Sneaky ways to save the pennies

redmandarin

ampersand wrote: »

I cut down a milk container for freezing something yesterday and thought the upper half would make a good funnel, with helpful handle......

Good for jam pouring etc.

Good tip!

It reminded me of something I did on the spur of the moment for a friend I was visiting a few years ago!

I'd taken her some flowers, but she didn't have a vase, so I spotted an empty 2 litre cola bottle, removed the label and carefully cut a line around the top half - and hey presto - a handy - and free - vase!

It also works with 1 litre bottles, for smaller bunches of flowers!

DdraigGoch

Excuse me, I'm not trying to be awkward but ... if anyone poured jam through the cut off milk jug funnel the plastic would melt and it could be very dangerous. Hot jam is kitchen napalm!

If you pour very hot, not even boiling, water into a milk container it collapses.

Please don't take offence, I'd just hate anyone to get hurt because I didn't say .... *worried smiley*

Lesley_Gaye

ampersand wrote: »

Evening all -
I just posted this on another Thread, but thought you may like to read it here, too:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5689628.ece

I would love to take advantage of food thrown away, but I would be just SO embarrassed to be seen doing it! If I could go in the dead of night and guarantee no-one would see me, I would go!

ampersand

DdraigGoch wrote: »

Excuse me, I'm not trying to be awkward but ... if anyone poured jam through the cut off milk jug funnel the plastic would melt and it could be very dangerous. Hot jam is kitchen napalm!

If you pour very hot, not even boiling, water into a milk container it collapses.

Please don't take offence, I'd just hate anyone to get hurt because I didn't say .... *worried smiley*

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Did it for raspberry jam today, no probs.

Patchwork_Quilt

That's funny! I didn't think anyone else was weird enough to pick up rubber bands! I also save paper clips and reuse the envelopes from birthday cards. My family have been trained to open things carefully.

DdraigGoch

so glad to have been proven wrong, Ampersand, thank you. Now I can stop fussing!

steerpike

:rolleyes: My OH and I always make a beeline for the free samples at Sainsburys cheese counter - the samples are cut with a very generous hand at ours.

I am a rubber-band-pickerupper, christmas card recycler and a veteran envelope reuser too!;)

nannaC

Hawthorn wrote: »

Ok, confession. I pick up elastic bands. I do.

The posties in this area use bright red ones......and they just drop them on the floor. So, I'm anti littering and saving cash as well. I may just have a ball for the kids in summer if I keep going too

Our lovely postie puts them through our leter box with the letters.

Edited as forgot to add I always decant the last dregs from sauce/ washing liquid bottles by turning the old one upside down on top of the new one.

Nicki

nannaC wrote: »

Our lovely postie puts them through our leter box with the letters.

So does ours, and my 7 year old DD who has severe learning difficulties once picked one up and put it round her neck :eek: :eek:

I really wish he'd dispose of them properly

nannaC

Nicki wrote: »

So does ours, and my 7 year old DD who has severe learning difficulties once picked one up and put it round her neck :eek: :eek:

I really wish he'd dispose of them properly

Oh Nicki how awful for you, that must have been truly heart stopping for you. I hope she was alright. Our village postie only puts them through as he knows we have no little ones here.