How Tight Are You?

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Moodyman

Legendary Member
A neighbour let their house out but left the 'To Let' sign in the garden. Last week, I took the sign and separated the plastic corrugated bit from the wooden pole.

The corrugated sheets are great pannier liners and the pole will be used to prop up the washing line when it's carrying a heavy load.
 

Tail End Charlie

Well, write it down boy ......
I get a free coffee at my local supermarket. Often the ladies who lunch (or usually afternoon tea) aren't able to eat all the scones or French fancies. I have no problem finishing off what they leave. I must say I'm sure one day I'll be polishing off the food when one of them returns after having only gone to the toilet.
 

Colin_P

Guru
500g paraffin candles all grated up on a cheese grate, melted in a litre of white spirit, plus half a litre of duck oil and half a litre of new engine oil. Sprays on, looks, and semi dries like the real thing.

I'm a big fan of this stuff. If the name of it isn't cool enough by itself, every shed and or workshop to have a tin on the shelf, just because.

Of course some sensitive types wouldn't be able to even buy it and would probably freak out and think that they are being trolled by a tin of supertrol and run out the shop crying. It doesn't even have a double L.

In the same vain as your DIY supertrol and being tight, have you tried GT85 as aftershave? I kid you not, there is a lot of soothing lavender oil in that stuff.

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Another one here who buys groceries on yellow sticker. Am one of the "regulars" in my local supermarket.

Things like toiletries, cleaning products, cat food, loo roll, kitchen roll etc gets bought in bulk.

I make my own jams and preserves, either from fruit I've got in the garden or from stuff bought on YS.

Am also of the school of thought "buy cheap, buy twice". I'd rather get a good quality item and take care of it than buy cheap tat and have it fall apart. Clothes and footwear are a classic case in point.
 

Moodyman

Legendary Member
Petrol station plastic gloves. Great glove/mitts liners when your evening bicycle commute is colder than you're prepared for.
 

Moodyman

Legendary Member
Talking of old inner tubes, they fantastic for using as shimmys or to protect the surface when clamping two items together.
 

Donger

Convoi Exceptionnel
Location
Quedgeley, Glos.
My parents were from good old Yorkshire stock. One of their fond memories from their times up North in the 1950s was of a friend whose car was famously falling to bits .... rust holes in the chassis you could put your fist through. His chosen method of remedying such things was always to "clag it together wi' clarts". By this he meant slapping on a mixture of mud and cow s**t and leaving it to dry hard. My dad once dislodged one particularly big "clart" while being given a lift across the Dales and put his foot right through the floor pan. Anyone else would have either got it welded or decided it was time to get a new car. Dad's mate just re-clagged it and kept the thing going for several more years after that.
 
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