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Weekly Flylady Thread 8th April 2024
Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to make the whole…
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Old Style Daily 14th April
Morning all. First time for everything. Everyone must be having a lie inJust had my T***o shop delivered and sitting down with a coffee to read the daily thread so as I couldn't I thought I'd start it insteadNothing going on here today apart from cooking a yellow stickered duck for dinner to have with stir fryHope everyone…
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Old Style Daily Sunday 14 April 2024
Morning - where is everyone? x
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Preserving Jars
Haven't had to buy any in years, so wondering where the best bargains are to be had. I'm looking for smooth round twist top 260 ml approx types. It's almost the bottling season so wondering if HB or similar will generally stock them and are well priced?Thanks.
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Old Style Daily Saturday 13 April 2024
Morning all, a rather slow start here today.
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Old Style Daily Friday 12 April 2024
Good morning.
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Storing spices in bulk? I.e putting them in containers, on shelves etc?
I bulk buy spices from Asian supermarkets as they are cheaper than regular supermarkets often by a long shot but often means I may have 2/3kg bags of each item and means I have 1 cupboard in my kitchen that is purely for spices, stock cubes, and tea/coffee and I have 4 more cupboards in the kitchen but they are all…
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Making Yogurt
For months, we have been enjoying Pure Nature Organic Live Natural Belgian Whole Milk Yogurt 150g from Milk & More.There was an offer, 4 for £3 which saved 1.48. I bought the offer three times a week. We loved the yogurt which is thick and creamy. Discovered yesterday that the offer is no more. That means we would have to…
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Old Style Daily Thursday 11 April 2024
Good morning even though it's raining still. 😀
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Old Style Daily Wednesday 10 April 2024
Good morning all.
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Old Style Daily Tuesday 09 April 2024
Good morning all.
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Old Style Daily Monday 08 April 2024
Good morning. 💨💨 the wind is still blowing hard.
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Weekly Flylady Thread 1st April 2024
Welcome to the weekly
Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week when it comes to
housework, or just the motivation to do the dreaded housework tasks you have to
do, come and join us, hopefully make it a little easier. You never know, you
might start to enjoy it! What
is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US…
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Old Style Daily Sunday 7th April 2024
Good morning, it's fine at the moment here, but I think it might rain, there are clouds coming over. Going to go down to a caravan site near York today, it's nice we were there last year. We packed the van up yesterday, so there's not much to do. Hope everyone has a good day today, take care folks.
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Old Style Daily Saturday 06 April
Good morning folks. Once again the wind raged during the night, the clouds are still moving pretty fast across the sky. I’ll be back after a stretch and a coffee.
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Money Saving Old Style Frugal Living Channels
I like to read frugal blogs and forums... and I love to watch Old Style Frugal Channels on You Tube. I have my favourites on Youtube like What Vivi Did Next, Loving Life on Less ... and Pennies to Dollars, they all do money saving Old style. Do you have any suggestions for other good old style channels to watch? Thank you…
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Purdy & Figg cleaner
Tempted by the promise of cleans everything smear free and leaves your house smelling like a spa but a ridiculous price. Anyone with good chemistry knowledge: could I make my own with:- Isopropyl alcohol essential oil (or zoflora?) white vinegar water? Thanks.
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O/S Daily Friday 5th April 2024
Good morning, not too cold here but raining. I've just put a load of washing in, but it'll have to go in the dryer, it's just thin poly cotton so shouldn't take too long. I got through quite a bit of organising yesterday for our caravan holiday, and I've a few household jobs. Yesterday afternoon dh took the caravan out for…
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Thrifty in my 60's
Next year I reach 60. I have never been bothered about the other big O birthdays . Being 60 does bother me, for various reasons. 1 My father died when he was 60. 2,It is the decade you retire in 67 for myself. I am going to start saving and being thrifty, Also what did you all do when you were 60. I have arranged to go to…
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Old Style Daily Thursday 04 April 2024
Good morning all. It's bright though cold here, I'm happy for it to stay dry.