Hoarding...not just on TV

babyshoes

GQ I'm not quite sure, but I know they're not at all cheap! OH was in a well paid job at the time, and about to start an even better paid job so I didn't really think about the cost. Now, of course, she is out of work and it would seem like an extravagance to buy a new watch when the old one still technically works... I also only ever have one at a time, hoping this one will last a good while - the previous one lasted around 14 years. It is a well known and respected brand, so hope it will last as long!

I find it more inconvenient to get to the watch repair place, which is a chain (more expensive; less willing to help if something is not in stock etc) and not on my way anywhere, so I would often end up without a watch for a couple of days until I could get into town for a new battery...

Brighton_belle

GreyQueen wrote: »

...ignoring that you aren't a lady of leisure with a large kitchen but a harried chronically-ill partime worker and fulltime sloth with an acute internet habit [STRIKE]
and a pile of unread library books clamouring for your attention.

[/STRIKE]

I think we were separated at birth GQ:D

Patchwork_Quilt

If it would help, my watch has been amazing. It recharges itself with solar power as you wear it. It was expensive but I haven't had any batteries for four years and it works continuously.

Its 'twin' is a lovely watch I got from a charity shop - a wind-up one. Unfortunately, the local jeweller thinks it might cost about £50 to get it cleaned and working properly again, so it's saved in my jewellery box, not doing anything. It's so elegant that I can't bear to get rid of it. Perhaps the only thing I can do is to wait until my present watch wears out and then spend the money I could have used on a new one getting the wind-up one repaired.

I have sinned, by the way. I took back a pair of black trousers from the charity shop drawer. I'm sorry.

katep23

:cool:

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

I have sinned, by the way. I took back a pair of black trousers from the charity shop drawer. I'm sorry.

Things regularly go in the charity shop pile here only to be retrieved later here

How much was left in the drawer which "survived the cut"?

Hmm, worried this seems rude - I just meant that if there is lots in the bag and only 1 thing escaped that is a good thing

Hope I haven't offended - so hard to tell the tone a message is written in :cool:

GreyQueen

Brighton_belle wrote: »

I think we were separated at birth GQ:D

I always wanted a sister..........:D My ambitions, in the dark realms of domesticity, have frequently exceeded my aptitudes and energies. But that's OK. There are plenty of good cooks out there and some of them are among my circle of friends.........and have even ended up cooking part of the meal when they come to mine to eat.:o

GQ, the hostess with the leastess..........but I can natter for England and make people laugh so hard they snort their wine.;)

VJsmum

katep23 wrote: »

My larder is full of things bought for one recipe and then never used again - I can't bring myself to throw them out "in case I need them" but I almost invariably don't find a use for them

Mace - I have mace. I hate mace and so does everyone else in the family. But, but I bought it and have to use it - don't I?

Oh and dill

And dried parsley - yeuch

and rosemary - I have a bush in the garden.

katep23

Have you seen the Michael McIntyre skit about 5 spice

whitewing

Isn't white vinegar the stuff that makes your washing beautifully soft?

I have just chucked out chocolate covered raisins dated 2011 and something else dated March 2012. Didn't even know we had them. Surprises me how much the stuff can scuttle away into dark corners.

GreyQueen

whitewing wrote: »

Isn't white vinegar the stuff that makes your washing beautifully soft?

I have just chucked out chocolate covered raisins dated 2011 and something else dated March 2012. Didn't even know we had them. Surprises me how much the stuff can scuttle away into dark corners.

I think that's possibly distilled vinegar (i.e. a variation of regular vinegar). White wine vinegar is a sort-of urine yellow which looks frankly disturbing in a clear glass bottle.............:rotfl:

VJsMum:

I hereby issue a special royal dispensation to one lady, sometimes known as VJsMum, to apprehend, corral, discipline and dispose of, in whatever means she sees fit, that foul and dangerous substance in her kitchen known as 'mace'. And dried parsely, dill and rosemary bushes in the garden.

She is to be absolved of all guilt, anxiety and general discombolulation which this manoever entails, forthwith and forsooth etc etc amen.

Signed Her Grey Madjesty, the Queen.

VJsmum

Thanks, i'll do it when I get home. Oh and the rosemary in the garden can stay - it's the yukky dried stuff that can go.

I am deRicharding from Korea - took a load of magazines with me and some nearly empty toiletries and am gradually working my way through them. I have also brought the world's ugliest pyjamas of which the trousers constantly fall down. I could take them home and mend elastic and still have world's ugliest pyjamas or I could forget to pack them.