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Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2021
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Brilliant. Anyone know where I can get plastic straws, everywhere sells paper ones now.MrsCD said:5 -
Hi mandy47, i have sent you a pm.6
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I'm going to ask some friends with kids!mandy47 said:
Brilliant. Anyone know where I can get plastic straws, everywhere sells paper ones now.MrsCD said:Live the good life where you have been planted.
Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2022 - 15 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2023 - 6 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2024 - oops! My Frugal, Thrifty Moneysaving Diary7 -
Does it have to be a plastic straw? Could you use something else folded over to sew on?2025 Fashion on the ration
150g sock yarn = 3 coupons
Lined trousers = 6 coupons ...total 9/66 used
2 t-shirts = 8 coupons
Trousers = 6 coupons ... total 23/66
2 cardigans = 10 coupons
Sandals = 5 coupons ... total 38/66
Nightie = 6 coupons
Sandals = 5 coupons ... total 49/666 -
Probably. I've just finished a packet of biscuits and put the rather thick hard plastic bit from the end of the packet aside to try that! Saying that, I don't know when I'll get around to doing it so it might he a while till I can report back.MrsCD said:Does it have to be a plastic straw? Could you use something else folded over to sew on?Live the good life where you have been planted.
Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2022 - 15 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2023 - 6 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2024 - oops! My Frugal, Thrifty Moneysaving Diary6 -
In mending news, I refixed my glasses again last night. About 2 years ago my dog chewed them and the bits that go behind your ears were left chewed and the ends had come off leaving metal spikes. I had some Sugru moldable glue so I molded that over both arms and they were usable again. Queue two years later the Sugru fix had broken off both arms, so I opened my last packet of black Sugru and molded it on to them again.
I know you are supposed to get new glasses every two years, but I can see fine out of mine and I don't wear them all the time, so I am quite happy to make them last as long as possible. The good thing about the Sugru being black and on the ears is that its completely unnoticeable when you are wearing them, so I don't feel tatty or ridiculous.Live the good life where you have been planted.
Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2022 - 15 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2023 - 6 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2024 - oops! My Frugal, Thrifty Moneysaving Diary8 -
Well done!2025 Fashion on the ration
150g sock yarn = 3 coupons
Lined trousers = 6 coupons ...total 9/66 used
2 t-shirts = 8 coupons
Trousers = 6 coupons ... total 23/66
2 cardigans = 10 coupons
Sandals = 5 coupons ... total 38/66
Nightie = 6 coupons
Sandals = 5 coupons ... total 49/665 -
A friend gfted me a couple of plastic straws.
I'll store them in my sewing box so I don't accidentally throw them out or loose track of them.
Thank you to the wonderful kind formites who have offered to send me some. Such kindness is greatly appreciatiated.8 -
Make Do: Food from stores, fridge & freezer
Mend: New batteries in telephone hand sets
Minimise: Broken F*tb*tBe Kind. Stay Safe. Break the Chain. Save Lives. ⭐️2025 Savings Pot Challenge: As a monthly amount, running total = £299.00
Jan £5.00 Feb £12.74 Mch £23.26 Apr £32 May £43 Jun £50 July £62 Aug £71 Sep Oct Nov Dec Grand Total £5 -
Mended: about 13 socks
Make do: the 1-week worth of clothes we set aside for the 2-week renovation, which is overrunning by 2 weeks now. I'm very careful with my work outfit, and only wear it to my mornings at work. I change into my old shorts and T-shirt the moment I get home.Minimise: dds' schoolwork is in the paper recycling.Are you wombling, too, in '22? € 58,96 = £ 52.09Wombling in Restrictive Times (2021) € 2.138,82 = £ 1,813.15Wombabeluba 2020! € 453,22 = £ 403.842019's wi-wa-wombles € 2.244,20 = £ 1,909.46Wombling to wealth 2018 € 972,97 = £ 879.54Still a womble 2017 #25 € 7.116,68 = £ 6,309.50Wombling Free 2016 #2 € 3.484,31 = £ 3,104.599
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