Sneaky ways to save the pennies

Nomoneymummy_2

anguk wrote: »

My husband too. We have several ice trays but apparently the cubes are "too small and not the same". :rolleyes:

We go through at least one bag a week, OH will fill a pint glass full with ice every time he has squash or water. :mad:

Guilty of buying ice, though only for parrtys or when the gin is ready.... Normally due to lack of freezer space though!!!

Thinking about it will be following the tips of freezer prep and making sure I have Ice ready for xmas when the damson gin is ready;)
Well that will save me some as its £1.19 a bag round here.. :eek:

Mrs_Thrify

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Aril

I normally wear 40 or 70 denier tights as I work in a very old and cold building. When I get a hole in a pair I now tie a knot in the toe when I put them away so that I can just keep them for wearing with boots and don't spend loads of time in the morning having to check them. It just gives me a longer wearing time per pair.
Aril

Half_pint_4

Nomoneymummy wrote: »

Guilty of buying ice, though only for parrtys or when the gin is ready.... Normally due to lack of freezer space though!!!

Thinking about it will be following the tips of freezer prep and making sure I have Ice ready for xmas when the damson gin is ready;)
Well that will save me some as its £1.19 a bag round here.. :eek:

I half fill a small pedal bin liner with water, freeze it and then give it a good smash with the rolling pin :j

KittyBoo_2

Aril wrote: »

I normally wear 40 or 70 denier tights as I work in a very old and cold building. When I get a hole in a pair I now tie a knot in the toe when I put them away so that I can just keep them for wearing with boots and don't spend loads of time in the morning having to check them. It just gives me a longer wearing time per pair.
Aril

When I was younger I remember cutting the holey leg off the tights and then when another pair had a hole I would cut that leg off as well.
You had a pair of tights although it did mean you had to wear the two pants.
That's what I call money saving.:rotfl:

ChapelGirl

Garden tips for next summer to save on expensive chemicals from the garden centre:

Take a bar of cheap household soap, cut off about a quarter and melt it on the stove in half to 3/4 a litre of water. Cool. Funnel into a pistol-grip spray bottle. This will kill garden aphids etc. and is environmentally friendly as well as being cheap to make.

Take several cloves of garlic. Crush. Add to a pan with half to 3/4 a litre of water. Heat for a few minutes until the garlic has softened and released its juices. Cool. Strain into another pistol-grip spray bottle. (Sieve out all the bits or it will clog the spray.) This one will discourage caterpillars from munching your plants (but it does not kill them, so you have to keep applying), and it will also help against sooty mold and other fungus attacks.

If you use real ground coffee put the grounds around the base of your garden plants rather than in the bin or down the sink. This is supposed to help keep slugs away because they don't like walking on gritty stuff, and I have also heard that there is a chemical in the coffee which is mildly toxic to slugs.

Becky_2

If you use real ground coffee put the grounds around the base of your garden plants rather than in the bin or down the sink. This is supposed to help keep slugs away because they don't like walking on gritty stuff, and I have also heard that there is a chemical in the coffee which is mildly toxic to slugs.

I put vaseline on the outside of the flower pots to stop the slugs getting in to the pots.

Last weekend we bought various herb plants in the garden centre. They are cheap now. We are keeping ours in the garden so some plants like basil will have to be cut down for the winter but will apparently come back in the spring. We bought some fennel which starts to go yellow now. Does anyone know how to get the best flavour out of fennel either by using it now or by freezing it.

sparrer

ChapelGirl wrote: »

If you use real ground coffee put the grounds around the base of your garden plants rather than in the bin or down the sink. This is supposed to help keep slugs away because they don't like walking on gritty stuff, and I have also heard that there is a chemical in the coffee which is mildly toxic to slugs.

I save my egg shells, crush them in a plastic bag with a rolling pin and scatter them around the veg/flower beds. They're high in potassium, protein and calcium, and as ChapelGirl said the slugs won't go on anything gritty. I've seldom seen a slug in the garden since I started doing this - a tip which I'm sure I read here first

exlibris

Aril wrote: »

I normally wear 40 or 70 denier tights as I work in a very old and cold building. When I get a hole in a pair I now tie a knot in the toe when I put them away so that I can just keep them for wearing with boots and don't spend loads of time in the morning having to check them. It just gives me a longer wearing time per pair.
Aril

With tights that thick (or even finer ones if the hole is on double fabric) I stitch up the hole!

It may have been said before but I keep tights with ladders in the leg for under trousers. I tie them in a knot in the leg to help sort them from unholy ones!

rosepink1984

zippychick wrote: »

:rotfl:sadly people do pay pounds for bags of cubed frozen water!

I couldn't believe it when some friends of mine came round for dinner at my Mum's and they brought a bag of shop-bought ice. I was shocked that they had paid money for frozen water. So was my Mum! We are true :money: at heart!

Thanks to Exlibris for the tip on tying a knot in the leg of tights with a hole in, I'd never thought of that and it's so obvious! The amount of times I've been halfway putting tights on to discover it's the pair I'd saved to wear under a long skirt, or with boots!