Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2017

calleyw

Floss wrote: »

Calley was it fresh, then frozen? If so it should be fine.

Frozen when I bought it.

I might defrost and see what happens

Yours

Calley X

MMF007

Fridge bottom veg being made into HM curry for tea , making do without popping to shops.

Minimising waste - put surplus gifts into present stash for re-gifting. Good quality things that I shall not use, such as chocolates (low carbing, have lost 2.5 stones 2 to go:(), hand cream that is too scenty for me, and some slipper socks that I have no use for.

Recycling sorted.

DH's multipack of crisps unpacked and stored in a little basket, outside wrapper binned so packets fit neatly in cupboard and don't jump out when we open the cupboard door. So minimising the space needed to store these sinful goodies and my stress at having to wrangle them back into cupboard :rotfl:

Thanks Disflop, great idea of topping up reed diffusers with essential oils, will do that:T

Athome1

Am thorougly enjoying reading all the posts .. I've had a thorough clean now the xmas decs have gone back in the loft and I haven't been spending money and that's about all I've got to add to this thread .. thank goodness the rest of you aren't so boring!

Treasurequeen

Evening everyone, I was on last years thread but stopped posting when I moved home. Now everything is settled down I will be regularly posting. I moved into my own flat I was living with my parents before. on 30th November I got a massive food shop, which filled the freezer, fridge and store cupboard. i have only bought milk and bread from then and now and am using up what i have left. i had some goats cheese and onion left over from another meal so topped my basic pizza with them and some oregano. Used some salad and celery up and will have the other half of the pizza with salad for lunch tomorrow. Mended nothing apart from doing some cross stitch. I have minimised some paperwork and crafting supplies.

Hope everyone is well.

117pauline

Lovely to see everyone MMM-ing already.

Like many others I am making a concerted effort to empty the freezers. I have played freezer tetris and putting like with like but I bet once my back is turned, they will mix themselves up again.

So this week I have only bought fresh fruit and I have had 3NSDs which is good.

Also I have been cupboard wrangling. Why have I got 3 packs of 240 teabags? I am determined to reduce my stash this year.

Make Do - pork from the depths of the freezer for tea

Mend - hem on a pair of trousers repaired

Minimise - removed all the excess toiletries from the shower and I am now focusing on emptying one at a time. Also making an effort to use body lotion etc instead of it decorating a cupboard.

Perhaps those of us on this thread could become olympic experts in freezer tetris and cupboard wrangling

MMF007

Minimised photos on tablet, ditched 285 this afto. There are probably more that can go, although I don't take lots, except on hols
Also deleted quite a few txts and emails, and unsubscribed from a mailing list that sent stuff every day, grrr.
Feels good.

Forgot to mention earlier, I was looking for a 'birthday present list' book when I was in town because I often buy presents well in advance and then ,er, forget I have them and duplicate.

Inspiration struck and I bought smallish diary for a pound, wrote all birthdays in it and added the 2 presents I already have against the relevant people's birthdays.

I shall also make a note against their birthday entry when I have made their cards, as I sometimes make a few at a time, when I am in the mood, and put them away until needed, but all are made with the specific person in mind.

The purpose made birthday books are a lot more than one pound so I made do and minimised spending.

PinkFlamingo30

Hi folks, We made it to 2017, congrats!
Welcome new people. I see we have made 6 pages, much easier tocatch up on than the 73 there were when i joined in last year.
I am currently in a depressed funk so not able to do much, other than forced work for school (teacher) meds or no, but it will pass and I will mmm more this year.
I got xmas card bits dec 2015 and made xmas cards, but i only gave them out this year. I gave them to crafting buddies and bless them they have all said they were lovely, so I might do that again this year. It is a small thing but something I can complete in a sitting.

Still on xmas left overs so this weeks shop was small. Used nectar points over xmas saving about £90 total.
Signed up for topcashback and shared info with ma for her to use and me to manage. All cashback will go for our holiday or next xmas or on house stuff for fairness.

Aiming for year of big changes, so will be here when i can.

Onwards and Upwards!
Love to all

nannygladys

Hi everyone

Making - well made my own meals from cupboards and freezer.

Mending - did have some socks to mend but washed them yesterday and the one to mend must have got caught up with something because it came out in nearly two halves!! So definitely not worth mending.

Make do - made do with dried milk until I can go to the shops tomorrow.

Nannyg

villagelife

More minimizing going on. Cleared out a drawer in the kitchen and everything either thrown away or moved to more appropriate places. It means that I can move things from over full drawers.

Made do with the mushrooms in the fridge which were just about usable.

Mended a drawer that was sticking.

thriftwizard

Minimising a bit more of my fabric stash today; I have some glorious thick tapestry-style fabric to use up, and the curtains in our bedroom are looking very shabby (not in a good way) now, and although lined, they're not much good at cutting down the light. I'm also making new nets for all our windows, having scooped up almost the last of !kea's £1-per-metre netting when I took DS3 back to uni this week. That's not exactly making do, but there comes a point where the odd selection of nets that I have been making do with for the last 10 years need to be retired to garden-netting use! Hopefully we'll cheat the blackbird of a few of our redcurrants this summer...

I also have an old jumper that I'm going to tackle with my overlocker. It's quite big (was bought for £1 from a charity shop sale rail for OH, who just shook his head at it) and in a Fair-Isle pattern, so I'm going to try to chop the arms off to make myself some leg-warmers - back to the 80s! - and make the body into a vaguely-fitted tank-top. Even if it works - which it might not, I'm winging it - I'll probably never wear them outside the house & garden, but if it saves me putting the heating on during the day, it's worth looking a bit daft.