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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!
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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
Mad? certainty not! Just an inspiration. Your scrappy quilt post has inspired me to begin to use up all my scraps in a string quilt for my granddaughter, it's early days yet, but when I get a bit more done I'll be blogging about it crediting you with the inspiration. Definitely going to do the eyebrow waxing too. Thanks, Linda xxx
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I don't think you're mad! I love that shared the waxing with us 🙂
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Not mad, Froogs, no. But inspirational! x
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Good post (as usual).
I still manage to see to pluck my eyebrows but I do have to use a 'Tweezerman' extra magnifying mirror to do it 🙂 It was a birthday pressie off my lovely Mum, the best sort of pressie, one that's in use a couple of times a week.
Sue xx
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Aaaggghhhh no way would I wax my eyebrows, ooohhhh the pain, I am lucky mine seem to grow in quite a nice shape.
I still have not managed to get any shirts at a decent price, I can see a visit to the salvation army shop coming up.
Take a look on my blog at what I was doing yesterday!!
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thank you for making me laugh - my little girl has to wear an eye patch and it is such a battle - when I saw your post it just made me smile and gave me a much happier slant on covering eyes! Thank you x
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My hands won't let me pluck (I'd poke an eye out), I can't be waxed as my skin rebels, so a 'sweet' lady sugars them for me. As I'm fair I only need it doing every few months.
Jane x
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I have my eyebrows waxed every few months and then in between pluck them its the only way I can cope with them! I wouldnt be able to use your method I would end up without any eyebrows.
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Oh dear, I thought you had a patch over your eye as I saw a little part of the picture on Google. Thought you'd poked something in it.
I have been collecting old T shirts in an attempt to make a T shirt rug but don't know whether it might be too heavy to put in the washer when dirty, as I want it for the bathroom.
I love your fabric parcels.
An idea for gift wrapping a little gift, a friend of mine in Germany, many years ago, (well 10), kept old large calenders etc, the glossy pages of magazines etc, and we were going to a birthday party and he used a large sheet from one of these pages to wrap a book. It looked quite unusual.
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You are not mad, you are wise !
I pluck my eyebrows all by myself too, I never thought of having this professionally done though…
The weather is warm here now, so we stopped using the wood-stove about 2 weeks ago ! and we haven't use the central heating since march 18th !
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All these little things soon add up!
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Froogs, when you say “picking,” do you mean picking out one stitch at a time? Or is that just a British term for what we would call ripping the seam out. Because if picking one stitch at a time is how you do it, I have a MUCH faster way for you. After years of literally picking a stitch at a time, I've discovered that if you angle a seam ripper just right that it will slice through all of the thread in the seam in a one quick zap! I can't explain exactly how to hold the seam ripper, but it's worth practicing until you get it right. At the start, I kind of pull the seam apart with my left hand while lining up the ripper with the seam. If you slice through a bit of fabric while you practice, it's not a big deal because it's just the seam allowance. Once you get the hang of it, you'll have a shirt apart in just a couple of minutes.
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One bonus to our super micro bathroom with mini sink, is that I can get really close to the mirror and if I position my glasses just right and can see enough to tweeze. That ought to last for another year and once again I will be too blind to do the job. You gotta do what you gotta do!
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Thanks for sharing - always interesting posts!
My daughter gets those waxing strips for £1 (from the £ shop!) for 20 in a packet - she waxes her own eyebrows and her dad's.
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I love to see all the ways you save money and you never seem to run out of new ways to show us. Your blog is a wonderfully inspiring place to visit, especially when I am feeling a bit fed up about (a lack of) money.
Thanks
Debbie xx
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Now that is pain for gain! I've hesitated doing this but I'm going to 'man up' and get brow waxing!! x
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