Preparing for winter III

Rainy-Days

Tugrin - really easy peasy way of keeping moths out of your wardrobes. Just get some cotton wool balls, put quite a few drops of lavender oil on them and place them in a small plastic bag, but keep the bag opening reasonably apart to allow the scent to circulate.

You will need to keep refreshening the balls, but this is just such a lovely, cheap and easy way to keep the blighters out. They only munch on your decent stuff!

Lavender contains camphor which is exactly the same thing moth balls is made out of. I prefer to have the lavender scent rather than the moth commerciall ball. Also make sure that you have the pure essential lavender oil and not anything synthetic.

HTH

oldtractor

I recently bought 2 thermal vests from Damart and 2 from M&S. The M&S are outstanding! will be buying more from them in the future.

Rainy-Days

Chirpy - I was going to suggest Matalan but then realised your size maybe one of those that they do not stock.

I go to M&S get measured up for free then go to Matalan and buy my bras from there. I remember years ago now they were doing a documentary on whats made where and in the same factory in Asia, they had one line of women working on the M&S stuff and on a different line it was Matalan they just had different designs and maybe the lace was different as well so since then I haven't spent out the premium.

Have you looked on Ebay as well? Might be worth putting some money aside to see what you can get in the sales from Bravissimo too.

chirpychick

Rainy-Days wrote: »

Chirpy - I was going to suggest Matalan but then realised your size maybe one of those that they do not stock.

I go to M&S get measured up for free then go to Matalan and buy my bras from there. I remember years ago now they were doing a documentary on whats made where and in the same factory in Asia, they had one line of women working on the M&S stuff and on a different line it was Matalan they just had different designs and maybe the lace was different as well so since then I haven't spent out the premium.

Have you looked on Ebay as well? Might be worth putting some money aside to see what you can get in the sales from Bravissimo too.

Ive made about £7 on lightspeed so when i get to £10 ill transfer the money to paypal as i have literally just put 3 bras into my watch list. hopefully they wont go for too much - even 1 would be a help!!
I checked bravissimo but they dont do my size :S and i also love m&s bras so i will have a look into matalan now and see if they do my size (though i doubt it lol) it is such a pain! I lost 7st about 2 years ago and regained 5 (big whoops) and im still wearing the same bras and theyre just killing me at the moment. It was so much easier when id lost the weight as i could get my bras from Asda and they are really comfy! especially for £4 but now i need to lose some more weight before i can buy them from there again (im working on it 1 3/4lbs gone this week!) :j
thanks for the tip

EDIT: Nope no luck on the Matalan website - thanks anyways though as it looks like they do occasionally stock my size but none actually in stock at the moment so will keep checking back.

VJsmum

VJsmum wrote: »

Go to Dunelms and buy tension rods for dining room and DS bedroom
Buy fleece blankets to hang off said tension rods
Buy a couple of 5l bottles of water - just in case
Replace empty gas bottle in caravan so we can decamp there if it really goes t*ts up power wise
[STRIKE]Buy some long life milk[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]
Make sure i have bread making stuff stocked up - although that includes powdered milk so maybe the above might not be necessary
[/STRIKE]
Buy DS a new coat
Check gloves, hats, scarves
Snow shovel
Salt for paths

[STRIKE]buy ice grippers for shoes[/STRIKE]
thermal insoles for wellies
[STRIKE]Deicer for each car[/STRIKE]

A little more gone - the need to cross things out becomes quite compulsive, doesn't it?

tugrin

chirpy - on shopping vouchers today M&S ar offering an extra 15% of the sale items at checkout I looked at a beautiful bra 36dd FOR £9 in sale and 15% at checkout - maybe worth a look as it was from the larger range. I have no idea how I got on the shopping vouchers site but I must have registered at some point.

chirpychick

tugrin wrote: »

chirpy - on shopping vouchers today M&S ar offering an extra 15% of the sale items at checkout I looked at a beautiful bra 36dd FOR £9 in sale and 15% at checkout - maybe worth a look as it was from the larger range. I have no idea how I got on the shopping vouchers site but I must have registered at some point.

thank you - i have looked there too - no such luck (im a 44D).

chirpychick

I forgot to tell you - in the carboot stuff from freecycle we got some oven mitts bnwt - great christmas present for my grandad! photo frame - great for nan, candles!! great for us! tea towels always handy and towels i can use for the dogs in the bad weather and a christmas pudding teapot - this was amazing as yesterday i saw one on the debenhams website when i was browsing their christmas stuff for decoration ideas (i want to make some this year) and fell in love with it! I was going to put it on my christmas wish list but thought better of it as i need far more practical things LOL anyway when i googled the teapot (as you do) turns out it is circa 1950's/60's and they are now selling for £50!! Hubby keeps telling me i should sell it but i love it so much i dont want to. Is that daft? I really love everything to do with the Victorian era (from which i collect books usually free or from carboots) and the 50's which i collect kitchenware (again usually free or from carboots) i dont have a lot of "stuff" as when we went into the IVA i literally sold everything as i felt so guilty for the greed and wanted to cleanse my soul of materialism so now something has to mean a lot to me to keep - but obviously £50 could really help us out at the moment. What would you do?
we still have a car load of stuff to take to the carboot and we should make some money as im selling my old sewing machine and hubbys colleagues vintage computer games and consoles - i shall be putting the money to replace the windows for the winter and also hunting said carboot for hot water bottles and anything else to keep us warm this winter.

CH27

tugrin wrote: »

Disaster here - sunny dy so I decide to wash all my woollies and discover that BOTH my black cashmere (not posh TKMAXX bargains) are splattered with flippin; moth holes all down the front!!!!!!!!!! What on earth am I going to do as both are supposed to be my be smart but warm in my freezing classroom when I go back to work.
Needless to say the old work jersey (which are wool too) are as right as ninepence. Shal I darn them - can I darn after all these years? Shall I embroider interesting patterns on them or simply bin them?

You could sew sequins on to them.

Fruball

chirpychick wrote: »

I forgot to tell you - in the carboot stuff from freecycle we got some oven mitts bnwt - great christmas present for my grandad! photo frame - great for nan, candles!! great for us! tea towels always handy and towels i can use for the dogs in the bad weather and a christmas pudding teapot - this was amazing as yesterday i saw one on the debenhams website when i was browsing their christmas stuff for decoration ideas (i want to make some this year) and fell in love with it! I was going to put it on my christmas wish list but thought better of it as i need far more practical things LOL anyway when i googled the teapot (as you do) turns out it is circa 1950's/60's and they are now selling for £50!! Hubby keeps telling me i should sell it but i love it so much i dont want to. Is that daft? I really love everything to do with the Victorian era (from which i collect books usually free or from carboots) and the 50's which i collect kitchenware (again usually free or from carboots) i dont have a lot of "stuff" as when we went into the IVA i literally sold everything as i felt so guilty for the greed and wanted to cleanse my soul of materialism so now something has to mean a lot to me to keep - but obviously £50 could really help us out at the moment. What would you do?
we still have a car load of stuff to take to the carboot and we should make some money as im selling my old sewing machine and hubbys colleagues vintage computer games and consoles - i shall be putting the money to replace the windows for the winter and also hunting said carboot for hot water bottles and anything else to keep us warm this winter.

TBH I would keep it as an investment - at some point it will be worth even more by the sounds of it so enjoy it, don't use it/chip it/break it!!!