Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2020

misstara

Went out for tea tonight with my dad and sister so last couple of things are still in the freezer. We'll have it tomorrow night and OH will defrost the freezer while I'm at work.

Our toilet has been dodgy for the last couple of weeks, finally got round to requesting a repair on the council website so hopefully someone will be out to look at it soon.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Make Do & Minimise: Meat from freezer, last of XMas vegetables

Make Do & Minimise: Wool - made scarf for family member + used box & wrapping paper to post tomorrow

Mend: Nothing - but the pile is growing bigger

miss_empty_piggy

DOH is very fixed on the shoes he will wear. One pair at a time and they must be the same clarks shoes. He's got paint on them and they look a mess. We went to get him some more but they had none in his size, even online. He is fearful that they are stopping making them.

Before we start work today I decided to at least clean them up with some polish as he has been doing jobs in them all holidays. We got a sharpie and coloured over the big splodge of paint. They look a lot better even if they're not perfect. Plus saved nearly £100 on a new pair.

silvasava

I'd like to join again please?
I do post sporadically but I really must shift the carp in TWO bedrooms now. I've been finding it a bit overwhelming as I want to dispose of stuff responsibly and then end up not knowing what's the best way so hopefully you can give me some motivation

Not been too well over Christmas & New Year but at least its meant the freezer has been minimised somewhat

nannygladys

Make do: Having yesterdays dinner tonight as had curry the sil made yesterday.
Mend: Still nothing needs mending, but still knitting!
Minimise: Made scones from stuff I had in, because I wanted something sweetish, so that's a little room in the cupboards.
Nannyg

thriftwizard

Today's tally:

Make-do: Tonight's dinner will be beef stroganoff with the remains of yesterday's roast, some sour cream that's about to go out of date, and for the girls (both veggie) some roast butternut squash, as one of the big squashes I've been storing in the conservatory needs using up fast.

Mend: I've mended several of the Christmas decorations as I put them away - replaced strings, replaced the wire "hangers" on a couple of old glass baubles, sort of thing.

Minimise: I've condensed the 6 boxes (!) of Christmas stuff into 3 boxes (A, pre-Christmas crafty stuff, wreath bases & advent calendars, B, main decorations & lights and C, table decorations, candles etc.) and a large bag (stockings, tree bucket & skirt, wrapping stuff) before they went back into the loft. I do now have a box of surplus things to rehome, though, which might be difficult at this time of year, so they may have to "lurk" somewhere until next autumn. I've also cleared a bag of tatty old clothing that's really just rags now out of our bedroom, ready to go to the Tip.

nicki_2

I'm going to try and join in with this thread this year. Make-do and mend is a regular saying in my house.



Still a little in the post Christmas confusion here as DS doesn't go back to university until the 20th so not much happening here except for an almost constant stream of mending of dog (soft) toys and socks (mine - DS got loads of new ones for Christmas). I'm still trying to get my head around some sort of budget for this year, work commitments and a house which is up the wall from when DS decorated his room in August-October (yes it took him that long and it's still not finished properly!). My bedroom looks like a cross between a charity shop and my dads shed as everything is dumped in there



My goal for this year is to minimise what I have throughout the house and redecorate so it feels more homely so I treated myself (using vouchers I'd earned) to a book about how to work out your style of things, work with what you already have and do it on the cheap rather than all these staged/show homes you see in the media. It's due to be delivered any day and I can't wait to get stuck into it. I can usually walk into a room and see it's potential, but in my own house I can't see thing so I'm hoping it works Part of getting my room done will involve setting up a sewing area and then I can get on with proper projects instead of just hand repairs

misstara

Freezer is defrosted . OH had spaghetti bolognaise and I made a bacon, brie and cranberry parcel using the pastry. Still enough in the fridge to keep us going for a few days so will do a meal plan and go shopping on Thursday which is my day off.

Minimised a gin glass that I accidentally broke as I took it out the cupboard. I have a plain one and a fancy one, of course it was the fancy one I broke

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Make Do & Minimise: Used up all of the los from last night’s roast beef dinner apart from a very small amount of mash & a few green beans which have been bagged & frozen for use in my next hm soup.

Minimised a Christmas pudding dated March 2017 - very tasty 😋 drowned in brandy cream & brandy sauce :rotfl: after being doused in brandy & lit 🔥 :rotfl We should all sleep well tonight

Mending pile still untouched

Minimised a small bath gel.

MrsSD

silvasava

Elderly chicken thighs defrosted and some chicken stock. Found a frozen stew pack and some odds & ends of frozen veg so will bung that in the SC for tonight. There will be plenty so either another meal or blitz the remainder for soup.
Not much else being done at the mo!