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

Pitlanepiglet

I'm on the look out for an old Ewbank style carpet sweeper, the new car boot season starts at Easter, hopefully I'll find one this year, otherwise I'll give up and buy a new one...

rosalie-lavender

I am glad someone resurected this discussion. My 19 year old uses an old fashioned razor and now has another website to order his shaving soap from. We must be an old fashioned family because we have a large number of the things that have been mentioned. We have a bedspread on our bed, shoe horns, hot water bottles, clothes brushes, I use an apron. I used to have a spin dryer and gave it away when I moved and have often wished I still had it, especially when my washing machine broke down.

I have my grandma's old fashioned stone hot water bottle and if it is really cold it still gets used occasionally. I have some flannelette sheets too.

champys

Every bed in our house has a bedspread - mostly to separate the bedlinen from sleeping cats, although in the end I'm not sure how effective it really is...... I had never considered them an old fashioned item.

luxor4t

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

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I'm not an old person yet but I must be practically the only who actually does own a clothes-brush and a shoe-horn and I use them both regularly. Good clothes and shoes/boots deserve looking after properly.

I know I'm getting old because I've been thinking about buying a pinny to wear when cooking or doing the housework . I have turned into my granny and I hardly noticed it happening.

Speaking as a pinny-wearing clothes-brush & shoe-horn owner operator, i'm proud to be a bit like my Nana

babyshoes

My mother bought one of those carpet sweepers from Wilkinsons about a year ago to clean up after the parrot, as he drops food all over!

Mrs_Thrify

When I was a teenager I had a record player and then tape recorder.

My kids had CD players and now ipods.

Wireless then and now radio.

I can also recall my mothers excitment of getting a colour TV.

MrsE_2

Queenie wrote: »

nowadays if you "want to make the bed look pretty" a throw over the end third does the trick, is cheaper and easier to launder.
True enough, I thought, but she's missing the whole point!

Bedspreads were not simply to "make the bed look pretty" but served a 'function' - that of basically being a 'dust sheet' to protect your bedding/pillows.
Who wants to lay down on a pillow that is covered in the day's dust and cover themselves over in a duvet equally covered in dust, then spend the rest of the night inhaling it all?
So, for health and hygiene, bedspreads are surely a worthwhile investment and modern 'throws' nothing more than a waste of money on a decoration with little practical value.

I have a throw, faux fur brown, folded in half & placed on the bottom third of the bed.
Its pretty, adds some colour (along with the 6 unused cushions) to my otherwise cream & white bedroom.
But when it really cold we "throw" it over the quilt & we are super warm.

My pillow won't get covered in dust as I puff the pillows & place the duvet covering the pillows too:D

Then the pillows in a 3, 2, 1 formation & the brown faux fur throw.

Eenymeeny

Ooh! I'm so pleased that you've all come back. I've just started posting although have been lurking for quite a while:D I wasn't sure if I could restart a thread after such a long time...It's such a great thread.
I think that so many things, like pinnies (as my Gran called them) and the carpet sweeper were so sensible and energy saving that they deserve to make a comeback. I have a stone waterbottle that I bought at a car boot to use as a doorstop. I wonder if I should try it sometime???
Dad said that they used to heat a brick in the bread oven then wrap it in a piece of old blanket to warm them in bed, until he had an accident and burnt his heel:eek:

Olliebeak

I've still got 2 'counterpanes' - which I love on the bed in the summer with just a top sheet over us .

Eenymeeny

I remember my Gran having a little brass dustpan and brush kept specially to brush the crumbs off the tablecloth, I suppose that saved on the washing as well...