Stephanomics on austerity.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

What do they put in it?

salt.

I don't eat salt very often, on nothing I make for us. But every now and then I get crazy cravings I think all relate back to salt.

Hmmm. I'm going to ask your help getting my house looking good...eventually.:o and another poster called Goanmad from Health and beauty board. Some of the shots of her home are just....super. I'll concentrate on structurally sound first.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

We loved going to her house for tea and parties as they had central heating, processed food (cakes) and we would try on all her new clothes. This must have been in 1972/73? You could play and not have to wear an itchy jumper.

My mother made most of my clothing when I was really little. I had to fly to London for a communion dress though, I remember that was a Big Thing. Knit wear was all home made, often with the great buttons cut of one I'd grown out of because I loved them so.

I love itchy jumpers. I find men in guernseys sort of comforting sexy. I think its a ''dad'' thing :o:o as I seem to remember falling asleep on my daddy's itchy be-jumpered shoulder.

edit: in fact I had beautiful clothes. My mother is really good at smocking. I'd never be able to make the clothes she made, and I'm sure had she made my H.Communion dress is would have been more beautiful than the bought one. My dungarees were bought though. I think the kids when I was little had cuter clothes. Probably less comfortable, no stretch etc, but I still have some of my little clothes my mother made, and they are little works of art.

treliac

I guess it all depends on who you live alongside / measure yourself against.

I had the same attitude to 'having things' that the people around me had. There wasn't the designer stuff about and we weren't absorbed by what we hadn't got / thought we ought to have.

So, I'd say that we were generally much more contented with life.

amcluesent

>our lean mean 70's childhood either.<

Back in the day, I certainly told Gran I'd prefer to starve than eat pork brawn she'd made

Still, there's always -

Ice on the inside of the windows in winter as the heating was kept off
Only one room in the house kept warm, and woe betide anyone who left the door open
Renewing the elastic in underwear once it had 'gone'
Clothes patterns you could sew at home
Buying curtain material by the yard to run-up yourself on the Singer
Cheap cuts of meat in the pressure-cooker (Oxtail! yuk!)
Saving the stalks from mushrooms
Keeping the chicken bones and boiling up for soup (the stink!)
Cry of alarm that the immersion heater was 'blowing its head off' (actually, it was barely tepid)
Keeping parts of the car's electrics over the cooker, so it would start on winter mornings
Unravelling Arran sweaters so that the wool could be used again for scarves and bobble-hats
A 'Party line' with the neighbours so you'd never be sure if the phone was free

lostinrates

God, I love oxtail too.

It seems what with fish aste, shared baths, itchy jumpers, chickens, headcheese (which I don't like but love the name, much better than ''Brawn'') and oxtail I'll be rather content while being poor. edit: we have ice in the windows when not living with my parents still. I admit liking that is a bit crazy, but I do. It feels....tough.

kennyboy66_2

amcluesent wrote: »

Cheap cuts of meat in the pressure-cooker (Oxtail! yuk!)
Saving the stalks from mushrooms
Keeping the chicken bones and boiling up for soup (the stink!)

Do people really throw chicken carcasses away without making stock ?

If you are going to do that you might as well buy Bernard Mathews 'turkey joints'.

You will also find it is a good while since Oxtail was cheap even from a butcher (similarly Tongue), although I am sure tripe'n'onions is cheap enough.

vivatifosi

treliac wrote: »

I had the same attitude to 'having things' that the people around me had. There wasn't the designer stuff about and we weren't absorbed by what we hadn't got / thought we ought to have.

So, I'd say that we were generally much more contented with life.

I remember getting my first ever item of new clothing that had a real make in it rather than a catalogue number. It was like having designer clothing. It was a top from Chesea Girl.

We were definitely more contented though, but then we had Cathy and Claire to refer to when things went wrong.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

salt.

I don't eat salt very often, on nothing I make for us. But every now and then I get crazy cravings I think all relate back to salt.

Hmmm. I'm going to ask your help getting my house looking good...eventually.:o and another poster called Goanmad from Health and beauty board. Some of the shots of her home are just....super. I'll concentrate on structurally sound first.

PLease ask away...I would love to help MSE style anyway I can.

The book I linked to is hardcore but inspiring. For it to really work, it does help if the property is dry and warm...and rust free within reason :rotfl:

I like the stripped back paintwork or walls showing layers and layers of paper + paint ...the you sand it and seal it.

All over every wall /skirting in a room is a bit OTT so you take a largeish room, re-plaster /skim everything as required, paint then in something noughties and neutral except a huge panel on one wall. Then you frame it with a plain bit of oak or similar......so a giant modern picture and shows the decorating history of the room. Can you visualise it?

One look I don't like at all is the bursting at the seams sofas with all tears, sprigs out on show etc....I like 'Hard wipe clean ' derelict look or on textiles.


I have been taking pics here.....with rusty cracked window backdrops and so on.

DD hates it.

I move home to sterile 68 build family home I own but it's very easy to live in. However, I like do the emptiness and whiteness of it ....so my studio will be my space full of clutter and colour etc.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

I move home to sterile 68 build family home I own but it's very easy to live in. However, I like do the emptiness and whiteness of it ....so my studio will be my space full of clutter and colour etc.

The last Milano flat was a late sixties flat. It had everything oiginal....wardrobes (amazing quality walnut) cooker...shocking quality gas. Even the original murano lights.

I have a great Conran light that would be great in a house like ours, a little younger but close enough. Even though I'll still have nowhere right to hang it I can't get rid of it. lostinhoarding.

fc123

vivatifosi wrote: »

I remember getting my first ever item of new clothing that had a real make in it rather than a catalogue number. It was like having designer clothing. It was a top from Chesea Girl.

We were definitely more contented though, but then we had Cathy and Claire to refer to when things went wrong.

Cathy and Claire....*sigh*.

I had a radio and used to listen to Anna Raeburn on Capital late at night.