Preparing for winter II

alice-mary

My Snow Shovel arrived yesterday afternoon:j
I'm glad that the postman thought that it was a paddle for a canoe or similar as he would have thought I was mad if he knew the truth (it WAS 28 degrees and there was a heat-haze everywhere)!

At least I can feel a lot more comfortable today as it keeps on raining here

Alice
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slm6002

I remembered last night that i still have a £50 gift voucher for tkmax. I dont like this shop as i am not a natural 'look through to find stuff' kind of person. It almost scares me and i soon give up. I have therefore not spent my voucher i got at christmas. Thought i could look for some curtains for patio doors in kitchen as we need these before winter. Maybe might even get a curtain pole too!

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

Sunnyday wrote: »

Yesterday i bought 2 x 15k sacks of dog food and i`ve ordered I`m SD

..did you find a special offer on the dog food? I was looking at this yesterday and shocked at how much its gone up, I bought 2x15kg JWB in Jan for around £67 and its £80+ now eeek!

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

slm6002 wrote: »

I remembered last night that i still have a £50 gift voucher for tkmax. I dont like this shop as i am not a natural 'look through to find stuff' kind of person. It almost scares me and i soon give up. I have therefore not spent my voucher i got at christmas. Thought i could look for some curtains for patio doors in kitchen as we need these before winter. Maybe might even get a curtain pole too!

could you sell it on ebay?

nicki_2

Last week I did some winter prep in the form of buying new thicker curtains for the majority of the rooms in the house and 90x90 curtains for the doors. They're all already lined, but I'm going to line them will fleece as well as soon as I get some more single heading tape to put on the fleeces I also bought DD 2 sets of flannelette sheets for her bed (£12 for a fitted & flat sheet & a pillowcase ), some flannelette pillowcases for me and then fleecy mattress protector things. Now all I need to get hold of is flannelette sheets for my bed, maybe quilts for both beds as well, but I'll see

I'm now working on running down my freezer, I have things in there that just keep getting left so my plan is to use as much as possible out of it over the next week or so, defrost it properly & then get a Mr A (or Mr T or Mr S.. or maybe all 3 depending on the deals ) to fill it up before we start back at school on the 5th Sept. I'll then get a top up shop in October half-term and just before Xmas I'm doing well with running it down, its a larder freezer with 4.5 drawers & 2 compartments, so far 2 compartments & 1 drawer are completely empty so I've filled them with A*on catalogues which I need to recycle :rotfl: So not only do I get the sales from them twice but I also use them as fillers for my freezer :rotfl:

The rest of my to-do list is massive though and I will really need to get on with it soon. Especially the lagging the boiler outlet pipe :eek:

ETA: Those curtains & bedding all came from TJ Hughes closing down sale - RRP £489.00 (I have big windows and kingsized bedding) and I paid £145.58, saving £344.32:money: Thanks to TJs lower prices and vouchers I found online and doing it as 2 trips

Sunnyday

Desperate_Housewife wrote: »

..did you find a special offer on the dog food? I was looking at this yesterday and shocked at how much its gone up, I bought 2x15kg JWB in Jan for around £67 and its £80+ now eeek!

They have an offer on at PAH, I buy the 15k Burgess supadog chicken (not the gravy version) and atm its on offer at £14 per sack which is great.Our two both eat the same food for their main dish which stays down all day (i soak the food for them) and then after their last walk whatever is left has stuff added to it, either a tin of meat between them and biscuits or HM dog food which i make in the slowcookerand freeze. The younger dog (5) can`t eat very much meat at all and the older dog (around 400 lol) is a proper carb freak. They are so different but i have finally worked out a diet that suits both. I was worried that they would only eat the expensive food, then i tried the BARF diet, after that i tried some of the ethical foods and then i went back to the Burgess which is what i used to feed my dogs twenty years ago lol. If i had to pay £80 a sack i`d be :eek: as they both have big appetites.

Gawd i`m getting bad at rambling today

SD

Ida_Notion

Sunnyday wrote: »

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.

Don't forget to wash them before you cut and sew (I'm assuming they're not 'dry clean only'!), otherwise what sits nicely level with your windowsill now will float several inches above it the first time you come to wash them, in the same way that trouser hems used to float above the ankles of the average Bay City Rollers fan. Don't ask me how I know that brand new curtains can suffer from such dramatic shrinkage in these circumstances... :rotfl:

Sunnyday

Ida_Notion wrote: »

Don't forget to wash them before you cut and sew (I'm assuming they're not 'dry clean only'!), otherwise what sits nicely level with your windowsill now will float several inches above it the first time you come to wash them, in the same way that trouser hems used to float above the ankles of the average Bay City Rollers fan. Don't ask me how I know that brand new curtains can suffer from such dramatic shrinkage in these circumstances... :rotfl:

Lol thanks :A - another thing that i`d forgotten about, its many years since i bought curtains.

I`ve just had a look and they`re polyester and dry clean only but they will never see a dry cleaners, i always pop DC things in the washing machine on a low temp quick wash and i`ve never ruined anything yet. Think i`ll pop them in tonight and then they will be ready to alter.
Just made a call to Dad and he has an old sewing machine that i can borrow to sew the header tape back on :j

SD

Alisonpennypincher

alice-mary wrote: »

At least I can feel a lot more comfortable today as it keeps on raining here

Alice
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Hello fellow Northamptonian:wave:! Bit more comfy here today eh?

alice-mary

:wave:Hello to you too Alisonpennypincher, YES definitely much more comfortable today!!!!

Alice
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