Or, in the case of my grandad, go into the wardrobe where nan keeps all the nicest cards she's received and fish out an old anniversary one to give her again.
Jack Monroe #140 This is not what Linda would have wanted
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OH!!! I know her next tip - use an old biscuit tin to store sewing stuff, or if you’re feeling particularly tricksy, an old quality street tin (or tub now I suppose).
Avoid having to send any at all by inventing a cock and bull story about a post office that won't accept mail! You can thank me later for the amazing savings.Ask people to write Christmas and birthday cards in pencil instead of pen and not to lick the envelope. You'll save money and be eco reusing them.
Apologies in advance, I forget she’s always, ‘Completed it mate!’
I don’t get why she set up a separate IG and twitter called “take a shite”
It’s all for thegram grift, though. Lest we forget The Poverty and Jack’s Origins Tory
It’s all for the
I get given jars of pickled onions for Christmas and birthdays, I am #1 pickled onion fan. I'll even use the brine for salad dressings or just consume the odd spoonful of it. If that's wrong then I don't want to be right.
I've got some helpful tin hacks as well! They were going to go into my new book '100 Ways to Con People Out of Their Money While Doing the Bare Minimum of Work' but I'm feeling magnanimous. Put ring pulls inside your empty tins and seal with old cloth and discarded rubber bands from the postie - free maracas! Upend a number of tins of various sizes and use your knackered cutlery for an authentic 1980s thrash metal drum kit. Put empty tins outside in your garden for mouse houses. Put them in the recycling instead of unnecessarily hoarding them to convince yourself you're wringing every last penny of worth out of your certified rubbish.
I've got some helpful tin hacks as well! They were going to go into my new book '100 Ways to Con People Out of Their Money While Doing the Bare Minimum of Work' but I'm feeling magnanimous. Put ring pulls inside your empty tins and seal with old cloth and discarded rubber bands from the postie - free maracas! Upend a number of tins of various sizes and use your knackered cutlery for an authentic 1980s thrash metal drum kit. Put empty tins outside in your garden for mouse houses. Put them in the recycling instead of unnecessarily hoarding them to convince yourself you're wringing every last penny of worth out of your certified rubbish.
OMG I still viscerally feel the disappointment of every time I was at one of my grans’ flats and opened a Roses tin to find sewing paraphernalia
Just had a look on the Linda Mc Instagram comments. Delicious (not Jack’s food, just the comments). I wonder if Jack forewarned them about a cabal of bullying ninnies and that’s why they’re ignoring? It’s very weird to just not acknowledge but leave them up. Pretty sure Jack didn’t anticipate one of the loudest dissenting voices being a full on vegan #influencer tho haha.
I save GU pots, not that we ever really have them tbh. I do a bit of fermentation and they are the perfect size to fit in a kilner jar and act as a weight. Pringle tube lids also fit snugly on them if you want to store little things in them.
Steal my tips Jack and I will invoice you.
Omg amazing! I will definitely try this but can you help? I don’t have a kettle cos my nearest puddle is currently frozen and so has stopped spewing gifts in my general direction. I do however have a sink full of blood-temperature dishwater that I’m trying to keep just the right side of tepid with the aid of an old baking sheet. Only issue is that the sheet is smaller than the sink so it’s just floating there, rusting and turning the water a sort of tincancook braaaaahhn. Can I use this in place of your fancy ‘boiled’ water? 🤍
"1 quick chat"omg her agent of “could you give me a quick ring please?” fame liked THIS tweet!!
Thrifty Jack is my favourite Jack because she brings out the hilarious side of the cabal. I can't wait till this book is published. It's going to be gloriously, absurdly bad...
'Tin can cook'? WTF?"1 quick chat"
Thrifty Jack is my favourite Jack because she brings out the hilarious side of the cabal. I can't wait till this book is published. It's going to be gloriously, absurdly bad...
I strongly suspect she did hence the catastrophic lack of reaction from Linda McCartney (the company, not actual Linda RIP she's blameless in all this). They're basically treating all negative comment as trolling and whilst I don't doubt there has been a bit of bandwagon jumping and mischief it appears to mainly come from genuinely outraged people.OMG I still viscerally feel the disappointment of every time I was at one of my grans’ flats and opened a Roses tin to find sewing paraphernalia
Just had a look on the Linda Mc Instagram comments. Delicious (not Jack’s food, just the comments). I wonder if Jack forewarned them about a cabal of bullying ninnies and that’s why they’re ignoring? It’s very weird to just not acknowledge but leave them up. Pretty sure Jack didn’t anticipate one of the loudest dissenting voices being a full on vegan #influencer tho haha.
In high school they made us do some sort of “things that unite us across cultures” topic in RE, I don’t think the disappointment in finding sewing stuff in a treat tin was quite what Mrs Jones expected us to come up with but there it wasOMG I still viscerally feel the disappointment of every time I was at one of my grans’ flats and opened a Roses tin to find sewing paraphernalia
Just had a look on the Linda Mc Instagram comments. Delicious (not Jack’s food, just the comments). I wonder if Jack forewarned them about a cabal of bullying ninnies and that’s why they’re ignoring? It’s very weird to just not acknowledge but leave them up. Pretty sure Jack didn’t anticipate one of the loudest dissenting voices being a full on vegan #influencer tho haha.
No Jack, not 'purists' - actual chefs, foodies and people who have done the minimum amount of research required to write about food. Unlike you, that is.
I’m looking forward to buying a book on thriftiness/money management from someone who can’t reliably pay her rent every month whilst earning plenty #lifegoals
The only thrifty tip she should be offering is how to get a refund for her boring shite book after it goes on sale
Hey Jack, you need to join British goop, loads of amazing top tips on there
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Jack has started following Clarence Court Eggs on IG. Please no, she'd better not be harking after a partnership with these people, I love their eggs 
I am dying with laughter tonight, that ugly clock, the voodoo doll, a book on collected glove pigeons, pickled onion jars and the cabal with crafty ideas and hacks.
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