Proper old-fashioned saving the pennies

vanoonoo

I keep spare loo rolls and cotton wool in the airing cupboard cos the heat makes them puff up therefore you take less to use each time.

16011996

Always buy fruit & veg loose and preferably from the market.

Darn holes in socks.

Serve yorkshire pudding with onion gravy as a starter before a Sunday roast - you will fill up on the starter and would need need as much food for the main course.

i always darn socks. kids hate ited it till i did it with bright colours (providing its hidden by shoes.) some of there friends are quite envious.

Spendless

i always darn socks. kids hate ited it till i did it with bright colours (providing its hidden by shoes.) some of there friends are quite envious.

Actually don't do it myself :-[It's my gran who does and my son is really impressed that she can do it.

Spendless

I keep spare loo rolls and cotton wool in the airing cupboard cos the heat makes them puff up therefore you take less to use each time.

Also heard that leaving bars of soap in airing cupboard makes them last longer - don't know if it's true tho

16011996

Also heard that leaving bars of soap in airing cupboard makes them last longer - don't know if it's true tho

i always thought it was freezing them. but i could be wrong. :-/ not sure now. will think and post back.

vanoonoo

Also heard that leaving bars of soap in airing cupboard makes them last longer - don't know if it's true tho

I was just htinking that meself - and it makes the airing cupboard smell nice

16011996

i always thought it was freezing them. but i could be wrong.  :-/ not sure now. will think and post back.

yep, freezing it works too apparently, accoring to my book of hints and wrinkles.

trafalgar_2

yep, freezing it works too apparently, accoring to my book of hints and wrinkles.

I get the freezing it but I think putting it in the airing cupboard might make it smell nice in there but would dry the soap out .....a lot :-/

Hints and wrinkles hey...........your much too young for wrinkles

trafalgar_2

hardens to become long lasting"

Read ,dried and cracked ...................eeeeuuuugggghhhh

wouldn't want it to last ;D

although I suppose that only happens if you use it once then leave it :-/

Caterina

The Tightwad Guru, Amy Daczwhatever has published an article about this thing of drying the soap in the cupboard and has discovered, by trial and error, that the soap does NOT last longer!

But, if it scents one's undies, why not!

Another PREPOSTEROUS BUT TRUE tip fpr the use of a bar of soap, which I read in a herbalist's website, is:

If you have restless legs (twitchy legs that you have to move at all costs in the evening when in bed), put a bar of soap in the bed and it should help.

Don't ask me why, I have done it and it helped - it must be the placebo effect! Here is the link (anwyay the whole site is a great source of info so worth exploring!)

http://www.menopause-metamorphosis.com/An_Article-restless_legs.htm

Caterina