Avoid using GAS and ELECTRIC !

sammy_kaye18

or just do my tirck!

i have two lampshades in my flat - one in babes room and oe in the toilet!! all the others are shade less

lemontart

Get a steamer pan, boil potatoes in the water, then steam rest of veg on top, and use the water to make gravy with.

When cooking curries, stews etc cook extra - freeze then just reheat when needed (less cooking too).

When alone at home I get a hot water bottle or two, turn off heating and watch tv in bed...........all nice and warm and much better if i fall asleep.

Beth
xx

THIRZAH

I use a metal colander-it's a good thick one from John Lewis- to steam veg in

surfsister

MIRRY wrote:

wear a hat in the house because we loose most of the heat thru our head.

thermals , do they sell sexy ones ?

socks too are great wolly ones! especially when sitting watching tv!

lemontart

aldis had some womens thermal sets for £7.99 - finally got the pet teen to wear some and now at 17 she is a devoted fan of this wonderful underwear,

Beth
xxx

pensioner_margaret

madmoys wrote:

Good idea, I'm of to town this weekend to look for glass lamp shades.
Does anyone know the best places to try?

Two of mine ( in living areas) are chandelier ceiling types (but acrylic not glass) - got from Glynn Webb at £10 each. I got a similar one from ebay for my bedroom for £5. Another is one of those star shaped ceiling lights from argos (about£20). Others are old style moulded glass (circa 1940 s) got on ebay.

trippy

Reya wrote:

One of the things that I will never understand is why so many houses are built with their radiators under the windows!

I was told once that it's because it heats the cold air coming off the window. Having lived in an old house with a big bay window at the front and NO radiators underneath it I can see sense in it. That end of the room was always cold, even with the curtains drawn as the cold air used to find a way out underneath the curtains. Also it's only a design thing that curtains reach the floor now. They used to be made to fit the window and then you never had the problem of the heat from the radiators disappearing behing them.

OneSpike

MIRRY wrote:

so far I have thought of the following;


I will never use my tumble dryer again, I have purchased a BIG clothes horse today to hang all my washing on.


Hi. I find if I put things over the clothes horse and they heating isn't on for a milder couple of days then things start to pong a bit, especially heavy things like jeans. How do get round that? I use the TD for sheets, tea towels etc as with five people in the house there just ain't room for five people's worth of clothes plus four beds worth of sheets, esp as our youngest still wets the bed from time to time. hey ho. We have at least cured 14 yr old of putting one wet item in the TD!!

queenpig

jessicamb wrote:

I do this with my laundry too I dont own a tumble dryer.

I begrudge (sp?) using my drier and only use it if i have to, stick the clohes over the banister on 2 airers hubby put the old shower curtain pole over the bath and fashioned a "washing line" i hang clothes on to dry with coat hangers lol. Good in one sence because I just take them and hang the in the cuboard once dry.

sammy_kaye18

Think thsi winter i will have to become a bit inventive with how i dry my washing - im in a small ground floor flat and although i have a washing line outside i live in Wales so if it rains it is for days at a time and never just a quick shower - also i live near big steel works so it gets stinking with all the smoke and smog thats about.

So far i have 2 small over radiator driers, one big clothes horse, i have a washing machine/drier combi thing but hate using it.

so i think this winter i will have to
- hang clothes round the shower curtain - bf hates when i do this though although i have an extendable shower rail in he kitchen (intended as a curtian rail) so i guess i could find somewhere to prop this - possibly in the bathroom again as it is quite narrow.
- use the sock/underwear drier that currently hangs form the shower rail for our socks and pants.
- put the clothes horse in the bathroom - it is a small room and gets quite hot in the night if the heating is on only briefly so it will help dry the washing quicker (dont panic we have a seperate toilet)
- every radiator will have soemthing drying on it more than likely.big radiator in our room.large radiator in bens.one in hallway (fairly big) and two fairly big in living room.
- normal trick of tying an old skipping rope between two hooks in pantry to dry some of bens little vests on etc.


any other ideas welcomed!! i obviously dont have a bannister!