Money Saving gone TOO far?

floss2

jackieb wrote: »

My mum still uses my son's old muslin nappies to make clootie dumplings. They were never used as nappies, just for general cloths.

Our muslins became pudding cloths or bramble jelly cloths.....and one of the ones I had for my DS's is around next year's Christmas pudding in the back of our pantry!

Justamum

floss2 wrote: »

Our muslins became pudding cloths or bramble jelly cloths.....and one of the ones I had for my DS's is around next year's Christmas pudding in the back of our pantry!

You've made your Christmas pudding already? You are organised.

deeds

caela wrote: »

If you buy tomatoes on the vine they will last for ages, I had some in my fridge for a month probably and they were good as new. I have eaten some pretty dodge stuff in my time, but my dad is the funniest. He kept out of date soda to use as cleaning fluid. Now that's thrifty!
As for cereals or porridge that is a bit on the suspect side, I will put it out on the lawn for the birds / animals. Otherwise, most things (fish, cheese, milk, meat) go through the 'if the cat eats it I will' test. Basically, if my cat sniffs it without running a mile, with his excellent sense of smell, I should think it would be fine lol (but don't feed it to your cat if it's gone off!)

ha ha, I test stuff on my cat too, but more often than not I assume she's being parky and if it tastes ok to me, I just go for it.

You can't be wet about these things. If it smells ok and tastes ok, then its fine.
Ive used 2 months out of date mozzarella and its been perfectly fine. You can tell pretty quickly if its not.

I certainly don't take notice of any labels. They're guidelines, not rules. Luckily my O/H thinks the same as me, thinking about it he's probably a lot worse, lol.
Bless him, he's not even 30 yet, I dread to think what he'll be like when he's old.

Penelope_Penguin

mathsus wrote: »

OMG! I've just cleaned the floor with one of our old terry nappies - and my youngest is 25! How [strike]penny pinching[/strike]/ old style is that! What do you use/ recycle like that?

I used the nappies that my mother used on me and my sisters, on my own children

I'll add this to the exisitng thread on MS taken to extremes

Penny. x

blueberrypie

Justamum wrote: »

As for terry nappies, they obviously don't make them like they used to! I used my terries on my first two children, then they went on to being used as hand towels, but they had worn completely thin before my youngest was born 4 years ago.

It depends on which ones you get. I have some that weren't so hot after two children, but I have others that I bought for my second child, which are still being used now on my sixth. I just wish I'd had the wit to start with cloth nappies with the first child instead of wasting all that money on disposables!

Andybez38

Having just had a water meter fitted (only me in house). Is it a good money saving idea to use the bath water for toilet flushing garden etc? Or would you think its a step too far and just being tight.

What have you done recently to save them last few pennies, what others may concider a bit over the top. More ideas greatly recieved.

Bongedone

I don't think I could be ar*** to transfer the water to the cistern. If it was automatic then I would. This is more for green reasons than saving a £1 a year.

If I had a garden I would try and do the same into one of those water butts.




"I turned to the wife the other night and said, "I'm going down the pub, get your coat love."
"That's nice, you gonna buy me a drink?" she asked.
"No, I'm turning the heating off!"

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

If you are comfortable doing this then I say go for it. I have done lots of things to save money that others have told me is just being tight but now I have nearly paid off my mortgage and they are moaning because they have no money and come out with snide comments because we don't owe much. Its whatever suits you.

I am reading 'Serpico' at the moment and his mum used to walk 2 miles to save a nickel on the bus, no saving was too small.

Not only are you saving money but being environmentally friendly so I applaude you

dazzle21

I think it's a great idea to use the bath water to water the garden. However my sister's husband has taken this a step to far in my opinion, they share bath water (get in one after the other - nothing romantic!) then water the garden with same water, after using the loo you can't run the tap to wash your hands you must use the water already in the sink..which i suspect is same bath water (changed daily..eurghhhhh!) I've actually stopped visiting as he gets very stressed if you forget and accidentally turn on a tap..

absolutebounder

dazzle21 wrote: »

I think it's a great idea to use the bath water to water the garden. ..

Depends on your shampoo. One of the field scientists at Reading Ministry of agriculture discovered that the active ingredient of Head and shoulders over time was quite a good herbicide