Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2017

MMF007

Made do with leftover sausages for lunch.
'Mended' a client's blocked drain (I am a home help).
Minimised our recycling pile by taking it to the local household waste centre as we will miss the next kerbside collection due to impending hols and we had lots of cardboard to go!
Also minimised client's waste from xmas flowers that had gone over by picking out the pretty fake berries and sticking them in the poinsettia pot ( they look lovely but it may confuse visitors!), and using the still-fresh stalks of a pretty white shrub as stakes for the curving hyacinths

lynzpower

Im joining in if I may I have been not very moneysaving recently, so new year new leaf I really want to make it work again

really pleased with my minimising so far- took lovely HM sandwiches from the stores to work, and for tea i had a curry i made in the slow cooker with my parents left over Xmas potatoes and cauliflower, a old bit of spinach in the back of the freezer, and some other bits, it was delicious ( good as I have another 10 portions at least frozen) YS bread out of freezer with HM veg soup and some other bits for tomorrows lunch , sorted Up till recently I was spending over 20 a day eating out when working away from home :eek:

I seem to have more time on my hands and enjoying cooking again, tomorrow im finishing off the last of the veg with a stirfry and braised red cabbage chinese style

In terms of mending I have a jacket i bought about 10 years ago I need to sew buttons on - I need to do this ASAP ! the jacket is lovely as well but I just struggle to thread the needle and lose hope and patience. ?

I have finally got my recycling out for collection for various reasons its been getting stored a while so happy with that the OH took my paper to his house as hes going to make firelighters in his greenhouse with it again

I am minimising by not buying, I have put so many things back so far this year already in shops ( day 4!) it is really eye opening how much i would have " just bought". Twice today !

So far so good as groceries this year so far is just 4.48. I am excited to see how long I can go without buying groceries and excess food in general

Thank you for your contribution have a great day

misstara

Evening everyone, I'm absolutely full of the cold so a very quick post and then off to bed for me. Not much to report from today. Had sausage rolls out of the freezer (HM which I made just before christmas) and the leftover garlic bread for tea, christmas cake for pudding again.

Did a variety of household chores - hoovering, washing and ironing which frees up my morning tomorrow. I'm on a late shift so I'm planning a long lie and a very lazy morning. As I'm on the late shift, I'll get fed at work which stretches out my food supplies a bit longer

Teejay

Not really got going on this one, as Ive been concentration on No clutter to be seen 2017. But manages a to get going today.

Mend - measures undersink cupboard for a shelf- will buy one and plastic hangers tomorrow.

Make do - decided not to buy small sandwich bags anymore. Will make do with nappy sack that I buy for the dog insteed of poop sacks !!! A plastic bag is a plastic bag - And they cost 39p for 300 lol

Minimse - decanted two bottle of glass cleaner into one

Wow ....Go Me !!!

Newbie_Ginnings

Not much mending, making do or minimalising for me today, apart from minimising some of my hard earned cash in Sainsbury's. I only popped in for dog food, and came out 50 squid lighter :eek: to be fair, some of it was for work and will be paid back to me, and about £15 on doggy bits for the month.

But then I wandered round the homeware sale section. Where the lovely scented candles are on half price....

The spendy angel on one shoulder shouted louder than the frugal angel on the other :rotfl: x

pandamonium

Not much minimising here either. Made do with topping up car screen wash with the bottled water I was supposed to be drinking whilst out. I think that's making do, but not in a good way .

villagelife

I will try and post daily as I need to!!

Make do with food in fridge and freezer and making do without bread as I don't want to go to supermarket.
Minimised Christmas decorations as I took them down as some have seen better days.
Mended- DH changed a light bulb but not touched my growing pile of mending perhaps later today.

Athome1

Ooh Pippo .. the fried veg and cornbeef sounds lovely .. definately going to try that one. My artificial xmas died when I was dismantling it (the stand finally gave way) but I got a seven foot replacement in homebase for £5. All the decs are back in the loft and a good clean through done. Like most folk am living off leftovers and stores. Very cold this morning .. so going to squash some boxes ready to take to the tip along with the defunct xmas tree, to keep warm. X

mrs-moneypenny

Morning mmmers.

Made a veggie lasagne for last nights tea using stuff we had in.
Minimising a bag of no longer used toys by taking them to the after school club with me tonight.
Plan to done some more cross stitch today and read a few pages of a book I'm on but that moe of a pleasure than a chore, it will eventually minimise from my reading and crafting stash so end result will be good.

Siebrie

I made a resolution (sorry for the nasty word) to get more creative this year, and have started off making a paint-by-numbers painting of two horses. It was a jokey gift from my parents to dh two or three years ago and has been in the attic ever since. So, it's making-do and minimising all in one It'll be binned the moment I've finished; it's not particularly nice, and I'm not particularly good at painting :rotfl: