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

katieclampet

I've enjoyed reading this thread, and didn't realise I was so old fashioned....

I have a brush & dust pan and use it regularily
I have 2 doormats (front and back)
I have a throw/bedspread on all my beds
I always use a hot water bottle (and slippers & a dressing gown & fleecey socks!!)
I use a proper whicker shopping basket

However
I never wear (or have owned) an apron
I have never used "proper hankies, or napkins",

katiex:)

Eenymeeny

Just remembered yesterday while cleaning it! I insisted on an old-fashioned, free standing gas cooker with eye-level grill when we redesigned the kitchen. Now I can watch food cooking on the grill while stirring things on the hob, and I don't have to stretch across a hot, open oven door to do it! I'm not the tallest of folk so find that I don't have to stretch across the open door to clean the oven now either as it's left- hand hinged:j Don't suppose that this is money-saving but I can warm the plates above the hob too:)
I love my old-fashioned cooker!
Liberty bodices: I seem to remember them but I think that they were hand-me-downs from my older sister. I wouldn't wear them on PE day:o

ChocClare

I have cake stands: I buy them WHENEVER I see them in charity shops. I find them incredibly useful if I want to a buffet-type thing - not just for cakes but for any "bits". None of them has cost me more than a few quid. They tend to be art deco rather than ornate Victorian - and one set I have has quite hideous autumn leaves on it, but hey, I don't care.

I have also bought practically all the tablecloths I didn't inherit from charity shops - again, all white linen or cotton - they often need a bit of mending, but they're good quality and come up beautifully after a 90 degree wash and the liberal application of Robin's starch and a hot iron! My table is huge too. I think the fact that I live in Bournemouth, land of the aged, probably helps - lots of decent "stuff" gets donated to the charity shops!

Toasting forks though - I could never be bothered. When I was at college (Royal Holloway College, University of London, Founder's West 271 in case there are any old alumni reading this) we used to have really antediluvian gas fires in our rooms - you turned the gas on by turning a brass tap in the pipe and chucking a match in the general direction of the burner. You then took a quite ordinary fork, speared it through a piece of bread and hooked the tines of the fork into the wire cage around the fire. You could then get on with other things while your toast cooked (or burnt and set fire to the place...). Ah, memories.

I'm [STRIKE]47[/STRIKE] 48, by the way, so not that ancient (birthday last Friday, this is so depressing )

luxor4t

DianneB wrote: »

I clearly remember wearing a liberty bodice over my vest in the winter and I am 55. Anyone younger remember them??

taurusgb wrote: »

I am 52 and the memory of begging my mother not to make me wear them lives with me still!

I'm almost 52 & I didn't have to wear one :j

However, I did have to wear home-made knitted vests that were so enormous they doubled as petticoats, and was FORCED to wear these to secondary school, even on gym days :eek: Oh, the shame
The warm up exercise for the class was laughing at my vest.

nuttybabe

where do you all get your napkins. i have looked and they are so expensive i think i will find some cheap cotton material and make my own!

i have an apron
i have a dustpan and brush
i have hot water bottles
i have doormats

i will soon have napkins and a teapot! and i really really want a cake stand.

Any more good ideas?

bertiebots

Try the charity shops ...they are great for finding vintage table linen!

nuttybabe

bertiebots wrote: »

Try the charity shops ...they are great for finding vintage table linen!

i have looked but no luck so far. going out tomorrow for another look then popping to the material shop i think! thanks.

Eenymeeny

nuttybabe wrote: »

where do you all get your napkins. i have looked and they are so expensive i think i will find some cheap cotton material and make my own!
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Hi Nuttybabe, I found packs of four in Poundland. Not great but kinda retro, and tea towels, halved and frayed on the unhemmed sides can be quite nice (and cheap!):)

MrsE_2

nuttybabe wrote: »

where do you all get your napkins. i have looked and they are so expensive i think i will find some cheap cotton material and make my own!

i have an apron
i have a dustpan and brush
i have hot water bottles
i have doormats

i will soon have napkins and a teapot! and i really really want a cake stand.

Any more good ideas?

Ikea has lovely white dinner napkins - really cheap too.

I have a couple of aprons, we use them if we are doing anything messy & DH used them for bar-b-qs.
I have a couple of dustpans & brushes - how could anyone manage without these?
We have a hot water bottle for DHs back pain, works well for period pain too;)
Doormats front & back, how could you do without these?

kitschkitty

How can you not have a dustpan and brush in the house! :eek: Sometimes you really need one to clear up small spills etc.

As for doormats, we have them front and back would seem weird not having doormats!