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The One Show's family have come up with their tips for living frugally. Watch our exclusive video to find out who's an advocate of hand-me downs and who uses the tea bag twice!
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1) Keep a听flask by the kettle so whenever kettle is boiled, any leftover hot water put into flask for making a quick drink later in day.
2) Use newspaper to polish windows.
3) Don't peel potatoes before boiling them. Instead, boil them in their skins and peels afterwards as this saves the flesh and they taste better.
4) Freeze orange/lemon peels and when you have enough boil up to make marmalade.
5) After turning iron off, use remaining heat to press tea towels etc.
6) After turning off oven use remaining heat in dying oven to make melba toast with old dry bread split into two.
7) Turn stale bread into breadcrumbs for frying fish, adding to mince etc.
8) Boil knee high stockings together so they come out similar colours. Useful if you ladder one.
9) Make own soups e.g. veg soup from vegetables marked down at supermarket.
10) Don't wash out honey or jam jars. Save them until making stewed fruit -听put in a little bit of warm water, swish around and it gives you sweet sugar.
11) Use paper from top of butter to grease tins for baking.
12) Never buy Christmas tags. Use bits of pattern cut from wrapping paper or chocolate boxes.听
13) Jumble sales. Buy clothing even if you don't听like it because you can re-use zips and lace.
14) Makes your own curtains.
15) Ask at the supermarket for a free ham bone she can use to make stock with.
16) Use spare drop of wine from bottom of bottle in gravy.
17) Make worn sheets usable again by cutting out the middle, sewing up the middle using a flat seam so it is comfortable. Sew the worn section onto the outside edge.
18) Cut wide post-it notes in half to get double the use.
19) Alway scrapes out the last bit of toothpaste from the tube.
20) Collects up scraps of soap bars. Once you have sufficient, squeeze them into a plastic tube, fill it with boiling water, leave for a couple of months, cut off the plastic and you have a new solid bar of soap.听
How frugal are you?
We're on the look-out for the UK's most frugal person, so if you refuse to throw anything away and have money saving tips coming out of your ears, then please nominate yourself and leave a comment, below.
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What are your frugal tips? Your ways of cutting down on the day-to-day spend?
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