Household Money Saving Tips

[KevinTW]

Dad bought an outside wood burning stove thing to dispose of some of the excess wood from his jobs, since filling skips with it was costing him money

Been spending 6-7 hours a day in the university which I started off buying meal deals at £3 a day ($$$) popped to asda and for £5 I got 6 bags of crisps, enough sweetcorn and chicken sandwich filling for 4-5 days worth and a 1.5L bottle of coke which I just poured back into the spare 500ml bottle I had lying about to stop me drinking it all in one day.

Also in regards to the grey water system, do you have any problems during the winter months when things get cold? Going to be writing up about eco housing soon and want to see if there's any drawbacks to the grey water systems

The grey water from the shower goes into a 200 litre water butt in a shed by gravity. No freezing probs there. It feeds the basement toilet by gravity. The problem is crap getting in the ball valve. I run it through a mesh filter but it needs a clean once a month. The pumped rainwater tank feeds the washing machine and other higher toilets. The tank is right up against the house and is lagged , as is the outlet hose.It can freeze when very cold but the real trick is to keep out the light to stop algae etc. In summer we add a little bit of lidl bleach and that sorts out any probs. We pay almost £4 a cubic metre here in West Kent