Preparedness for when

Possession

mardatha wrote: »

My dad's elderberry wine blew up in our pantry when I was about 9. traumatised my mother to hell.... she was just getting over it when my white mice got out :rotfl::rotfl:

My dad's elderberry wine did the same in our box room. He wasn't allowed to make it after that! Still, it meant the spare room got (completely) redecorated and I got a new bedroom.

mardatha

I like any animals - even mice rats snakes and ferrets. I'm scared stiff of moths and spiders and daddylonglegs though.
And I'm not scared of ghosts and things that go bump in the night - but I am scared of power tools like drills and even noisy hoovers! LOL

craigywv

just mice and the bigger version of them do it for me. ghosts ,flies ,spiders,earwigs, anything else I don't even shudder just them things

pineapple

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

TBH the thing that annoyed me over on the other boards was the people who reduce this to a personal issue. People are attacked for claiming what the government have offered-e.g tax credits, by people who are claiming a state pension and openly on other threads boast about second properties/savings etc.

I've been part of these discussions and it's been reduced to a personal issue the other way too. I've seen shocking amounts of hate and resentment aimed at 'baby boomers' who then get defensive in the way you describe. So it ends with people taking pot shots at each other.
I don't think generalisations help - either the ones that paint the younger generation as a bunch of workshy ne'er do wells or the ones that talk of 'most' pensioners having this and that.
I can't remember the last holiday, savings are getting meagre (and getting more meagre as prices go up). I'll be lucky if they get me through the next household emergency. Plus many of those with any remaining capital will lose it to care home fees. My Dad was in a care home which took all his money while most of the other residents, who had not saved or been careful were subsidised by the local council. You could argue what is fair about that? Fact is we can go on forever comparing ourselves to this group and that group. Those that are left from World War 2 could argue that it's not fair that they had to endure a world war and the rest of us got off scot free.
It's not fair that some of us get cancer and some don't. It's not fair that some people will go out today and die in a car accident. Where does it end?
There has been talk of a social revolution and the end of money - believe it or not. If we ever do achieve this new utopea. those of us who are old guard can complain that we had a harder life and it's not fair

thriftwizard

Maggots are my downfall. Don't mind caterpillars, or worms, but maggots just make my insides squirm.

mardatha

And in the end, it's always us against them. People against govmt. Is a big mistake for any group to point the finger at any other group - because they will come after all of us eventually!
God I feel like yvette of ze raiyseentonce lol - waiting for the gestapo at the door..

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

God I feel like yvette of ze raiyseentonce lol - waiting for the gestapo at the door..

Now you are showing your age... :eek:
I shall say zis only once.............

mardatha

Listen pet - the age I feel today I could quote Jane Austin from personal recollection!! lol

fiftyeighter_2

Oh dear I,m starting to feel very guilty about being a pensioner and receiving state pension of which I am grateful. But truly I do not own my own home and have worked almost all of my life from the age of 15. Admittedly some times part time and sometimes time off when I had my children. I,m now wondering if the government are going to kill us all off at a certain age to save on state pension.

Butterfly_Brain

thriftwizard wrote: »

Just thought I would nip back & say, despite my moaning about time & energy & money spent on my family, I'm actually very conscious that I'm really lucky to have them & wouldn't be without them for one minute. Though that day will come, someday, inevitably. Will shut up now & go & sort my treadle out - needs a drink of oil.

I do wonder sometimes; it's clattered away happily for 104 years, will it still be going strong in another hundred, or will sewing machine oil be so rare & expensive that home-sewing is done by hand again?

I use 3 in 1 oil for my sewing machine and the hair trimmers