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Good Old Fashioned ????? and Moneysaving - bedspreads

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  • charlies-aunt
    charlies-aunt Posts: 1,605 Forumite
    taplady wrote: »
    Queenie wrote:

    Picture rails meant no nails in walls or lumps of plaster being gouged out - wonderful invention :D

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    We have picture rails in most rooms but have never been sure what they are for :o are you supposed to hang your pics from them then


    You need picture rail hooks that 'hook' on the rail and then you hook the picture frame cord on the hanging hook. Check out ebay :)

    simples
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  • Eenymeeny
    Eenymeeny Posts: 2,015 Forumite
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    ChocClare wrote: »

    My two penn'orth - cloth napkins. I have about seven sets of four "everyday" ones and they are in use every day. My daughter puts out four new ones on Sundays and last week's set goes in the wash. They are often quite manky by then, but come up fine when washed. The fact that they are quite manky speaks volumes about how much less clothes washing I have to do as a result.
    That's exactly why some members of the family are issued with tea towels instead! and I use soup plates for 'messy stuff' like spag bol, chilli and rice, curry etc
    Flannelette jamis, I love 'em and at one time I wouldn't have been seen dead in them :)
    The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
    Thanks to everyone who contributes to this wonderful forum. I'm very grateful for the guidance and friendliness that I always receive from you.
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  • Eenymeeny
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    I like proper hankies too whenever I have cold. They're softer on the nose, cheaper than buying tissues, and you don't keep leaving germ-ridden tissues everywhere!
    The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
    Thanks to everyone who contributes to this wonderful forum. I'm very grateful for the guidance and friendliness that I always receive from you.
    :A:beer:
    Please and Thank You are the magic words;)
  • Eenymeeny
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    The dinky little coffee-spoons I have came to me when my mother died; they're silver and hardly ever used because I have no tiny coffee-cups to go with them. I might go on a snoop round the charity-shops and see if I can find some.
    I saw some lovely ones in our local BHF charity shop the other day, lots of different patterns...they were stamped BA. Maybe they donated nationally?
    I'm going to get myself a tea cosy now or maybe I should make one?:)
    The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
    Thanks to everyone who contributes to this wonderful forum. I'm very grateful for the guidance and friendliness that I always receive from you.
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  • Silaqui wrote: »
    I don't eat boiled eggs very often - once a year maybe :p but in a hark back to my student days, when I do get a fancy for one I balance it in a wide shotglass! :rotfl:

    I do have a set of proper cutlery complete with butter knife, cheese knife, and I also use fish forks (the ones with the little notch).

    When I'm at home, I always make tea in a teapot and drink it from a cup and saucer, never a mug, which seems to be unusual amongst my generation (I'm 25). I like to make the tea in the pot, then put the milk into the teacup and pour the tea onto it. If you make it in a mug (which I do at work) you have to put the milk in after, which never tastes right to me!

    I need one of those anitmaccassars (sp) for the passenger seat in my car as it feels disgusting from when OH sits there with his gelled head!

    Also, I'm not sure if this is an old style thing or just a quirk - but with proper loaves of bread (ie. bloomer type, not sliced) my nan ALWAYS puts the butter on first and then slices across the bread, she does the most perfect slices!

    x

    I remember my great gran always buttered the bread first and then cut really really thin slices of bread which I had with boiled eggs for my tea and always gave me a cup of milk in a bone china cup and saucer.
  • luxor4t
    luxor4t Posts: 11,125 Forumite
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    ..........
    Does anyone use one of those fancy tiered cake-stands any more? The only places I've seen any lately are in those rather expensive, retro tea-rooms that seem to be all the rage

    I bought a two-tiered china one from Lakeland's January sale last year: usually I put things I need to remember on it, but it does go on the table for birthday/Christmas/special teas.

    Re Candlewick: I've managed to buy 2 in the last year, both from charity shops.

    I think that I am slowly recreating my Grandmother's house: and there's nothing wrong with that!
    I can cook and sew, make flowers grow.
  • Margaret54
    Margaret54 Posts: 842 Forumite
    Hi everyone have really enjoyed reading all your wonderful posts, and taking a walk down memory lane:) lovely. I too wear a pinny and always have done since married, and remembered the twintubs as well. We always had a clothes brush and the covers over our chairs while growing up. My Mother and Granny and Aunts had them too. We always had little cotton hankies to put into our little handbags on a Sunday going off to Sunday school (my sister and I ) and a few brown pennies for the collection plate too. I loved the carpet sweeper but have a hoover now and can remember the wooden clothes horses. I too have a two tiered cakestand which I bought from a charity shop and love it. What I have noticed is how expensive it is to buy new (oldstyle things) from certain shops, so charity shops and carboot sales are the way to go (IMO)
    Do a little kindness every day.;)
  • Eenymeeny
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    luxor4t wrote: »
    I think that I am slowly recreating my Grandmother's house: and there's nothing wrong with that!

    I agree with you there, the more I think of it they had such sensible ideas. I remember my Gran living in an upstairs flat, and having an arrangement of string and cup hooks from the doorcatch, up the wall to the top of the stairs. She pulled the string at the top of the stairs and the catch pulled back...we had a code: three rings and we were in! I suppose that it saved her going downstairs but also saved wear on the carpet.
    On the same subject (nearly!) doormats...why spend time and money removing dirt when you can stop it getting in?:)
    The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
    Thanks to everyone who contributes to this wonderful forum. I'm very grateful for the guidance and friendliness that I always receive from you.
    :A:beer:
    Please and Thank You are the magic words;)
  • luxor4t
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    Eenymeeny wrote: »
    .......On the same subject (nearly!) doormats...why spend time and money removing dirt when you can stop it getting in?:)

    I just need to train Mr Luxor to actually use the mat, not step over it - our doormat is cleaner than the carpet :doh:
    I can cook and sew, make flowers grow.
  • Eenymeeny
    Eenymeeny Posts: 2,015 Forumite
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    luxor4t wrote: »
    I just need to train Mr Luxor to actually use the mat, not step over it - our doormat is cleaner than the carpet :doh:

    :rotfl:I've got one at home like that, don't you just love 'em?
    Has anyone still got a toasting fork? I remember sitting by the fire toasting crumpets for tea. Sounds archaic doesn't it? I'm not that old honest!
    But it doesn't sound as inviting to gather around the toaster does it?
    The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
    Thanks to everyone who contributes to this wonderful forum. I'm very grateful for the guidance and friendliness that I always receive from you.
    :A:beer:
    Please and Thank You are the magic words;)
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