Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

bluebag

Nuala Buala,
It's quite difficult to adjust. I found I could combine the shopping and walking by using a shopping trolley, this caused great hilarity in my house! (lovely green tartan jobbie for full impact)
I had to make my family then friends a priority, without which I feel life isn't worth it. Next came food, then laundry and the rest as, when, and IF it fits.

I have had to accept that I just can't do everything I would like to.
Just remember its better to do a little and leave some room for fun, life is short.

jediteacher

bluebag wrote: »

Oh my! I so sympathise with you. My DD is 17 now and we still have problems with shoes. Getting school shoes would fill me with dread.

I don't know how old your DD is but in the end we just went to town and into every shoe shop we could find ( I used to plan lunch out as it was always an all day job) and I trusted her to try them on and tell me if they fit. She was very honest and it worked well.

This was the only way I could find shoes to fit her, nightmare!

My little girl will be 4 in december but she is very articulate! I have ordered some boot type shoes from Clarks to be delivered to store. If this fails then I will do as you suggest and drag her into all the shoe shops in town - will have to go to one of the larger towns as we only have two shoe shops. Thanks for tip. :beer:

charlies-aunt

pagangirl wrote: »

Hi - not sure if right thread for this, but knowing you all give good advice ................

Have found lurking tin corned beef bbe jan 2008. Should I just bin it, or has anyone used one this far past its bbe date?

Thanks in advance for any help

Hugs to all
xx

Pagangirl - difficult one, food is getting so expensive - it seems wrong to toss anything - but botulism can be fatal :eek:

Is the tin in good condition? Provided that there isn't any corrosion externally, its been kept cool and it's still the original shape - i.e. its not blown...I'd open it and if the internal coating of the tin was intact and the corned beef smelt ok when tipped onto a plate, I'd think it would be okay to eat as it has been kept in a sealed environment - its a Best Before Date rather than an Eat Before Date.

If there is any internal or external deterioration to the tin, - or - if the tin was bulging even ever so slightly - or - the corned beef smells metallic...I'd lob it in the bin as better safe than sorry

Hope this helps

NualaBuala

bluebag wrote: »

Nuala Buala,
It's quite difficult to adjust. I found I could combine the shopping and walking by using a shopping trolley, this caused great hilarity in my house! (lovely green tartan jobbie for full impact)
I had to make my family then friends a priority, without which I feel life isn't worth it. Next came food, then laundry and the rest as, when, and IF it fits.

I have had to accept that I just can't do everything I would like to.
Just remember its better to do a little and leave some room for fun, life is short.

You're so right Bluebag - sounds like you have your priorities in order. I think I am just going to do my own version of the plan and the physio can like it or lump it. It is mean to be for my benefit after all. It will mean I walk more on the days I shop than she would like me to, but I've got to buy food and I can't help not living nearer to the shops. And I am going to treat housework as exercise too ... well it is really!

jcr16

i posted a couple weeks back about the fleece blankets from ikea. Anyway where we went on holiday was too far away to go to ikea ( i've a rubbish sence of direction,lol) so i mentioned to hubby about the asda ones 2 for £3 as recommended. but these were so thin. such a disappointement. i'd planed to buy loads. does anyone have any more recommendations as to where to buy cheap but nice fleece blankets from please ?

Shysarah

jcr16 wrote: »

i posted a couple weeks back about the fleece blankets from ikea. Anyway where we went on holiday was too far away to go to ikea ( i've a rubbish sence of direction,lol) so i mentioned to hubby about the asda ones 2 for £3 as recommended. but these were so thin. such a disappointement. i'd planed to buy loads. does anyone have any more recommendations as to where to buy cheap but nice fleece blankets from please ?

I got one from halfcost website for £1.99 not very thick admittedly but the size of a single bed so I was happy.
Have you tried looking in Dunlems as well ?

greent

mambury wrote: »

I have exactly the same problem with my DD... a c/d width fitting and high instep so she can't wear the dolly/strap shoes comfortably.... I find at the moment the clarks little ankle boots with the strap across the ankle fits well.... If you have a clarks nearby then you can 'order' several pairs online to be sent to store at no extra cost or obligation..... Brilliant especially when they don't tend to stock the 'odd' sizes that often

HTH

DS2 is barely a D and has always had to have the little boots rather than shoes. DS1, on the other hand is the opposite and is an 'H' fitting


gailey - if YOU write the cheque guarantee details on the reverse of a cheque it doesn't guarantee it - the payee should write them on. When I worked at Barclays I'd often return 'guaranteed' cheques to places like catalogues, councils etc - you knew that they hadn't been guaranteed in accordance with the 'rules' We'd also cheque handwriting/ pen used etc

muffin_man_7

jcr16 bnm had them last year sorry can't remember cost some were bigger than the mrA ones but seemed thicker the mrA ones are very thin this year i bought some last year and the are much thicker/warmer you need 2 of them now and still not very warm i might recycle them and turn them into something else as gifts at least they will still get used

jcr16

thanks guys. but i'm on the isle of wight. no dunlam or bnm. very limited over here unfortunalty.
i've looked in places like poundstretchers and qs etc. but the fleece is very poor quailty. i managed to get some great ones in qs a few years back for about £5. i will keep on the hunt. thankyou

katholicos

witchwoopiggy wrote: »

everning all, sorry if this is off subject or in wrong place. glad to hear i was not the only one with all the suet , and brill idea about the birds will be doing that for them this winter well i had the dreaded chat about christmas with hubby today, now there is just me and hubby and niether of us work due to diffrent illness, anyway there is no one on my side so that makes it easyer, but there is on his, his brothers there wives and children , no matter what we get them its never good enough, the children are all spoilt there 5, 7 and 7 and all have ds, wii ect . Mum and Dad in law are great and happy with anything just being there on xmas day is enough.
To cut a long story short hubby and i have decied to do a cheeper xmas this year, why should we break our neck on things that are put in to a cubard and never see the light of day and thats the adults (Sadly mum found all the presents she bought her grandkids last year shoved in the cubard, she was looking for the kids coats, when she asked why was told its not what our kids have:eek::eek: what made it worse is mum always asks what to get them :mad:)
We both have fond memerys of our xmas when we were younger , we are 40 and 37, just incase anyone thinks we are older so christmas this year is going to be about the OS traditianal.
So we have bought all the children a jixsaw each, colouring book (nice one with there like on ie ben 10 ect) and colouring pencils rather than feltips (then we cant be blamed for wall damage) rather than just add to all the computor bits, the brothers will get a joke christmas book (i got them in jan) and smellies and the sis in laws cross stitch kit (just a small one) as they both said they enjoyed it before the children came along. Not at all what they will expect:D
Mum and Dad im cross stitching them a picture each which is personal to them ie Dad remembers travering on the trams so his is a tram, Mum jokes how she needs more teapots when her boys vist, so hers is diffrent teapots, then some new slippers each (this is something they never buy themselves) and im thinking of doing a little fresh fruit and luxersy hamper to go with it.
Hubby and i dont go into xmas much with him being ill (hes peg fed) food is not a great thing here, so im making some mince pies and normal dinners here. We have worked it out that doing it like this Christmas this year will cost less than £50 all in and no heart ache trying to pay for it all after. I know not everyone can or will want to do it this way but for us its going to work for the first time in ages im not worried about christmas

WWP, Christmas was never about expense originally, all this excess that we see nowadays detracts, or rather, obscures the real meaning of Christmas. Generosity of heart by far outweighs generosity of the purse or waller. It sounds to me that you are going to have a lovely Christmas, and as you said yourself, this will be the first Christmas without worry, in ages...so i truly hope it is a very much blessed time for you and your family.