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Post by timeshift on Jul 1, 2009 20:34:41 GMT
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Post by lunnie on Jul 1, 2009 23:09:56 GMT
I am very lucky to have a micro bottle of fairy liquid, think they were from when it was first on offer many moons ago. My husband used them for tenting. Did have 3 but DIL leaves them in the wash-up area so 2 are lost, she is NOT getting her hands on to my last one! ( I cook, DIL washes up)
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Post by wendy on Jul 2, 2009 7:49:40 GMT
A good website, but being of the 'skinflint' variety, I usually re-use ones from other things. I have a cupboard full of Body Shop bottles waiting for their turn!
I used to have some of the small fairy liquid bottles but they have all disappeared over the years. They were sent out as free samples.
I have recently bought some plastic upside down squeezy ketchup and mayonnaise bottles which will be refilled with their cheaper equivalents.
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caz
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Post by caz on Jul 2, 2009 15:23:43 GMT
Topping up small lightweight containers for use when camping is an obssession of mine!
I'm still using the sample bottle of Persil washing up liquid in the van - must have had it at least 20 years! In my tenting "kitchen" box (my old baby changing box) I have the bottle which was a free sample of Ecover w/up liquid from the NEC show a couple of years ago.
In the van, the coffee is in a plastic screw top "jar" that originally contained salted peanuts, the sugar jar came originally with gravy granules, so did the powdered milk one, the cooking salt is in a pill container. ;D
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Post by wendy on Jul 3, 2009 7:28:01 GMT
35mm film pots (a bit rare these days) are good for small quantities of herbs and spices.
They are also useful for saving £2 coins as they fit perfectly and hold £30. Good way to save for holidays.
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Post by yamaha on Jul 3, 2009 8:40:27 GMT
Lickle bottles - never can find one when the Doctor wants a urine sample................. !!  Mike |
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Post by roamerog on Jul 7, 2009 10:11:01 GMT
I had my eye on a nearly empty bottle of Johnson's baby oil in the bathroom cupboard which I am convinced would make an ideal container for washing up liquid, but the next time I looked my wife had thrown it away. Damn! (divorce pending).
Our Romahome Hy-Lo has a shelf over the cooker where we wanted to keep coffee, tea and sugar in containers which could be left there when the roof is down. Ordinary coffee jars and tea caddies are too tall, and any tub or jar I found short enough was too small to hold a decent amount of coffee. Only very short jars would fit, and I wanted lightweight plastic not glass jars for fear of accidentally dropping them on the glass cooker cover. Also I wanted screw top lids rather than fiddly snap-on things which make you spill half the contents when you open them. (You may have guessed I am a clumsy mutt!) I searched 'hy' and 'lo' for suitable containers and eventually found the perfect thing. Circle 7 stores sell a range of transparent PET jars (food grade plastic) with cream coloured screw top lids including a squat jar EXACTLY the right size! (4.5 inches high x 3.5 inches diameter).
Space is at a premium in the Hy-Lo and the size and shape of things is critical. I think I may be getting a little bit obsessive about it. They're coming to take me aw......... . . .
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Post by timeshift on Jul 16, 2009 19:51:47 GMT
I find that Instant Horlicks plastic containers fit well.
And in a real Blue Peter moment I bought a pack of seven bath sponges from my local 'cheap shop (79 pence!) and cut holes to fit the little bottles and Horlicks jars so they don't fall over when I drive.
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Post by viv on Jul 21, 2009 22:07:31 GMT
I filled up some plastic complimentary hotel shower and shampoo bottles with my own shampoo and conditioner but alas when I tried to use them the contents just would not come out and the plastic was too hard to squeeze, took me ages to wash my hair, sticking to the empty body shop bottles now!
I have some very small clear plastic screw top make up pots/dishes from Superdrug which I use for herbs and spices. They all screw together to make one little tiny tower - bottom of one is lid of next one.
Love the bath sponge idea and the film pots.
Have spent all day making an extra shelf which sits over my cutlery which is stored in a plastic bacon keeper at bottom of cupboard over sink.
Necessity is keeping us all busy and out of mischief!
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Post by lunnie on Aug 8, 2009 9:59:32 GMT
The Actimel bottles are excellent too, or any of those which hold the health drinks in. and the labels peel off, ready for your own.
Just shows on here , what our little grey cells can do when necessary.
I too like the sponge idea.
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