Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2016

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Made do with my 'soup of the week' that I made yesterday out of odds and ends in the fridge :)loads left for during the week

Minmised some books to my Dd in exchange for the lovely bag she brought me home from her NYC trip.

Mended, some socks I found down the back of the sofa I think one of my DGS had forgotten them when staying over and a couple had holes in the toes so they have been darned. Thanks to my late mum I am a pretty good darner of socks and its almost invisible mending :):)

vulpix

Black socks.

When we were a full house,moi,Mr V,Master V and the Misses V we all had a french knot of a different colour sewn on the cuff of each black sock.Those colours then applied to toothbrushes and towels.Made life easier.

Vx

Ches

vulpix wrote: »

Black socks.

When we were a full house,moi,Mr V,Master V and the Misses V we all had a french knot of a different colour sewn on the cuff of each black sock.Those colours then applied to toothbrushes and towels.Made life easier.

Vx

I did the same but my DD throws them all into a big basket and everyone forages.

zaxdog

Make-Do: lunch today was the free Indian food Mr Zaxdog gets on a Saturday night as a perk of his delivery job. Pakora last night at 11.30pm and curry & rice for lunch :rotfl:

Mend: top of the old varnished coffee table was all scratched and covered in rings so sanded it down and cleaned with white spirit and painted with leftover green "tea" chalk paint from up-cycling chest of drawers. Left the dark brown legs and it looks very funky :T

Minimise: Mr Z cleared out the dreaded cupboard under the sink and minimised my stash of rags and sponges that was getting out of control.

HOWMUCH

Evening all fellow MMMer's, I've had a relaxing weekend just some knitting all the food was precooked. We had posh meat and potato pie and mushy peas Friday and Saturday and tonight some of the batch chilli with rice and jacket potato. I now have 6 portions of chilli in the freeze for a later date and 4 portions of long grain rice. The weather has been dreadful rain and wind so I've not ventured out and about. I'm off over to DD tomorrow as its future SIL's birthday on Tuesday and she wants me to help with his baking for work treats. We will be having evening meal over at their on Tuesday and my contribution will be a raspberry trifle. x

nicki_2

I've minimised DD's fringe today. That's saved me about £10 and I used a hairdressing scissors set I bought for 99p years ago. :money:

I sent DD to the c0-0p today for the stuff for her lunch for tomorrow and milk to minimise my stress levels as I just couldn't face doing a proper shop. I was shocked that the milk cost £1.45! Its only 89p in A$da :eek: I told her from now on its A1di or A$da only unless they're shut now (and our local A$da is a 24 hour store ) as I'm not willing to pay that out again. I'm booking a delivery for Tuesday so I can get bulky/heavy things delivered (like 24 cans of dog food, which works out cheaper as well) and I can pick up the odd items which are cheaper elsewhere tomorrow while running errands.

Make-do and mend haven't happened, but I've added a job onto my frog list. I have a mop with pull on/velcro covers but they won't stay on the mop head so I'm going to adapt them after I've next washed them. My steam mop broke today (and it went straight in the bin :j) so I'm going to try and stick with this other one rather than buy a new one...at least until I have paid off my Ar90s card and buy the next lot of decor items (new blinds and some needed storage furniture for the kitchen) when I'll add one on. That way I can spread the cost over 6 months and not add to my credit card debt.

misstara

Morning everyone, hope you have all had a good weekend No MMMing done over the weekend for me as was working most of it. My boots got muddy walking home from work last night so I left the mud to dry overnight, I will brush it off and give them a good polish at some point today. Tea tonight is going to be the duck breasts from the freezer plus whatever veg I can find in the fridge. My plan for this evening is to attack a bookcase that is overloaded with goodness knows what (not books anyway!) and see if I can minimise some of it.

beautiful_ravens

Have won a broken printer on ebay for 99p, am collecting it today from the next village. Why you ask?
I didn't actually need a printer, I needed a scanner, and its only the paper feed thats not working. A new scanner is at least £20, usually more, so I feel Ive made do here

Minimised a lot of bits of A4 paper & school work that my DD had sorted, turned any blank bits into pieces of note paper to use again, and will burn the rest.

MrsCD

This morning I have sewn tape onto some teatowels so I can hang them up.
DH and DD have taken rubbish from the garden to the tip.
I've taken some chicken breasts from the freezer for dinner and we still have plenty veg left as parents took us out for Sunday dinner.
Feeling a bit grotty with a tight dry throat and cough, caught from DH, so I'm going to take it easy for a day or two. Promise not to pass it on to anyone.;)

mrssnowy_2

Hi all
I have been lurking and taken several days to read through all the posts,so please may I join?
Lots of life changes for me,DH died nearly 2 years ago after a lot of illness.I retired last November after 30 years in same nursing post(!),very unsettling as I am no longer responsible and have 'lapsed registration',so can't call myself a nurse anymore.
So of course my income has reduced.Although I have had pensions for a while,they all went straight into savings and paid off the mortgage.Been good practice for retirement.
In the past few months I have done a lot of minimising,the hall and kitchen have been redecorated and new flooring laid,so a lot of tat and paperwork has gone and cookery books and bits to CS.
Makedo,bought a secondhand/antique bookcase and 'found' paper and bamboo lampshade in a cupboard for the hall which looks really peaceful.Also washed the 'dryclean only' 6 foot roman blind in the kitchen-looks lovely.
Mend will be a patchwork door curtain,this is a WIP. Plus was at DD last week and did her pile of mending,unfortunately she has arthritis and can't hold a needle.Mind she can't sew for toffee either!!
I have always been thrifty, eeking things out,love CS for clothes to relove.But I am learning new tricks from all your posts.
Thankyou
mrssnowy