Sneaky ways to save the pennies

Patchwork_Quilt

rosemary54 wrote: »

good for storing onions,put 1 in to toe end then tie a knot before adding another and so on till full leg,as they are seperate if 1 goes off others not so affected :j

It just occurred to me - can you store apples this way? Am keeping all my laddered tights from now on

Aril

I've just been given an old set of curtains by my sister. They aren't suitable for my house but I've taken all the curtain tape off so that I can recycle this for the next curtains I make. OH has cut up one curtain to make the edging for his new stand [he does shows] and I've put aside the rest as the fabric will make perfect backing for the needlepoint cushions I intend to make over the next couple of years. Oh yes and I've snaffled away the hooks to replace others as I lose/break them!
Aril

rosemary54

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

It just occurred to me - can you store apples this way? Am keeping all my laddered tights from now on

don't see why not

Patchwork_Quilt

Well done, Aril! That really was thrifty.

Just had to tell someone about my blue string. It came around a bunch of Lincolnshire leeks and I saved it for a month, thinking it would be useful, along with rubber bands from a bunch of flowers etc. Then, today I needed a piece of string and my blue piece of string JUST fitted. How cool is that? Used the rubber bands too. I love it when that happens.

Aril

If you have a recipe that needs sausagemeat it works out cheaper to buy a pack of sausages and remove the meat from the casings. BTW this is OH's tip not mine- he did it when he made sausage rolls on Friday:D
Aril

beautiful_ravens

Instead of recycling my loo-roll tubes, Ive been stuffing them inside one another until they are stuffed full, and they are stored with the twigs and kindling for next years fire lighting stuff.

I also discovered that I can make a paper brick (for burning on the fire) without a brick-maker, by getting a cereal box or similar and stuffing it full of paper. Sometimes I leave the paper outside so it goes slightly damp first (eg. under a bush overnight) this makes it easier to crush into the box.

beautiful_ravens

Oh, and a really cheap pudding Ive been making recently -
Value sponge mix 23p,
value packet custard 7p
ground nutmeg
an egg

Make up the sponge mix
Use small '1 person' pie dishes to bake the sponge in, so the dish is half ful of sponge when cooked.
make up the custard
cut a hole - like a butterfly bun -in the sponge, take out the piece of sponge, pour custard in, replace sponge in hole (just looks interesting like this)
sprinkle with nutmeg (and sugar if you like)
the nutmeg changes it from dull to interesting!!!
serves 4 adults or 2 adult 3 kids, could eeeek it out further!
cost - 30p plus the egg.

Also stops people moaning.

rosemary54

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

Well done, Aril! That really was thrifty.

Just had to tell someone about my blue string. It came around a bunch of Lincolnshire leeks and I saved it for a month, thinking it would be useful, along with rubber bands from a bunch of flowers etc. Then, today I needed a piece of string and my blue piece of string JUST fitted. How cool is that? Used the rubber bands too. I love it when that happens.

why not make Bridget Jones blue string soup:rotfl:

larmy16

beautiful_ravens wrote: »

Instead of recycling my loo-roll tubes, Ive been stuffing them inside one another until they are stuffed full, and they are stored with the twigs and kindling for next years fire lighting stuff.

I also discovered that I can make a paper brick (for burning on the fire) without a brick-maker, by getting a cereal box or similar and stuffing it full of paper. Sometimes I leave the paper outside so it goes slightly damp first (eg. under a bush overnight) this makes it easier to crush into the box.

I remember reading about someone stuffing their old loo roll tubes with the dryer lint to use as firelighters. Have never tried this myself as only have gas ch.

I have often found myself looking at the lint and thinking there must be a use for it. The only thing I can come up with is for papier mache - but again never tried as have no time!!!

p00

:rotfl:

beautiful_ravens wrote: »

Instead of recycling my loo-roll tubes, Ive been stuffing them inside one another until they are stuffed full, and they are stored with the twigs and kindling for next years fire lighting stuff.

I also discovered that I can make a paper brick (for burning on the fire) without a brick-maker, by getting a cereal box or similar and stuffing it full of paper. Sometimes I leave the paper outside so it goes slightly damp first (eg. under a bush overnight) this makes it easier to crush into the box.

years ago I had one of those brick machine things and used to get in a right mess soaking the paper in the bath but they did work on the fire and saved loads.

thinking about toilet paper tubes or any other tubes why not soak paper and make mache then stuff them. they would be bricks but round ones.:rotfl:

xxp00