What won’t I show you?!

Hello Dear Reader.


I’m as blind as a bat without my glasses so I can’t pluck my own eye brows any more. I used to get the local beauty salon to wax my upper lip and eye brows and it used to cost me £13 a month. I now buy a pack of Veet face wax strips and do it myself. I cut the wax strips to the shape I want and use a magnifying mirror. There’s no little fluffy bits left after waxing them. They cost £4.50 for 20 strips and I use two each time, I do this twice a month so the cost for me now is 90p per month!

Smooth brows, even if I do look a bit vacant and far away.


I also save money by not using my oven every day. I bought these plastic food covers from Ikea about six years ago. I keep plated ready meals covered with these in the fridge and re-heat the food the next day. Today, we had meat loaf, roast veggies and steamed veggies and gravy and that’s exactly what we had for supper last night too!

Yep…..needs cleaning!

Well, that was waxing and ding now onto the ripping. Here’s a handy how to dismantle a shirt tutorial. I love doing this, it gives me such pleasure to use all of the shirt. I don’t use the seam with the button holes, but cut that into strips to use as ‘ribbons’. You could tie up plants with it, or even use them as gift ribbon. I start by un-picking the collar.

Next, the sleeves come off and then I unpick the sleeves. There’s loads of fabric in that.

I save all the buttons, you wouldn’t think that I would waste them, would you?

Then I un-do the shoulders. I unpick a few stitches, then, with the fingers close to the stitching, I rip along the seams and pull the seams open.

Here, I’ve un-stitched the pocket and cut the button hole seam down into ribbons.

Finally, I iron it all and tie it neatly up into a fabric bundle until I need it. I’m going to need a lot of fabric for dad’s ‘Oceans away’ quilt.

This all might seem a bit extreme, but I will have enough fabric for a quilt in under £5, it can easily cost £50 to make a handmade quilt. My facial waxing costs £10.80 a year instead of £156 and not using my oven every day saves a lot of money too.


It’s still chilly here and I’m off to watch TV for a while in a room heated by pallets!!! You must all think I’m mad, but I can assure you, I wouldn’t have it any other way.


Until tomorrow,


Love Froogs xxx