Great Tips... one liners

Brooktop

Put some bicarbonate of soda in the fridge to absorb odours...and when it's losing its effectiveness, mix it with some white vinegar to make a great scouring powder.

clockworkpurple

If you home dye your hair regularly and hate using those huge gloves they give away free, buy some latex (or latex-free) gloves from ebay, which can be re-used a couple of times. Then use the rubbishy free ones when cleaning the toilet!

The_Thrilla

1. Get up early and do the ironing, turn the oven on, turn the hot water on, make the tea, coffee, cocoa, and put them in flasks while economy seven is on.

2. Fill the fridge and the freezer any way you can, even if it only with empty tupperware boxes. Open the fridge and freezer doors as seldom as possible.

3. Admit it. Do you really use the clocks on the cooker, the microwave oven, the VCR to tell the time? When these appliances are not in use, turn them off at the mains.

4. Save on shampoo; shave your head.

darkblue_2

Branded tuna is tuna. Cheap store-brand tuna is tuna. Remember to get chunks, not flakes, which are only edible to kittens. (YUCK!)

Vinegar is your friend of many uses. Buy large white vinegar bottles and clean the washing machine with it on an empty high-temp run.

Sponge in the microwave covered in vinegar softens stubborn stains and gets rid of pesky smells.

Asda's Bayside rolling tobacco is as cheap as Golden Virginia is abroad.

Decant. Decant. Decant. Cheap store-brand cereals (taste test them all, you'll find one you like) replace it with the branded and decant it - the kids will never know the difference. Works with coffee, tea, biscuits, etc. Who's to know?!

exlibris

The_Thrilla wrote: »

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4. Save on shampoo; shave your head.

Glad to see you take your own advice IF that is your portrait!

Datchet

This is an old one! Hand-wash can be up to £1.75 if branded. Refills £1.00. "Value" ones at £0.50? & lets not forget the waste of the non refillable containers;

Re-fill yourself! use "value" Bubble-bath from any supermarket - £0.15p - to £0.60p gets you a huge bubble-bath bottle - decant & refill using a funnel ! its just as good , I reckon 1/12th the price.:T

maman

Datchet wrote: »

This is an old one! Hand-wash can be up to £1.75 if branded. Refills £1.00. "Value" ones at £0.50? & lets not forget the waste of the non refillable containers;

Re-fill yourself! use "value" Bubble-bath from any supermarket - £0.15p - to £0.60p gets you a huge bubble-bath bottle - decant & refill using a funnel ! its just as good , I reckon 1/12th the price.:T

The 29p sport shower gel in Lidl's is excellent for this.

suseb_99

Thats exactly what I do, I decant the "basics" one into a nice M&S container!!
I was just wondering though, If I were to add some anti-bacterial liquid(cleaner) in would that make it and anti-bacterial soap??
Thanks
Suse

smeeinnit

Sainsburys basics shower gel is only 10p a bottle and has a very nice apple smell - I use this one all the time. The Tescos value shower gel is horrid and looks and smells like toilet cleaner to me bleurgh

Vedder2008

I like to use an anti-bacterial hand wash in the bathroom, but if I find I have run out then I add a few drops of tea tree oil give it a wiggle and away you go. :):)