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Welshy

Joined: 25 Jun 2011
Posts: 38
Location: North Wales

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:06 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

Welshy wrote:

I just read up online that they can also be used as a facial scrubber for cleaning your face by scrunching them together and apply just a little water to them and start srubbing your face, this will leave the face like a baby's bum

With a crease down the middle?

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:22 pm Post subject:

I save money by not buying tights - horrid uncomfortable things.

Ignore fashion and don't be vain - buy the plainest simplest clothes you can find and wear them until they are rags.

Bath/shower once or twice a week and strip wash on the other days.

Use half or less of whatever the packaging tells you is appropriate for cleaning products (personal and household).

Walk instead of driving if the distance is less than 2-3 miles.

Eat everything you buy - if you are fat, buy less, eat less.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:35 pm Post subject:

Welshy wrote:

Katieowl wrote:

Oooh my favourite subject! What do you want to save money on Welshy?

Kate

Anything and everything as this is my favourite subject too

How about tights? What could they be used for

Keep them on, and you won't get pregnant.

Although your toes may curl.

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:54 pm Post subject:
Useful for Siamese twin bank robbers.....

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 11 6:30 pm Post subject:
Store onions in them, and hang them up to dry. Buy them all the same colour so if you ladder one leg you can cut it off and wear with another 'single' leg to make a pair. Wear ladies thick tights under your work trousers to keep warm. Builders do this... but don't always confess. They just hope they don't get run over on the way home Cut sections off and use to tie up your hair. Kate

Welshy

Joined: 25 Jun 2011
Posts: 38
Location: North Wales

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 11 6:44 pm Post subject:
I personally don't wear any tights but my neighbour gives me a bag full each month - freshly washed - so far I used them as growing bags for allsorts of veggies and also use them with my soap nuts for my washing Even my old wellies and boots get recycled as I use them as planters for succulent and flowers, what do you use your old shoes, boots or wellies for

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 11 7:45 pm Post subject:

Your neighbour gets through a bagful of tights a month?

I wear my old shoes, boots etc

My wellies are about 25 years old! I rarely wear them, but I'm still amazed that the rubber hasn't degraded in that time. My "going out" shoes are a pair of black suede ballet flats which have been worn about three times and are at least 5 years old (I bought them from a CS). When I stopped working and no longer needed smart shoes they went to a CS. Footwear that is too disgusting to wear goes in the bin nowadays, because it really is rank by the time I give up on it

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 11 7:46 pm Post subject:

marigold wrote:

Footwear that is too disgusting to wear goes in the bin nowadays, because it really is rank by the time I give up on it

Yup. Same here. I was sorting through underwear the other day and wondered what to do with old socks/tights etc and now I know!

T.G

Joined: 13 Sep 2009
Posts: 7280
Location: Somewhere you're not

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 11 10:14 pm Post subject:

Katieowl wrote:

Buy them all the same colour so if you ladder one leg you can cut it off and wear with another 'single' leg to make a pair.

I've done this was sick of having to throw decent tights bar one tiny ladder or hole - just remember to cut the correct leg off

or you could end up with two pairs of useless one legged tights

Katieowl wrote:

Wear ladies thick tights under your work trousers to keep warm. Builders do this... but don't always confess. They just hope they don't get run over on the way home

Motorbikers wear them too under their trouser for the same reason - keeping warm - one lad, my OH knew, who worked at the same company as he did when they were yoofs took it a bit too far. He took to wearing fishnet stockings and suspenders, it all came to light when the lad got knocked off his bike and needed medical attention -

- I shouldn't laugh

faerienono

Joined: 28 May 2011
Posts: 363

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 11 6:41 am Post subject:
socks make great dusters, just slip them over your hand. Tights/stockings can be used when making felted soaps/felted pebbles/felt baubles. I only ever wear the thick tights, like leggings, they seem to last longer, or sheer stckings/holdups, if you ladder one you can replace it.

Bulgarianlily

Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 1667
Location: South West Mountains of Bulgaria

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 11 8:00 am Post subject:
I am running out of old socks here, I cut them into spirals for tieing up tomatos, and make the colourful ones into sock toys.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8916
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 11 9:07 am Post subject:

T.G wrote:

He took to wearing fishnet stockings and suspenders, it all came to light when the lad got knocked off his bike and needed medical attention -

- I shouldn't laugh

Reminds me of the one who was into women's clothing...and wore a lacy thong under his lycra racing shorts....

which was ok until he came off his bike on a wooden velodrome and had to have splinters removed from his rear....the first aider had a job keeping giggles suppressed enough to keep her hands steady

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 11 9:42 am Post subject:

marigold wrote:

As an added bonus, people in the street will also come up to you and give you money for a cup of tea.

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 11 3:01 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

I was sorting through underwear the other day and wondered what to do with old socks/tights etc and now I know!

More suggestions here.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 11 3:36 pm Post subject:
I needed a bottle brush to get into the corners of bottles, which none of the brushes I had would do. So I used strips of t-shirt left from making a mat, about 7" long, 3 or 4 of them, and tied them to the end of a chop stick. Works really well!

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