Avoiding waste

• Recycle and encourage others to as this helps to keep the Council tax down.
• Do we need window cleaners when we have the rain?
• Use cheaper alternatives than expensive cleaning products:
  • Clean glasses and jewellery using hot water and a steradent tablet;
  • Clean inside windows with warm water and vinegar and then polish with newspaper.
• Only use a pea size blob of foot cream as the skin cannot absorb more.
• Do not use your mobile telephone when you can use your landline free.
• Avoid dry cleaning or laundrette bills by:
  • Buying coats that are washable.
  • Using 2 lighter duvets that you can wash rather than one heavy one that you cannot.
• Take home serviettes/salt/sugar packets where ever given out free.
• No need to downsize your home. Rent out your spare room to someone who hopefully goes home at weekends.
• Never throw food away unless really mouldy. Make breadcrumbs and bread and butter pudding from stale bread; curries and soups from old vegetables using the stalks too.
• Scrape not peel or chop when preparing vegetables.

– Ideas generated from the Hornsey Pensioners Action Group meeting November 2013