OS living -a moment of self doubt

midnightraven3

Icey77 wrote: »

I'm a single gal looking for a nice chap, I've had a few dates and it seems that most of the guys I've met all seem to look down on my cooking from scratch, my (attempts) at sewing projects and my desire to find bargains. All they seem to be interested in is clubbing, travelling abroad and going out every night of the week and spending all their dosh before payday rolls around again.

I'm not one to turn down a holiday or a night out but it's not the be all and end all of my life. I LIKE to stay at home, entertain my friends in my home and I have aspirations of a garden one day to grow things

Can't we have a MSE dating site where like minded souls can find a nice person to meet? I'm not a bad cook, well educated with a good job and I'm really rather presentable

That's my whinge over and done now, thanks for listening! :rotfl:

Icey, we all kissed a few frogs before we got our prince

i echo words above, they are boys not men, and my OH is 10 years older than me, and he appreciates and encourages all my efforts,
Good luck with the class tonight, sounds delicious!!

arwenelf

It has been lovely reading this thread, I am 32, have two children who I stay at home to look after, the eldest is now potty trained but was is in cloth nappies, the youngest is still in the same cloth nappies, I breastfed both, neither had any jars of food. I tried a slightly different approach with my youngest - babyled weaning but they both had the same food as us, I just pureed it with the eldest. Most of our meals are made from scratch - I am a regular on ebay and freecycle. We grow some of our own veg. I would love to make more clothes for the children but lack the time and skill!!!!! I know I get looked down on by some of the mums at the NCT group who just 'can't be bothered' or 'don't know where to start' but I am now past caring. I love this forum and the OS one is the one that I check everyday which is possibly why I cannot keep up with the flylady thread!!

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Icey77 wrote: »

I'm a single gal looking for a nice chap, I've had a few dates and it seems that most of the guys I've met all seem to look down on my cooking from scratch, my (attempts) at sewing projects and my desire to find bargains. All they seem to be interested in is clubbing, travelling abroad and going out every night of the week and spending all their dosh before payday rolls around again.

I'm not one to turn down a holiday or a night out but it's not the be all and end all of my life. I LIKE to stay at home, entertain my friends in my home and I have aspirations of a garden one day to grow things

Can't we have a MSE dating site where like minded souls can find a nice person to meet? I'm not a bad cook, well educated with a good job and I'm really rather presentable

That's my whinge over and done now, thanks for listening! :rotfl:

There are a few dating sites for green-y living peeps of all types. I think there is one called natural-friends and some are free. Don't know much more but maybe it's worth a look-into. I think that an OS or MSE dating site would be brilliant for all the people in your position:j

elf06

budgeteer wrote: »

There are a few dating sites for green-y living peeps of all types. I think there is one called natural-friends and some are free. Don't know much more but maybe it's worth a look-into. I think that an OS or MSE dating site would be brilliant for all the people in your position:j

Oh yes please!! I 2 am in search of mr right (or even mr right now:o)

Icey77

elf06 wrote: »

Oh yes please!! I 2 am in search of mr right (or even mr right now:o)

Hey, first after me Missy!!!

elf06

Icey77 wrote: »

Hey, first after me Missy!!!

Ok I will form an orderly queue :rotfl:

Justamum

arwenelf wrote: »

the youngest is still in the same cloth nappies,

I used the terry squares for my first two, then afterwards used them as hand towels. Eventually they got threadbare. Then I got pregnant again, so had to buy some new nappies. Unfortunately I decided to buy some shaped ones, which I wasn't too impressed with. I wish I'd gone for the squares again - I'd probably still be using them as hand towels (she's 5 next week!)

elf06

Justamum wrote: »

I used the terry squares for my first two, then afterwards used them as hand towels. Eventually they got threadbare. Then I got pregnant again, so had to buy some new nappies. Unfortunately I decided to buy some shaped ones, which I wasn't too impressed with. I wish I'd gone for the squares again - I'd probably still be using them as hand towels (she's 5 next week!)

Aw I loved the shaped ones but I used them and then sold them on
Wasnt planning the first one so deff not planning a 2nd :rotfl:

mrssnowy_2

Loadsabob wrote: »

The pizza thing made me smile. My boyfriend has never been a fan of pizza, but when we made it from scratch he absolutely loved it! He enjoys cooking too...I can't believe we haven't made pizza again since

DH now loves HM pizza,so much so he asks for 1 most weeks:D.
Trouble is I'm getting fed up with doing them-he never ate them when the children were at home.I never buy bread so there is usually a batch of dough once a week.
My Mum is a real OSer, it has rubbed off and has descended the generations.My grandchildren love baking tho they are littlies:)
(2 of our 3 children make their own bread,chutneyetc-all make cakes and are OS-but they come to me for jam )
debtdesperado- I used to think I was deprived as a child as we NEVER had 'boughten' cake.

Lovely thread

mrss

midnightraven3

Oh MrsSnowy, you made me laugh

" I used to think I was deprived as a child as we NEVER had 'boughten' cake."

my dad was a chef, i never ate anything that wasnt homemade
EVERYONE wanted to eat at our house, and all i wanted was to eat a boughten cake

my children, have also been brought up on HM everything, now teens, and they wonder why people buy boughten cakes!!

on a lighter note, my friends little girl, 5 at the time, came home from school with her "news book" to show me, she had written about me, in her 5 year old spelling she had written

My auntie is magic, she made chips, out of potatoes:eek:

she had no idea they came from potatoes, and if asked where they did come from, she would answer - Asda, and so did her older sister and brother
they had no idea what food was originally before it was "made"

sad