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Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it
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PasturesNew wrote: »OMG OMG OMG ... did a quick Google of feather duvets and narrowed it down to Goose Down/Feather.... and there are some out there at £800-1000!!!!! That's more than it'd cost me to completely furnish an entire double bedroom, to include: bed, bedding, pillows, duvet, duvet cover, wardrobe, drawers, bedside table, bedside lamp, decent (wool) carpet, curtains, lampshade.... heck.
e.g. http://www.johnlewis.com/119178/Product.aspx
I had absolutely NO idea that duvets would cost so much more for super-posh people! And that's before you get virgins hand sewing the words of prophets in gold thread round the edges!
The first time i slept under a pure down duvet...at a friends house, i almost cried with joy. Warm and so light it was unbelievable. It was heavenly. Sadly i do not own that type of heaven and, as per previous post, would find it hard to justify with the pets. Our main one is down and feather, and the other one, the ikea one, is too. Not sure aout the quilts tbh.....i shall have a scrunch when they are back. One might be down, but its pale ivory cream, and so very rarely used here!0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I've had three probably in 30 years. My first ever duvet was a 21st birthday present. The next one I bought myself when I was about late 30s. The next one I bought in 2007. The one in 2007 was still in as good condition as the day I bought it, but in the interests of "travelling light" it was binned. I have none now, just a sleeping bag. I'll get another new one next time I move into somewhere I expect to live more than a year.
Something that PN is more extravagent than me..at last:T
I think we bought the last one when we got married or thereabouts, so that means we discarded it when it was um 25 years old!
Plus I don't even think it was mega expensive when we bought it.
The now one was mid price range of the choice of allergenic ones in John Lewis, that was £60. Enough I thought. The time that having allergies has advantages.
It feels more luxurious than the old one, which felt heavy and flat in comparison.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
I have 3 double duvets, as follows:
1) 1991 Got married, bought 5ft bed and synthetic duvet to fit it - one of those with a thin bit and a medium bit that you can velcro together to make a thick one depending on the time of year.
2) 1993 Moved into part-furnished rented house with two double bedrooms and one 4'6" bed. Used it as the spare bed and bought a feather duvet to fit it.
3) 1999 Moved into unfurnished house. Bought new mattress for our bed and cheap bed base to put our old mattress on as spare bed. Moved our old synthetic duvet to the spare bed too, and bought feather duvet for us (to fit 5ft bed, again thin/medium/put-both-together three seasons type).
2005 LNE left, taking the cheap base, old mattress and synthetic duvet with him
2009 LNE died so it all came back to me. Gave the base and mattress to some people who needed it, but kept the duvet
Used the two spares last week - two of the visitors were each sleeping on a single mattress on the floor with a double duvet.
Not planning to replace any of them any time soon, but once I've got the building stuff out of the way, next on my list is a new mattress for my bed. It's still reasonably comfortable but there are springs sticking out of the side of it that jab me in the thigh if I get too close when walking past it.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
WE have a huge collection down and synthetic lots of sizes but now we do single duvets as I have thin 4.5 tog synthetic and DW has 12 tog feather - may sound less romantic that one duvet but it works much better.I think....0
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WE have a huge collection down and synthetic lots of sizes but now we do single duvets as I have thin 4.5 tog synthetic and DW has 12 tog feather - may sound less romantic that one duvet but it works much better.
We used to have the thin duvet (synthetic to start with and then feather later) over both of us, with a single duvet on top, just on my side.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
I've never bought a duvet. I nicked the one we have from my parents house when I moved out!0
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We used to have the thin duvet (synthetic to start with and then feather later) over both of us, with a single duvet on top, just on my side.
If one of us is going through a grabby period we keep two doubles on the bed and the cold one takes the top one. Our bed is five foot, our duvet...main one, is superking. No draghts from the sides of thje bed then. When we had the four foot six bed we had a king duvet.
If one of us is too hot...usually dh....we stick a leg and or and arm out into the cold air or fold the top duvet in half over the other one, when we have too.
Tbh, if they were superlight i could sleep under a dozen duvets most of the year. Hot nights atm are rare. I'll probably curse that later in life when they are the norm.0 -
We've got loads of different size, designs and quality quilts, ex mother in law brought a load round, James has purchased extras for his bed and I think ex husband nicked our really decent, very expensive one when he left. The one I have on my bed now cost me a tenner in November and is one of the better cheap quilts I have had.
Anyway, as you can see, I am home! Feeling a bit eugh and weak but nothing too major. Had a great laugh with all the nursing staff, they were all great and I felt like a movie star the attention I was getting (I had 6 nurses running around for me!). They were a little concerned I was driving myself home (no other option I am afraid) and I must admit, although I felt fine sitting in the bed, I didn't quite feel so fine in the car park but I made it back to my parents, slowly but surely.
A short rest there and then back home here where I could finally face some food....strange, no food for 29 hours until I was given a couple of biscuits at the hospital and then couldn't face food for a while, I should have been starving!
They did forget my pain relief during the procedure, when I got to the recovery room, the nurse who had done all my paperwork prior to going in said I had been so brave to have it without the gas and air...I said I was not brave, it was not given and I had been at the absolute limits of my pain threshold!
Never mind, I got through it and no harm done.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Glad it went well, Sue. Hope you recover really quickly from it.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Glad it all went well for you Sue.
I went out for the first time today (well technically yesterday now). We had tickets for the "London Prepares" cycling at the Olympic Village. I was dosed up on painkillers and it was a bit further away from the house than I wanted to go but after applying for so many sets of Olympic tickets and only bagging one there was no way I was going to miss it.
It was great fun and the partisan crowd really cheered the Brits on. The second biggest group in the crowd was antipodean - a mix of Aussies and Kiwis - cheering their cyclists on. Seeing Sir Chris, Herts girl Vicky P and the rest of the team was a real privilige. You could see Chris Hoy when he got his medal, looking around the venue and you could almost read his mind that this could be him in a few months too - he was on the same podium, at the same venue, with a British crowd - only the medal wasn't the right one yet. I don't know if anyone remembers the old Kenny Everett song "Captain Kremmen", but Chris Hoy definitely lived up to the bit of the lyrics that went "thighs like tug boats, legs like a gazelle" (I know, I studied them in some detail).
There were some things that the organisers still need to get right. The signage is woefully inadequate (as in there isn't any) from the tube, some of the paid events staff were downright rude, and the buses didn't line up with the stops they've made which meant you had to squeeze out of a bus door and round one of those big orange plastic bollards that they put in the road. This wasn't just once either, it happened once on our bus and at the bus stop behind had been lined up so badly they nearly had a mutiny on their hands when the people there got stuck as no bus could line up with it and everyone else went first.
Still, these are minor things, the venues looked great and if anyone else has been thinking about getting a few tickets it is really worth doing. We're now thinking of trying for some Synchro Swimming tickets and trying the aquatics venue as our next trip.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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