There are 2 shops that stock the Faith in Nature products nearby so I will go and buy the smaller ones to try out. I must admit I thought £4.25 for 22 washes not bad!
Has anyone used either soap nuts or eco balls? The eco balls look expensive but on a blog somewhere out in blogosphere a lady used some of the drier balls washed and dried towels in tumbler with out the balls then did exactly the same load with the drier balls and they made a big difference!! I know we aren't supposed to use tumblers I actually don't the majority of the time I have too much heat coming of my rayburn!!!!!! _________________ "If we reduce the amount of stuff we allow to accumulate in our lives, we won't have to organise it"
Elaine St James from her book 'Simplicity'
i've ordered some faith in nature stuff now (not exactly saving money!)
kathy - do you buy bio d online? there website has fallen over!
Aqui, you ahead of me. Planned to make an order today but have yet to get around to doing it. I know what you mean about not saving money....I would be really interested to know the costs of buying small amounts at the dreaded supermarket v buying bulk online.
libby - i have ecoballs. they work fine. i've stopped using them on j's nappies as they came out a little bit stained - powder works better. and you should use them on a quick program, so it takes 30mins on my machine rather than 2.5hours.
just need to find some baby shampoo now - we had used homemade soap on j's hair which works well, but the past few baths he's rubbed his eyes and got soap in them and screamed. poor thing. _________________ Aqui, T and Baby Jack!
we're going to have to try kathy's leftovers burgers one day.
what i do is - i try to make double batches of pasta sauce/curry etc and freeze a portion. but sometimes i makes 1.5 or 2.5 meals by mistake, so the rogue half goes in a pot in the freezer. next time i make another spare half, it goes in the same pot, so we occassionally have a bizarre sauce of half curry, half pasta sauce! _________________ Aqui, T and Baby Jack!
I've used soap nuts on the washing machine and they were utterly useless....now we use Clear Spring laundry liquid and BioD fabric conditioer. _________________ When I married Mr. Right, I didn't realise his first name was Always ...
Righty ho! _________________ "If we reduce the amount of stuff we allow to accumulate in our lives, we won't have to organise it"
Elaine St James from her book 'Simplicity'
my mother, bless her, was born in 1913 but has been gone now since 1984, but all her life, mainly thru neccesity was very frugal.
she passed this on to me and my brothers.
there was always a policy of '' mend or make do '' things like patching up jeans that were wearing thin at the knees or crotch, hand me down clothes, washing hair in rain water ( makes hair fantastically soft and no need for conditioner, which wasn't thought of when i was young ) saves valuable water resources in the summer too, we used to bath in a tin bath and the water was always put onto the veggie patch in dry weather.
veggies were always home grown from tatties to broad beans, whos pods when very young can be cooked like runer beans.
when my children wer young i used to try hard at saving or reusing things, because money was tight.
We used to shop on a thurdsay evening, when my husband got his pay, and Friday used to be my baking day. i would make cakes and scones, pasties and pies for the week. we would always have a roast on a sunday, and any meat or veg that was left over would go into a monday pie......lol...sort of like a shepherds pie...everything thrown in with a bit of seasoning topped off with mash potato......the kids loved it...even my mother was impressed....lol
bones etc, tho not chicken, would be fed to the dog, and to bulk out the dogfood potatoes would be added, that were added to the pot when cooking for us all.
i would buy sacks of onions to make onion soup which we had for lunch most days with a fresh bread roll or two, and my mother showed me a useful tip when bread is going a bit stale.....dip it in cold water for a second or two and then place in the oven...it comes out warm and really fresh like new baked bread....lol...
another tip..... why use a tumble dryer when you have radiators?
_________________ life is so short, you have to embrace every opportunity that comes your way, even if you only try it once.
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