Preparing for winter II

Frugal_Dreamer

Hi,
I'm new here:eek:

I am the most frugal person I know and I love reading this thread. I have just bought some medicines to see us through the cold season...calpol, paracetamol (Mr T cheap ones) etc.

We have enough winter clothes...I hardly ever buy clothes for myself and I will wear stuff until it is on the verge of being shabby:o and then I'll use it for gardening or walking. 90% of my son's clothes were bought for 50p or less an item from car boot sales. Got him a Regatta waterproof jacket for £1:T, wellies for 50p etc etc

Have grown loads of fruit and veg this year (60ft back garden) and some of this is in the freezer.

Just bought 125 school dinner envelopes from £shop...they are great for storing flower and veg seed.

Winter just means chucking an extra blanket on the bed.

bluebag

How does everyone get on with drying flanelette sheets? I found it cheaper to put the electric blanket on rather than having to tumble dry the sheets.

Fruball

Welcome FrugalDreamer

fayhare

bluebag wrote: »

How does everyone get on with drying flanelette sheets? I found it cheaper to put the electric blanket on rather than having to tumble dry the sheets.

I just hang them over doors and they dry fairly quick.

bluebag

fayhare wrote: »

I just hang them over doors and they dry fairly quick.

Thanks, I would have never thought of that.

I think I may still stick with the electric blanket though as I live in a big old single brick victorian terrace, the condensation is wicked if I dry washing indoors. Ah well.:(

parsonswife8

alec_eiffel wrote: »

Oooh, I'd be careful if you put all that stuff on your bed at once. I put flannel fitted sheet and pillow cases on the bed with the flat sheet over us, under the duvet. Virtually impossible to get up in the morning, just too comfy. Don't say you haven't been warned you lucky thing!

I love my flannel sheets but we have either bottom sheet and pillow cases or the flat one on top but never both :rotfl:

My days of getting up early are well and truly over. I often wake during the night from leg and knee pain and sometimes fall into a deep sleep early in the morning.:(

DH is retired.:) We don't have radiators upstairs, so we are going to nest, I tell you.:rotfl:

diddly74

Frugal_Dreamer wrote: »

Hi,
I have just bought some medicines to see us through the cold season...calpol, paracetamol (Mr T cheap ones) etc.

Try home and bargain, Wilko or B&M for paracetalmol and ibroprufen etc, the cheap ones are just as strong and good as branded stuff - they contain the same ingredients if you look! Our H&B have a great range of items for the Winter Box - the only problem is going in and not overspending!!!:T

Confuzzled

Mythi wrote: »

Thanks!



With regards to your door in addition to the bubble wrap have you thought of a draught excluder like this one: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DOUBLE-SIDED-DRAUGHT-EXCLUDER-NO-TOOLS-NEEDED-/190429552889?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Decorative_Accents_LE&hash=item2c567c60f9 would be pretty easy to make with a piece of material and a length of pipe insulation.

thanks for your suggestion but it's the glass that makes it cold there, just a single pane of glass and of course the hall/stairs aren't heated and there's a window at the top too.

the underlay on the carpet in this flat is so thick that EVERY door scrapes the carpet when you open and close it, especially the one in the all (i have to move the hall rug back far enough to let the door open or i trip on it!) so i know the coldness is coming through the glass vs the floor but i'm sure someone else can use one of those, i'd consider one myself if i move somewhere else that needed one!

bluebag

Confuzzled wrote: »

i'm living in a similar style flat, fortunately though i have a small hall cupboard at the top of the stairs which then made the landing big enough for the owners to put a door on. still even with the door it gets quite cold near that area so i used bubble wrap on the glass and put the net curtain back up to hide it (i really need the light coming in from there or the living room is notably darker).

smart thinking of you to at least hang a curtain though, i can imagine it makes a huge difference!

Just a thought coz I haven't tried it but could you hang a see through ( the reason for which escapes me) shower curtain on a shower rod just behind the door. A bit like those plastic door thingies they have on cold rooms.
Fixing it with a telescopic shower curtain rod would need no fixings and it would still allow light through.
I've been in a freezing top floor rented flat in my youth, ugh the bathroom ... brass monkeys!
bb

Justamum

alec_eiffel wrote: »

Oooh, I'd be careful if you put all that stuff on your bed at once. I put flannel fitted sheet and pillow cases on the bed with the flat sheet over us, under the duvet. Virtually impossible to get up in the morning, just too comfy. Don't say you haven't been warned you lucky thing!

Well I've just ordered some flannelette bedding for us all- bottom sheets, pillow cases and duvet covers. I'm looking forward to some cosy lie-ins :rotfl:

I've just been washing the under-the-bottom-sheet duvets ready to put on the beds this Friday. I'm going to line the door curtains too, then DH can put up the curtain rails when he gets back on 2nd October. I'm holding off with the heating though. I'm going to get the gas bottles filled I think just in case there's any power cuts - I can use the camping hob then for cooking.