Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2019

silvasava

Rosie - back stitch the seam by hand with double thread.. It's a little difficult to describe but quite easy to do. Might be a YouTube video that would show you.
Made do today with salad from fridge and made some chicken schnitzel to go with it.
Mend. - shortened two pairs of trousers for DH that I bought in a sale, right size waist but much too long but a bargain at £7 and £9 a pair. Chopped a pair of jeggins into shorts for the garden and in the process of making a couple of seat covers for DS1 so his cats don't claw when they get up on his stools
Minimised lots of weeds from the garden.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Make Do & Minimise: Using los for soups & using food from stores & freezers
Mend: Sewed a button on a pair of DH’s trousers (only took a week :rotfl: )

silvasava

Couldn't you sleep Mrs SD??
Like you, making do with food from freezer
Minimised a tray of Bizzie Lizzie's into pots, they've been sitting on the patio for a fortnight waiting & managed to get rid of a huge pile of books given to me by a neighbour - not sure if looking round the CS after I'd delivered them was quite a good idea as I spotted a brand new in box George Foreman grill for 15 squid so it came home with me.
My mend was finishing the pile of sewing. I only made one sarong into a poncho as sewing the fabric was a PITA & decided I could manage with one!

dND

Hi everyone, :hello:


My apologies for being AWOL for so long but I'm still stuck in France :wall::( and trying to keep on top of things here.

MMM is a top priority, partially because I don't want to buy anything that I then have to transport back to the UK when I finally sell and partially because of a lack of finances. As someone who has always felt security with full cupboards, it's been a bit of a shock running down my supplies but it's also liberating


So, Make-do was to use up a large tin of French baked-beans that had been lurking at the back of a cupboard. I teamed that with a ratatouille vegetable mix that I wasn't keen on, from the freezer and a couple of sliced Toulouse sausages and have 4 meals for the freezer.

I think that covers Minimizing too but I'm still going through paperwork and either filing or shredding that, as well.


Mending. There has been so much sorting out after I had housesitters in for 4 months but with the help of the village handy-man the light fitting in the bathroom has been fixed and I'm hoping I've fixed the lawnmower by giving it a bit of TLC and an oil change yesterday

As ever, it's onwards and upwards here I hope all's well with everyone. :beer:
Deborah xx

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Make Do & Minimise: Food from fridge/freezers/larder

Mend: Darned 4 pairs of socks

MrsSD

tighteningthebelt

Hi everyone
Make do - sewed 4 little bags from net curtain offcuts... 2 for laundry bags for small things, 2 for produce bags. All have drawstrings made from saved laces that outlived their trainers.
Mend - not quite mend but I've done a few maintenence jobs... Oiling squeaky things and locks, soda crystals in drains, changed pull cord strings for switches in bathroom.
Minimise - 2 things gone from last freecycle posts, advertised something else on gumtree. I'd like to minimise this moth in my bedroom!!

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Currently on holiday in Scotland with my DH so the only minimising is to our bank accounts :rotfl:

2Scratters

Only one more payday before retirement!!

So looking forward to this early retirement.

Managed to make do end of meals and scrat together another 3 to take to work.

Mending just aint happening at the moment - now got 2 pairs of trousers needing taking up

Minimise - mmm oh yes the old cotton t shirts are now cut up into rags for the shed.

Have a good week Peeps

Siebrie

I found that I had run out of small and medium sized plastic freezer boxes, so I had a quick rummage in the freezer and I found four boxes with cake First box is now in the fridge to defrost, first piece of cake from that box will be eaten at my teabreak this afternoon

I also have a lot of sliced carrots in the freezer, from when I bought a 15kg bag for €3. Off to find some dried coriander to make carrot-coriander soup for my lunch tomorrow.

I have decorated the dining room/kitchen table with a piece of African fabric (gift from sister-in-law), a small vase (decorative pot whose lid broke last year), and a small bunch of flowers from my garden (aquilegia, love-in-a-mist, ivy, grass, sage, grain, perfume rose).

villagelife

Make do with reusing pots in the garden a d using an old compost bag to use as a liner for a hanging basket.

Mend the bolt on the gate.bolt

Minimise books, paperwork and pens amongst other things and t shirts into rags.