Old Style Diary Archive - JAN 06

squeaky

tootles wrote:

Quick question, please don't howl me down......I thought we were old style???? why do so many of you use a dishwasher??????

It's a great storage device for dirty dishes

But seriously, I worked out that mine uses less water if I can squeeze a weeks worth of stuff into it than doing a washing up bowl's worth plus soaking and rinsing each day.

It washes with strong cleaning agents that would otherwise take my skin off and uses water way hotter than I could possibly stand.

It's effective and hygenic.

I'm not sure but I think it takes me a whole minute to do the washing up


Old Style isn't about being old fashioned. If that was the case you'd be heading for the nearest river to go thrash your laundry on a convenient rock! It's about being self reliant, thrifty, and a whole lot of other things...

nicki_2

Thanks to my mum my wrist/hand is feeling alot better and I can actually use it to some extent I'd completely forgotten that I had a tubbie-grip in the first-aid/medicine box so when I phoned her before to ask she said "have you got a bandage you can strap it up with?" Somehow that reminded me that last summer FIL needed something to hold his split cast on his broken wrist together while we were all away on holiday in Switzerland and I'd had a tubbie-grip which MIL (a nurse) cut down and used leaving me with just enough for a wrist support which I am now wearing. The difference isn't that much, it still hurts slightly to spread marg and to try and grip anything too small (Like I've just tried to open the front door to a courier with my right hand again and it hurt ALOT to get a hold of the handle :doh: ) but I can at least now open the milk without having to hug it with my right arm and unscrew the lid with my left

Having "fun" ATM entering loads of competitions, hopefully I'll win some decent stuff which can be kept/spent/sold/gifted as appropriate Oh well, off I go again

Sweet_Pea_2

Posting from work today as horrible boss is not here.
Curry Queen - So glad you have moved in OK, and been able to go out too. Well done, thats great!
Queenie - I really enjoy reading your posts because you give me ideas for things I'd like to try, the velvet bags sound great, I too had some of those leggings but I recycled mine to the charity shop, wish I had read your post first.
Johanne - Im sorry about the house, it looked lovely. Someone once said to me when a house we were buying fell through, it is because fate has something else in store for you and it will end up working out better. And it did, we moved into our current house and it has worked out much better in the end, Im glad the original one fell through (although it didnt feel like that at the time) Ill keep my fingers crossed for you, its about time you had some good luck!
Hugs to PP and PP's OH, hope you feel better soon.
Not much on the O/S front today, tea will be bacon and mushroom taglietelle, (except it will have to be spaghetti as I havent got any taglietelle) and I may carry on with DD's fluffy scarf if there is something good on the telly to watch whilst I knit. Also its job paper day so will have to have a good look through that too.
Have a good afternoon, everyone!

johanne

EEk! just got a statement for my electric account (pre-payment meter) they have OVER estimated my usage by 2,666 Units!!!! And are asking for £39.72!!

Just been online and submitted a correct meter reading.. hopefully that will mean i dont owe them anything!

FunkyFairy

Hi all.

The day started well this morning the children and i were ready to leave the house 15 mins early.

Have been at work the children were really well behaved had a few tears. I took register and sang the morning song today.

Home now and catching up on emails. I have to go shopping tonight i have not been since the Wed before christmas we have ran out of everything. Not bad thought that shop was £95.

Got a man coming around tonight to give me a quote on cleaning my house. I am looking foward to this as i am never her to do anything anymore.

Breakfast : cup of tea
Lunch : pasta with sauce
Tea: What ever Morrisons provides

Bye :beer:

kiwichick

Curry_Queen wrote:

Kiwi - does this mean you've finally got the go ahead to move then? :j ... my advice would be to try and do as much de-cluttering as you can beforehand so you don't cart stuff you don't need to the new place, plus, if you've got two months yet then I'd start packing away the things you don't need to use right now, as you'd be surprised at how quickly moving day will come around then it will be panic stations LOL!

Yep, well sort of We finally sold our house the week before xmas, its been on the market for A YEAR! Thankfully we managed to get the same house we were going for last time. It was still on the market and we got is for £1k less than before. That was fantastic for us cause we'ed already paid out on a survey and mortgage app for it before the last purchase fell through. If we'ed had to go for a different place we would havelost in the region of £1k.

The agents say everthing ought to be exchanged and completed by very late feb/early march so will be moving then. I have half the loft filled with boxes packed and labeled as to which room they need unpacking into. I've even put all but one lot of bedding away Kids toys have been pared down to the bare minimum to keep them amused and the rest is packed. All the summer clothes are packed. I need to go through the kitchen though and I also have some kit that needs listing on ebay.

Hopefully it wont be too bad come moving day The one worry is that we have built in wardrobes here but none at the newplace so will have nothing to unpack the clothes onto. I am thinking of getting some in the sales now but need to ask for measurements in the new place first. Do you think thats cheeky?

Blimey, it making me tired thinking about it all.

tootles_2

squeaky wrote:

Old Style isn't about being old fashioned.


It should not be called old style then, old style washing up if its done correctly is as efficient as using a dish washer, not using chemicals can only be good for the environment, washing up liquid is I believe a lot less caustic than the stuff you put in a dish washer, and pouring the boiling water over the dishes is the same as using the dishwasher.

Leaving dirty dishes in a dishwasher for a week, the DW must stink by the time you come to do a wash or do you rinse the plates before you put them in???

Pooky

tootles wrote:

Quick question, please don't howl me down......I thought we were old style???? why do so many of you use a dishwasher?????? I still wash dishes by hand, it takes me 15 minutes at the most and I do not have to have hugh amounts of crockery. Oven tins get soaked in a mixture of washing soda and washing up liquid, I fill them as soon as I have emptied the tin and leave it to stand whilst we are eating, by the time we come to wash up, everything just sluices odd, a little scrub with a scourer gets off the difficult bits, the rest of the stuff, bowl filled with hot water and washing up iquid, plates etc put in as we use them, when they are washed I pour a kettle of boiling water oven them and leave them to dry, only thing that gets polished is glasses which I do wash seperately.

Firstly because I hate washing up - Secondly with the 4 of us and 4 childminding children in the house at any one time there's always a lot of dishes, cups and pots. The dishwasher actually does a fantastic job of cleaning and sterilising all the bits I need for the little ones (yes I know it's not sterile once it comes out) but it's all as clean as it can get.

I start work at 7.30 most mornings and having little ones dropped off and bigs ones to get to school doesn't leave much time for washing up - I start with an empty dishwasher most mornings and fill it during the day - it only gets used once a day if I'm working - the days I'm at home alone, things get washed and dried and put away as they're used.

I've not noticed any extra on my electricity bill and the washing powder I use (lidl's own) is around £2.95 for a huge tub which lasts me 4 months. It allows me to be OS in other ways, there's no way I'd bake as much as I do without it!

We all have appliances that we couldn't be without that others wonder why about - it's a case of different strokes for different folks I suppose....

I LOVE MY DW!!!! :j

Aril

Hi everyone!
Been a bit of a strange morning really as I was due to have a college tutorial at 10am but when I got there my tutor said she hadn't received it even though it was emailed before Christmas. Bit of a wasted trip but it wasn't me driving.....
Have hoovered through today and sorted out the white wash. All mending jobs got finished last night along with the monthly accounts. Got our cash reward back from the credit card so the bill came in at less than expected. Good oh!
Am going to sit down with OH tonight and plan where we are going to take our short break in Dorset in June as my parents gave us a lump sum for it rather than Christmas presents. Now need to work out a way of finding a cheapish B & B as sites I've checked seem to think £40pppp is reasonable :eek:
Have a trip to the library planned on the way home today and am hoping that the small person will start his art therapy at school today which is supposed to help him with his social skills [Aspergers]
Thurs eve is always a bit hectic in our house as we've got Beavers etc etc happening so it'll be sardine burgers tonight [I always seem to be making sardine burgers whenever I post on the daily thread but I do cook other things aswell. Honest! :rotfl:
TTFN
Aril

Yorkielass

All quiet here at work atm so having a bit of r+r on the internet. Very proud as I bought my own lunch in today - well I put some philiedelphia light into one little pot, some salsa out a jar into another and then some nachos in a bag - but much cheaper than buying from a shop, or buying ready made versions. Also eating an apple and have banana for later trying not to eat too much chocolate at work, sweet and sour chicken tonight (out of a jar but will be attempting my own sauce next time - didn't have time to find out what to do before shopping trip last night ).

OH is having a day at home (working I hope) so will be putting some washing on apparently so that's good.

Might brave ebay for the first time tonight - just a few things but selling stuff not going well this month :eek:

PP - hope hospital was ok

CQ - lovely to have you back, agree completely with your moving advice to Kiwichick - the car boot sale we did before we moved was great, and we used to money to buy 2 bed side sets of drawers so we could store stuff in, and when these get a bit full we do another clear through.

Johanne - so sorry about the house - happened to me as a student - we were actually looking round the house when the people who had viewed before called the lady and said they wanted it - really hope you get it sorted, when we got the one we live in now I phoned up and said that we really needed somewhere as we had a few weeks to move and we were slotted in that morning even though others had appointments that week - presumably because they knew we'd almost certainly say yes.

Nicki - you must be so proud of your little girl - congratulations.

Anyway must get on - hugs to anyone else I've forgotten :wave: