Anyone had a lightbulb moment with anything OS-related ?

Olliebeak

lilmisstrouble wrote: »

oooooh you should never dry clothes on radiators unless the room is ventilated - it causes damp, condensation and black mould.

I always have windows open to the vent position and have the vents above the glass open - even in the winter.

plzhelpmesave!

I was trying to be OS and bought an airer recently - hubby was desparate to buy a tumble dryer but i thought my £6 airer was a much better investment! BUT it sees to make the clothes smell all musty and the smell spreads in the room i am airing them in.

I do add conditioner in my washing, and then take the clothes and hang them up on the airer. Thicker clothes, e.g. jeans and towels go on the radiators - but everything else seems to smell, esp cotton stuff like tshirts and kids clothes. Does this happen to everyone else - or just me???

givememoney

With regard to drying washing.

I hang socks, pants, bras, knickers teatowels, anything that doesn't need ironing on the airer.

Cotton stuff that will need ironing anyway I hang on hangers to dry on cupboard door handles in the bedrooms.

Anything that would come out not needing ironing I put in the tumble dryer for 10 mins then immediately take out and hang up. They won't be dry but they will be flat.

Duvet covers I hang over the top of doors to dry then fold and put away.

This way it keeps down drying costs.

purpleivy

LOL! as long as you remember to dust the tops of doors. That wouldn't work here, as far as dusting is concerned, above eyelevel doesn't get done very often. My bedding would all have a strange pattern of grey lines.

sunset_gold

Beccatje wrote: »

It is soo simple! Honestly.

What you need:

1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon mustard
1 splash of vinegar
oil. Pref. a neutral oil like sunflower. No olive oil.. that tastes ick..

Important thing is: have you ingredients at room temp or it will fail.

So egg yolk, mustard and splash of vinnegar in bowl.

Whisk

Add oil slowly
First a wee drop, then whis, then another drop...

keep whisking when it starts to change colour and thicken you can start to pour the oil in faster.

Add as much oil until the mayo has the desired thickness.

Chuck in anything you like!
Herbs, salt, garlic.. just try it and see if you like it.

Becca

Thank you Becca, have just made this and it is so simple. I have tried to make it in the past following really complicated recipes and it was always yuck! Garlic mayo with potato wedges tonight to go with the already planned chicken (leftover) risotto. Job done!

Mander

When I first moved to the UK (from US) I thought it was crazy to not have a drier, now I can't understand why I didn't hang my clothes outside when I lived in the desert! They would have been dry in minutes! At any rate, we don't have a tumble drier, so everything gets dried on airers or on the line outside. Before we moved here we didn't have any outdoor space, so we dried everything indoors! Don't do too much at a time. I try to remember to crack the windows open a bit when there is wet laundry in the house to increase ventilation, too. When I first started with the indoor drying everything smelled funny but I think this is why. I rarely have a problem now. I usually run everything through the spin cycle twice. Especially with heavy absorbent things, like towels and jeans, this really seems to help. Another thing that has made life easier was buying a couple of cheap tidy rails from Argos (£14 for two, I think) which we put next to the washing machine so that clothes go straight onto a hanger. We can then set the rail next to the radiator in the kitchen, then when it's dry, roll it over to the ironing board.

sunset_gold

toffifee wrote: »

I know a bit of German so could try to translate if you like... but first you'd have to type it all in! (And if you're going to do that you may as well use one of the translation sites since you'd probably get a better result ).

My LBM was bread. The cost went up so much and I realised that I had a bread machine sitting unused in a cupboard. Now it lives permanently on my worktop and I measure out four loaves worth at once into tiny containers (salt etc.) and bags (flour) so that all I have to do is measure the water and yeast and tip it all in. (I work full time and have two small kids so time is limited).
At first the kids didn't like the bread (50/50 white/wholemeal) but bread improver from ebay has made the texture much better and now they have stopped complaining.
DH was useless at slicing (massive wedge shaped sandwich, anyone?) , so I bought a machine to do it for £30 and now we have lovely even slices.
I reckon even after buying the slicer (can also be used to slice left over joints of meat) we'll be saving money within 10 weeks. :j

What is bread improver? My girls won't eat my HM bread either, only when I make it into garlic bread with spag bol. What does the improver actually do? Is it expensive? Where abouts on ebay did you get it? Thank you.

givememoney

purpleivy wrote: »

LOL! as long as you remember to dust the tops of doors. That wouldn't work here, as far as dusting is concerned, above eyelevel doesn't get done very often. My bedding would all have a strange pattern of grey lines.

Well you've only got to dust the tops of the doors once, after that continually hanging washing on them will keep them dust free;)

HaleBopp

Hi Becca,

Your mayo recipe sounds fab. Would you make it just for whatever meal you wnated it with or could you make it to keep for a while and if so in your experinece how long would it keep for? Cheers, Hay :j

lil_me

MY lightbulb moment and when I started on this board, which has become my home, was when there was a post, I think it was on DFW about what you have wasted. I started keeping a list, one week I threw £40 of food out.

I then started looking and making changes, I have gone from spending £800+ on grocery, household and pets stuff to less than half that. My first GC was in a December, thought if I could do it then I could do it any time!

Never looked back x