Preparing for winter II

AnnaMonkey

It's sooooo cold when i leave for work in the morning, i'm going to have to bring out the gloves. curse my bad circulation.

I'm very chuffed with myself, last night I went online and ordered my 'store cupboard' bits from tescos, via quidco so £5 cash back and £10 off as it was my first online order! how very MSE!! we've been putting off doing it as we don't drive but now i have tins and bottles and other heavy goods a-coming, yay!

Father Christmas wise ..... I still get a stocking from him, as do my brother and sister and on Christmas morning we go into my mums rooms and open them in bed (i've been relegated to on the end of the bed now that we're bigger). Oh, and I'm 28 with 26 and 21 year old siblings! My mum gets a stocking too and we aren't admiting to anything! He SO exsists.
On Christmas eve we follow the Polish tradition of having a big family meal and i have to say i wouldn't change it for anything. LOVE my christmas!

BLUis

Forgot to say, went to Mozzas yesterday and bought a Thermos Microwavable Food Flask (I think it was 0.47l) £5.00 and another bigger flask for £7.

My daughter wants to start taking soup to school and according to the label it keeps the food warm for upto 4 hours, which is enough.

I might go back and get another couple for when we are walking in the Lakes/Peaks or for football on a Sunday morning!

delicious_2

Ergh, it's decision time. The boiler is on and off all through the day, we warm up we turn it off, upstairs is chilly for bath times we put it back on. It's getting really silly as the boiler is always working so hard to heat up really cold rooms just to heat them again a few hours later!

Last year it cost us an almighty lottery win to heat the house constantly but that was with the (thermostatic valves) radiators up full.

I'm tempted with turning them all down low throughout the day (stay at home mum) and only turning them up slightly when it's really cold, still using hotwater bottles and fleeces to snuggle.

I know you can't help me, I'm just getting rid of my thoughts. Worth a try I suppose.

If I'm going to do this would it be worth keeping them on low over night too (goes against my grain) but if I turned them off I feels like it would be defeating the object.

pigpen

twiglet98 wrote: »

No, it's not just you! My DD18 and DD24 go absolutely mad, they started watching their hideous Christmas films at the beginning of October :eek: (Elf is my most hated film of all time). DS22 and I loathe it, the stupid pretence, the expense, the dutiful visits, the girls putting the blasted tree up first weekend in December. Bah humbug indeed

I LOVE Elf..it is hilarious!!!

I have done a couple of things off my list and made progress with another..

mama67

BLUis wrote: »

Forgot to say, went to Mozzas yesterday and bought a Thermos Microwavable Food Flask (I think it was 0.47l) £5.00 and another bigger flask for £7.

My daughter wants to start taking soup to school and according to the label it keeps the food warm for upto 4 hours, which is enough.

I might go back and get another couple for when we are walking in the Lakes/Peaks or for football on a Sunday morning!

Please check with school before sending as our kids are not allowed to take hot food in packed lunches due to health and safety.

BLUis

mama67 wrote: »

Please check with school before sending as our kids are not allowed to take hot food in packed lunches due to health and safety.

my daughter is in 6th form, so i think she is alright as they have a common room with a microwave etc!!

thanks anyway though!

Fruball

delicious wrote: »

Ergh, it's decision time. The boiler is on and off all through the day, we warm up we turn it off, upstairs is chilly for bath times we put it back on. It's getting really silly as the boiler is always working so hard to heat up really cold rooms just to heat them again a few hours later!

Last year it cost us an almighty lottery win to heat the house constantly but that was with the (thermostatic valves) radiators up full.

I'm tempted with turning them all down low throughout the day (stay at home mum) and only turning them up slightly when it's really cold, still using hotwater bottles and fleeces to snuggle.

I know you can't help me, I'm just getting rid of my thoughts. Worth a try I suppose.

If I'm going to do this would it be worth keeping them on low over night too (goes against my grain) but if I turned them off I feels like it would be defeating the object.

A few years ago I did an experiment in my house to see whether it was cheaper to have the heating on for a few hours a day (morning and night) OR to have it on low all the time.

I turn it down even lower at night, then turn it back up a bit in the morning.

Keeping it on all day and all night was cheaper and much more comfortable. If you allow the house/water tank etc to get cold it uses loads of energy to heat it all back up again, but if you keep it low it doesn't.

Also, you adjust to the temp better as its constant rather than being cold some of the time and hot some of the time.

Works for me anyway

busenbust

Frugal wrote: »

A few years ago I did an experiment in my house to see whether it was cheaper to have the heating on for a few hours a day (morning and night) OR to have it on low all the time.

I turn it down even lower at night, then turn it back up a bit in the morning.

Keeping it on all day and all night was cheaper and much more comfortable. If you allow the house/water tank etc to get cold it uses loads of energy to heat it all back up again, but if you keep it low it doesn't.

Also, you adjust to the temp better as its constant rather than being cold some of the time and hot some of the time.

Works for me anyway

excellent suggestion :cool:

nicki_2

Well the winter proofing will continue here. The house I went to view yesterday was awful. Didn't like it at all, but the area was nice so we'll keep on applying Yesterday though I boo booed: We went out about noon and didn't get back until after 6.30pm to find I'd left the heating on constant at 15* Oooppss. Going to make myself a checklist (laminated) to stick to the back of the front door to remind me to check what its set to

Need to get a drill off my dad, or buy one, so I can do a couple of jobs, like putting up some curtain wire to hold fleeces in window recesses.

bluebag

delicious wrote: »

Ergh, it's decision time. The boiler is on and off all through the day, we warm up we turn it off, upstairs is chilly for bath times we put it back on. It's getting really silly as the boiler is always working so hard to heat up really cold rooms just to heat them again a few hours later! ....

I know you can't help me, I'm just getting rid of my thoughts. Worth a try I suppose.

If I'm going to do this would it be worth keeping them on low over night too (goes against my grain) but if I turned them off I feels like it would be defeating the object.

I had this dilemma solved for me last year when my OH suffered a heart attack and was at home for six months during a very cold winter , I had to have the heating on all day and sometimes at night.

I found it didn't make much difference to the bill to keep it on low all day to be honest, it was slightly higher.

An easy experiment would be to do the two different methods over two days with roughly the same outside temperatures.
Take a gas reading at the same time each day.

I didn't generally keep the heating on all night but did on one of two nights when the temperatures were a bit extreme at -10.