After posting about N’s super-glam and ladylike flat in Chelsea, I had to bring the tone down, didn’t I? I couldn’t resist… It’s so easy to make your own toilet cleaner that, when I received my latest delivery of household … Continue reading
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On the face of it, my friend N isn’t a poster girl for frugal living. She lives in Chelsea, works in fashion and plans to celebrate her next birthday in Versailles. Scratch beneath the surface, however, and there is more … Continue reading
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We recently got ourselves a milkman – and haven’t looked back. So when milk&more (the Dairy Crest website) approached me approached me and asked if they could sponsor a post about the joys of having dairy products and countless other … Continue reading
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Short of big pots for your tomato plants? Here’s the perfect tip, from Miss Thrifty reader Sharon: Are you having to pay out for buckets for your tomato plants, or other veg etc..? Take a trip down to your local, … Continue reading
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I was pleased to discover that tomato ketchup can be used to clean copper. I don’t like using those relatively expensive, stinky, finger-burny cleaners. I usually rub copper with lemon halves dipped in salt to remove tarnish, but it’s sticky … Continue reading
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I’ve just had a delivery from Vacuum World: a website filled to bursting with spare parts for just about every vacuum cleaner you can imagine. It carries more than 1,000 products for 30 different brands, from Hoover, Vax and Panasonic … Continue reading
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Most households seem to have an aged bottle of baby oil sitting around, even if there aren’t any babies. After all, it takes forever to use up and it isn’t as if baby oil has a best before date. We … Continue reading
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About a year-and-a-half ago, I wrote a post called How to clean a REALLY dirty oven. It was more of a recipe, really. I’ve just had an email from a reader who found it and tried it: Dear Miss Thrifty, … Continue reading
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Kitchen paper tubes, kitchen roll inners, “cores”, cylinders or whatever the official term is… First of all I composted them. Then I saved them for use in a (predictably abortive) attempt at poisoning all the bindweed in my garden. So … Continue reading
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When Frugal Grandma emailed me the other day to say that you can use a banana skin to shine leather shoes, I was chowing down on a banana and it seemed like fate. Or at least, too good an opportunity … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleRemember Yorkshire Water’s summer competition to find Yorkshire’s Thriftiest Granny? I was invited to judge some of the entries and featured a selection of the thriftiest tips. Here’s a video of the eventual winner, Katrina Cowell from Colton in Leeds, … Continue reading
Read the rest of this article…is a lot of yummy blackberries at this time of year! I have written before about the trials and tribulations of our garden: When we moved in the garden was a mess. The previous occupants had used it as a … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleSo what can you get with a £30 Morrisons voucher? The Sun newspaper’s social media agency got in touch to say that they would bestow a voucher for this very sum upon me, if I told y’all what I’d spend … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleQuestion: look at the picture. What do you see? If your answer is a £14.98 Value Vacuum Cleaner from Tesco, you are only half-right… As it turns out this humble vac won’t just clean your carpets… It will also help … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleOkay, so here’s a question: do you recognise this plant on your left? Erica, whose green fingers are turning her little city garden into a verdant cornucopia of fruit and veg, has these clues for you: 1. It’s a good … Continue reading
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A label maven with a beady eye for bargains and a craving for saving, Miss Thrifty lives in Yorkshire, UK. And no, you won’t find her on a “homestead”, harnessing energy via a mini wind turbine and washing clothes with homemade soapflakes and a hand-cranked mangle.
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