If things get tougher?

mags50_2

mardatha wrote: »

Here they make the sign of the cross as they pass you if you dont wet yourself with excitement at the thought of a ploughing match..

Thanks for that Mardatha!! I haven't laughed so much in ages!!:rotfl::rotfl:

elona

Having just seen the price of a knitted cover for an i-pod you could make an absolute fortune making genuine sheepskin ones.

You could appeal to people who like organic, green products as well as their gadgets as well as the people who want some thing "different!" and "custom made!"

Icewytch

Here they make the sign of the cross as they pass you if you dont wet yourself with excitement at the thought of a ploughing match..

Oh, true! :rotfl:
For anyone old enough to remember American Werewolf In London...that scene where they walk into the pub, and there`s silence, and all the regulars just turn and...stare.....:eek:
Small communities can be scarily Wicker Man-ish sometimes
Thanks for all the sheepy ideas folks, lots of them I`d never thought of, love the notion of ipod covers! :money:

elona

Icewych

If you look on amazon.co.uk you will see the knitted covers and the price will shock you - especialy if you think that genuine sheepskin should be double !:eek:

happytails

I would buy a sheepskin dog coat for my Weimaraner X Dobermann - she freezes even in summer! What a good idea!

xxx

rosieben

Icewytch wrote: »

... .that scene where they walk into the pub, and there`s silence, and all the regulars just turn and...stare.....

I was taking some visitors (from Oz) to a local pub a few years ago and I warned them and they didn't believe me but .....yes that's exactly what happened.......

Caterina

OMIGOD that was totally the scariest film I ever watched in my life - after 25 years since watching it I still have problems walking in the London underground passages at night!

Caterina

mardatha

Oh god Caterina, I still cant watch it all. I live on moors ..... :eek: and we only have 3 streetlights in the village...:eek: :eek:

ceridwen

Oh well Icewytch - at this rate of orders for sheepskin goods from you....I'll just get the little comment in now of "Dont be a stranger" for when you've "made your fortune" from this. Hope you wanted a LOT of work;)

Looks like you mightn't even need the second idea - of selling seaweed as food to "posh" foodstores...courtesy of your relatively unpolluted waters up there.....'oh well.....'twill do for keeping "in reserve"...:D

moanymoany

The other day I got out my little 'Make Do and Mend' book. It has some weird and wonderful ideas in it and I thought about the reactions to the ideas when they first came out. If a woman was given this book in 1939 she would have laughed at some of the ideas. By 1945 I bet it was a rare woman who hadn't done some of the things in the book.

If people were middle class and could buy good quality clothes before the war - they would have lasted much better through the 'Austerity Years'. It must have been the ordinary working class woman who had more problems as cheap clothes would not last.

I know my family sometimes bought 'shoddy' goods - which was re-used fabric which didn't last. Also with shoes. I remember a pair of sandals I had that melted in the rain - they were made of cardboard!

At the moment many people must look at these threads - or hear about these ways to save money - and think they would never do the things we all talk about. I wonder if a few years down the line they will be like wartime women and will have been forced by circumstances to adopt some of the ideas.