Great Tips... one liners

-taff

There's a place near me with an honesty box, same thing, cheaper than a supermarket.

zippychick

ive merged this with our one liners thread

Zip

rhysowen9

Quick tip to save money on ear hygiene.

Quote, my doctor: "Why would you put a cotton bud in your ear!?! just wash them on the outside!?" (in a really posh british accent)

gayleygoo

Brilliant ideas on this thread!

Some other tips that may be useful:

• If milk is starting to turn a bit sour, add a small pinch of bicarbonate of soda and shake. It should make it drinkable again. This apparently works too for milk that has been overheated and tastes burnt.
• Sour milk is excellent for making pancakes, scones, soda bread and other baking uses.
• If you are short one egg in a recipe that also uses a rising agent (e.g. baking powder), substitute it with a tbsp of vinegar, and it should work without anyone being able to tell the difference.
• Keep garlic fresh by peeling several bulbs' worth, and storing in a jar topped up with olive or sunflower oil. A babyfood jar works well for a couple of bulbs, and the oil will be nicely garlic flavoured for cooking.
• Keep grapes fresh by putting the stalk in a jar of water (if the stalk is long enough!)
• a rough seashell placed in the kettle is supposed to collect the limescale, rather than the heating element.
• Store onions in old laddered tights, hanging from a hook, to keep them fresh.
• use a slice of bread to pick up shards of glass.
• Nick the edges of gammon to stop them from curling during cooking.
• freeze leftover double cream (but not single or whipping cream)
• Shrivelled lemon? Place in a bowl of boiling water and it should plump up again.
• store soap, unwrapped, in your hotpress or a drawer so it becomes harder, and will last longer once used. It will make your clothes/sheets smell nice too

vl2588

Would be interested if anyone has tried the seashell in the kettle?

[Deleted User]

My DGS likes marmite toast and gets really cross if they have run out as he's the only one who eats the stuff. I bung it in the microwave for a few seconds to melt it down and lie it on its side as well its amazing how much more you can scrape out this way.at least a few more slices of toastsworth :)

I can't abide the stuff myself it looks too much like the Virol we used to have to eat at school in the early 1950s.There would be a line of children in alfabetical order from A -Z lined up and teacher would walk down the line with one spoonful for each child.Same spoon, and not washed out in between, so if you were next to someone with a drippy cold, chances were you would get it as well !!!
I was lucky that my surname began with a 'B' and only had one other child before me.Very unhygenic, and why our teacher only had one spoon per class I have no idea.But in those days there were 42 children in each class and only 4 classes in the whole school aged 5-11.
I guess after the war there was a shortage of teachers returning. I know all of our teachers were quite ancient and one was around 70 odd.
Only a village school but I liked my time there apart from the revolting Virol, and the cod liver oil capsules that were also handed out to all children.I only made the mistake of biting into one once .Everything tasted disgusting for the rest of the day,even the milk tasted of cod liver oil that we had at break.
It put me off of fresh milk for the rest of my life.This was over 60 years ago and I can still remember the taste :):)

gayleygoo

vl2588 wrote: »

Would be interested if anyone has tried the seashell in the kettle?

I was at the beach yesterday, and collected a few seashells to try it out. I may need to de-scale the kettle first so I can tell whether it works or not!

Berni888

vl2588 wrote: »

Would be interested if anyone has tried the seashell in the kettle?

Hi, I use this method and still going strong years later (same shells) but saying that my kettle is not in daily use as we tend to drink more at work than at home (very MSE)

Enjoy your weekend, may you be blessed with a cool breeze

niftythrifty33

I'm usually an observer on this board but I do a diary on mortgage free board. I have done a frugal tip of the day on there as I've always loved reading other peoples tip's. So I thought I'd put it on here just incase it helps anyone. Feel free to add your own, but I wondered whether it could just be kept to frugal tips and not long chats (like I usually write ) to make it easier for people to read quickly...

This is my favourite at the moment...

When kids/teens/adult men!! put clothes in wash, go through them to see what's actually dirty. Fold and put away all clean clothes. If it's a bit of mud, wipe it off with a damp cloth (especially school trousers). If I didn't do this for every wash, I'd have double the washing.

Happy frugalness everyone

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Morning all, my frugal tip for the day is to buy a little block of beeswax from a beekeeper/honey seller (usually they have them in farmers markets) and keep it in your shoe cleaning box for waxing shoe laces and trainer laces with, it stops the laces from slipping and coming undone as you're walking along and makes the laces last much longer before they frey and break.