Frugal brainwaves that you're ridiculously proud of

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I'm stupidly happy with myself for thinking this one up. I have a fitted sheet that I hate because it's bobbled, the bobbles annoy me so much I was going to throw it away.

I turned it wrong way round, et voila! No bobbles! It's very addictive this penny pinching isn't it?

When I’ve got a small shop, i literally take just a shopping bag, fill it up with the heaviest things first. Carry it round the supermarket.( don’t even bother with basket with wheels)
I cut my shopping down to a quarter of the time and half the cost.

Realised that hot water seals in stains, i.e blood and protein etc, now everything gets a cold wash with a squirt of stain remover except towels which I wash at 40 degrees. Clothes come out a lot cleaner and less bobbled plus less electricity used.

@kateluvscats see I'd love to wash at 30° more often but my machine only does a '30 minutes at 30°' which would be fab if it had a decent spin, but the time saving factor is negated by it only being a quick spin at 800, I need a good 10 minute spin at at least 1200 or I might as well have rung it out by hand 🙄 and remembering to go back and put it on for an extra spin is for people with better memories than me!

Surely when you open the door, touch the laundry and it’s wet it would remind you to spin again? Seems a bit of a non-problem.

Second the celery tips. Unless you're making celery soup, you never use up the whole head. Blanch and freeze. Celery pops up time and again in recipes, (the kangaroo stew I made yesterday for instance) though the frozen stuff is no good for salads.

I do all my clothes washing/dishwasher on cheaper electricity, and make the former coincide with the heating running, as the laundry is ducted. I've never had a dryer. Now it's spring In Melbourne, we enter the grey zone: too hot for heating, too damp to line dry.