Frugal Friday
Feb. 2nd, 2024 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
Welcome back to Frugal Friday! This is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which have changed as we've proceeded. (As things have settled down to a nice steady conversational pace, for example, I've deleted the rules about only one tip per person per week and about limiting the length of comments; I was worried early on about people flooding the forum with too much too fast, but I think we're past that risk.)Rule #1: this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc. I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.
Rule #2: this is not a place for you to sell goods or services, period. Here again, I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.
Rule #3: please give your tip a heading that explains briefly what it's about. Homemade Chicken Soup, Garden Containers, Cheap Attic Insulation, and Vinegar Cleans Windows are good examples of headings. That way people can find the things that are relevant for them. If you don't put a heading on your tip it will be deleted.
Rule #4: don't post anything that would amount to advocating criminal activity. Any such suggestions will not be put through.
With that said, have at it!
Re: Uses for discarded tyres.
Date: 2024-02-04 01:59 am (UTC)Didn't manage it with a "real" car tire-- the steel belts in steel-belted radials are nasty, nasty. You can't cut them off "inside" the rubber and so end up with prickly wires sticking out of the sole! Assuming you can manage to cut the rubber well with the wires impeding you, which I could not.
OTH, the 'little donut' spare tires, and some (not sure, maybe all) motorcycle tires are NYLON-belted tires, and the nylon you can cut.
If anyone is worried about the rubber leaching nasties into their garden, take a moment and question: what happens to the tire as it wears out? You change the tire when it goes bald (or hopefully before); a bald tire has lost rather a lot of material; a half-inch, perhaps, all the way around. Where did that rubber go? It's 'dust in the wind'... and in the water. So you'd best hope it's not leaching anything too horrible, because the tire dust in your local reservoir is leaching out into it much faster than the full tire is leaching it into your plants!