Preparing for winter II

katholicos

Ordered some thermal socks today...there are about £11 knocked off each 3 pair pack making them only £2 a pack....so some of you might find this link useful. I also treated myself to some crocs...only ever had cheapy imitation ones before but since there is £27 off each pair, making them only £8 a pair....how could i resist! Here's a link.

Hope this helps some of you.

Sylvan

Thanks for the link Katholicos. I can't find their delivery charges anywhere on the site. Can I ask you, please, how much they charged you for delivery?

katholicos

Sylvan wrote: »

Thanks for the link Katholicos. I can't find their delivery charges anywhere on the site. Can I ask you, please, how much they charged you for delivery?

The delivery charge was £3.99. I tried to find a free delivery code but they seem to all have expired. Still, £3.99 isn't that steep compared to some websites i suppose.

Sylvan

If you ordered 4 items it would only be £1 per item.

I'll have to see what I can find.

Hmm... dare I? On Wednesday I followed a link that some kind person had put on here (can't remember who it was, but thank you, whoever you are) to festivalkit.co.uk and bought honchos for three of us (and some waterproof fleece trousers). On Thursday we went to Aldi for their thermals, and The Factory Shop to stock up on the cheap dog food and since we had gone all the way to the town(s) we decided to make it worth the petrol by also going to the Co-op, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl...

2 mattress protectors; 3x17kg bags of dog food; 4x16 roll special packs of loo roll (£5 each); lots of whoopsies from the Co-op and Mr M's; fleeces to sew into the curtains; thermal underwear, gloves, outdoor trousers (with scotchguard), [EDIT: and insoles - fluffy ones for me and those high-tec, space-agey looking silver ones for all the men], along with cans of waterproofing spray and the excellent £10 torches, for all of us still living at home; 9 large, healthy shrubs/hedging plants, reduced to 99p and £1.99; 12 tins in each case (we pick up a whole cardboard tray at a time) of various liquid containing things that were on offer, such as fruit cocktail, tomatoes, custard, evaporated milk, pineapple, beans, spaghetti, with best before dates in 2012 and 2013; 12l of long life fruit juice (several different varieties); 14kg basmati rice (99p/kg); more preserving sugar; and what seems like sufficient candles to last the entire village for a year. (Forgot the matches though.):rotfl:

We need more fleeces, several different sized canisters of propane and butane gas, water, salt, UHT and powdered milk, (matches!) and a CO detector ('cos we haven't used the calor gas heater for at least a decade:eek:) and then we SHOULD be OK at least up to the lambing storm. (Towards the end of April, when you start relaxing and thinking about spring, the old hill-farmers always say "Mind we hevvent hed the lambing storm yet")

I've probably spent enough money, this week, for the rest of the year.:(

(Tomorrow we're going to start eating the old, slightly strange stuff from the freezers, while the boys are away, so we don't end up wasting food if we have any long power cuts)

katholicos

Sylvan wrote: »

If you ordered 4 items it would only be £1 per item.

I'll have to see what I can find.

Hmm... dare I? On Wednesday I followed a link that some kind person had put on here (can't remember who it was, but thank you, whoever you are) to festivalkit.co.uk and bought honchos for three of us (and some waterproof fleece trousers). On Thursday we went to Aldi for their thermals, and The Factory Shop to stock up on the cheap dog food and since we had gone all the way to the town(s) we decided to make it worth the petrol by also going to the Co-op, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl...

2 mattress protectors; 3x17kg bags of dog food; 4x16 roll special packs of loo roll (£5 each); lots of whoopsies from the Co-op and Mr M's; fleeces to sew into the curtains; thermal underwear, gloves and outdoor trousers (with scotchguard), along with cans of waterproofing spray and the excellent £10 torches, for all of us still living at home; 9 large, healthy shrubs/hedging plants, reduced to 99p and £1.99; 12 tins in each case (we pick up a whole cardboard tray at a time) of various liquid containing things that were on offer, such as fruit cocktail, tomatoes, custard, evaporated milk, pineapple, beans, spaghetti, with best before dates in 2012 and 2013; 12l of long life fruit juice (several different varieties); 14kg basmati rice (99p/kg); and what seems like sufficient candles to last the entire village for a year. (Forgot the matches though.):rotfl:

We need more fleeces, several different sized canisters of propane and butane gas, water, (matches!) and a CO detector ('cos we haven't used the calor gas heater for at least a decade:eek:) and we SHOULD be OK at least up to the lambing storm.:D (Tomorrow we're going to start eating the old, slightly strange stuff from the freezers, while the boys are away, so we don't end up wasting food if we have any long power cuts)

I've probably spent enough money, this week, for the rest of the year.:(

I was looking at the honchos as well, but the p & p put me off LOL!

They do look really good though, and perfect for me and DD

Sylvan

We paid £10 p&P for 4 items, which didn't work out too bad. DS5 was moaning that he wants his up in Glesgae NOW (he even wrote "stamps foot") but we weren't prepared to spend an extra £6.50 just for that (I had made sure he took his duffle coat up with him).

katholicos

Sylvan wrote: »

We paid £10 p&P for 4 items, which didn't work out too bad. DS5 was moaning that he wants his up in Glesgae NOW (he even wrote "stamps foot") but we weren't prepared to spend an extra £6.50 just for that (I had made sure he took his duffle coat up with him).

£10 isn't so bad, i just begrudge spending over a fiver for p & p and if it is more than that, i have to really weigh up whether or not to go ahead with the purchase. Often i manage to talk myself out of making purchases this way so maybe i should hope that the p & p charges continue to rise on the websites i frequent. (I'm not serious, we pay enough as it is!)

p.s. Don't blame you at all for not paying the extra £6.50 for your DS5 to get his.

Sylvan

Oh I don't, believe me!:D
Neither does he. He's grateful to be getting it at all. He was shocked at the amount we've spent this week and suggested we could take back the tough, thermal, scotchguard protected trousers we bought for him the next day, because he doesn't need any more luxuries - till I pointed out that they only cost £10.50, so they're cheap enough for lambing. (AND they even look as though they'll be long enough for his legs!:j)

[EDIT: erm, I thought you said "Don't blame yourself for not paying the extra £6.50 for your DS5 to get his". :doh: ]

termie

Hi i bought my dehumidifier in august from argos. It's the 10 lt value one for £69.99 cat no 425/0478 (it was on sale when i bought it and i had a £30 voucher from my mum for wedding anniversary :j ) but i have to say it does the job well and we have had mould on walls in past. It fills up completely in about 2 days if i have no washing drying, but then i do live in a 2 bed flat and am only really using it in bed rooms so i guess it depends how big a space you are using it on.

Sylvan

Hi Termie.
Welcome to MSE:beer:
Ours is a very old 4 bed, extremely exposed, had been empty for a couple of years before we bought it and had terrible damp in the walls and one of the floors. We sorted that out but of course the moisture is still all hanging around. Extremely well-furred dogs and people are always coming in soaked to the skin and draping their wet clothes and towels all over the house - and the boys don't help matters by sometimes having 2 showers each in a day.
The condensation runs down the windows.:(
We didn't think anything would change for the better in the next few years so we thought we'd better go for summat reasonably powerful (and one that would work in the cold!)

What sort of temperature do you keep your flat heated to?

How much does it affect the rate of filling if you dry washing inside?