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

mardatha

I think we always circle round again and come back to "life is tough " etc subjects. We cant be too strict or it becomes more like school or a work meeting. We're like a lot of friends in a pub, the conversation ebs and flows and eddies. LOL Aren't I poetical !

Swampmonster

lauren_1 wrote: »

My car failed its MOT yesterday, rather miserably.....Best make use of my legs although I am very peeved after buying a carseat and base and only getting to use it once. I have listed it on ebay in hope that I can get something for it, taken out stereo, drained fuel tank and sold to my mum for 50p a litre

My car has died too!! it has got about fifty quids worth of petrol in it that I would like to put in OH car before I scrap mine.

How do you drain the fuel tank and transfer it?

Thanks!! :T

ceridwen

KITTIE (if you see this)

Re the specific query you made to me - I've found some info. that might be what you want - and sent it in a PM to you.

love

ceridwen
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mardatha

I'm operating on a worst case scenario and figure if you do that then all eventualities are covered. But finding it very hard on a tight budget ! Very interesting to hear about your grandparents Cat.

mardatha

If the car's to be scapped anyway then OH says knock a hole in the tank and drain it

kitschy

I think perhaps we all need to chill out a little bit and get some perspective.

If there's a bit of chat, perhaps that in itself is supporting someone who needs it. I think the current chattiness is due to people being petrified of voicing an opinion lest they be reported or cause the thread to be closed again. It will settle down, I'm sure. I do fear that there might be a little possessiveness (is that a word?!) going on, but the popularity of the thread shows it's needed and wanted by the posters, so I'm sure it will continue, whether or not it has the word "tough" in the title.

GreyQueen

Commiserations to those whose cars have died on them. It's a helluva shock when the trusty motor is condemned, isn't it? My brother's banger is in the garage with a Mystery Oil Leak and we're stressing about how much it'll cost to fix.

I know a fair few people who have run cars for most of their adult lives and are hanging onto car ownership by a fingernail. One big repair bill and that's it, end of story. A pal who makes a decent salary but has a mortgage and debts has told me frankly that she's in this situation and that when it's uneconomic to repair her car she can't replace it unless she is fortunate enough to get a family hand-me-down, which is not looking like a probability.

When I was a CAB adviser, we'd dofinancial statements for people in debt to see exactly where they stood, and therefore what they could afford to pay off, and it was very common to see the car taking 25% of the household income. And these were very modest cars, btw. It shocked the heck out of people, seeing it there in black and white. We're in a city so there are options other than running a car, but so many people are in rural areas where you tend to see UFOs more frequently than service buses. I'm concerned about how those people will cope if the prices of fuel go any higher as a lot are bordering on the situation of working to pay for the car to go to work to pay for the car....

Sorry to be such a downer. My family are from villages but we moved into market towns in the 1960s mostly, following the work. When our oldies pass over, that'll be the end of many centuries of connections. No one in my family of working age lives in the cluster of villages where we have documented roots for 4 centuries (an probably undocumented ones for a 1,000 years before that). It's a little sad, but the world turns and we turn with it.

Right, heading "up the city" as we say around here (we're 10 minutes walk from the centre but across the river so tend to treat it as if we're going somewhere!) Gonna see if my shoes can be re-soled economically and see if there are any unmolested bargains.....

littlecal

Redlady_1 I've never cooked belly pork - what's the best way and is it very fatty?:o

redlady_1

Well, LC, the only way I have done it is by roasting it with coriander and fennel stuffing in a rack. The other way I have done it is covered in mustard and dipped in brown sugar and cooked on the barbie. It is flipping lovely done that way. Yes, it is pretty fatty but nice and tasty. This might be an ideal time to try it as you wont waste alot of money if you dont like it?

I am sure there are some more adventurous cooks out there we can pinch some ideas from!

redlady_1

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/19842

Look what I found! Going to have a bit of a read