Preparing for winter III

MarilynMonroe_2

I went down town on Wednesday and it was eerily quiet there too.
It was spitting on with rain though (hence me paying £5 for an umbrella which I will still be going on about in 10 years time )

Popperwell

Hope that you are warm and cosy MM(considering your gas has gone off)I wondered about investing in an umbrella but today it was too windy anyhow...sounds a good investment and very frugal...well done...

It's going to need a big change at this rate to see things turn around for Christmas, if lucky we may find some bargains. They said everyone was upbeat with the Olympics but it hasn't taken long to come down...but a lot of that was media hype...

MarilynMonroe_2

I'm not too bad, temp at 21. Its blowing a hooly outside though tonight. I really don't think we'll have any summer left now.

I wouldnt say £5 for an umbrella is frugal I think its dead expensive hehe, :rotfl:the moths flew out of my purse buying it!

Our high street (shields) is really bad these days. its full of phone shops and pawn brokers. Tons of empty shops, has been the past couple of years. The market no longer has bargains and is hardly on and even the charity shops are getting too dear. I shop mostly online now. I suspect others are too, but it's out of neccessaty cos even the shops we have, like Clarks, don't stock much in.

Hope youre having a cosy morning! x

Popperwell

If you are in shields you know about the bad weather...Mum's side of the family came from there. Agree about the charity shops and retail areas in general yet a couple of miles from here I have found a shop doing many items(shoes, clothes, household goods that are low in price and probably what our towns lack)and yet the town is practically one street and to be honest is a dump and the last place I would have considered shopping in...but having found this shop I will be back...

I could not believe how poor Clarks was in a neighbouring town...but it seems to be a general problem by your experience.

Just to keep the thread OT even the choice of basic retailers is poor, if we want shoes repaired we even have to go to another town or have shoes sent by a shop to another place. And our town is so big I cannot understand how such a business cannot succeed here and is pretty essential to the safety of many during the Winter especially.

twofishes

Got some Dr Martens boots - apparently these are brilliantly grippy for icy weather! They now do wellies as well so will get them too once my student loan comes through (I think that's a sensible thing to spend money on tbh), as the normal kind is not 100% waterproof like the wellies are. I have quite chunky but short legs so lace-up wellies are the way forward for me! Hope everyone is keeping nice and warm

Popperwell

twofishes wrote: »

Got some Dr Martens boots - apparently these are brilliantly grippy for icy weather! They now do wellies as well so will get them too once my student loan comes through (I think that's a sensible thing to spend money on tbh), as the normal kind is not 100% waterproof like the wellies are. I have quite chunky but short legs so lace-up wellies are the way forward for me! Hope everyone is keeping nice and warm

Might be worth looking into, they'd last me ages...

twofishes

Popperwell wrote: »

Might be worth looking into, they'd last me ages...

I got mine for about £62 from Amazon (and yes they are authentic!). Cheapest place I think, ebay is also good.

Confuzzled

bossymoo wrote: »

I have sorted through the kids clothes this aft. 2 lovely neat wardrobes, and reassurance that they have lots of lovely warm clothes. I probably only need some thermal bottoms for DS, and perhaps some ugg-type boots for DD. I got DS to try on his fleece all in ones. Only one fits and he wouldn't take it off lol he's asleep in it now... The other one will do for DD. she quite likes Thomas the Tank Engine, lol.

Might sort through mine tomorrow...

one thing you can do with kids all in ones if they get a little snug is cut off the feet, generally they are made with fleece if for the winter so this doesn't fray.

this will give them a little longer to wear them, did this with several of my daughters, she just wears her slipper boots with them

prepareathome

I used to do that with the children's all in ones, cut feet off I mean. YS loved them so much he happily wore pink ones for years as could not in those days(1980s) by them for boys once they were about 3. In our old pre CH homes I would put them in PJs with the fleece all in one over so I knew they were warm even when blankets or quilt was pushed off.

Hugs and Love to Allxxxx

MarilynMonroe_2

I think I'll be cutting the feet off dd's all in one today, although not sure if it even fits bodily wise. Good thing about her is she's a hotty, I'm mostly always worried she's too hot.