We All Want Our Own Homes!

Pobby

Hey, but it`s a shame really when people come on here going on and on about what they own. I know this awful person who when (I try to hide in alleys to avoid him) I can`t get undercover quick enough, will almost give you a total breakdown on his bank balance, salary, value of house and car, total sad, inadequate !!!!!! head. Hmmm business is a little slow right now. Now a match making agency might go well . Pikeypink and awful person, sounds like a match made in b-lls-it land!

Nenen

mewbie wrote: »

OK, it's an old joke but that's not stopped me before.

1st prize is a weekend with PickledPink in luxury mansion with strangely sized kitchen furniture.

2nd place is two weekends...

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PasturesNew

I am truly unworthy then.

I have no bed (sleep on a sofabed). Not only is it a bedsit, but I rent it. I have no job. No degree. No tumble drier. No dishwasher. No plasma screen. No stereo. I have 2 plates (19p each).

Apparently, I am a peasant.

What I do have is my independence. I am mostly of sound mind too.

GracieP

Alybea wrote: »

I think you win because you have antiques and a brilliant duvet They are the trump card!
If they make you happy who needs anything else?

Wait! I have a kingsize 10" deep memory foam mattress with a NASA approved body temperature responsive covering. It lies on a sprung divan base and has a cast iron bed frame. I only use 200 thread count, 100% cotton sheets and I have a range of duvets from 4 - 15 tog.


I also have two vases which are actually 200 year old factory petfood containers which were painted over 100 years ago. They sound odd but are very, very pretty.

Please say I win.:A

MrDT

This thread started badly but it sure got entertaining quickly :T

frank.hopper

!!!!!!, pickledpink !


Such a long post, why couldn't you just have said,


Although extremely BITTER , some people are forced to rent,


Pfttt!

pickledpink

GracieP wrote: »

Wait! I have a kingsize 10" deep memory foam mattress with a NASA approved body temperature responsive covering. It lies on a sprung divan base and has a cast iron bed frame. I only use 200 thread count, 100% cotton sheets and I have a range of duvets from 4 - 15 tog.


I also have two vases which are actually 200 year old factory petfood containers which were painted over 100 years ago. They sound odd but are very, very pretty.

Please say I win.:A

'Fraid not!:p

I only sleep on Cashmere sheets - or linen. And my pillows are Siberian Goose Down - I do like my comforts¬:j

Oh, and my superking bed is a Vi-Sprung - verrrrrrrrrrrry comfortable!:D

I wouldn't have a memory foam mattress - I've heard they can make you all hot and sweaty!:mad:

pickledpink

LillyJ wrote: »

You could think of it in the opposite way - ie tumble drier = can't afford a garden to dry your clothes in

Don't have any antique furniture or art - I am afraid I don't "get" art. 6 years at uni certainly doesn't teach you to be cultured

Wouldn't mind some antique furniture, just not got round to it yet!

Aww lostinrates, maybe you can go stay with Pickled in her half a mil house. On second thoughts........

How d'you think people dry their clothes in the winter - or when it's raining? I thought almost everyone had a tumble dryer these days....................

It was actually Gracie who got in a tizz about my tumble drier - I only ever mentioned it on another board as I thought it was expensive (£1000) - just because it was integrated.

And as for my half million house....................I don't know which neck of the woods you lot live in - but round my way half a million is not a lot of money for a house. Pretty standard actually.

:cool:

GDB2222

Nenen wrote: »

hmmm... not sure if you are insinuating I'm telling fibs! You can tell if someone got an automatic masters after their first degree at Oxford or Cambridge as it is an MA and has the letters (Cantab) after it to denote this. I will be studying for an MPhil... research based, so hopefully I'm not too dense after all!

I'm sorry - I was just pulling your leg. I certainly didn't think you were lying. I hope the research goes well.

lostinrates

pickledpink wrote: »

How d'you think people dry their clothes in the winter - or when it's raining? I thought almost everyone had a tumble dryer these days....................


:cool:

Sometimes, even in England it doesn't rain. On a dry winter day things dry outside. On a windy day things dry very quickly (and survive very light showers.) On wet days yo either don't wash (although it does create a back log, I admit that) or dry on airers inside near a heater if you have the heating on or near an open window chosen with the wind direction in mind. Line dried washing, regardless of what softeners or tumbe drier stuff you use, smells the best, even in Town IMO, and is environementally and wallet friendly.

re beds, some people are cold in bed. I would love a memory foam mattress (I like the air so cold we get ice on the windows but the bed so warm we could be in the tropics) but DH is a hot sleeper. Wehave cats and hot water bottles instead

I long for cashmere blankets, but I'll be longing for a long time. Linen on the other hand, well, I have ttrunk loads of itm mainly inherited, and as gorgeus now as it was when the relatives I inherited it from used it.

As for a bed, I'm trying to convince my parents that they need to get the Versailles bed from AndSoToBed. (my mother hates beds to have a foot). DH and I have sketched the bed we want to get made eventually.

As for the antiques....well, we are about to have a bug sort through and regret we have missed the peak of the US market. Most are pieces that we will hand down and many are piece that could not morally leave the family, but some could go very easily for the right price