Hypno's "no more boom or bust" diary

hypno06

DS is always up for earning extra - some days in the summer holidays he was doing 4 or 5 rounds to cover people on holiday or off sick......he is allowed to spend the money on whatever he wants - sometimes he saves it for something big, like his bike or his season ticket for the football, sometimes he blows the lot on sweets and fizzy drink before he even gets home......but he is general sensible with it, and it certainly takes the pressure off me to spend money on him!

taxi73

Loved reading the pages on the brown velour sofas..yes..I inherited one too..28 years ago when I moved into my first(council house back then)..there was a single tub washer with wringer on the top and my mum gave me a spin dryer...lol..
Hope DD has a fab trip.

skint_spice

weird that taxi - I'm forty and can only ever remember my parents having modern type of washing machines... it must be the freaky only thing they went hi-tec on...if only they could get their heads round mobiles!

I do remember a mangle for handwashing though.

hypno06

I remember Mum having a twin tub - it took up half the kitchen! There was no way past it on wash day.....then we had central heating installed and the coal fired boiler took up the other half of the kitchen :rolleyes:

When we bought our own house, it was a long time before we could afford a washing machine - I refused to go to the laundrette, so that was OH's job every Monday evening!

skint_spice

oh there was no central heating till we moved house when I was about twelve! coal fires and enormous storage heaters that took up half the room... good for curling up on to read a book though...

hypno06

We had some sort of warm air heating that came out through vents in the walls - it worked for about 10 mins in the morning, but after that it was useless lol! I am sure it was supposed to be very hi tec at the time!

boredofbeingathome

Hope DD has a great time in China. Amazing how quickly it has come around hasn't it?

These conversations do make me laugh, as i had exactly the same heating system when i was younger, but ours was a coal fire with vents into all the bedrooms except for mine and my sisters ( brrr!, still the cold has very rarely bothered me) and of course we had a twin tub with an electric mangle as well...how posh were we eh? Well providing we had enough 50p's for the metre to run it.

milann

Wish I was on my way to China - lucky Miss Hypno - hope she has a fantastic time.

Milann

lucielle

I had a twin tub and used to take a day off work to do the washing when I got down to my last pair of knickers!!!!
L

hypno06

Well, I've not heard of any travel problems for DD so far.......I think she has started the week off well, because she is quite confident with travelling, being away on her own etc (due to being made to come home alone on the bus when I was working etc, as well as going off skiing without us etc) whereas others on the trip have never even been on the train, yet alone on their own! So when other children and parents were doing tearful goodbyes, mine just said, yeah love you, bye and off she went.....:rolleyes:

I never pack for them or anything - they have learned what they need to take and what they can get away with not taking over the years....independent living skills!