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

needmoney

I have bedspreads, threw out my duvet years ago and went back to blankets the ones like aertex I can never remeber the name of them(anybody know?) easy to wash nice and warm less in summer add more in winter.

Didn't realise about the dust protection bit though I fold them back to make them look pretty-ish:o

edit to say I now use my cooking pinny - like Gr I learned the hard way it's easier than trying to remove big fat grease splashes.

Queenie

taplady wrote:

Queenie wrote:

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

We have picture rails in most rooms but have never been sure what they are for are you supposed to hang your pics from them then? I just find them to be dust traps and a pain for painting! but they look ok I suppose! tried taking one down once and the hole it left in the wall was unbelievable!:eek: wont be doing that again in a hurry!:rolleyes:

Yes you hang pictures from them or tapestries or wall carpets or quilts or ... whatever!

You can get a variety of different "hooks" which sit *over* the rail and you hang your pictures from the bottom of the hook - altering the height of the picture by varying the length of cord/wire you hang them from.

Pix of assorted picture rail hooks from Google

Some houses would add some beading to form a 'lip' above/on the top of the picture rail so that it would double as a plate rail

shetitasatic

Does anyone still use an 'old-fashioned' carpet sweeper and can you still buy them? When my kids were small I used mine everyday, especially to clean up the living room carpet when they had gone to bed - quick and easy to use and no electricity! I suppose with so much laminate flooring these days there's not much use for them, but they are SO handy for a quick whip around!
I wear an apron to cook and for mucky jobs. I also change out of my 'best' clothes when I come in after going out!! :rotfl: :rotfl:
I use a calico shopping bag given to us a t a 'green' campsite in Spain a few years ago - it exactly fits the sunday papers.:j

Rage_in_Eden

I have picture rails and in the bedrooms where they were taken down I am fighting a propoganda war with Mr Rage to get them reinstated!!! I am also going to get a carpet sweeper as I am fed up of having to vac - what with two free-flying budgies - and I have been trying to get Mr Rage to agree to a tidy-dry over the bath - but as it's got to go in his bathroom he isn't keen. Incidentally anything drip dry - do we have anything drip dry nowadays? If I don't put stuff over the radiators which is non-TD I hang it in the shower - but it's not exactly drip dry and, whilst I'm on a role - paraffin heaters. Mum had a huge one (c.1960s I thikn) which eventually went to the tip and then she had a little one in the downstairs loo - ahh, winter is here and the smell or paraffin wafts through the house!! She also used to have a gas fire in the hall and we used to hang clothes to dry on coathangers and hook them onto string loops we had made. I even did the same thing recently (although obviously we do not have a gas fire in the hall any more what with regulations and all that!!)

vivaladiva

I remember those paraffin heaters. My Gran never had central heating or an inside loo. There was a little storm lantern size heater to stop the pipes freezing in winter! She used to have one of those big wooden airers that pull up to the ceiling for the washing. (I quite fancy one of those but with the quantity of washing here I think we might end up with the ceiling on our heads!)

BTW does anyone know why my smilies won't work?

broomstick27

I hate not having picture rails - where are you supposed to hang your clothes that you want to wear tomorrow or that jacket you dont want to forget to take out with u?

Gryfon

I've got a bedspread! But because of dust mites I'd rather leave the bed unmade and hope the cold kills them

tootles_2

When I get up in the morning I open the bed right back and open the window, close the door and leave for at least 2 hours. We have a duvet, but I cover the bed with a patchwork quilt once the bed has been made, the quilt is shaken out of the window each week when I clean the bedroom.

In fine weather I often hang the duvet out of the window. I have an old towel which goes over the cill and the duvet goes out over that, airing a duvet like this help to kill off the bugs etc in the bedding.

At night the patchwork quilt is either folded across the end of the bed or on a chair.......if its on the bed we can pull it up if its turns cold in the night.

I had an old non down duvet which I cut down on the serger to fit the top of the bed, this goes on the top of the matress under the fitted sheet, it gets shaken out when I change the bed and washed about once ever 6 weeks or so, makes the bed so comfy in the winter.

We don't use an electric blanket but hot water bottles, I put them in about an hour before we go to bed wrapped round our night clothes, when we get into bed we push the bottles down to our feet to warm the bottom of the bed. I made quilted covers for the bottles.........and its suprising how much longer the bottles keep warm.

Yes you can still get carpet sweepers, I have had one from Argos 16 years ago and its still going strong, great for cleaning up the odd accident and a quickie if someone drops in unexpectedly.......we used ours for years for keeping our caravan clean when we were away, the handle unscrews which means it will fit into a small place if need be.

Aril

I don't have a bedspread per se but a hand made quilt [I know it took me 5 years to make it...all hand quilted for a king sized bed] Initially I made it because my bedroom is decorated in an American folk art style but I have to say it has kept us nice and cosy in the winter. Mind you I also have a gorgeous homespun style quilt my Mum designed and made me also hanging above my bed. I do have an apron but there appears to be a gap in my memory between knowing I have it and actually using it!!
Aril

headchef

I've just bought 2 cotton Ikea bedspreads to keep the bed clean when the dog jumps on it with muddyish paws (you can never get them really clean). It's only taken me 5 year's to come up with this obvious solution.:p

It's our fault I know for letting her jump on the bed in the first place but that's all I can say in my defence is remember the Andrex ads on the telly with the little yellow lab jumping on the bed and curling up to sleep and you'll understand why I let my beautiful little black ladrador puppy sleep on our white bedlinen. :eek: