Make with no money.

Yes, I'm with the Newspaper- cleaning glass group. Nice clear door on my woodburning stove, then the paper starts the fire - win/ win. Sides to middle sheets, however- best left in the past...

... this is a lovely thread

Newspaper squares on a nail on the door of the outside 'privy'.

Isinglass to preserve eggs - my mother was still doing this in the late 60s. She kept chickens and lived in the middle of nowhere so couldn't shop frequently.

Home-grown carrots and potatoes kept in a sand-box in an outhouse.

Lux soap flakes - my grandmother used to dissolve these to do the washing up after a meal. So many times I would find a flake dried and glued to a cup of tea...

Does anyone also remember when you had to buy olive-oil from the chemist! My mother, in the 40s prepared a special vegetable dish using olive oil and salt. I remember this tiny bottle sitting on the kitchen shelf.

Witzend

It was ‘sides to middles’ in our house!

And mine, but it wasn't uncomfortable.
I wonder if that's because my mum was a tailor or because of the type of sheet.
I still have some side-to-middle offcuts in our "rag bag". They were my brushed cotton winter sheets in the 1950s.

I remember olive oil from the chemist Dickens! It was very expensive.

Bras . How many do you own and do you change daily

NotSpaghetti

I remember olive oil from the chemist Dickens! It was very expensive.

Yes it was!

I also remember having to purchase it from the Chemist - must've been in the 60s

"The oil extracted from olives, called olive oil, or salad oil, is, with the continentals, in continual request, more dishes being prepared with than without it, we should imagine. With us, it is principally used in mixing a salad, and when thus employed, it tends to prevent fermentation, and is an antidote against flatulency."

- from Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, published in 1861

I'm now growing olives in my garden and conservatory (in the winter months). But 'curing' them is a faff, according to my son who lives in South Africa and has spent hours doing it.

Does anyone also remember when you had to buy olive-oil from the chemist! My mother, in the 40s prepared a special vegetable dish using olive oil and salt. I remember this tiny bottle sitting on the kitchen shelf.

Our little bottle of olive oil, from Timothy Whites and Taylors, sat in the bathroom cabinet. If you had a sore ear, some would be warmed and poured in your ear with a plug of cotton wool to stop it dribbling out.

Runner beans were laid down in jars in salt for over the winter. They always tasted too salty, we children didn't like them.

Beer at Home Means Davenports and also the Corona man delivered pop, such as Dandelion and Burdock with a proper stopper. There was a refund on the glass bottles.

Cutting up old t shirts for dusters and shoe cleaning cloths.

I still do that.

Yes I remember Corona,the cherry one was the best drink I've ever had.Also remember the warm olive oil for ear ache.
If we had pain or temperature,an aspirin was crushed up and mixed with jam so it tasted better.Why on earth was butter put on a bump on the head ? never understood that one. Ive never heard of lux flakes for washing up but used them for baby clothes.Never had salted beans but bought runner bean chutney befire Christmas and hubbie scoffed the lot,

A candle rubbed on sticking wooden draws.

A pencil lead rubbed up and down a zip if sticking.

All the above
Sixpence on the suspenders
Nail varnish on the ladders
Steeped tea to brown the legs in summer
We put a bit of Marge or lard on squeezing doors (I still do)
Olive oil and vinegar mixed together in a little bottle and used as a sun cream
Newspapers for cleaning windows
A dab of whiskey for toothache
Salt warmed up in a handkerchief for earache
Sitting on a little stool in front of the open gas oven to dry my hair
Airing clothes under the pillow in bed
No tinned dog cat food off to the butcher for scraps and bones
All the food off cuts put out and collected by the ‘pig man’
Toasting bread on a long toasting fork and getting red mottled legs 🤣

A pencil lead rubbed up and down a zip if sticking

Oh, that's a new one, thank you 🙂

We still have a toasting fork ' but no open fire 🙂

Bread toasted on a fork in my memory always tasted better than when made in a toaster. I also seem to remember a poker being put in the fire until it was red hot and then plunged into water, but I can’t remember what that was for, by far the worst was being sewn into a’vest’ made of brown paper that was covered in goose lard. This was for a bronchial
coughs. Fortunat

Sorry……. Fortunately I was not allowed to go out as a result of the cough - I would have crackled!