soap miser and other things like it

[madelaine]

We now get free wood courtesy of someone who cuts down old trees and all we have to do is saw them into a manageable size for the fire. Last winter we saved a small fortune on our gas bills. You could also probably get small offcuts from your local timber yard very cheaply or even free.

The briquette thing is generally reckoned not to be worth the effort, especially in our climate.

However, our country park wardens are always trimming bits off trees or even felling them and are very happy if someone removes any of the wood which saves them chipping or burning it.

[Fossy]

My Mum use to grate hers with the cheese grater and put it in with the bath salts.

But I can't use salts in the bath.

I wondered why our cheese always tasted funny........

[maplegin]

seeing the toothpaste key reminds me of an elderly uncle who did the sam princible but using a key from I think it was a sardine tin key, am shore there are plenty of things like that, the other thing he and my aunt used to do isdry the orange peel in the evening by the fire & next morning it helped light the fire in the morning instead of fire lighters.