Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2016

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Nursemaggie Lidl had 10kg for £10 something when I was in today.

iamsalt

Evening.
Welcome new visitors to the thread, do stay a while and enjoy. I have learnt so much from it.
Congratulations to lynplatinum on your new home. I hope you have many happy and joyful years there.
Busy weekend ahead. It's the village show and I have splashed out to enter 10 classes, not sure my berries in the garden will be ready to put in, but I have made scotch eggs, minted pea mousse and weighed out the chocolate cake mix ready to bake in the morning.
Will see what I can get done around that.
S X

HOWMUCH

Good luck imasalt in the village show, do let YS know how you get on. x

milasavesmoney

Made do with last nights leftovers into tonight's dinner with a few additions.

Minimized a sm glass bowl and a 3 liter bottle of Coca Cola to a friend.

I hate to mend!

Bleeboop

Have been retired since 2013 because it was either walk out or go nuts. I only have the measly state pension so my husband's meagre wages have to be like elastic. I have been looking for lots of cheap recipes and filling foods. But everything seems to be stodgy and OH is trying to lose weight.

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Bleeboop wrote: »

Have been retired since 2013 because it was either walk out or go nuts. I only have the measly state pension so my husband's meagre wages have to be like elastic. I have been looking for lots of cheap recipes and filling foods. But everything seems to be stodgy and OH is trying to lose weight.

Have sent you a PM into your inbox
JackieO xx

iamsalt

Woohoo, two firsts and three thirds in the show, and a misunderstood roulade which OH loves anyway.
Firsts for my scotch eggs and bread rolls, I made them as clover leaf rolls and got amazing feedback.
Thirds were for my minted pea mousse, a flower arrAngement, and a beautiful African violet I grow, it's got frosted petals so sparkles!

I had a trip to the library a couple of villages away, to collect a book I had reserved, they were selling off books so I got 3 cookery books I had been after for a while for 20p each, not minimising really.
Made do with food from the show and what was in stores for tea this evening
Mended nothing today but plans afoot for tomorrow- the lead has slipped on a roof join so that needs putting back up, and OH bought me some eyelets for straining wires to grow a clematis on (which is out of control ) so I hope that it will be tamed somewhat!
S x

milasavesmoney

JackieO wrote: »

Have sent you a PM into your inbox
JackieO xx

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:T You're the best Jackie!!

silvasava

Iamsalt - Wisteria are beautiful thugs! They need pruning twice a year. I do mine at the end of the summer and in the early spring and give it a good feed with tomato fertiliser in the spring too so it gets lots of flowers.

iamsalt

Phew, been rather drizzly here so far today so I have popped into town for cat food (I forgot it on Friday) and poor Martha and Pebbles will be cross if I hadn't. I combined it with minimising OH for the night to his sister's for babysitting duties. As he is away I have been through my clothes à la Kondo and removed a sack for the charity shop and a sack for rags. There are a few things I have Kept as I was wavering about them, but I think I will have another look through in a couple of months when OH is away golfing. It's definitely easier without him here to be shocked at the chaos of the process.
Sun is coming out now so I will take some pics of the coffee table I won at the fete last weekend and send them to the maker, he is local and it's a new business so helps to have more photos.

I don't seem to have done the other jobs I meant to but I am pleased with the decrease in clothes.
S x