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

pudding06

Flannelette sheets for me. Cant live without them, so warm and cosy.:T I've even started taking them camping with me in the summer hols, to the south of france :rotfl:

Its an addiction:eek:

pudds

KatrinaC_2

Queenie wrote:

Good Old Fashioned ????? and Moneysaving

Elbowgrease

If OS proves nothing else, there is no way to buy food that tastes better than HM food and the best way to really clean things is to actually go and do it rather than just spraying it repeatedly with different chemicals.

hotwater bottles
You can not take your electric blanket downstairs with you if you need a glass of water during the night, use it to apply heat just to your toes/back/legs/stomach or kick it out of bed when you finally get too hot

Kat

freyasmum

I love my hot water bottle. It really does make a difference

Austin, I must see if I can get OH onto shaving with a brush and soap - he is horrendous for taking far too much (of anything, really!)

Mr_Proctalgia wrote:

The only other things I can think of that are not now common are shoe horns and anti macassars both of which save unnecessary wear and marks!

I made a shoe horn in technical as school. I must confess to taking shoes off without untying them in the past :eek: I will not do that again! What is/are anti macassars?! I'm 21 :rolleyes:

Elliesmum wrote:

As for bedspreads - I have a beautiful quilted bedspread made by a friend of mine. Best thing about it, it hides unironed duvet covers and instantly helps make the bed in the morning.

EM x

You iron duvet covers?!?! I mustn't be as O/S as I thought!

Linzi x

Thistle-down

KatrinaC wrote:

Elbowgrease the best way to really clean things is to actually go and do it rather than just spraying it repeatedly with different chemicals.
Kat

That is so funny - I used to be one of those repeat chemical spayers!! We live in a late 1940's ex-council house - it has chequerboard tiles in the entrance, hallway and dining room. I could not get them clean with anything - I tried so many useless products, including a heavy duty steam cleaner. I asked my elderly next door neighbour how the lady who previously lived in our house used to keep the tiles clean, as I had heard she was very houseproud.

She laughed at me and said "Vim and a wooden scrubbing brush!"

I bought both the next time I was in Home Bargains, and scrubbed away. It was hard work and I had to do it over a few days but the tiles came up beautifully - then I sealed them and now wipe over with a damp mop to keep them clean, though I need to scrub and re-seal them about once a year.

Austin_Allegro

Re: antimaccassars - not sure if these are really necessary nowadays - they were to protect the backs of chairs from mens' heads in the days when they used brylcreem and only washed their hair once a fortnight!

To the lady wanting to get her husband to use shaving soap and a brush - I would suggest you get him a really good quality badger hair brush, from https://www.tayloroldbondst.co.uk for about £17.95. They last for years and are much better than the cheapo bristle ones from Superdrug. Taylor's shaving creams are also good, they cost about £5 for a pot. Eton College is my favourite one, and used sparingly (just dip the tips of the bristles in lightly) will last for at least six months.

Glad

I use a bedspread over the quilt cover sometimes

especially if I have a cream cover on

twink

i have two candlewick bedspreads that i use all the time and hot water bottles, i was brought up when there was only blankets and gran was so scared i would be cold, no central heating then, that i was weighed down with covers, so i cant get cosy unless i have a duvet and cover and flannelette sheets as for washing i remember turning the mangle at my other grans the tap was outside the door and there was no electric either, just a tilly lamp for light, happy days

tallulah_beaulah

I'm desperately waiting for our duvet to "wear out" so that I can exchange it for sheets and blankets.

Since ds was born and I've been putting him to bed under sheets and cotton cellular blankets I've realised how brilliant they are. Easy to wash, quick drying, I'm sure they must be healthier than duvets and last longer because they are so much easier to care for.

Also, I have a real hatred of fitted, elasticated, sheets at the moment. They take forever to dry properly and are impossible to fold for putting away.

Spendless

No:eek: . We went away in December to France and the beds there had sheets and blanket. For a start they are freezing cold to get into_pale_ . If you wriggle in the night, you could end up with just a sheet over you and the blanket elsewhere on the bed and then you're trying to re-arrange, re-make the bed so you can go back to sleep:mad: . It takes longer to make the beds. Sorry this is something that can stop firmly as a memory of my childhood, along with gas kettles and having to get dressed in the living room as there was no other form of heating in the house :eek: give me a duvet anyday:D

hazzie123

I totally agree with you Spendless. I hated blankets when I was a kid,my mother used to tuck me in that tight with them you couldn`t move an inch,never mind turn over when you first got into bed. When the tight grip of the blankets was released half way through the night you were just left with a thin cotton sheet over you and most of the blankets on the floor.

A duvet is a must for me.