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Sneaky ways to save the pennies

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  • rosemary54
    rosemary54 Posts: 2,495 Forumite
    just saved around £225 on a 2 night break :)

    1/booked hotel room only well in advance so cost £102 as oppossed to £270 for this week booking
    2/joined hotel loyalty club and saved 10% on spa treatments as sister hotel across the road
    3/used sister hotel pool at no cost
    4/£14 bottle of house wine as chain restauraunt for joining loyalty scheme
    5/50% off local main attraction by using coupon on leaflet found in hotel reception
    6/£25 on meal using vouchers "earned" from iponts

    could also have used another coupon for free bottle of house wine from a leaflet on sightseeing bus....will look out in own local town for similar
    I booked hotel through their own website which was chepaer than the usual monay saving sites.
    final saving 50% on shoes at my fav shop not available near where I live
  • frugallily
    frugallily Posts: 58 Forumite
    Thanks for all the advice.Will have a go (and keep opening door to check!!!)
  • Savvy_sewing
    Savvy_sewing Posts: 11,580 Forumite
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    Wonder if you melted your marg pots?
    I no longer have a dishwasher, as it was part of the f&f of the last house. But there is only DS and I now, so I just wash up as and when I walk into the kitchen and think,,,mmmm DS has been snacking again!

    I spent yesterday sewing a draught excluder for the dinning room. Used two sleeves from a shirt (body used to make cushion cover), and cut up old stockings and pop socks!. One draft down, many many more to go though!.
    When I die I will know that I have lived, loved, mattered and made a difference, even if in a small way.
  • chnelomi
    chnelomi Posts: 462 Forumite
    Mooloo wrote: »
    I spent yesterday sewing a draught excluder for the dinning room. Used two sleeves from a shirt (body used to make cushion cover), and cut up old stockings and pop socks!. One draft down, many many more to go though!.
    This may be useful to people with drafts. When we were young my mum used the balls from our bean bag that we kept bursting to make draft excluders. She would sew sleeves etc add some tights etc for the middle (think sausage roll)then pack round it with the little balls.

    I've seen bags of the balls going cheap and also old bean bags in charity shops so could be done very MS a bag would probably do a full house. They were great but i think they had to be hand washed.
    HTH
    slowly going nuts at the world:T
  • frugallily
    frugallily Posts: 58 Forumite
    Marge pots fine on lowest wash!!!
  • Confuzzled
    Confuzzled Posts: 2,323 Forumite
    Mooloo wrote: »

    I spent yesterday sewing a draught excluder for the dinning room. Used two sleeves from a shirt (body used to make cushion cover), and cut up old stockings and pop socks!. One draft down, many many more to go though!.

    now theres the spirit mooloo! sounds like you're well on your way to a warmer house this winter!

    i've been eyeballing a few old things to cut up for use in various winter items myself. my daughter was given a rather dreadful pink fleece sleeping bag thing only it's too small for her. i ripped out the zipper (saved it of course!) and unstitched it to make it into a picnic blanket. however i think it would make really nice rice pillows/lap warmers for winter so i shall be using part of it for that and perhaps the rest for draught excluders.

    she also has a glitter kitty long sleeved tshirt that she loves but it's soooo tight now i have to help her in and out of it :eek: (does this remind any of us of jeans we wore in our younger days? :p) so, i thought i might cut the arms off and either transform it into some sort of bag or perhaps a pillow for her.

    she also has some jeans with gorgeous embroidery on them that is a shame to loose. however the knee in one is ripped all the way across and i woudln't give that away it's in such bad shape. it's ok for her to wear now but come winter it won't be warm enough so i'd considered making the leg into a draught excluder but i don't think it's long enough so more than likely the jeans will become a bag and the glitter kitty t will become the pillow. i'll probably keep the jean legs and maybe work the them together to make another pillow cover.... hmmmmmm

    last night i started hand sewing (wish i had a sewing machine!) a patchwork quilt using fabric samples i've collected. the wee one is absolutely amazed at the concept so i shall have her help me with it. i'm not sure i have enough fabric to make a good size quilt so it may become pillows or a lapwarmer etc but basically sewing it makes me feel less guilty about sitting on my bum watching telly :rotfl:

    i have an old dressing gown of hers that she is fast outgrowing too, not in good enough shape to give away so i think i may use it as stuffing for one of the pillows i plan to make.
  • Savvy_sewing
    Savvy_sewing Posts: 11,580 Forumite
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    Confuzzled wrote: »
    now theres the spirit mooloo! sounds like you're well on your way to a warmer house this winter!
    Its a very slow way, but keeps me occupied.
    i've been eyeballing a few old things to cut up for use in various winter items myself. my daughter was given a rather dreadful pink fleece sleeping bag thing only it's too small for her. i ripped out the zipper (saved it of course!) and unstitched it to make it into a picnic blanket. however i think it would make really nice rice pillows/lap warmers for winter so i shall be using part of it for that and perhaps the rest for draught excluders.
    If you dont like the colour of things, you could put a selection in the washingmachine with a dye you do lik:o, this will co ordinate them as well.!

    I have used Barley in heat pads before now.

    she also has a glitter kitty long sleeved tshirt that she loves but it's soooo tight now i have to help her in and out of it :eek: (does this remind any of us of jeans we wore in our younger days? :p) so, i thought i might cut the arms off and either transform it into some sort of bag or perhaps a pillow for her.

    Alternatively you could cut out the kitty, and applique it onto a plain Tshirt that does fit!

    she also has some jeans with gorgeous embroidery on them that is a shame to loose. however the knee in one is ripped all the way across and i woudln't give that away it's in such bad shape. it's ok for her to wear now but come winter it won't be warm enough so i'd considered making the leg into a draught excluder but i don't think it's long enough so more than likely the jeans will become a bag and the glitter kitty t will become the pillow. i'll probably keep the jean legs and maybe work the them together to make another pillow cover.... hmmmmmm

    You could patch the leg, from behind the tear, for wearing around now.
    Alternatively, you could cut off at the knee, unpick the leg seams and turn into a skirt.
    Sew the cut off legs together to make a draught excluder. You could always add spare fabric either end, as a trim to make as wide as your door.

    last night i started hand sewing (wish i had a sewing machine!) a patchwork quilt using fabric samples i've collected. the wee one is absolutely amazed at the concept so i shall have her help me with it. i'm not sure i have enough fabric to make a good size quilt so it may become pillows or a lapwarmer etc but basically sewing it makes me feel less guilty about sitting on my bum watching telly :rotfl:

    I made a complete bedspread over about 10years!! sewing by hand 21/2" hexagons made up of old fabrics from everything from my grannies old dresses to my school uniforms. I started it when I was 13 at school, thats why it took so long, as I hardlytouched it when I was a bit older!

    i have an old dressing gown of hers that she is fast outgrowing too, not in good enough shape to give away so i think i may use it as stuffing for one of the pillows i plan to make.

    :T:T:T

    How do people edit thngs on here, it just said my reply was too short, does that mean all the inserts I did have not worked???
    Try and post again and see what happens
    When I die I will know that I have lived, loved, mattered and made a difference, even if in a small way.
  • Savvy_sewing
    Savvy_sewing Posts: 11,580 Forumite
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    Well what I typed is there, it just isnt in the colour I typed it in!!:o
    When I die I will know that I have lived, loved, mattered and made a difference, even if in a small way.
  • Savvy_sewing
    Savvy_sewing Posts: 11,580 Forumite
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    My Paper log maker has arrived! Yipee. I can now spend the afternoon tearing up bits of paper and soaking them in the bucket I have put to one side for this. Wellits a small dustbin with a lid, so its now beside the main bin in the kitchen. As its only DS and I here, hopefully ALL spare paper/card will now be recycled!!! Two good things!!
    When I die I will know that I have lived, loved, mattered and made a difference, even if in a small way.
  • Lesley_Gaye
    Lesley_Gaye Posts: 1,045 Forumite
    Mooloo wrote: »
    My Paper log maker has arrived! Yipee. I can now spend the afternoon tearing up bits of paper and soaking them in the bucket I have put to one side for this. Wellits a small dustbin with a lid, so its now beside the main bin in the kitchen. As its only DS and I here, hopefully ALL spare paper/card will now be recycled!!! Two good things!!

    haven't used paper as logs, does it work well? Or do they clog up the fire with ash? We burn lots of paper in the winter, but not as logs, and it tends to create a lot of ash doing it that way.

    Also, how/where do you intend to dry the logs as my OH raised that as an objection when I suggested getting a log maker might be a good idea
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