Gran Morag's Old Tricks

Hello, I’m Gran Morag. I’m 78, a widow, and these days I live with my daughter’s family in an ordinary British semi.

My mother taught me how to make a little go a very long way, and a lifetime of cold winters and tight budgets taught me the rest.

Here you’ll find plain, cheap, old tricks for a thrifty home: keeping warm without big heating bills, cleaning, laundry, the kitchen, saving money and the small things that make a house feel kinder.

Each video is a numbered list, told the way I’d tell it at my own kitchen table.


Put the kettle on and stay a while.