*Easter Weekend Chat-Chocolate, bunnies and Springtime Happiness! All Welcome!*

ghostmadlittlemiss

@ Buffy - That sounds exactly like my boyfriend. He doesn't do it with food but whenever he buys clothes/shoes, he always gets two or three that are exactly the same and only wears the one. He says it's a comfort thing, so if something happened to one set, he'd have another. He's even talking about buying a second Wii at some point for the same reason. :eek:
Kayleigh

Burlesque_Babe

My OH is the same. Buys lots of the same things and then never wears new stuff and says he'll wear it at some point, but never does. It's as if its some kind of security to have 'new' stuff. We go on holiday and he takes tonnes of clothes and wears hardly any of them (he goes out and buy new stuff even if he didn't wear the new stuff from the previous time), it seems to be some kind of 'fall back' strategy in some way. He bought a new phone 'because the buttons were wearing' on his other one even though they weren't. He's never used it even though he insisted on buying a rubber casing for it and then a carry case. It was an impulse buy for some reason and I expect he'll probably end up giving it to his son.

Burlesque_Babe

god I need to motivate myself before the day is gone.........I'm managed to put away some washing and wash some and hang that up. Apart from going for a walk with Charlie I've not done much else and there's sooooo much housework I should be doing.

ghostmadlittlemiss

*slight TMI alert*

Does anyone know how to get set-in blood out of coloured cloth without bleaching it? Some of my washable 'feminine products' look a bit of a state and I'm trying to clean them up. Unfortunately, I didn't know that you're not meant to wash them in hot water until you get the blood out. I've tried soaking them in cold water and covering them in salt three times now and if anything, the stain looks worse. I'm starting to run out of ideas (and salt).
Kayleigh

bank_of_slate

ghostmadlittlemiss wrote: »

*slight TMI alert*

Does anyone know how to get set-in blood out of coloured cloth without bleaching it? Some of my washable 'feminine products' look a bit of a state and I'm trying to clean them up. Unfortunately, I didn't know that you're not meant to wash them in hot water until you get the blood out. I've tried soaking them in cold water and covering them in salt three times now and if anything, the stain looks worse. I'm starting to run out of ideas (and salt).
Kayleigh

If they're delicate can you soak them with Vanish or some of the net curtain whitening stuff overnight?
...Linda xx

ghostmadlittlemiss

bank_of_slate wrote: »

If they're delicate can you soak them with Vanish or some of the net curtain whitening stuff overnight?
...Linda xx

I'll try Vanish. It's not so much that they're delicate, it's that I don't want to lose all the colour on them.
Kayleigh

Burlesque_Babe

did the ironing (a whole 3 items....) and have put the bedroom, hall rugs and bathroom mat in the washing machine. Have put away the little blower heater I've had in the spare room with me over the winter . Spring is here

Buffythedebtslayer

postingalwaysposting wrote: »

Kintting clubs... here, here and here. Or search papercraft/scrapbooking clubs, they are everywhere too. What about walking dogs for a local charity? P/t job in a charity shop? Swimming clubs? Book club? What about joining the WI, you could join too as there is no min age now Oh and find some table top stalls to go to in the summer where you can sell some of her 'stuff'... There must be something's around where you live that she can do either free/small charges.

Could you get her into a college course? Computer ones are free around here for adults or they are heavily discounted. Or she could learn a new language. She would then meet new people there and they could do things in the day?

As for having too much food/stuff. Could she help sell/ebay so of it to cover the cost of the boiler. Or maybe sell stuff and save or a holiday? The food issue wll need to be tackled seperately, but you say she is scared of running out of things could you try and make her understand that won;t happen? Or maybe start growing your own veg etc so she is 'providing'?

Prob all stupid ideas but there you go :rotfl:

they are good ideas and ones which I have tried and suggested, the only one she did was go out with our neighbour occasionally, she has stopped that since the cold weather, but she said she wanted to do it again.

As for e bay, she wouldn't do that, she e mails and googles and is very good online but she wouldn't e bay - says it doesn't make money and whats the point all that time in the Postoffice.

and gardening. That is what I am tackling this holiday. Its one of those things that cause "arguments"( read massive unspoken huffiness) with my Sis, as her and her bf are "experts" who in my opinion never do anything re garden or anything else for that matter! So I have in bits taken over, last year I grew beetroot(!) and lettuce and peppers, just to see what I could I do.

This coming week I am intending to make a flower bed, plant up my pots and dig out some of the fish pond! You wouldn't believe how excited I have been!!

xxxx

scaredy_cat wrote: »

Buffy, you said that you mum did this also when you were little. Could it be that when she was little, there wasn't much food for the family? It could be a symptom of something else and it's getting out of control.

it is exactly that, she worries about people (me! And my sisters) being hungry, she never eats a lot herself, I think it is ingrained in her, this idea that you run out of food.

I have to say having an fairly aged parent is very frightening sometimes there are so many things you can't change or fix for them.

xx

bank_of_slate

Aww, so cute:
Jessica is playing with her little friend Keiran who just said that when they are 25 and if they play together lots and his Dad likes her, maybe they could get married!
Jess replied that she doesn't know about that because there are lots of boys at school that she really likes! :rotfl:
...Linda xx

Burlesque_Babe

just lurking on the mobiles board. Why would anyone pay £300/£40/£500 for a sim free phone just because it's new and apparently the best thing since sliced bread (or the last best thing since sliced bread!) There's a phone that I've seen that looks amazing (HTC Desire) but even on contract it's either £20 per month and £149 for the phone or £35 per month to get it for free! It seems mad when in a few months it will be replaced by something better and (apparently) whizzier.