Mr Straw’s House is my favourite National Trust property. I was going to list it as one of the highlights when the National Trust gave everyone free entry recently, but it’s one of those places where visits have to be … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleMake Do And Mend was published by the UK Ministry of Information in 1943 at a time when clothing was rationed. It aimed to help housewives spruce up their wartime wardrobes and reuse every last scrap of material they had. … 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
Read the rest of this articleMake Do And Mend – in old school style! Take a look at this gorgeous old Make Do And Mend cinereel from wartime. It features an exhibition held by the Board of Trade at Harrods, to show housewives just what … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleWelcome 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
Read the rest of this articleSouth of the Watford Gap? If you are in or around London at 6:30 pm on Thursday 24 February, stylist Hannah J is running a Make Do and Mend workshop on Brick Lane. The tickets are £25 each, which I … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleIt’s New Year’s resolution time. Whirling dervish: on your marks, get set, go! 1. More blogging. I’m going to have more time to blog in 2010: I’ll be blogging on the same range of thrifty subjects, but more frequently. This … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleNext time your cooker, fridge, lawnmower or washing machine breaks, don’t buy a new one. Buy a spare part, and fit it yourself. We did this a while back, when our fan-assisted oven became a fan-unassisted oven. We couldn’t get … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleIt’s getting nippy, isn’t it? The tomato plants in our back garden were still laden with unripened fruit, and I didn’t want to waste it. So this evening I went outside and picked it all in (left). This year we … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleI’m thinking about trying out Furoshiki gift wrapping this year. It’s simple (well, the finished results look simple), pretty and the wrapping can be recycled. You use squares of fabric, rather than spangly paper and ribbons. Check it out: Furoshiki gift … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleDoesn’t this book look marvellous? Make Do And Mend was published in the UK in 1943, by the Ministry of Information, at a time when food and clothes were rationed. The Make Do And Mend slogan summed up British life … 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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