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

annie123

oldtractor wrote: »

I am seriously considering putting up duvets along the walls. .

You wouldn't be the first to do that.

I found several (often homesteaders and wilderness properties) on American and Canadian web sites that staple wadding onto the walls and cover with curtains held on tension wires/rods/or stapled to the wood.
Some were gathered, others pleats and some stretched tight so looked wall paper. Looked really good.

Also seen mylar space blankets on walls with wallpaper paste otherwise a slight draft and it makes a crinkle sound which apparently becomes annoying.

HariboJunkie

Seakay wrote: »

http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/globalmarkets/aquaculture/WWFBinaryitem8612.pdf

WWF doesn't say not to eat it - they just say to be careful about it's source so as not to encourage destructive farming methods

That's what I was saying last night when I linked to that but it seems nigh on impossible to check the source of the fish.

LannyLee wrote: »

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

I can't help I'm afraid but I hope it gets sorted for you soon. xxx

Fish (not basa ) and chips for tea. Easy one as I've been rushed off my feet all day with school committments, voluntary work and office work. As suspected, the cash flow doesn't quite work next month. We've just paid the business tax so have little in reserves and invoices which have just gone out will need to be paid early/bang on time to make things work. It would have been fine but we have 2 clients who haven't paid for months and probably only will when I issue them with a small claims summons. I don't know why they don't worry about this. They seem to just see it as a way of extending their credit terms. :mad:
Got a few more jobs/contracts today though so August/September should be ok.
The children break up on Thursday so will be enjoying a frugal start to their holidays. :cool:

My chooks have the symptoms of gapeworm so I need to get to the vet tonight for dewormer. Have to say it's the first medical expense we've had in two years for the hens so not too bad.

Sunny today and a positively tropical 17 degrees. :cool:

westcoastscot

annie123 fantastic post thankyou! I'll save it and have a good browse of those links - thanks also for the following info about condensation. Its a concern of mine as we're single glazed - I had thought about turning them daily, but a shower curtain is a good idea.
Choclare I know lined curtains are as good, but I want these to stay where they are all the time, and want the top halves of the windows open to the daylight - i'll hang my winter curtains as usual (2 sets - one around the bay and one across it for very cold nights).
Larumbelle, my etsy name is paulinet - looking forward to "meeting" you on there. Shall have a go at folksy too I think when I get chance.
WCS

annie123

Reverbe They can't just take away his job and expect him to do nothing about it. He has either been made redundant or fired and offered a commission only job working from home which is not what he originally applied for.
He can't be expected to live on commission only where he may or may not get paid.
Has he been there less than a year? Is there any reason why he can't sign on?

And life will get better for you, just as it did for those who went through the 70/80/90's recession, unfortunately I remember all of them well but I know one day I will have a job again (althought to my surprise I like being a housewife:)) and holidays will return for me, along with buying clothes, clinique moisturiser, not growing food because I have to, just for fun again, eating a meal out (even a cuppa tea and sandwich would be nice!) etc etc
The good thing about this time round is that we have this forum:T
I would have coped so much better if it existed decades ago.

jackel

Reverbe - Thinking of you. Life can be a sod sometimes.Had lots of bumps in life but have mannaged to survive by believing ''out of darkness commeth light'' Grit your teeth and tell yourself what you already know that you are bigger and better that anything other folks can throw at you- you are and you can turn it round. You show 'em !

lucielle

[QUOTE=HariboJunkie;
My chooks have the symptoms of gapeworm so I need to get to the vet tonight for dewormer. Have to say it's the first medical expense we've had in two years for the hens so not too bad.

Sunny today and a positively tropical 17 degrees. :cool:[/QUOTE]

What's gapeworm and what are the symptons? Or should it be tapeworm?
L

HariboJunkie

lucielle wrote: »

What's gapeworm and what are the symptons? Or should it be tapeworm?
L

No it is gapeworm.:) It's a respiratory parasite. I just noticed one of them stretching her neck and opening her beak alot. When another started I thought I should look up the symptoms. It's one of the hazards of free ranging.

VJsmum

chirpychick wrote: »

I tried going vegan but couldnt give up chocolate! That vegan chocolate is gros!

ill have to work on it!!

But you don't have to do everything, surely? If you can't give up the chocolate, does that mean that you can't give up the rest?
If one were a veggie who ate the occasional bacon buttie, surely that's better than not being veggie at all. THey are only labels after all. BTW i am not casting aspersions i am neither veggie nor vegan. I used to be a veggie but it didn't suit me but meat eaters were always quick to take the pee if I faltered whilst they happily munched anything (i;ll never forget my friend saying "I don't care where it's come from as long as it's cheap" and she wasn't on a budget)

chirpychick wrote: »

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

I use ecoballs and they generally work. THe problem i find is they don't remove the underarm/deodorant smell from son's and OH's shirts. I use them on most dark washes but not my whites.

How often are you supposed to change for new ones - anyone know?

jackel

Please can someone tell me what I do wrong ? When I post a quick reply I have and 'edit' thing not a 'thanks' at the bottom. Sorry I am so hopeless. Please help ! thankyou

redlady_1

Just to confuse you even more the basa says on the packet sustainably sourced and on the back of the packet says farmed in Vietnam!! What the hell are you meant to do??? Anyway, its going in the bin.

I reckon a diet of crispbreads, crisps and chocolate has to be the way ahead!