Now I really don't know whether this is an appropriate topic but.....
I'm talking about those handy, money saving/convenience tips that yer granny used to hand down.
Just now I put on a clean shirt from the wash and noticed that one of the bones from the collar was missing. Lying on the dressing room table were two old credit cards that I was about to cut up and chuck out. So I cut the cards into the shape of bones for the collar of me shirt and bingo I've got spares to last me until the next card expires.
Have you got any 'useful' tips - apart from re-using condoms??
If you've got any useful tips - yours or yer granny's - pass 'em on.
Sorry if this has been done before - if so feel free to amalgamate or delete it.
For anyone with laminate flooring or white painted doors.
To get rid of those nasty black boot marks on your lacquered/painted surfaces dampen a cloth (not wet) and dab it into some Bicarbonate of Soda. Gently rub it on the mark and it will fetch it off beautifully. You hardly have to press at all and it is very safe. A touch of polish on your laminate floor and it's sorted.
If you are on a diet, replace a third of your sugar with a table spoon or two of Bicarb in your apple or rhubarb crumbles. Stops the rhubarb making your teeth furry too.
To draw an abcess make a paste from epsom salts and apply to abcess using a plaster - if no epsom salts make a butter and sugar paste.
My gran used to darn tights and stockings that im not doing!
when you have limescale in the elecric kettle.
What you can use to get rid of the limescale is citric acid..
Just cover the limescale with water add the acid and boil.
And hay presto you have a lovely limescale free kettle...
But word of warning tell your partner that the kettle needs to be rinsed out before being used ( partner had put the citric acid in the kettle and partner forgot to tell me when i made a drink).
Made her a drink with the citric acid water in the kettle.
Looked like partner sucked on a very acidic lemon..
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ooo what you found in warwick ?
When cooking spaghetti for bolognese add an OXO cube to the water to flavour the spag when boiling.
Twas not my gran but my Mam who taught me that(bless her)
Try it and see.
But do not use the Devils Brew.
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Some handy tips here - thanks all so far.
Choon thinking of publishing a 21st Century Mrs Beaton's.
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Instead of antiseptic (if you run out for instance) smear honey onto the plaster for a cut or graze. It's a proven antiseptic, antifungal, antibiotic. The thick stuff is the best. Replace it daily.
my nan never ever had an inside or outside toilet, every morning and every nite one of us had to slop out. she lived right on a coastal road, my sis and i would scamper across the road and hurl it over the sea wall, one evening same procedure only as i hurled to contents of the bucket over the sea wall the howling wind sent it straight back in the direction it came from covering me and my sister in what can only be described as a bucket of p**s and s**t....when we got back in the house she's cursing screming as she's cleaning us up... then she gives me the tip.."always feckin duck when ders a bleeding gale ya eejit" perhaps you can pass that to someonelol
In a time of universal deceipt,speaking the truth is a revolutionary act George Orwell
My Nan used to rub a gold ring on a stye and that got rid of it within hours 
