OS daily thread wednesday 22 september 2010

betterlife

hi just out of interest how much is a chimney sweep? my landlords sorting it this time but wont hurt to be prepared, also if i use open fire all winter how often should i get it done? thanks and good luck

Habibiboo

Thanks Bella, food cupboard is OK, although we may eat lots of jam! I'm looking at the cherry tomato thread as well as the tomato 'jam' might be a good one to see us through too!

Spendless, it cost £60, that was £30 per chimney, which included uninstalling our little solid fuel stove, cleaning the chimney and replacing it all just so (including lighting a little test fire to check re: smoke etc). There are probably other cheaper ones about, but this one's good and thorough, leaves the place very clean and was highly recommended. I only had £40 as I thought he was only going to do the open fireplace and just survey the other fireplace (he'd said that's what he'd do). But because having a good look at it meant that he had to uninstall it, he just did it whilst he was there! Luckily we scraped together the other £20 from different pots around the house (pays to be an OS squirrel)! Hope you find a good one!

Habibiboo

Hi Betterlife, :wave:as per my reply to Spendless. Mind you,if your landlord is paying, make sure he gets a good one who will leave the place clean, rather than the cheapest around!

Habibiboo

Hello debtfree: £10 electric's a bit of a worry,appliances eat so much juice - do you have a gas cooker so at least the cooking won't eat into it (no puns intended)!?

happyin_devon

:wave:hello! less than £4.00 in my purse,september seems to have been a v expensive and long month.
hoping to find reduced price fruit,to spend my last money on,hoping to last til next week tho as have 75p worth of 8kiwis to get thro first,although the rate my kids eat fruit i'll be lucky to make it til saturday!!
have fun finding exciting things to eat from your store cupboard,fortunately mines looking a bit healthier than my purse!!

Habibiboo

Hello Happy .... yes, you can't go wrong with a cupboard full of porridge! Have fun with the kiwis, instant healthy pudding!

triticale

I have £8.68 and £1.50 of luncheon vouchers, luckily I picked up 5kg of desiree spuds for 78p, reduced at Tesco tonight. I suspect there will be a lot of mash/jacket spuds in the coming days! :rotfl:

My storecupboard is ok and I have a few portions of frozen soup, all I'll really need to buy is milk and fresh fruit for the kids.

I actually don't mind being skint (for a few days) as at least I don't have to worry about overspending - can't spend what we don't have!

zippychick

Hi Habbiboo I've merged this with the daily chat thread where Old Stylers muse and chat about their Old Style life. I'm sure you will be made very welcome

Good luck until the end of the month
Zip

D&DD

NPM I've only just seen your post poor Noah,these schools just make my blood boil sometimes..no offence meant to any of the teaching/support staff on here its just it's SO hard seeing our gorgeous kids all go through this..

As you know my DS3 reached crisis point at the age Noah is now,it may be time for them to totally reassess how they are going to help him now he's getting older?

I called an emergency meeting with the LEA in the end have you a named person there you deal with? May be worth a chat with him/her or the Parent Partnership if you have a local one..

Sending lots of hugs for you all XXX