Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

Someone was talking about wellies the other day....

Yesterday, I bought some Dunlop safety wellies in Mole Valley for £16, although I had to go down to Size 5 to get a fit. Even then, they're large! (I wear Size 7 shoes.)

I don't spend too much on boots because they are so easy to puncture/slash, but at least safety boots are 0% rated for VAT.

Certainly needing the boots today. It's still slashing down. I think there may be more flooding trouble ahead.:(

Alfie, you'll soon be known as "The Dishevelled Damsel" if drivers report eerie sightings of a mud bespattered lady along your stretch of road. When the police investigate, there's nothing there....except an over-fed pig, holding up the traffic.....:rotfl:

Itismehonest

rozeepozee wrote: »

Y'know, I used to come to this site to save money. More and more I'm noticing that I rarely spend money! Unless it can be eaten or grown...

On a consumer item, a 50% saving on something I'm not going to buy isn't a big deal

Absolutely, rozee. I came on MSE to see what was being said about the property market. It seemed to be here or HPC _pale_.
To be honest most of the rest doesn't apply if you live in the middle of nowhere & seldom spend money

Foggy here this morning & wet. Flooding seems to be in Cornwall & on the south coast more this time. Looks dodgy around alfie's way.

Sorry to hear about the fence, LIR. If it's not drivers it's ramblers climbing over things or sitting on them having their sandwiches. Would those posts/signs which glow in the dark help people see the fence or was this just a prat who'd have hit something even if it was a floodlit brick wall?

I can't wear wellies anymore.

rhiwfield

rozeepozee wrote: »

Y'know, I used to come to this site to save money. More and more I'm noticing that I rarely spend money! Unless it can be eaten or grown...

On a consumer item, a 50% saving on something I'm not going to buy isn't a big deal

I think it becomes a mind set after a while. My camera is suffering with the battery compartment cover broken and held in place with tape. But it works, why buy new when sticky tape is cheap!

And with buying and selling so much, getting good second hand bargains for essentials is usually far better than buying new, especially furniture.

So it becomes easy to get by on a fraction of the income we used to spend. The flip side is that "luxuries", even if affordable, are seldom bought as I cant switch off the thrifty lobe of my brain :rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

LIR what a poo about the fence:mad: did you get the car reg? could you bill them?

nope. Don't even know what time it happened. Anyway, the nearest we have to a Pete, whipch is not very near, is going to stick the repair into his schedule next dry day.

He suggested a concrete bollard either end, with reflectors and reflective paint on it. (the current fence had reflectors on it)

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

He suggested a concrete bollard either end, with reflectors and reflective paint on it. (the current fence had reflectors on it)

Good deterrence, but if that doesn't work, then at least they won't be driving off, unidentified!;)

A similar thing has just happened to friends here, but at least they know who it was.

Discovered yesterday that the spot where two lads died recently when their car left the road, is exactly where my primary school gang had a camp. That's another place that's now viewed somewhat differently, along with our nude swimming spot and my best bit of fishing; both wrecked by the building of the Link Road.

But I suppose I should be grateful for all the things that are the same, or almost the same. I want someone to slap a preservation order on a tin barn we used to hide or shelter in on the sledging field. The miracle is that it is still standing, and the same dull red colour, over 50 years from when we last used it! :rotfl:

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

I cant switch off the thrifty lobe of my brain :rotfl::rotfl:

Me neither.

From Supermac's "Never had it so good," to "Mum, when will I have a bed again?" in under 6 months had something to do with it. :eek:

alfie_1

bums just wrote an epilog and promptly deleted it :mad:

evening all..........

TAD WET HERE..:eek::eek::eek:

i actually have water coming out from under the house....:eek:
my garden has disapeared.. even over the back...the foxes wont come out.. the owl looks like a drowned rat [has a shed tho ?]..and i have a lame duck... [goosegoggins and duck duck have sat in the shed all day withit, wont leave ...

i am now sick to death of seeing water..:(

does anyone know how to work out a "retail price index" increase ? i am dam sure the agent has made a mistake with my rent increase....:mad:

i am not in the best of moods today...:D my hip is giving me jip, me think from my mud acrobatics yesterday...........

i hope everyone is safe and warm tho....wish choille would let us know they are ok....:(

p.s. rhiwi....love it but too nice to break up....:p AND it fits something I have....:o:D oops

rozeepozee

rhiwfield wrote: »

So it becomes easy to get by on a fraction of the income we used to spend. The flip side is that "luxuries", even if affordable, are seldom bought as I cant switch off the thrifty lobe of my brain :rotfl::rotfl:

This is soooo true. I've been a car booter for a few years now and if something costs more than £1, whatever it is, it just seems hugely expensive and unjustifiable. We are very fortunate to be pretty well versed in all the car boots in and around the South Yorks area. You get fields of booters.... And people from the city buy so much more (access to shops) and wear things out so much less (all that choice) that you can buy things that are almost new for a tiny, weeny fraction of the price. And if car booting isn't appropriate, there's always Costco, or Aldi

choille

Hi All - the weather is disgusting, but sounds worse down Alfie's way.

We've had it very windy & cold & well wet too. but it isn't as bad as the east coast which seems really to have copped it.

I'm hardly doing owt as you can't really in a caravan & outside is just to dive into to feed animals, birds & then dive back indoors.

Yesterday we had to take fat old cat to vets - 70 mile journey there. He'd had a tiff with skinny old cat & he had clawed his middle eyelid. Goodness they know how to charge do these vets!

We've had continuous problems with the car, but hopefully sorted now - fingers crossed. Again, money heomoraging[sp?]

Got the accounts sorted & I'm not surprised we are skint. We've done well buying the materials we have on what we've had coming in.

Got some venison to sort out tonight - ie skin & chop up for the freezer, so that does help enormously & it's lovely stuff with no chemicals - real free range off the hill!

Take care all.

rhiwfield

alfie_1 wrote: »

does anyone know how to work out a "retail price index" increase ? i am dam sure the agent has made a mistake with my rent increase....:mad:

Alf, I should be able to work out your RPI index increase. PM me the key figures and I'll do a quick spreadsheet.

BTW it was nice wasn't it? Not perfect but very nicely formed

Well, went to the plague pit that was the junior's crimbo show this afternoon. 30% of children home sick and spare seats for parents/grandparents... unheard of at the school:eek:

Kids lasted well for the short show but counted 3 parents making quick exits for emergency coughing fits etc. It was like a chicken pox party only for flu, WVV etc

Proverbially p****d down here today, hope everyone has dry feet.

New Waitrose actually doing proper discounting on good quality meat, had some lovely meals lately on meat I'd almost given up buying, lamb neck fillets tonight, gorgeous