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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
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Why bother with the expense of handcream?
Go and stroke a sheep  |
That's exactly what Gervase says  |
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Milo
Joined: 16 May 2005
Posts: 327
Location: Oop North-ish.
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Our recyclers won't collect windowed envelopes. I can't remember the last time I bought envelopes, years and years ago for certain. I open them carefully down a short side and re-use them with licky-sticky labels (from Free Tibet or Viva!).
So much of our communication is electronic that I don't really send many letters though.
Bubble-wrap envelopes - I give them to a nearby thrifty mail order 2nd-hand CD shop and they use them to mail out to customers. |
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2steps
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5228
Location: Grimsby
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I recycle almost any packaging we have for ebay parcels and try to reuse normal envelopes but don't have many letters to write either. My daughter likes to draw on them though and make letters for her friends  |
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Rowanlady
Joined: 21 Apr 2006
Posts: 142
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I get more envelopes than I can send out - Email takes a lot my correspondence these days!
I use them for shopping lists, notes to hubby and the larger ones for roughs of my Uni work
Then I shred them and add to the compost heap |
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alisjs
Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 06 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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I've been using envelopes to store saved seed! |
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Pea
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 883
Location: Rugby - Chief Scrubber
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Like you Alison my kettle is always on the Rayburn. I do all of my cooking on wood during the winter and also use a steamer for the veggies over the spuds. This sits on top of the stove so I dont use any gas.
Any more superb ideas? |
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Suzie
Joined: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 206
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We are on a water meter so share a bath between the four of us - cleanest one gets luxury of going first, dirtiest goes last Still beats the tin bath in front of the cooker that I had as a kid!
We used to have a toothpaste tube gadget that squeezed every last bit out. Have to find that again.
Usual stuff with old pants used for dusters etc.
Tinfoil cake cases collected from staffroom and used for home baking. God, loads at school - plastic drinks bottles used for making torches, tins for pencil/crayon storage etc (have to be careful when anaphylactic children in class though), wastepaper for craft, papier mache etc, old clothes for quilting/collage etc etc etc
Great thread, makes me realise what more I could do
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alisjs
Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy
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not recommending this one..... however, interesting how attitudes have changed with the times.
My Grandmother used to sew patches on tea towels and continued to use them till they looked like shredded rags! When she died and we were sorting through her stuff, we found a huge stash of brand new tea towels.
Ironic, as my other Grandmother worked in a cotton mill and kept all the family supplied with tea towels, dish cloths and dusters. I've still got a bag full in my garage! I suppose that'll be the stash they find when I die!  |
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Milo
Joined: 16 May 2005
Posts: 327
Location: Oop North-ish.
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| Suzie wrote: |
| plastic drinks bottles used for making torches........, |
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Gervase
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 7002
Location: Ceredigion, West Wales
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The sheep trick really does work. My hands are usually a disgrace from the building work, but I've now trained our teaser wether to come to a call and he lets me rub his neck and chest (Sammy loves it, in fact, and goes all soppy), which gets me a free dose of first-rate hand-cream.
It works wonders with chapped and cracked hands.
Oh dear, re-reading that it does make me sound a trifle odd!  Don't know it 'til you've tried it, though. |
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alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon
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I know what you mean G, I love it when I have to do shearing.
Another thing I used to do a lot, and something I ought to do more, considering our location is coasting down hills, if it is safe, with no trafic behind me.
I used to drive from Glastonbury to Bath to Windsor and back every weekend when I was courting, and my Fiesta would do that on one tank as long as I didn't drive my car at all while there, drove OH's instead, and I was careful on the downhills. |
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Mary-Jane
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: Ceredigion, West Wales
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 06 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| tahir wrote: |
| LynneA wrote: |
Why bother with the expense of handcream?
Go and stroke a sheep |
That's exactly what Gervase says |
And I, as his wife, just stroke the man who has stroked the sheep... |
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Penny
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 06 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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What a fantastic thread  From stroking sheep, to cutting open toothpaste tubes!
This one has GOT to be made into an article...any volunteers |
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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon
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You just walked into it, I believe. Congratulations. |
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wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 11310
Location: Bucks
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| Gervase wrote: |
It works wonders with chapped and cracked hands.
Oh dear, re-reading that it does make me sound a trifle odd! Don't know it 'til you've tried it, though. |
Doesn't it pong though? I bought a jar of lanolin for a handcream recipe, and it stunk! I can't use it, cos OH is allergic to it.
I don't think you're any odder than the rest of us. I rather like being odd, it has class. If I were richer, I could graduate to eccentric instead of just plain odd. |
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