sorted out, but I did have a relaxing bath and took time to nurture myself.

Making do - made a chickpea, and bendy fridge bottom veg stew with smoked paprika for supper, well it had been cooked earlier in the week but reheated tonight. Enough for tomorrow night before rehearsals.
Mending - nothing done but spotted oh's jumper needs a seam stitched
Minimise - rather like others here I have sorted through the Christmas decorations as I was putting them away. I am rehoming some unused tealight holders to a friends daughter who is getting married, and other broken bits to the bin. This means that we are now down to a boxful and the wreath for the door in a bag, they will go back into the loft tomorrow. Need to get on with some sewing of costumes so speeding off now.

Tomorrow is likely to be a longish work day, although it is at home so minimising travel.
Lovely to read what people are doing Sorry for not name checking.

GreyQueen

savingpennies wrote: »

Trying to repair my under bed drawer didn't quite work out. I've managed to repair the base but the drawer front won't stay put as the holes in the drawer base have got bigger so the wooden dowels keep coming out. Tried super glue but no luck. So now all my jumpers/cardigans on lying on the floor in the corner:(

4 cheese Pizza for tea using up some of the left over cheese from Christmas.

Hi.

To mend drawers (underbed or otherwise) you need to borrow the use of something called sash clamps. These are like vises but with a stretcher between them made of either wood or metal so they can go around big things. You use wood glue on the parts to be stuck and then cinch the drawer up tight with the sash clamps and leave to dry for a day or so.

I've had my chest of drawers mended like this several years ago and Mum also mended a set of underbed drawers for another rellie. They'll stay stuck with this technique but superglue won't work, and the compression supplied by the sash clamps is the trick. HTH.

mary_hinge

beautiful_ravens wrote: »

We got an awkward gift from MIL that I dont know what to do with. Its a print of a vintage arial-view photo of our village [very interesting picture, to be sure] but out house isn't in it because we live just out of the main village. So its sort of...OK. Its not framed, and I cant hang many pictures here because on most walls they go mouldy [damp house] and MIL comes round every week and I dont know what to actually DO with it!

do you have a dining table or coffee table? could you lay the print out then top with perspex/glass sheet?