Monthly Archives: March 2010

  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 2
  • Posted: March 30, 2010
  • Category: House & Garden

Clean curtains the thrifty way

I’ve found a cheap new way to clean curtains. Confession time : it’s about reinvigorating rather than washing, but I was reluctant to call this post Reinvigorate curtains the thrifty way as it would have made me sound a bit… … Continue reading

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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 6
  • Posted: March 29, 2010
  • Category: House & Garden

BT: charging me for services I don’t use

Our monthly BT bill has been much reduced since we swapped out our BT broadband for Orange, which is a third of the price. We don’t use our landline phone very much either; we tend to use it at weekends, … Continue reading

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Get rid of bindweed? Gosh, I’d like to…

“Do you know how to get rid of bindweed?” said my husband over breakfast this morning, with a know-it-all air. “How?” For a second, I thought he was going to deliver the revelation that would transform the garden for the … Continue reading

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  • By: Miss Thrifty
  • Comments: 2
  • Posted: March 8, 2010
  • Category: House & Garden

Want cheaper energy bills? Here’s a new idea…

A millionaire businessman, Matt Stockdale, is launching a new energy company – charging gas and electricity at cost. Fat cats, begorrah! The company is called At Cost Energy. It isn’t up and running yet – at the time of writing, … Continue reading

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The 219th Festival of Frugality: The Ration Book Edition

Welcome to the 219th Festival of Frugality! We are on the right the other side of the pond this week so, as on previous occasions, I thought I’d go for a British theme. This time around we are looking at … Continue reading

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