Sneaky ways to save the pennies

geordie_joe

Frugalista wrote: »

I just use the plastic tops of the milk containers - cut a cross in the top with a sharp knife and just push the top of the socks (or toe, whichever you prefer) through the cross.

Keeps them together in the washing machine (and tumble drier, if you use one) - cheap as chips, and uses up all those plastic tops you can't recycle . OH says I have too much time on my hands LOL!!

Genius! What a brilliant idea :T

All I need is a tub full of milk bottle tops next to the washing basket, use one when I take my socks off and that's it!

Last time I was this exited about milk bottle tops I was 6 years old and making a Dalek

Sami_Bee

Frugalista wrote: »

I just use the plastic tops of the milk containers - cut a cross in the top with a sharp knife and just push the top of the socks (or toe, whichever you prefer) through the cross.

Keeps them together in the washing machine (and tumble drier, if you use one) - cheap as chips, and uses up all those plastic tops you can't recycle . OH says I have too much time on my hands LOL!!

ooh my mum used to have something similar that she bought from betterware/kleeneze but ur idea is obviously much more MSE
I recycle my milk bottle lids tho (coz I don't care if my OH's sox match :rotfl:and I'm a SAHM so don't need plain black sox anymore;))

EDIT - ah ha these are what my mum tried nd failed to get us to use http://laundry.applied.org.uk/Sock_Sorters.htm

EagerLearner

Hi everyone,

I have been experimenting with making homemade beauty products and learnt a bit in these past few months. I've now made a beauty oil that retails for up to £30 in the stores... for £0.30p! So pleased that I posted it on my blog if you're interested:
http://savingsnow.blogspot.com/

I also made hubby a similar moisturiser to the Aesop one he had (a Camelia nut one which had cost loads originally) and this time it cost pennies. Why oh why hadn't I discovered this ages ago... he loves it and plus as it's home made he finds it interesting and values it more than the shop bought one anyway as it only has 5 ingredients so much more natural!

Love the milk bottle top idea for socks! x

Frugalista

Sami_Bee wrote: »

I recycle my milk bottle lids tho (coz I don't care if my OH's sox match :rotfl:and I'm a SAHM so don't need plain black sox anymore;))

Can I ask where you recycle them as I've always been under the impression that they shouldn't be put in the plastics recycling? (Hence the urban legend about collecting them for some hospice or something - and my quest to actually find something useful to do with them :cool:)

EagerLearner

They can be recycled, it's just a question of if you are near someone that collects...
http://www.reducereuserecycle.co.uk/where_can_I_recycle/plastic_milk_bottle_tops.php

Gunna

EagerLearner wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I have been experimenting with making homemade beauty products and learnt a bit in these past few months. I've now made a beauty oil that retails for up to £30 in the stores... for £0.30p! So pleased that I posted it on my blog if you're interested:
http://savingsnow.blogspot.com/

I also made hubby a similar moisturiser to the Aesop one he had (a Camelia nut one which had cost loads originally) and this time it cost pennies. Why oh why hadn't I discovered this ages ago... he loves it and plus as it's home made he finds it interesting and values it more than the shop bought one anyway as it only has 5 ingredients so much more natural!

Love the milk bottle top idea for socks! x

Oh the oil sounds great am off to have a nosy now 30p sounds more my kinda beauty product lol

geordie_joe

Frugalista wrote: »

Can I ask where you recycle them as I've always been under the impression that they shouldn't be put in the plastics recycling?

My council won't allow me to recycle anything, so I'm no expert. But as i walk around other parts of town I have noticed everyone leaves the tops on the milk bottle when the put them out for recycling.

I'm planning on pinching some next time it's recycling day.

Trinny

Evening all!

As you can tell from my details i am an almost total newbie to MSE. Tonight was one of my first major sneaky MS triumphs. My OH is particularly aware of the idea of "using up leftovers" and has previously noticed " something funny" about my earlier attempts at " roast dinner soup".

On Saturday evening MrT had bags of 8 courgettes for 70p in the yellow label section. My OH "does not like" courgettes!

As he works late on a Tuesday night - tonight i made sneaky soup using

2 small new potatos
2 Courgettes - grated
1 large onion fried slowly in a little butter
1L chicken stock
(and a bag of frozen mixed veges - left over from the last months Sunday roast - bagged together)

By the time he got home it was all pureed up - and was looking a fetching green colour - due to the frozen cabbage and peas in the left over vege bag and due to the courgettes.

On tasting - he remarked that it needed a little more pepper - and is currently sitting down to his large bowl of (sneaky - although he thinks its leek and potato flavour) soup.:silenced:

I have managed to read the entire thread here - and while i dont like to be dishonest - we cant afford to be fussy about what we eat.

Seems like my OH will eat and enjoy much more than he thinks he can.

Take care and thanks all for the hints and tips

Trin

Sami_Bee

Frugalista wrote: »

Can I ask where you recycle them as I've always been under the impression that they shouldn't be put in the plastics recycling? (Hence the urban legend about collecting them for some hospice or something - and my quest to actually find something useful to do with them :cool:)

they can go in my brown bin that the council collect :T

PS I recent;y enjoyed much success with sneaking a grated parsnip in my spag bol

sandy2_2

Don't know if this a sneaky way to save money, but here goes. I had an old bracelet that I no longer wore, added a small length of old chain from a broken necklace to make it longer and so converted it to an ankle chain