Preparing for winter II

mcjordi

still need:
wellys
candles
more tinned stuff and freezer stuff
need to get one of the front tyres replaced and use the one on there already for my spare..
droplinks replaced and the car undersealed and that takes care of the car for the MOT at Xmas :O
still need to sort out some sort of curtain for the front door

also was gonna stock up on shower gel and bubblebath but nearly died when i saw asda had quadrupled the price from 7p to 30 and the bottles are smaller... grrr greedy gits..

candie_gill

Topped up my screen wash and engine coolant in the car today, i do hope i have put the right stuff in the engine coolant resovoir!

cat_smith

2 snow shovels ordered. Putting together a Mr T list with all my tins etc for the winter. Planning well in progress.

Sunnyday

Ha - I have living room curtains *does a little dance*

They are not my first choice, those were the ones that i really wanted after looking forever at samples and deciding that for the first time in my life i was going to buy something nice for the house that i really wanted, after measuring up and finding out that for two sets of curtains it would set me back the best part of £800 i picked myself up off the floor and came back to earth with a bump :rotfl:

I have a bay window and a straight window and have picked up two pairs of curtains today in the sale for £50 :j bargain!! they are quite thin but that doesn`t matter at all as i have some fleece ready to hook on the back for linings :j

As an added bonus the bay pair are 90x90 and i have to cut them to windowsill level so with the cut offs i can make matching cushion covers

My sewing isn`t great but i`m sure that i can knock up something that will look ok.

SD

ExTrolly101

Hi winter preps well under way. found this http://www.maplin.co.uk/battery-powered-emergency-mobile-phone-charger-222899thought it may help with car stuff. Costco have a large storage box at the moment advertised as a car boot storage box, it is quite long and I've got my eye on one for this winter car kit etc!!

Primani have winter gloves ear muffs and scarves in ladies dept on Sat at White Rose leeds. They had some beautiful leather driving gloves din't fit my navvy su=ized hands and none in mens dept:mad:
Mr Morr*sons had 5 litre water on offer for 49p best before next autumn 2012! Need some winter boots still, got a Bm by Morphy Richards fast bake at carboot on Sun or £4 very :money:!!! Hubby tried on a fakefur russian army hat on in 28 deg heat! He refused to buy one! I'm off to make a list of further jobs to do!!

Pooky

Sunnyday wrote: »

Ha - I have living room curtains *does a little dance*


As an added bonus the bay pair are 90x90 and i have to cut them to windowsill level so with the cut offs i can make matching cushion covers

My sewing isn`t great but i`m sure that i can knock up something that will look ok.

SD

Curtains are always best altered from the top, so take the heading tape off, measure, measure again, then measure again just to be sure (allowing for a turn over at the top) and then cut the chunk off, reattach the header and you should still have your nice neat bottom hem. (sorry if I'm telling you something you already know)

Sunnyday

Pooky wrote: »

Curtains are always best altered from the top, so take the heading tape off, measure, measure again, then measure again just to be sure (allowing for a turn over at the top) and then cut the chunk off, reattach the header and you should still have your nice neat bottom hem. (sorry if I'm telling you something you already know)

Thanks for that pooky :A

I had read it somewhere possibly last year and had forgotten all about it My head really is like one big sieve these days

I`ll have a look at the pair that need altering later, think that i shall put the pair up that are the right size now as i`m dying to see what they look like.

SD

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

mcjordi wrote: »

still need:

also was gonna stock up on shower gel and bubblebath but nearly died when i saw asda had quadrupled the price from 7p to 30 and the bottles are smaller... grrr greedy gits..

...try sainsburys bubble bath, around 19p for 2 litres (or is it 1?) can't remember but its a big bottle and I use it for filling up the soap dispensers.

candie_gill

ok you guys have persuaded me to prepare food wise. So will get 4 cartons of long life milk, freeze 4 loafs and stock up on pot noodles, pastas, tinned foods and what not. Going to do it September time and will label everything so OH doesnt eat it all!

Sunnyday

candie_gill wrote: »

ok you guys have persuaded me to prepare food wise. So will get 4 cartons of long life milk, freeze 4 loafs and stock up on pot noodles, pastas, tinned foods and what not. Going to do it September time and will label everything so OH doesnt eat it all!

Tinned stuff etc is always a good thing to stock up on as it keeps for so long, i keep quite a decent stock all year round and then add to it as the offers appear. I`ve got the tins down to a fine art now as i never usually need to buy any unless there`s an offer on

My tin cupboard is reasonably organised too so that i can see whats in there, i have a row of beans and a row of tomatoes. When i stock up i can stack on top of these and have another row on top. Then theres a row of mixed beans which i add to chilli or to make quick wraps etc. The tinned fish is down one side and i have a few tins of emergency stewing steak for when i find that i want to make something like a curry in a hurry. I got some of the curry sauce in jars when i had coupons and throw a tin of meat, a jar of sauce, some rice and onions and some extra water into the remoska and just leave it to do its thing. Makes a quick and tasty biryani and only one pot to clean

I`ve done really well on the pet food too. I`m lucky enough to have a spare room upstairs that is never used and it houses a small chest freezer in the corner. I use this room to store extras for winter.

Yesterday i bought 2 x 15k sacks of dog food and i`ve ordered another 96 pouches of cat food too so they can live in there until needed. If winter happened tomorrow we wouldn`t struggle as i`m ahead with this.

I`ve just bottled 12 bottles of wine so i need to find somewhere to hide some of these as DH will go through them like water if i don`t.

The first pair of curtains are up and look far better than i ever could have imagined :j They don`t have the linings in yet but will sort that later as they are all ready from last year.

I`m enjoying getting everything prepared

SD