Preparing for winter II

Jo4

crumblepie wrote: »

Is there any left for anyone else?:rotfl: I bought a short sleeve top last year, wore it quite a lot and its not falling apart yet.

Very little, lol! :rotfl: I got 4 thermal long sleeve tops, 2 thermal short sleeve tops, 3 pairs of boots and 2 jumpers! They didn't have the white short sleeve tops available. :eek: Thanks for your help though! :T

jacand

Today I bought the king size flannette sheet from Lidl as soon as I got in I put it on the bed and I must say I can't wait to get in it. I am very impressed with the quality and how thick they are. For £5.99 I think I might go and buy another.

shegar

I did buy 2 supersoft fleece dressing robes today one for him and one for her .!!:D they are so thick and cosy shop assistant could only get one robe in per bag as there so thick...I bought them from "The Factory Shop" dont know if these shops are all over the country..The robes are £16 for hers and £18 for his, they have a tie around the waist which I detest so ive sown mine up to the chest....:D:D with needle and cotton, would have used the sewing machine for quickness but dam thing keeps breaking the cotton..:mad::mad:. By the way does anyone know why my Thanks button as disappeared to??????????.. ...

majjak

Coming out of lurkedom to report that my door curtain is now done

DD has been busy sewing two short ones together to make one long one. Curtains were collected from a fellow freecycler so totally free :j.

Storecupboards are looking good. Teabags, baked beans, flour and bottled water have been bought when on offer. I've enough washing powder, dishwasher tabs and washing up liquid to last a good few months thanks to the Mr S offers. Still quite a bit more to get but i'm well on the way now. I must remember to put milk powder down on my list. I've also got quite a few packs of paracetamol/ibuprofen, I've got whisky/brandy and honey/lemon in for hot toddy's if anyone gets a cold.

And I've started my xmas shopping :T.

Going to buy ingredients for the cake and get started on that next week. At least if we have no gas/elec to cook on, the xmas cake will keep us going for a good few weeks :rotfl:.

Big thanks to everyone on here for contributing - it's a great thread :beer:

Confuzzled

mardatha wrote: »

Watching BBC news and reporting Scotland had a clip of somebody ski-ing on the Cairngorms, lying snow already in September !!

i can believe that, as cold as it's been today and grey and grizzly yep, i can belive that (and i'm a way south of the cairngorms!)

zarazara

I've pinned some fleece to the curtains, hope it helps insulate and keep in the heat.

fluffymuffin123

I feel I have accomplished quite alot lately. We are having our living room decorated and the kind decorator man has put up a curtain pole at the front door for me. Today I hemmed some long curtains that I picked up last spring in our furniture recycle shop across the road from me, I only paid £2.50. They are perfect and must be at least 8ft long so fit the front door and the side window very well.

I hope it will afford us a little privacy too as the door is four large panels of glass, albeit frosted, but in the evenings you can see in when we have the light on. :eek:

I can't wait for tomorrow as we are getting a new carpet fitted in our living room and the decorating is all but done... I find it very hard sometimes being a single mum and not being able to do all the things I wish to do. For example, i'm terrified of power tools, I have visions of them chopping my fingers off and it flying out of control....:eek::rotfl::rotfl:

However I can change a plug, paint bedroom walls, put together simple flat pack furniture, occasionally bang a nail in straight, ooooh and hem curtains... And i'm a dab hand at running a home and feeding my family, paying the bills and keeping us warm and happy. So for the stuff I can't do, I can arrange for them to get done..

So this year our living room will be snug and our front door winterized with a lovely curtain, I've been buying a little extra each week in the food shop since the summer holidays so we have a good full pantry. Only some winter gloves to get and we are all set..

Just a thought, I know some of us have elderly neighbours or more vunerable or disabled neighbours, so I thought it a good idea to get a few odds and ends in just for them, they don't have to know about it. But I know from the fiasco of last years winter that my neighbours were just as stuck as we were. They, however, were not in a position to walk in the snow and ice to see which shops had milk or bread and so on. In that time of need it would be lovely to hand them a box of bread, butter, hot chocolate, a few tins of meat and veg, a pair of gloves, loo rolls etc, the list could go on, but because we are prepared, they don't go without. It's Just a thought.

happyin_devon

bubble wrapped a few not over looked windows today,and fitted new furry draught strip to larder door(its an old one with mesh instead of glass at window) so that v cold air doesnt sneak into rest of kitchen.must get some perspex to cover cover mesh asap as although window now doesnt directly go outside it faces into a single skin extension,and temp in that room was 10deg this am:eek:

have set oil filed radiator on timer to come on for 30mins 2morro am in above room,so dont want any heat sucked into larder thro mesh either,so a search for perspex is top priority.

couldnt buy any of those brush strips that you screw to bottom of doors in my town,so that will have to wait til i go to a big diy place(anyone know if i'll get perspex in a diy place like b and q?)

its really chilly in rest of house 14deg,and although its only sept,i think i'll be putting on ch soon,at least i know house retains heat better now due to all the sausage dogs and fleece lined curtains,lol!!

Fruball

Happyindevon - B&Q do perspex sheets but might be worth asking on freecycle if someone has any leftover from a project

diddly74

I am sweatting this evening! It looks like the heating has broken! The only way I could get it to go off was actually turn it off at the fuse! Landlord coming Wednesday he is gonna get bombarded. I have an exam tomorrow or I would get a man in to have a sneaky look so I am prepared.

The heating just pumps so much heat out (I only had it on this morning to take the chill off at 6:30am then turned it off) rad still hot now!!!!
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