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Welshy



Joined: 25 Jun 2011
Posts: 38
Location: North Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Useful for Siamese twin bank robbers.....

Katieowl



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 11 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 11 6:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 11 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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: 8929
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 11 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 11 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

marigold wrote:
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.


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
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 11 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 11 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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