Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2018

Wraithlady

Make Do: the dusty remains of my breakfast granola went into home-made flapjacks, lunch pitta's courtesy of the freezer

Mend: Summer maxi dress inherited from my mum now knee-length so I can stride purposefully in it and not feel I've been hobbled (spare material now a tie-belt for said dress and a soon-to-be headband backed with some spare denim)

Minimise: Slowly, slowly minimising the fabric stash. Found a nice dusky pink sari I'd forgotten I'd bought - been looking for some bordered fabric for a blouse, so this will save me £20-£30 on fabric.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Make Do: Food in stores

Mend: My new oven gloves which I managed to burn a hole in - now darned but only after I burnt a finger :eek:

Minimise: A broken ice cube tray & lots of water as it is hot, hot, hot:rotfl:

kdalwayskint

Can I make do, mend & minimise this?

I wanted some shorts but haven't been able to find any, so I've made some! I haven't got a pattern for shorts, so I used a pattern for dungarees and adapted it, used fabric from my stash so minimised that!

zebedy

Sounds like a great result! Well done

silvasava

DH has a gippy tummy so on bread and water - he is improving though so -

I've minimised the last 6 pringles and an almond slice!

I mended a rollock on my dinghy - the cord had rotted so I replaced it

I made do with leftovers for my tea and minimise them as well!

[Deleted User]

Making do with what stuff I have in the fridge to use up before my holidays

Minimising some boucle wool to the CS as it was donated to me by my neighbour plus a few paperbacks

Mended ,stitched up an old towel cut into squares and hemmed as cleaning cloths ,far too far gone to use to dry with ,but recycled into cleaning cloths :):)

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Make Do: Food from stores, freezer etc

Mend: Two pairs of knickers :rotfl:

Minimise: Food & drink packaging, broken garden pots, empty gravel & sand sacks (from making shed base)

house_elf

Good afternoon,

A bit of MMM for the next two weeks, before I go back to work.......

Make do: Made washing Gloop using up some mini soaps from hols and fortified it with the end of a bottle of shampoo nobody likes.

Mend: Adjusted the waist of a tiered skirt so it actually fits me.

Minimise : Bag of stuff to CS, and did not buy anything else!

Hopeless_Case

Make do: Was one of a few people who hopefully changed the mind of a lady on a local Facebook group, who had come on to complain about people who don't pick up their dogs' poo, and was saying she had to throw her child's new shoes away just because she had got poo on them :eek:!
I was horrified, people have been stepping in poo since, well, long before shoes were invented, and it is disgusting, but this relatively new throw-away attitude is far worse in my mind (I said it much more nicely than that and pointed out that she could save money and stop her daughter being so upset about losing her new shoes, by doing the admittedly unpleasant job of cleaning them! )

Mend: I sewed up my jeans which were ripping along the seam - hopefully it'll hold!

house_elf

Afternoon!

Make do: I have altered a maxi dress into a skirt. The top never looked right, but I think it will be a useful skirt.

Mend: while the sewing machine was out, I have repaired the seam on a pinafore. :j

Minimise: Listing some things on EBay and starting a new charity bag.

Feels like a more productive day today