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

Chocmonster7

shetitasatic wrote:

Does anyone still use an 'old-fashioned' carpet sweeper and can you still buy them?

You can now buy modern new-fangled ones which are battery powered! My Brother has one as he works for a company who sells them. It's more of a novelty item in his house though.

http://www.karcher.co.uk/product.php?pr=61

topgranny

shetitasatic wrote:

Does anyone still use an 'old-fashioned' carpet sweeper and can you still buy them?

Funny, I've just posted a reply on another thread about this. I have a Gtech Cordless electronic sweeper, which I guess is the modern equivelent. It's great - being electronic it has much more "suck" than the old type, IYSWIM, and gets up loads of dust and muck. Even the dog hairs come off really easily.

taplady

broomstick27 wrote:

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?

also great for drying your washing! just put it on hangers and hang it up! saves a bit on ironing too!;)

Austin_Allegro

Clothes brushes. People don't seem to use these anymore but it's much easier to just brush off a bit of dirt instead of washing an whole item. I even knew someone who got quite angry when I tried to explain what it was for and said 'why can't you just wash your clothes!'

Queenie

Clothes brush!! :doh: You're right!

Good old fashioned spin dryer! Knocks the socks of modern washing machines.

shetitasatic

: I totally agree about the spin drier. They had one at a campsite we used in Germany in Sept. I did some handwashing and then used the spin drier - I'd forgotten how much drier they get clothes, they dried in no time :j I wish they had them on every campsite. There was one on offer on our freecycle site today but it went immediately!

The other thing I love is my high clothes line with a pulley at each end - it really gets the wind and I can dry washing even on dull days in winter :T

squeaky

shetitasatic wrote:

Does anyone still use an 'old-fashioned' carpet sweeper and can you still buy them?

Daxon do what looks like a straightforward old fashioned carpet sweeper for £9.99 here:-

Daxon carpet sweeper

millie

shetitasatic wrote:

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

I bought mine fro a car boot sale for £3 its brilliant does hard floors as well as carpets & has a height adjustment for the brushes, I think Argos still sell them

newMS

i have a carpet sweeper. a bissell one..... quick wizz round and picks all the bits up. love it

Chipps

My DD has picture rails in her house - used of course for hanging clothes on! My sister has some, too, but she has had the novel idea of hanging pictures up from them. I wonder if that's where they got their name?:rolleyes:

Bedspreads: when I was little, my bedspread was a chenille tablecloth (circa 1930's - the tablecloth, I mean, not my childhood!!!! - mind you, not much better admitting that was in the 1960's-70's I suppose:o )
I still have the tablecloth / bedspread, but don't use it for anything, it is just in the airing cupboard.
I hadn't thought about bedspreads being dust covers before. We just have the duvets. I always air the bed before making it, & sometimes hang the duvet out the window, swiss-style, to air.

I used to have a carpet sweeper, but haven't had one for ages. That is something I can live without. For things that I would have used a carpet sweeper to pick up, I tend to just sweep it up with the long-handled dustpan & brush.

Spin dryers: brilliant! If we had the space, I would love one. My grandma only got a washing machine fairly recently (she's nearly 98) and before that washed everything by hand, then put it in the spin dryer, and things were almost dry, just needed airing for a short time.

Aprons? Wouldn't be without them - saves me a lot of extra washing!

Clothes brushes: even Anthea Turner recommends a clothes brush by the front door - and who am I to argue?!:D