Sneaky ways to save the pennies

blueberrypie

fayjmck wrote: »

If you can carefully repot them and then just treat them like normal plants - they always die cos they are all squished in their like little soldiers!

Goodluck and pm me if you need any plant help!

Thanks, I will give your suggestion a go - and I will very likely PM you! My thumbs are not so much green as black (funeral black LOL)

JadeLD

There are so many great ideas here - thanks guys.

I have lots of tiny tupperware box things which seal really well. For lunches I buy those big tins of fruit and big pots of yoghurt and divide them up into the little pots, sometime just fruit or just yoghurt or a mixture of the two. I can buy value versions as they look the same in the tubs

I also add cooked lentils - the greeny grey ones to anything with mince, Bolognase, Chilli, etc as this bulks it out a lot and lentils are really cheap! When they are cooked they look the same colour as the meat and blend in really well especially if there is a sauce like with Bolognase or Chilli.

rosemary54

did any one watch Kirstie's homemade home?Good ideas ,looking in skips(all ours have are rubble!)markets etc.......BUT rather spolit by the double size mega expensive Aga in her kitchen!!!!!!!

Pippilongstocking

rosemary54 wrote: »

did any one watch Kirstie's homemade home?Good ideas ,looking in skips(all ours have are rubble!)markets etc.......BUT rather spolit by the double size mega expensive Aga in her kitchen!!!!!!!

She probably got it in a skip

I do like her.

rosemary54

fayjmck wrote: »

She probably got it in a skip

I do like her.

mmmmm....yes i like her a lot too ,just wish I knew where there were skips with gleaming Agas in(not that that 1 would even fit in my kitchen!

think it;s very interesting how TV and mags are putting out ideas we considerd just "normal" life back in the 60s!...........giving age away!

Patchwork_Quilt

Last month, someone gave a Rayburn away on our local Freecycle. Does that count? But think of all the fuel you'd use up.

rosemary54

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

Last month, someone gave a Rayburn away on our local Freecycle. Does that count? But think of all the fuel you'd use up.

wow you must have [posh neighbours:cool:

Sian_the_Green

rosemary54 wrote: »

did any one watch Kirstie's homemade home?Good ideas ,looking in skips(all ours have are rubble!)markets etc.......BUT rather spolit by the double size mega expensive Aga in her kitchen!!!!!!!

We laughed our heads off all the way through. I particularly liked it when she said she was saving resources by recycling the mirror she found in the skip but then drove off in her massive Chelsea tractor
I do like her and some of the ideas were good, a friend of mine loved the sellotape flower tip but I have to say I think it's not really bargainous enough for us lot

Patchwork_Quilt

rosemary54 wrote: »

wow you must have [posh neighbours:cool:

You wouldn't believe it. I went to the Co-op recently and the car parked in front of me was a Rolls. People actually go to the pub in dinner jackets. It does mean, though, for the normal people like me, that there are some lovely things in the charity shops

rachbc

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

Last month, someone gave a Rayburn away on our local Freecycle. Does that count? But think of all the fuel you'd use up.

My neighbours gave away their aga - they barely get anything secondhand these days and specialist companies charge a fortune to move them.