Make with no money.

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

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

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

A pencil lead rubbed up and down a zip if sticking

Oh, that's a new one, thank you 🙂

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 candle rubbed on sticking wooden draws.

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

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,

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

I still do that.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

... 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.

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...

Woolworths used to sell one legged tights for a bit! Certainly remember the nail varnish trick.

Remember all of these. Like so many dads after the war, my dad had a last and did all our shoe repairs. He would put segs on our school shoes and I loved the sound they made.
Mum would unpick hand knitted jumpers and reknit using the wool (and yes, I still do the same!)

Witzend

Lemon juice followed by sitting in hot sun (when there was any) to brighten up fair hair. I’m not sure it worked, though.

My children did that when they were young; I didn't know they'd taken the Jif lemons to squirt in their hair. Their hair went a very odd shade.

Yes, I remember sides to middle, Nannynoodles and Witzend and the flat French seam down the middle, which I could still feel.

Dad used to put on heel savers which clicked.

Egg white on your face though goodness knows why I needed a facial skin tightener at age 15.

It sounds as if we'd all be great assets to The Repair Shop. 🙂

It was ‘sides to middles’ in our house!

Nanny noodles, my Mum did that she called it ' edge to middles' !

Buttons for suspenders ,.yes remember that well. Cutting the ladderrd leg off tights, so basically wearing two pairs of tights each with one leg !! Worked well.
I always clean windows with a spray cleaner then buff with newspaper - can't beat it!!

Our sheets would be used till they wore away in the middle where we slept on them, then Mum would cut them in half lengthways and sew the edges together so we had to sleep on a lumpy seam! I used to hate them as it was so uncomfortable- it only stopped when I wrote about it in my Topic book at school when we had to write about our weekend and Mum was so embarrassed she threw them away.
The next week I was instructed to write about how we went shopping for new sheets!!

Lemon juice followed by sitting in hot sun (when there was any) to brighten up fair hair. I’m not sure it worked, though.

My mum used to wear tights. If one leg of a pair was badly laddered she would cut of that leg at the top. She used to wear two pairs of one legged tights at the same time. So she had two bodies and two legs. Obviously she bought the same colour and brand of tights all the time so that they matched. Hope that makes sense.

Like SunshineSally I used to put heel protectors on my shoe heels and liked the click they made.

Still nothing wrong with a bit of mend and make do I got to do it all the time