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Milo
Joined: 16 May 2005
Posts: 327
Location: Oop North-ish.
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 Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 1:59 pm Post subject: Scrimping? |
 
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Not a word I hear very often, but I like the word and in some instances I do it habitually and like doing it too. Here's an example I picked up from my mum (who was brought up during WWII as one of six children in a hard-up East End family):
Opening a tin of soup, (etc.), (if opening a tin is not in itself is not too profligate), I always run some water (not very much) into the tin and swill it about to get out all the remaining soup, then add the result to the rest of the soup. The process provides more soup!
I'd suggest that there's an element of green-ness about scrimping (in that not scrimping is quite possibly wasteful and un-green).
Do you have any favourite "scrimps"? |
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds
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Breakfast cocktail - all the piddly bits from the bottom of various cereal packets - usually stale and only marginally better than the cardboard box but it makes me feel strangely triumphant as I wave my spoon defianatly at consumer society |
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jocorless
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 4162
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Scrimping? |
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| Milo wrote: |
Opening a tin of soup, (etc.), (if opening a tin is not in itself is not too profligate), I always run some water (not very much) into the tin and swill it about to get out all the remaining soup, then add the result to the rest of the soup. The process provides more soup!
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I thought everyone did that - Do you mean people don't  |
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Milo
Joined: 16 May 2005
Posts: 327
Location: Oop North-ish.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: Scrimping? |
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| jocorless wrote: |
I thought everyone did that - Do you mean people don't |
Yes, they don't! I think you must be mixing with the right people. 
I've thought of a few more:
1. Never use a tea bag only once.
2. Worn down bars of soap. Don't chuck, 'em, squish one against another and make one bigger bar. (My mum once had a small plastic discus-shaped thing with a mesh of holes in it - worn out soap was put inside it and it was then used instead of a bar of soap).
3. Eat the bread crusts rather than chuck 'em. How can people do that!!?
4. Leave the ketchup bottle upside down until the sides look clean and dilute the last of the stubborn stuff with a splash or two of vinegar.
5. Fruit and veg is hardly ever too mouldy if you cut off the bad bits.
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Rosa
Joined: 10 Sep 2006
Posts: 387
Location: Hampshire
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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Adding water to end of washing up liquid, vinegar into last of sauce bottles. Turning shampoo/conditioner bottles upside down. Cleaning shoes when they are dirty, old tights to tie plants up with, and so on------- I wouldn't have thought I was a scrimper but I think I must be |
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jamsam
Joined: 21 Oct 2005
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Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.
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i never use vinegar to swill out sauce bottles, i use water!!
if i have a pan or oven dish withoil or fat left in it, i leave it till the morning when i always get the crusts from the kids and chuck them in it. by tea time they have soaked up all the fat and i then put them out for the birds, clean dish and fat birds..what a scrimp!! |
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Bernie66
Joined: 14 Jan 2005
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Location: The Wirral
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My MIL buys full fat milk and waters it down to add to the ones above. She is a joy. |
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hedgewitch
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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Location: Daft wench GHQ
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Bernie66 wrote: |
| My MIL buys full fat milk and waters it down to add to the ones above. She is a joy. |
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Northern_Lad
Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Location: Somewhere
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My gramdma used to be anti-scimping. She'd cook the bacon with the rid on and then spend 15 minutes cutting it off with a butter knife and feed it to the birds. She weighed about 3 pounds wet through. |
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madmonk
Joined: 08 May 2006
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If my sister has any red wine left after opening the bottle she freezes it to put in her casseroles next time she makes one. left over wine in this house would be a bl**dy miracle. |
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jocorless
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| madmonk wrote: |
| If my sister has any red wine left after opening the bottle she freezes it to put in her casseroles next time she makes one. left over wine in this house would be a bl**dy miracle. |
Same in ours - which reminds me - need a bottle for this evening |
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Andy B
Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 3614
Location: Brum
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Wait till bananas go black, easier on the teeth! |
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2steps
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5228
Location: Grimsby
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Behemoth, my OH loves the crumbly cereal box bottoms.
I rinse out cans, sauce bottles etc eat crusts, save cooking water to make up gravy or stock. |
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hedgewitch
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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Location: Daft wench GHQ
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I have always thought the crust is the best bit of the loaf - they were much fought over when I was growing up. Used to be very puzzled at other kids houses when they threw the crust away  |
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Milo
Joined: 16 May 2005
Posts: 327
Location: Oop North-ish.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 06 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Here (from my Tibet pages) is my favourite example:
My parents invited the group (of Tibetans) to our house for Christmas Day and my memory of the visit is of their happiness and uncomplicatedness. Balloons were excitedly and quite firmly patted around the sitting room. Some of them burst. With unreasonable poignancy, I recall our visitors showed resourcefulness way beyond our western squanderings and seized the balloons' blasted remnants and sucked, blew and twisted them into new mini-balloons with which to continue their celebration of our culture's big holiday. |
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