Preparing for winter II

diddly74

When we were out the other day my 11yr old daughter saw a "slanket" and declared loudly - why waste money on a blanket with arms in - just put your robe on backwards!

Out of the mouth of babes eh!

Sylvan

lilme wrote: »

Hi all,

New here but am addicted to all of your tips.
After reading your posts I have decided to buy a dehumidifier.
Have found one on Very which seems good. It has quite good reviews and seems to have a bigger tank than some of the others mentioned - 4.2 litres.

Am not allowed to post links but it's easy enough to find on their site. It's the white one that costs £99.

Also they have a buy now pay later offer on at the mo. No need to pay til next September. Just make sure you pay before it's due or they hit you with huge interest.

Plus you can get 8% cashback from quidco and an extra £15 off if you are a new customer.

Hope this helps someone.

That does sound good. Wish I'd seen it sooner!
I've never heard of Very before. Are they reliable?

Emstick14

Sylvan wrote: »

Do your outside walls go mouldy?
It's that time of year again - I just found the first new patch of mould under our bedroom window, behind the curtain. Time to get out the bleach spray - but no matter how much mould we've had on and around the windows the curtains have never actually gone mouldy.
Fleece is thicker though. Might make a difference.

Yes the outside walls do go mouldy, well not moudly but kind of furry! The blind we have up at the moment has gone moudly, so I am presuming that a fleece attached to the inside is going to be worse??

Just wondered if anyone else had experienced this, or whether I am just going to have to experiment.

roosterpotatoes

Sylvan wrote: »

That does sound good. Wish I'd seen it sooner!
I've never heard of Very before. Are they reliable?

Very is part of the shop direct group who own Littlewoods, Great Universal, etc Yep they are reliable but you have to be very careful (excuse the pun) when using codes that havent been issued to you as there are some horror stories, ill try and find the link

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2389261

dandy-candy

Wow I put the heating on for an hour this evening cos i felt chilly, then i've just looked on an America forum I post on and one of the women in Texas said it's minus 2 there! Boy do I feel like a whiner now!

termie

:eek:Hi Sylvan
my flat is currently just heated in the sitting room when it's chilly (fan heater the heating boiler is broke), so i'm guessing the bed room temperature (south facing, but on a windy corner) is maybe slightly above outside about 15 degrees maybe? i know the advice on the dehumidifier was not to run it at under 5 degrees (but hoping it won't get that cold inside the house :eek: ) it fills up in about a day and a half if i have washing drier (which is constant as we seem to have a permenant rain cloud over us )

termie

and i don't know why i have the little blue man at the begining lol

PennyPinchingPrincess

My cheapie Primark pyjamas were a false economy, the stitching is coming undone at the shoulder already. I will try to return them, but I have no idea what I've done with the receipt

parsonswife8

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/article3163738.ece

:eek::eek::eek:

It's going to be a cold one in Scotland!

Red_Doe

Last winter, we were cut off for weeks at a time, with some of the deepest snow in Scotland. Luckily we had stockpiled, but there were times it was a close thing, when the coal and peat ran out, for example, and the coal lorry couldn`t get through to us as the road was closed. This year we`re stocking up and taking that into account, I`m also buying a paraffin heater as paraffin is fairly cheap, just in case.