As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

chirpychick

Guess what!! Im so excited!!

we desperately need to replace our carpet because our now deceased elderly cat used it as a toilet consistently for months and it has a hole in it where she clawed.

my friend suggested hiring a carpet cleaner just to get it clean as a temporary measure until we can save the £300 to get it replaced but hiring the cleaner was about £30 which we have more important things to spend on at the moment.

so i just rang my dad for our usual tuesday chat and he told me he had hired one and if we go down there after hubby finishes work we can borrow it clean the carpet and take it back tonight so dad can return it tomorrow. The only cost to us will be about £7 in petrol. Plus ill give him one of my tomato plants as a thank you.

nobody quite understands why im so excited but we have just painted our living room and kitchen they have laminate so it looks nice. then we painted the hall stairs landing where the carpet is and the carpet just looks so awful it almost feels like wasted effort, so at least now it will just bring it up a bit nicer until we can save up to have it replaced. Everyone ive asked has said they cant smell cat pee but i can and im paranoid about it, ive tried everything to get rid of it so at least i can feel better knowing its been properly cleaned now too!!

woohoo!

I know these are only little things but they really help and make me feel like things are slowly coming together!

[Deleted User]

you can try `fixing` the carpet hole by snipping bits of pile from somewhere else (same shade of colour) popping a bit of glue into the hole and then use tweezers and stuff pile into the hole. Dry and then cut the top flat

greenbee

Saw this and thought of you lot...:cool:

chirpychick

kittie wrote: »

Lakeland delivered today, so quick and every item in the sale. Pop up flat airers £1.99, ecozone balls £4.99 instead of £10.99. lol I now have enough washing balls to last me until my 70s

im just about to order some of them ecoballs today! are they good?

Reverbe

Oh dear. It seems the workhouse doth indeed approacheth.Things had begun to look up in that my flatmate who had also been unemployed following debts and a business collapse had landed a sales joblate last year (admittedly with a piddle poor basic) and was doing quite well. He just came home after lunch with bags of stuff saying his boss has told him to work from home and get out the office. Apparently after trying to do him out of the commission he has rightly earned a few times, boss has now decided to get some guy to relocate from India (yes INDIA)with a wife and 2 business partners.The office is tiny so there is no room for flatmate plus he is going to take away his basic salary- ok this was only 14k !!!!!! less than I'd get in one of my admin roles- but at least I no longer had the constant worry of impending homelessness. He has said he can continue to work for the company at home on commission only but it is the piddle poor basic we need to keep a roof over our heads. Not only this but he is finally able to make tiny headway with his debts.I'm trying to be strong but am beginning to wonder how many times life is going to do the dirty all over us. I am already feeling washed up and hopeless at my relatively youngish age despite considerable skills and experience and will not get much of a pension. Now I'm back to having to worry day to day about having a roof to live under and regretting any food i bought that wasnt value noodles.

Was having such a good day til now too..I remain totally shocked by the state of society and this country with the way they treat people and how there is nothing doing for well educated mature persons with skills and experience. How when I was young - tho I say this far too often - I never thought I'd have such a washed up lousy lifetime.

chirpychick

kittie wrote: »

you can try `fixing` the carpet hole by snipping bits of pile from somewhere else (same shade of colour) popping a bit of glue into the hole and then use tweezers and stuff pile into the hole. Dry and then cut the top flat

its quite big and on the stairs im not sure where id get the extra piece from hmmmm but im 100% going to speak to hubby and see what we can do it sounds like just the idea to keep it going for a while thank you!

chirpychick

Reverbe im so sorry i dont know what to say (((((HUGS))))

Reverbe

Thanks chirpy. It doesnt help that I dont have friends IRL and havent seen my partner in several years. This comes on top of attending a close friends funeral last Friday.Sometimes I dont know how much more of this I can stand. We are both really good people and I just cant understand what the heck we did in a previous life to pay like this.

LannyLee

Hi can any of you help, I've just started a new thread & wondered if any of you on here could help?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/44837476#Comment_44837476

GreyQueen

Reverbe wrote: »

Oh dear. It seems the workhouse doth indeed approacheth.Things had begun to look up in that my flatmate who had also been unemployed following debts and a business collapse had landed a sales joblate last year (admittedly with a piddle poor basic) and was doing quite well. He just came home after lunch with bags of stuff saying his boss has told him to work from home and get out the office. Apparently after trying to do him out of the commission he has rightly earned a few times, boss has now decided to get some guy to relocate from India with a wife and 2 business partners.The office is tiny so there is no room for flatmate plus he is going to take away his basic salary- ok this was only 14k !!!!!! less than I'd get in one of my admin roles- but at least I no longer had the constant worry of impending homelessness. He has said he can continue to work for the company at home on commission only but it is the piddle poor basic we need to keep a roof over our heads. Not only this but he is finally able to make tiny headway with his debts.I'm trying to be strong but am beginning to wonder how many times life is going to do the dirty all over us. I am already feeling washed up and hopeless at my relatively youngish age despite considerable skills and experience and will not get much of a pension. Now I'm back to having to worry day to day about having a roof to live under and regretting any food i bought that wasnt value noodles.

Was having such a good day til now too..I remain totally shocked by the state of society and this country with the way they treat people and how there is nothing doing for well educated mature persons with skills and experience. How when I was young - tho I say this far too often - I never thought I'd have such a washed up lousy lifetime.

Oh Reverbe that is a helluva lot of the brown stuff to land on an already difficult set of circumstances. ((Hugs)) I really hope that you and your flatmate get a break of good luck soon, it's heartbreaking to hear that so many people are having such experiences. You seem a strong person and I hope you'll come into easier times soon. Stay up here and hang with us.

Chirpychick I had an idea when you just posted that your damaged carpet is on the stairs; I know the trick someone else mentioned works (the patching with a bit cannabilised from elsewhere) but now I know it's stair-carpet........sometimes when it's professionally laid there is a bit extra (sometimes a couple of feet or more long) under the landing or hall carpet at either end. The idea being that at some future point the carpet could be moved slightly so that the wear spots fell a bit differently on the treads.

I wonder, might this be the situation in your home? I guess you may know one way or the other if you had the carpetting done yourself but if you "inherited" it with your home, might it be worth a little detective work? It's tough trying to keep a home halfway decent when money's too tight to mention, but good on you for trying so hard. HTH.