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Have a look at this article about a teacher from ECCLESALL who is either a canny frugal Yorkshire woman, or a tightarse....you decide

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I dont think she is a tight git, just careful with her precious resources

I have used the bath water this summer to water plants and pots, not really to save money, more to save water!!

I also save tea bags and and put them in the garden compost.

She's a supply teacher living in Ecclesall, for g*d's sake. How else would she be able to afford the ridiculous prices up there?

maybe she does part time work to make up her money

like contract murders in Eccelsall
selling cheap TV's in the local pubs
or selling her body as a lady of the night in the red light area up there.



any reference to the lady in this article is purely jesting in attempt to get our infamous hothead to take the bait

I'm sorry to disagree with most of you; but I bet she squeeks when she walks she's that tight!

I think someone who uses their bath water to then wash their clothes is on very dodgy ground

Does she wash her clothes actually in the bath, like down on her hands and knees, I wonder? or does she stagger about with buckets of water dripping up and down the stairs?

Really, could you be arsed?

"Tight" is my vote, "mean, stingy and tight"

But as Max said, to live up the posh end she probably needs every cent she can save

I do hope that she isnt married to T020 or he is going to have my guts for garters

She can't be all that green as she uses toothpaste packaged in non bio-degradable tubing. Personally, I like to use the gritty residue you get when you empty the bath to brush my teeth - it has a fine polishing quality.

Having a bath - lounging in your own dirt - get 'eco' and shower - it saves water, is more refreshing amd cleaner.

ps. I don't have a bath in my flat - just a shower, so, maybe it's just 'shower grapes' on my part!

Originally posted by max
She's a supply teacher living in Ecclesall, for g*d's sake. How else would she be able to afford the ridiculous prices up there?

Considering supply teachers earn around £120 a day, I can't see her mortgage being a big problem.

She does well to recycle her water but washing her clothes in her mucky bathwater is a bit much, as is splitting matches in two.

Tight??? possibly with the matches - never heard of that one - but most of the things she is talking about are recomened for saving the environment and our limited resources!!!

The washing clothes in the bath water is an old one - my grandad washed his socks in the bath water?? :o

I like the idea of reusing the bath water on the garden but I am not sure how the detergents from the water would go down with the plants!!

Perhaps this lady is a wonderful example of how much we take our planet for granted!!

Moon Maiden

Oh Dear!

Being an a member of the dept of Environment and Development at Uni I have to say I agree with water re-use measures, but I wouldn't think it to be too kind to wash your clothes in bathwater (called grey water). In building projects of the future (and even some now) you will find that this grey water (water from baths, and basins) is used to flush the toilet.

Besides, I think showers are much quicker, use less water, and you can have them twice or more a day quickly and efficiently. Now, I think I will go and attach my soiled water pipe to the neighbours garden!

I wonder if she will sell her new PC, or find a new way of powering it, something like linking it to her excersise bike or something!

To be honest if my life revolved around what she does at home, I would sooner top myself.

1Man&HisBMW

Hmmm. Why recycle water anyway? Its not going anywhere, other than back into the water cycle to fall as rain again.

I like to think I'm frugal, but for me that means clipping coupons for groceries and getting BOGOFS. Also turning lights off when not in use. But to reuse bath water!. Get a shower, it takes less water to shower than a bath. The toothpase thing! Phuleeese, toothpaste is not that expensive. Squeeze as much as possible and then throw the bloody thing out, tut. Frugal - Nit Picky.
And how much do you save really? pennies! If she lives in Ecclesall, then she's not exactly on the breadline. In any case, won't her bath water have soap, and detergents from her shampoo. What does that do to the plants? Kill them off so she has to spend money on buying more plants.
I have images of "the Good Life" on TV with Felicity Kendall and wots his name?.. Anyway, that was a funny programme back in the 70s. Hillarious in fact. We laughed because they took being economical and thrifty to the limit.
I liked LouiseB's thread about her staggering about with buckets of water dripping on the stairs. Haha, what ever makes you tic. I'd rather put the sprinklers on, sit back in my deck chair and drink a beer. I might recycle bottle caps into Christmas decorations for the tree.

I knew a man who used every tea bag three times!!!