Money Saving gone TOO far?

thunderchild

Primrose wrote: »

Is there anybody else like me who seems to be constitutionally incapable of throwing out broken/damaged items and is still limping along with them trying to squeeze out a little more use?

Anybody care to add to my list?
- a badly split plastic colander which is still being used to drain vegetables
- a large cracked hand mirror used to blow dry my hair
- a pair of split garden Cloggies mended with Duct tape which have split
open again but still being used
- several pairs of holey knickers which wouldn't bear inspection if I was
run over by a bus.

Am I tight or just frugal? If the economy were better I might feel more comfortable about replacing things but while items still have some use left in them I feel badly about committing them to the landfill site.

Sounds like me, especially the knickers!!! :rotfl:

Greenqueen_2

Anything which comes from our bodies (hair, toe/finger nails,dry skin flakes,scabs,snot balls,etc) can be composted.......well you did ask for disgusting.....

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I can remember being told by my old Mum to follow the milkmans horse down the road to pick up any 'leftovers' dropped by the evil-wall-eyed animal.His name was Jimmy(the horse that is, not the milkman)and he was a bad tempered beast that had taken a dislike to me, and would seem to 'hold on' as long as he could, and then turn his head and curl its lips in disgust at this small skinny kid with a big bucket and a small spade waiting for his 'left-overs'.
I wouldn't mind but it was given carrots to help it 'go'.Damned thing always tried to eat my hand,dress,pigtails in fact anything it could sink its great yellow teeth into I used to have nightmares about it:eek:
My brothers always seemed to get out of the job and there is nothing like carting a big bucket of horse dung on a hot summers day up the hill back to ones garden to put one right off of horses for life.:D:DGiven to option I would happily have turned the 'orrible animal into a pot of glue :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Ches

Jackie - love this story.

Saw a young couple standing at the bus stop the other day when their baby threw his dummy on the path. Dad picked it up, looked at it and handed it to Mum who sucked it and gave it back to baby. Guess we all have our no go areas.

Primrose

JackieO - your chore of collecting hourse dung may have been marginally worse that the wartime childhood chore my brother and I always use to fight over to avoid - the walk down a nearby passage to empty the Pig Bin slops. In hot weather you could smell the pig bin from 100 yards away. And all those vile bluebottle flies which used to congregate around it !!!

patchwork_cat

ralloctiger wrote: »

hey had to post
I just remembered somthing that DD1 and I did, she was soooooo embarrased. lol. Walking the dog on the beach and I saw horse poo a great big pile, I got very excited and used my T'S bag ( luckily didn't have sanwich bags cos they really wouldn't do!!!!!) picked it up and brought it home. Put the said horse poo in a bucket of water and left it for a few days , now we have free veg and plant feed. I take three cups of the horse poo water and dilute in a watering can and hey presto. Toms are looking very perky just recently.
Not sure if I would have had the nerve to walk into the road and pick it up but mabey next time and only if I have supermarket bag with me cos opaque is def best!!:rotfl:
xx

We used to live on the route to the beach that the local racing stables ( Red Rum's stables, I think )used and people (not us) regularly went out with teh shovel after the horses. Some of our neighbours had lovely roses!!!

mg2008

OP - I would never throw away spuds unless they've gone soft... Fine for weeks in the fridge.

lauren_1

I have 1 pair of jeans left that fit me, currently on day 4 of wearing them, does that count?

After they have been washed and shrunk a bit again i think it time to bust out the [STRIKE]Maternity[/STRIKE] clown jeans.

Purpleclutterbuck

I just love this thread -so many people just as resourceful as me!
I'm always thinking of new ways to use up stuff and in the loo dept well.... -if it's yellow let it mellow if it's br**n :eek: flush it down- with a quick squirt of half vinegar and water to keep nasties at bay!
Leftovers are considered the best part of meal and they are divided between hubby's lunch,the dog and veg goes to the chickens!
Both my last two dogs lived to a good age of 17
I use a lolly stick to twistup the hair in the bath plughole - yukky but strangely satisfying! When I cleanse my face I use the turned over cotton wool to wipe away whatever else needs a clean ie sink or loo and then throw it away
Tea bags are always reused and clothes are only washed when whiffy and I always carry a couple of carrier bags just in case a horse passes by - or whatever else I come across -I mean fruit that's growing not roadkill ....I draw the line at that :rotfl:
Suppose that any who knows me has now disowned me -can't blame them really but I'm a nice person really

charlies-aunt

oh dear - I am a minger! and happily totally without shame. I do just about everything on this thread...as a horse owner, I am have no qualms about picking the poo up (without gloves) - horses are vegetarians so their poo is relatively inoffensive compared with dogs and cats It amuses me that Homebase sell bags of horse poo for about a £5. . . .come to my field and you can have as much as you can cart away 'though not on your back seat!!

After a shoot, if I'm lucky enough to be given a brace of pheasants or a rabbit - its no problem for me to pluck/skin/gut them ready for the pot - we eat the best bits and the rest goes in the cats and dog.

Yucky?? well being up to your elbows in blood and guts isn't a good look but if you saw what went to prepacked convenience food and the conditions in which it is prepared, you'd probably wouldn't want to eat it either.