Thrifty Gifty - Money Making for Christmas & All Ocassions 2009

sylphraven

Hi focus, nice to see you back.
I find with the cheap electricals you get what you pay for. A sandwich toaster for £5 will happily toast a sandwich, it might not cut it down the middle very well, it might take a bit of time, it might even be trickier to clean than a more expensive one but it should toast your sarnie & last a little while. If you pay a bit more for one its likely to last even longer, give a more even brown colour, toast faster etc.

All depends exactly what you want out of it, but it shouldnt break after a couple of weeks, if it does you should take it back as faulty.

focus888

sylphraven wrote: »

Hi focus, nice to see you back.
I find with the cheap electricals you get what you pay for. A sandwich toaster for £5 will happily toast a sandwich, it might not cut it down the middle very well, it might take a bit of time, it might even be trickier to clean than a more expensive one but it should toast your sarnie & last a little while. If you pay a bit more for one its likely to last even longer, give a more even brown colour, toast faster etc.

All depends exactly what you want out of it, but it shouldnt break after a couple of weeks, if it does you should take it back as faulty.

thanks for your advice sylphraven, how much would you say is an ok price? i dont want something too cheap or too expensive. would £20 for an electric gadget seem good quality?

furrypig

I find best buying goods quite difficult at times focus. A freind of mine bought a couple of lovely (and expensive) kettles that then didn't last longer than a year and she decided to buy tesco value after that!
If I am making a special purchase I try and look up the recommendations in Which magazine as they will cover a wide price range and often there is a best budget buy. Spending more does not always mean it is necessarily better and it really depends on what is the most important thing for you ie as Sylph said how easy it is to clean v quality of toasty v price etc etc. Which will often answer those questions for me! Hope that helps!

furrypig

So Jammy has said she is only here at the weekends and hasn't come on to say hi yet this weekend by the looks of things! Come out come out wherever you are!

I am rubbish and have made about 0 pence since last month so will not have much to say on the 1st!

sylphraven

I think £20 is a very realistic price, it'll get you a nice one, but without going over the top in price

Jammys away this weekend, but said she'd have internet access so I'm sure shes keeping an eye on us.

jamtart6

Sorry furry, as sylph said I was away until now!

How is everyone doing? Don't forget the monthly updates on Wednesday!

tadpole74

mum2one wrote: »

After a massive favour, its totally digressing sorry, but is there any brilliant person whose brain I could rack.

Basically I deleted a file, sent it to recycle box and emptied the box, sods law I desperately need the file back, Just wondered if there was any way.

Thank you all in advance xx

Don't know I'm afraid but try pc advisor website as I always go there when I have computer issues. I think you will need to register to ask your question on the forum.

bunbun2

hiya Jammy good to see you!
I haven't posted on here for a while but I am getting ready for the 1st.
if you are still here jammy and not left yet for the week I would like to say a big thank you for all you have done with this thread and keeping me motivated. for me everything you have done up till now has helped enormously and you have set the money saving wheels in motion.

jamtart6

bunbun and all the other "thankers" - really it is just what you guys have done for yourselves! I wouldn't stay motivated without you guys so thank you all too *lots of love on thrifty today*

Aww listening to Michael Jackson Number 1's! I'm feeling really sad that he died, I personally don't believe any of the rubbish in the papers, and feel sorry for a talented but seriously troubled "boy man" (as Paul McCartney said). I love his music but wasn't his 'fan' if you know what I mean!

mum2one - shadowexplorer http://www.shadowexplorer.com/downloads.html it isn't the easiest to use, and not sure you can get things back if you haven't had the programme on your pc already BUT i reccommend downloading it now incase this happens again as you will be able to recover the document!

mum2one

sylphraven wrote: »

Sorry mum2one, I have no idea how hard, or easy it would be to retrieve, but the techie board on here is very good for getting help with things like that.

Thank you thou, put a thread on techie board and got a couple of suggestions.

So fingers crossed. xx