It is tough NOW. So how are we coping

calleyw

Frugalista wrote: »

Your description of the ash, the melted carpet, the pallets and the variable heat all sound like home :rolleyes:

:rotfl:

Can you tell I was brought in house with wood burning rayburn in the kitchen and the stove in the living room.

Oh we where posh we had real wood. As my dad sells it. But my mum always was last on the list for a load :rotfl:

It is not as glamorous as people think it is.


Yours


Calley

lucielle

I love my stove and this thread.
L

Patchwork_Quilt

I misread it as melted cats, not melted mats.

I bet it happens. Ours lost her whiskers investigating a candle once.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

I misread it as melted cats, not melted mats.

I bet it happens. Ours lost her whiskers investigating a candle once.

We could never put coal on our fire and leave the cat alone in the room.
He would always climb onto the top on the coals and go to sleep.
I've had many cats but never one as stupid as that one.
He got singed on several occasions.

furndire

calleyw wrote: »

Wood burners are nice but they do have there downsides

Need ashes to be emptied every few days which in turns create dust. Although you do need some ashes to get a good fire going.
Unless they are kept in over night, the room is cold and it takes a while to heat up. Longer than central heating.
Your chimney needs to swept on a yearly basis
Not as controllable as central heating. Can get too hot. Lovely while lying down on the floor but stand up and you almost faint from the heat. Or is that just the way my dad likes it.
Need a constant supply of dry wood. As wells as newpapers to light the thing.
If you are buying wood it is not that cheap. Anyone would think it grows on trees and is free :rolleyes:
Pallets need to be broken down. Not easy and chain saws scare me. I have seen the damage they do, gives me the shivers.
Sparks can jump out and melt carpets and mats.

I am sure that there are a few other things. Might be nice when you are young. But when I am 60's and 70's I really don't want to have be empty ashes. Lugging a bucket outside with the wind whipping up and it all going up in to my face.

Yours

Calley

Totally agree with you Calley - oh to be young again, and learn it all over again :rotfl: been there, done that - melted the carpet!!!!!
Wood certainly isn't cheap to buy.
We built our own house, and didn't put a single fireplace in it!!!!!!!! Went overboard with the insulation.
Its a bit like sanding floorboards in old houses, and getting the draughts blowing up through the cracks!!! and wondering why the house is cold.

cheerfulness4

savingmore wrote: »

would love to have a copy of your £100 menu planning and shopping list? could you post it? that would be great.....:D

Here you go.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=697339&highlight=menu+plan

Sammy_kaye did a whole thread about it. Very useful I found.

BigMummaF

calleyw wrote: »

:rotfl:..........
It is not as glamorous as people think it is.........
Yours......Calley

I think you've hit the nail on the head there Calley! We've had family living in every corner of the country & always oooh'd & aahh'd at the beauty & idealistic ways they appeared to live. Likewise, they've had similar response when visiting me:eek:
I visited my mate the other day who moved house around 18mths ago & she was saying the same sort of thing. When they viewed there were obviously ideas about what they would do where but after the reality of living with the place, a lot of the plans have changed......
It is very true that you need to walk a mile in another [wo]man's shoes before wishing you had what they appear to have Raising my hand here too, to say that I've hankered for the Oxo Family lifestyle; the hooooooodje bedrooms & views from my reclining sofa a la SleepIzzUzz etc :rotfl:

Personally there's a lot I would have if I had the money..utility room, much more kitchen storage, a gardener, chauffeur, housekeeper ......

ceridwen

...well....I'd feel the house was a lot more "workable" if I just had a walk-in oldfashioned larder and a decent garden (80' - 100' long is what I have in mind). Thinks.....greenhouse....compost heap...pond...drool.....

....and no bother EVER from neighbours noise....:rolleyes:

gairlochgal

ceridwen wrote: »

that post about a child deliberately ruining a new £300 bike because he didnt like the colour .

Gosh.... I didn't see that post but yours made me feel good about my kids. I just got them 2 bikes for £10 from a guy on a community web site and they are blown away by the bargain. My 11 yr old keeps going on about what a good deal it was - hope this doesn't bite me back in the teen stage!

savingmore

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

Here you go.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=697339&highlight=menu+plan

Sammy_kaye did a whole thread about it. Very useful I found.

thanks alot for this, just subscribed to sammy_kaye's thread so have it, thanks alot!