Money Saving gone TOO far?

CupOfChai

Cloth hankies are unhygienic, if you don't wash them...

tessie_bear wrote: »

i dont like taking the chicken off a carcass when cooked...im fine with slicing the meat off but grappling with it turns my stomach...weve been eating less chicken lately

This reminded me of something from when I was little - my gran would sometimes give me the carcass of a chicken she had roasted and I'd sit there picking all the scrappy little bits of chicken off it and eating them! I loved it!

Half the things people are posting here are normal to me and things I thought everyone did, like scraping mould off cheese. I don't put leftovers from my plate in for dinner the next day, but that's because I take them out beforehand and put them away in their tub separately, because if it's on my plate I'll eat it! I would also eat family and friends leftovers from their plates, but not bother to scrape them all together and heat it up, and not any bits that had been half-eaten. I WOULD do that, but DON'T do it, because scoffing people's left food while clearing up after you have all had dinner makes Chai a porky girl

The only vile thing (vile to others that is) I can think of is when I used to drink massive amounts of green tea at work, about 5-6 mugs a day, I used to just leave the teabag in the mug and then top it up with hot water again for another cup. It got progressively weaker as the day went on but if I used a fresh bag for each cup I'd have been buying a whole box of teabags for every week!

OrkneyStar

Lady_Tara wrote: »

In my defence there isn't any drool as kids are pre-teens - does that make it any better?!

I'd still not overfill their plates tbh, but if they eat more some days than others it is difficult to know how much to give lol!

Emuchops

Like others we wear our clothes until theyre dirty. When did it become necessary for office workers to put clean clothes on every day? (about 1984 methinks...) In order not to be labelled as "dirty" I will wear one jumper one day, then hang it up for a few days, then wear again, then hang it up for a few days etc etc...

Also when we have made eaten a dinner we put the pans/plates down for the dogs (4) to have "lickings". Filthy I know but we are both still alive and well and the dogs seem ok too...

Finally -never flush the toilet unless its a number 2 or its starting to smell, or we have visitors...

Finally finally-do we really need a bath or shower every day?

Penelope_Penguin

I've almost had a fight with my office cleaner as she tried to wrest my lunchbox containing my banana skin to wash it. She's branded me a "minger" for taking home my organic waste to compost rather than it go to landfill :rotfl:

I don't bathe daily I wear clothes for more than one day DH believes that if you don;t wash your face, you produce a natural sunscreen and moisturiser - we are both considered to be far more youthful-looking that our years

OrkneyStar

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I don't bathe daily I wear clothes for more than one day DH believes that if you don;t wash your face, you produce a natural sunscreen and moisturiser - we are both considered to be far more youthful-looking that our years

I shower when I need to, so it might be daily if am smelling lol, other times it's not (same with DS/DS). I wear some clothes for more than one day too....I take them off and leave overnight (as smell sometimes develops from sweat etc)...I do change underwear and t-shirts etc every day but jumpers, jeans etc can last a lot longer! DS clothes are washed more often as they tend to have some sort of food on them by the end of the day!

dandy-candy

What's this strange phobia about pulling the hair of your hairbrush? I enjoy doing it! My slightly revolting OS thing is probably when I use one of my crochet hooks to fish all the hair out of the bath plughole (gloveless too!), sometimes the lump is so big it's a real struggle to yank it through the gap and it both looks and smells like a dead rat, but having the bath empty faster the next time I use it is really satisfying!!

patchwork_cat

No if food has been on a plate and not eaten it goes in the microwave for that person later on and in the dog after that (within reason). I don't mix food that has been on a plate together and serve it back. If it hasn't been served that is leftovers.

Rowan9

pollyanna24 wrote: »

Blimey, I didn't realise this was disgusting. We buy the cheapest small sandwich bags from Wilkos and use these for poopbags. Never occurred to me to use anything else!

I buy Sains cheapie nappy sacks for poop scoop. Or whatever supermarket. I think you get 100 for less than 30p.
Loving this thread
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hex2

ralloctiger wrote: »

So what do you do to clean your hair brush?? I have put contents of hoover in my compost before but not aal the time.
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Now that is a good idea, but mine is full of pet hair so not sure how that would work. The black bin gets emptier every fortnight....:D

katholicos

I 'm so glad that lots of you don;' think my composting hair from hairbrushes is wierd. I never thought it was wierd...but i did think that some people might think it is and i was right. LOL!

I wash daily, but i don't bathe daily. We don;t have a shower fitted, much to my annoyance, so we have to fill (half fill) a bath to bathe and i just don't agree with using all that water to bathe daily. Also because i don't want to have to pay to heat the water every day. Besides, we don't get that grimey.

Clothes: i wear them and if they are still clean/don't whiff at the end of the day, they get hung back in the wardrobe to be worn again.

If there are leftovers on our plates, the dog gets them. I often just put the plate down on the floor for her...they all get washed shortly afterwards. My dog is 11 years old and we're all ok.

My dog sleeps on my bed. She needs her mummy's cuddles. Some people might think that is disgusting. She starts off in her dog bed which is next to mine, but she always ends up getting in with me.

I pull the hair from the plug hole and as another poster said, it has to be done and if it isn;t done the water won't drain from the bath efficiently. I try not to look too closely at what i pull out though. Bleurgh!

I never take my dog to the groomers. I bath her myself and trim her fur.

When my children were young i used to feed them bits of food that i would break up for them between my teeth...sometimes my children wanted to take my food from my mouth so they could have some...poor deprived kids LOL! Now they are teenagers (nearly 15 and 19) i remind them of this and it grosses them out!