Great Tips... one liners

katholicos

Make our laundry detergent and handsoap. Saves us a lot of money.

mark55man

building_with_lego wrote: »

Enter your hourly rate and time to go here, and work out how much you'll get paid to poop! :rotfl:

Not bad £500 a year (shame that pails into insignificance against the unpaid overtime)

Fizzbitz

Guess mine will be only filling the kettle with as much water as is needed, using hot water bottles and leaving the oven door open after cooking as it really makes a difference in my tiny place.

Having a candle on or the oil burner lit also takes the chill off the air. I'm also a huge fan of fleece throws to wrap up in.

WantToBeSE

katholicos wrote: »

Make our laundry detergent and handsoap. Saves us a lot of money.

Do you have the 'recipe' for this please?

I only ever use half of the recommended dosage of things like that, i think their recommended dosage is ridiculous!

BitterAndTwisted

There's a whole thread about making your own laundry soap entitled "Laundry Gloop". I'll see if I can find it and provide a link later.

I made about a year's supply for around two quid.

Popperwell

Teacake, had a tidy round...the candles were purchased in Morrisons...the Tealights in ASDA were approx £3 for 100...

missrlr

Only have hot drinks at work, charge all phones and iPad at work, have a hot meal at least once a week courtesy of work as a staff meeting, pluck my own eye brows rather than a wax at a shop job, showers only, steam veg not boil, recycle water into gravy or stock for soups or casserole, meal plan, batch cook, water meter, solar panels and use things like washing machine only in day, storage space creation and filling it with dry goods, stock piling stuff when cheap, shop around as much as possible for everything, use cash back sites and credit cards every time I can, I can't think I have ever bought any clothes at full price and these only get thrown away if they are past being used as oil rags. I have even used these as if starts before now post final use. fleecy throws on beds, sofa, fleeces on me to keep warm. Farmers markets for all things veg and direct from the farm if I can for sacks of spuds, turnips and swede.

I really want ground source heating but this house simply does not lend itself to that.

pinkypig

Some brilliant ideas on here

I never buy bin liners as I use free supermarket carrier bags.

Also, when hob or oven have been on for cooking i fill pans or casserole dishes with cold water and put them back on the hob or in the oven and by the time you have eaten the water is warm enough to wash up.

We also use the nets you get on oranges and onions as scourers.

We also reuse all old clothes. Most recent use was stuffing a draught excluder with fabric strips from old clothes :money:

Loopylou1

• One lightbulb on per person rule
• Charge my phone at work when possible
• Carrier bags for bin bags
• Check quidco and topcashback before buying anything
• Freeze my bread in slices of two
• switch my hob and oven off towards the end of cooking time
• walk to work via the shops that have Quidco check-in rewards

JEEC

I posted on another thread about OH helping himself to some of the left over roast beef that I wanted to use for sandwiches for my lunch on Monday, meaning I could only have 1 instead of the 2 I wanted. Well, I got the electric knife back out and sliced the remaining slices in half making them half the width but doubling the number of slices, so now I've been able to make my 2 sandwiches afterall