Sneaky ways to save the pennies

ceebeeby

Primrose, I'm going to print out your post and show that to my children tonight!!!!

Thank you for putting into calm words what I have been yelling at them for the past year.

Caterina

Aril wrote: »

You can bring down the cost of hm pesto by using sunflower kernels rather than pine nuts. They taste similar but are a lot cheaper:D
Aril

You can make it even cheaper by making it with rocket or parsley leaves - homegrown even cheaper still! - I have seen it sold in farmers markets for quite a lot of money (as a novelty of course!) and it tastes really nice, if you like those herbs.

Caterina

Becky_2 wrote: »

When my OH works away from home and leaves his leisure clothes that he wears at home but has only worn once before he goes away and then when he returns back the clothing goes straight in the laundry basket. I have recently started to hang them back in the wardrobe to make him believe that I have washed them and he is then perfectly happy to wear it again. Sneaky I know but I have got fed up washing only once worn clothes when I wear mine longer.

Ohhh I am so glad I am not the only one doing this! At long last I have persuaded DH to wear work shirts twice by taking them off as soon as he is back from work, hanging them and rotating them - to achieve this I played the "environment" card, since he claims to be so green!

But before he agreed I used to do just what you do, sometimes even giving the once-used shirts a very quick perfunctory ironing to make them look fresher!

I do this regularly with bath towels. I have trained DH and DD to keep and reuse their shower/bath towel for at least a week but DS is quite un-trainable (young male, opinionated and quite finicky!). He uses a fresh towel every time he has a bath or shower and then puts them on the radiator in the bathroom. As soon as they are dry I fold them and put them back in the towel cupboard!

mumoftwo

Caterina wrote: »

Ohhh I am so glad I am not the only one doing this! At long last I have persuaded DH to wear work shirts twice by taking them off as soon as he is back from work, hanging them and rotating them - to achieve this I played the "environment" card, since he claims to be so green!

But before he agreed I used to do just what you do, sometimes even giving the once-used shirts a very quick perfunctory ironing to make them look fresher!

I do this regularly with bath towels. I have trained DH and DD to keep and reuse their shower/bath towel for at least a week but DS is quite un-trainable (young male, opinionated and quite finicky!). He uses a fresh towel every time he has a bath or shower and then puts them on the radiator in the bathroom. As soon as they are dry I fold them and put them back in the towel cupboard!

And he has flossed his under carriage with that towel and the next person wipes their face and hands on it... no thank you. Or is he the one that will re use that same towel?

Aril

You can also use nettle leaves in the spring when they're tender in pesto- free woo hoo:j
Aril

Lesley_Gaye

Weezl posted a recipe for a batch of pesto in her 50p a person a day thread. I have kept lots of recipes from this fantastic site, including that one, so here it is

'Pesto, large batch, 20 servings ( generous ones!) at 24p per person's serving
take all the leaves and stems from 3 plants growing basil, rinse, rip up a bit and put in blender with: 150 g block parmesan (cubed, so it doesn’t knacker the blades of your food processor!) 150g almonds, 270 ml oil, 5 tspns garlic powder, generous squeeze lemon, salt and ground black pepper. Blitz til a smooth paste.

This makes enough for 26 individual portions of pesto, depending on how many people you’re feeding at a time, freeze in manageable quantities. This is therefore 13 evening meals for 2 people.

Ice cube trays could be good, maybe knowing that 2 cubes was a one person portion IYSWIM.

When the cubes have frozen solid, put the cubes in a freezer bag and lob in a couple at the end stage of cooking your pasta, having drained it first!

This provides a tenth of your calcium requirement for the day, and because of mandatory flour fortification in the UK, you can be assured that plenty more is in the pasta! If you boil it in a hard water area, you'll get even more! '

All the comments etc are Weezl's own

ailz95

mumoftwo wrote: »

And he has flossed his under carriage with that towel and the next person wipes their face and hands on it... no thank you. Or is he the one that will re use that same towel?

In our house we all have our own colour towels - all the children are grown up and gone, but I still keep 'their' towels separate. We then use our own towel until we think it dirty.

I use a facetowel to dry my hair - which is very short - I have a spotty scalp and like to use a clean towel each time and the little squares do the job nicely - and they can be washed each time.

consultant31

mumoftwo wrote: »

And he has flossed his under carriage with that towel and the next person wipes their face and hands on it... no thank you. Or is he the one that will re use that same towel?

We always reuse our bath towels several times before they are washed, but I would never wipe my face on a bath towel - that's what hand towels are for!

nicki_2

Primrose wrote: »

When I was a child (during wartime) it seemed to be almost general practice to wear the same clothes for most of the week. Modern washing machines and tumble driers simply didn't exist and most homes didn't even have constant hot water on tap so laundry had to be reduced to a very practical minimum. There was no question of throwing clothes into the laundry basket after just one wearing, especially when they had to be washed and wrung out by hand with rationed soap, and then had to dry in winter by being hung on a clothes horse to drip on the hearth in front of a miserable little (coal rationed) fire. When you think about it, we don't know we're born now, do we ??

I've been doing this recently :rotfl: My washing machine is broken, and unless some unexpected money comes my way I won't be replacing it until Easter (Putting every little bit of savings into a separate account until I have enough to buy a decent one!)! :eek: Fortunately I have "borrowed" my late nans clothes spinner from my mum so I can spin the stuff almost dry and then I will sling the stuff in the tumble drier - but only because we have enough of a damp problem without damp clothes hanging around! I've also made DD (and myself) juggle our bedding around - we both have quilts & I always put 2 pillowcases on pillows (incase of snotty noses ) so this week when we changed the beds we swapped the pillowcases over so the inner one became the outter one, flipped the quilt over so the other side is against us, and just put clean sheets on The quilts are still reasonably clean, and I know nothing has been spilt on them as we also have blankets over the top to save putting the heating on (more hand-me-downs from my nan/mum :money: ). Although once I buy my new machine I WILL be washing all the blankets etc through!

rosemary54

Becky_2 wrote: »

When my OH works away from home and leaves his leisure clothes that he wears at home but has only worn once before he goes away and then when he returns back the clothing goes straight in the laundry basket. I have recently started to hang them back in the wardrobe to make him believe that I have washed them and he is then perfectly happy to wear it again. Sneaky I know but I have got fed up washing only once worn clothes when I wear mine longer.

unless something is really bad (esp in hot weather....know what I mean?????) I hang the garment up at night and leave it outside the wardrobe to air before putting it away for a future wearing.

undies only ever do 1 day,but as a child we had to wear our navy school knickers for a whole week....yeuk yeuk yeuk(my cousins also had to wear them to bed as they had no nighties!!!!!) and you try telling kids of today!!!!