Saving everything to re-use!

[Cranford Steve]

I don't know if this is the right place to post but im sure it will be moved if it isn't. Anyway I am an obsessive gardener. I love gardening of all kinds, flowers, trees, shrubs, vegetables the lot!
When taking cuttings or trying to help a few seedlings on there way, I always use a bell jar. But not the expensive glass ones, no an upside down pop bottle. This works just as well and is almost free. It acts as a little greenhouse, keeping the soil warm and giveing the cutting/seedling a fighting chance.

Another one is saving old bottles, yoghurt pots and milk cartons to re-use as pots. This is free and you have a massive amount of pots. I just drill some holes in the bottoms and use as you would normal pots.

Just two of the things I do to save money

[perchy]

Brilliant tips here also

[Cranford Steve]

Brilliant tips here also

Thank you

[Mo]

I collect up plastic glasses for freezing small portions of stew, veg or fruit in. They may only last once before they crack, but better than throwing them out. Also aluminium pie plates get used again if I'm making a pie for the freezer (cut to fit if I want to use a particular tin).
A 4 pint milk bottle cuts down to a useful container to hold eggs or plums.

[p.penn]

My grandparents saved everything for reuse, and I do find myself popping scraps of string from the chooks feed and bits of other stuff in drawers for later.

I have so many jam jars now that I don't know what to do with them all. I almost recycled some the other day.

[Benny&Co]

fab tips thank you

[lancashire lass]

I save everything with a view of "oh, that looks useful" ... but then this can soon turn into clutter and before you know it rubbish, which requires storage space. I'll always find a use for something but these days I'm restraining myself before I turn into one of those sad hoarders who need a bigger house

[sazchops]

I have been thinking lately that I need a bigger house

[Lillia]

I use envelopes that come through the mail to write my lists on.
I use old clothing to make rag rugs.
We shop at the charity shops.
Our curtains are made from sheets and duvet covers.
I mend what I can.
Make my own bread,
and hit up Asda for the mark downs on food, at the end of the day.
We don't spend any money if we can help it.

[entrus]

If you are building a wall in the garden, fill 2ltr plastic bottles with sand and use them as an infill like bricks.


Nick