Save the pennies and....

Foxyferret

I turn sauce bottles upside down and balance them carefully

on top of the new ones when you have used some. I do it with hand wash bottles and washing up bottles too. You get every little bit out.

I have done this at a dd’s house - after finding 2 or more large bottles of ketchup with just a little bit in the bottom. Decant into a 3rd fuller one, rinse and ditch the empty ones. Gives me pleasure to make space in her crammed pull-out larder!

Sinamae, thanks. I had thought of taking the lump hammer to the bag of hardened soda and bashing it on a concrete slab outdoors.

I have now tried dissolving a large lump in water. It took overnight soaking to do it. However I have a pillow case with a bad stain where the dog chewed his dirty old tennis ball, and a short soak in the resulting soda solution did the trick.

Shinamae

Shinamae

I wash most things now on a 14 minute wash, it is at 40° and I have it at the highest spin speed. I remember when there were no such thing as washing machines and I doubt many people spent 14 minutes doing a hand wash…?

I'm only 56 but gosh, would I love a mangle!!
We did handwashing at boarding school and we used mangles. It was amazing how much water we could get out.
I imagine there would be some we could get out of spun clothes, and blankets & duvets!

OxfordGran

A heavy door curtain, absorbing draughts, cold, noise,
old fashioned but effective,
keeps the hallway cosy and quiet, keeps precious heat in the home.

ALSO
Letterbox draught excluders.
Door draft excluders.
Go around closed windows and doors with a lighted candle to work out where the draughts are coming from, and then bung up with blu tack or white tack, or cover with plastic sheeting.
Lots of draughts can come down thru your lofts, so do whatever you can to stop that. Maybe tack carpet around the hatch, so it'll act as a draught excluder once the hatch is back in place.
Thicker curtains on windows for the winter, and give yourself a different pattern to look at while you can get the summer curtains washed. Or put curtain liners up.
Wear socks under your slippers, t-shirts under your nightclothes.
Wear leggings or thicker tights under trousers. An extra t-shirt under blouses.

Yammy
Ditch the paper hankies, and buy an extra toilet roll or 2.
Just use what you need. Squares/ lengths can also be folded to go in your handbag.
Aldi's do a large kitchen roll for about £1.99. I use it for crafting messes and it's great.

I think most of us do loads of money saving things and follow the well known frugal sites. The only way I will be able to save this winter is by lowering the food budget which is pretty small as it is. It will be a long winter for most of us.

Ali) I prefer to use kitchen towel. You can fold a couple of sheets of kitchen paper, tuck them up your sleeve or in a pocket, and when you pull them out they are still wwhole, entire aand useable. I find tissues too soft and too inclined to crumple and tear, so you pull a clean tissue out of a pocket or sleeve and it is unuseable.

Now that is the way to do it. Give people incentive for cutting down on energy use, Bravo:

Two French energy companies will be offering their customers up to €120 off their bills in the spring if they reduce their consumption this winter.

TotalEnergies and Engie have responded to a request from the French government, which asked the suppliers to help reduce overall energy usage and thus diminish the risk of shortages and potential power cuts over the winter.