How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

Margaret54

Lovely to hear from you again Annie Had wondered how you were keeping only the other day. FTM we too were in a 4 bed house and we needed to downsize (council as well) We waited and waited until we got what we wanted and we were offered several horrible areas and bungalow which were like a shoebox, with lots of repairs needing done, but in their opinion they were repaired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway we finally got a lovely wee 2 bed bungalow in a lovely area and the neighbours are nice and it is so peaceful and it was worth waiting on. We were determined though to hold on for a decent one and good area too. I hope you are offered a nice one one day soon.xx

Margaret54

Forgot to say Gailey love I am sorry I can't get the pm to you. So annoyed as I can't see what I am doing wrong in it? Oh dear head like a sieve....

Frugal_Dreamer

Can we get back on topic?

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mardatha wrote: »

LIR is it solely a woodburner ? Much better to get a multifuel burner if at all poss as it gives you a lot more scope.

Disagree there is not a truly mutifuel burner. I think they all have a fuel they are more suited to. Of course that does not mean you cannot use both but ONE works best.
Also a wood burner is for life!!! I would never buy over the internet my favorite place for buying most things. I did tons of research before hand I was thinking of buying over the internet but it had to be a brand name, one I can get parts for (the fire bricks tend to be odd shapes because of the secondary burn which make the burner more efficient). Either way noticed that buying from a shop put little onto the price.
Decided on one last bit of research and cycled 30 miles to a shop on an industrial estate which had a huge amount of different burners in stock. 1st choice before leaving was a beautiful little Aga last choice an ugly Scan (Scandinavian aesthetics IE a box on legs). Guess which I bought. The Aga dimensions turned out to be largest only and the insides lends itself more to coal i.e. not square at the back. The Scan dimensions were near exact and internally very square with a bigger opening lending itself to wood. I paid nearly twice as much for the Scan not something I would do without good reason. Also the Scan had a bigger top surface great for kettles.
What I am saying is do not buy a stove of any sort without seeing it first and speaking to the sales people. You can still buy from the internet. The shop also arranged for stove fitters to come round and give me quotes, these turned to be better than the others I tried.
Remember unlike a dog a stove really is for life!

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mama67 wrote: »

I was actually answering another poster who said they wouldn't use terry nappies as towels only floor cloths, and my answer was to re-iterate that said nappies were as clean as they could possbily be before being used as towels.

Again not directly aimed at you more to the bleach addicts

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HariboJunkie wrote: »

It's hard to tell if you are adressing me or gillst but for the record I was responding tongue in cheek to gillst's post.

"I was responding tongue in cheek to gillst's post"
Thank God! The world bit by bit is getting more conspiracy theorist by the minute. I wonder if we are importing them from the US? The land of the conspiracy theorist.

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gailey wrote: »

Happy shrove tuesday guys!

Chest freezer baffed whats in there needs a sort out and new updated list ontop.
Think might need trip to butchers friday.

Hell why have I not thought of that before. I completely forget what I have in the freezer. The stuff at the bottoom has to be rediscovered everytime I clean it. I have been eating half a pig for nearly 2 years. Keep forgetting its in there. Next clean, on goes the list. Do you use chinagraph pencil. IE rub out stuff?

gailey_2

Margaret54 wrote: »

Forgot to say Gailey love I am sorry I can't get the pm to you. So annoyed as I can't see what I am doing wrong in it? Oh dear head like a sieve....

Something very weird going on said no new pms but found one dates04/03replied but took ages hope gets back to you.

having problems posting in general keeps posting half my messages then I retry and have to wait somany seconds endup with duplicate post and delete the half written one happened several times last couple of weeks.

Is asda the cheapest supermarket at moment?wheres everyone else doing mainshop.

Any natural os cheap ideas for cough hate pumping them full of medicine?

rachbc

Gailey I don't do a mian shop anymore, I use mysupermarket and get whats on offer in each place - mainly asda/ aldi or ocado with money off vouchers for me though

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brandeberryj wrote: »

Hell why have I not thought of that before. I completely forget what I have in the freezer. The stuff at the bottoom has to be rediscovered everytime I clean it. I have been eating half a pig for nearly 2 years. Keep forgetting its in there. Next clean, on goes the list. Do you use chinagraph pencil. IE rub out stuff?

I tape a list written in pen to top lid/outside!

I stocktake /tidyonce amonth when its out of control and when we done big farmfoods shop.
add meat tolist if been to butchers as freeze most of it.
I also on better weeks batchcookand freeze meals
wishwe had roomfor upright as well!