Lifes too short to...

pounds_and_pensive

Lol @ the Bisto comment. I still smile at the memory of my Dad (who was the world's best cook ever) telling someone that I was a regular Bisto user. He used exactly the same scathing tones as he said it that I'd normally associate with Hyacinth Bucket. If we'd been a wealthy family, I'm sure I'd have expected to be Cut Out Of The Will as the Family Embarrasment

frugalfairy_3

Oh me too. I remember eons ago when I was an overexcited newlywed chattering on to someone at work about something I'd cooked the night before and she asked how I'd made it, when I said I'd used an Oxo cube she nearly had a pink fit and made me feel about half an inch high:eek: I can still hear her snotty voice saying 'an OXO CUBE?' as though I'd stirred poison into my gravy.

And I don't make pastry either, 27 years of marriage has taught me that I just Can't Do It even with the food processor.

Or hoover under the bed until shame drives me to it (or the cat brings in a live mouse and drops it in the bedroom )

FF

Discount_diva_5

Hi, I not only think that life is too short to iron, I just think it's TOTALLY unnecessary. I'm quite evangelical about telling people that they only THINK they need to iron. Just try not doing it!

I don't even own an ironing board but there is an iron in the cupboard under the sink and that was last used for removing candle wax from the carpet with brown paper. Infact, I think it's only ever been used for that

By the way, as I don't look like I just got out of bed in my clothes, people are usually suspicious about my non-ironing but it is true!

tinselfairy

Life is too short to

hoover under the bed
hoover lampshades
jif the skirting boards

all of which a friend of mine does on a very regular basis.
I prefer to open my windows to let lots of fresh air in and have a home with that lived in look.

thriftlady_2

Life is too short to.... iron, dust, wash skirting boards/walls etc, and worry about what other people think. But I would rather eat my own liver than buy a packet of crumble mix :rotfl: :rotfl:

thriftlady_2

taplady wrote:

I buy puff pastry too even if it does have the dreaded hydrogenated vegetable oil in it!:eek: too much effort to make it!

I'm sure I saw an ad for all-butter puff pastry by Jus-Rol in a food mag the other day.I can't find it anywhere, has anyone else seen it ? I don't make puff pastry but refuse to pay someone to mix flour, butter and a little water together for shortcrust.

kiwichick

Eels100 wrote:

Pardon? PLEASE let us all in on the secret - how DO you get him to do that?!?!

LOL, he does absolutely SFA for me the rest of the week. The man cant cook, doesnt know how the washing machine works, thinks there is a cooking/cleaning/putting clothes away fairy. He doesnt do shopping, cant figure out how to use pegs so wont do laundry. TBH I'm suprised he knows his @rse from his elbow :rotfl:Personally, I blame his b****y mother. If the ironing is something he can do then I'm dammed if I'm going to offer!!!!

Bambywamby

Life is to short to...

1) pick up a penny off the street if you have an audience of teenage lads.
2) brew your own booze - time consuming, tastes naff and brings back too many memories of teenage hangovers when syphoning Dads elderflower wine off (in pint glasses)
3) Not have the occasional deluxe, bubble bath. Yes it may be more expensive than a shower - but wow is it relaxing.

pounds_and_pensive

I'd draw the line at crumble mix, but (said warily in the present company ) I do buy ready made Yorkshire Puddings. But they're not Aunt Bessie's. They're from Lidl. And I've got Stardrops. And...and... I'm Old Style, really I am. HELP!!!

*Runs from an enraged mob of Old-Stylers, clutching a bag of Lidl frozen Yorkshires....

Peem

Sorry guys but ironing is the one chore I actually like doing. The clothes look so neat and flat when I'm done:o (and you can watch Telly while doing it)

I don't do pastry though. Sometimes do shortcrust when I've forgotten to buy some, but never puff.

Life is too short to make own my pasta. I love it but I can't work out how to stop it from drying in lumpy birds nests before I've even finished rolling it out. So bought stuff it is.

Did stop hemming trousers for a while and started to use Wundaweb - but it keeps falling down. :shhh: Don't tell my mum but I do pay the nice lady in Johnston's to take up any good trousers. The kids have to put up with my dodgy stitching. Suppose I should sew them all but we're a family of shorta***s so everything needs taken up. Much better things to do with my life than go crosseyed threading the needle and then stab my finger several times.