Preparedness for when

BitterAndTwisted

My own feeling is that any clothing not worn directly next to the skin can be put back on any number of times unless they are obviously stained. The laundry-basket is not a substitute for a clothes-hanger! This might be a prejudice of mine but I have found that those most fond of having their clothes washed after about five minutes of wear are generally not the fools who actually do all the laundry.

moments_of_sanity

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

My own feeling is that any clothing not worn directly next to the skin can be put back on any number of times unless they are obviously stained. The laundry-basket is not a substitute for a clothes-hanger! This might be a prejudice of mine but I have found that those most fond of having their clothes washed after about five minutes of wear are generally not the fools who actually do all the laundry.

That made me laugh, the fool is this house if definitely me and I don't produce very much washing at all! :rotfl:

Hard_Up_Hester

My laundry nightmare is hubby's work uniform, his polo shirts a 100% cotton, can't be tumble dried and he has 3, he does a physical job and really needs a clean polo shirt everyday. It's a nightmare trying to get them washed and dried during the winter months.
Hester

Shropshirelass

I can remember the damp kitchen on rainy washing days in the 50s -60s. Clothes drying on the pulley and on the maiden in front of the fire. The windows all steamed up.

Nice thing was Mum always made stew for dinner, as she could just leave it in the pan cooking slowly while she struggled with the sheets through the mangle, dripping onto the wet floor.
It made the weekly wash last for days, getting it dry, then ironing and airing. No wonder we all got washing machines as soon as available.
Cant remember who the author was, who recognised the English tourists by their clothes - 'over-washed and under-ironed'.

ArthriticOldThing

I too remember drying clothes in the oven (coal oven next to coal fire) or ironing them dry at the last minute.

My mother had an old (heavy) electric washing machine from when they were first married. It had a fancy new-fangled electric mangle attached so the trick was to give things a go in the washer, pull them out with wooden tongs (hot hot water) and push them through the mangle - trying NOT to get fingers between the rollers. A two person job as there had to be someone at the other side to catch them. This process was repeated then the clothes were put into an old spin dryer and ridden round the kitchen for a while before being hung out.

In bad weather she had criss-cross lines in the main room. The memories of trying to avoid a face full of damp towels is never forgotten.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

No wonder it was the weekly wash and took a full day.:eek::eek:

When first married I had a brand spanking new twin-tub and thought I was soooo posh:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I've been spoilt by technology though and wouldn't be without my automatic now.:p

ArthriticOldThing

Have just taken delivery of this:

PORTABLE GAS COOKER STOVE + 8 BUTANE BOTTLES CAMPING
4.4 out of 5 stars (70)

so know how I will be spending tomorrow. :T

jk0

ArthriticOldThing wrote: »

Have just taken delivery of this:

PORTABLE GAS COOKER STOVE + 8 BUTANE BOTTLES CAMPING
4.4 out of 5 stars (70)

so know how I will be spending tomorrow. :T

I bought one of those about five years ago. Unfortunately I can't find the damn thing.

maryb

They had a very strict uniform at my DD's school. None of it could be replicated from cheaper sources. Affluent parents for the most part but they had a very popular second hand uniform sale every term and first day of the Harrod's sale couldn't hold a candle to it for sharp elbows - largely because the dedicated supplier never had any stock (and the factory they used in Scotland shut down for the whole of August , but it never occurred to the supplier to ramp up production in June and July).

Anyway, because there was no individuality at all, and a lot of them had second hand stuff, the girls were very carefree about their appearance. A clean shirt every day but jumper and skirt lasted all week and no-one cared what stains they had on their clothes. (By the way did you know that a toothpaste stain looks just like Tippex)? It was very liberating.

Funny thing is, in the sixth form, where they can wear own clothes, a lot of them have effectively got themselves a uniform which they can just pull on without fuss. DD2 has two identical black body con skirts which are very comfortable (though a bit short, well more than a bit, actually, to my mind) and a few of her friends do the same. I haven't had to buy her a whole load of clothes for school. It might be different if it were a mixed sixth form, I suppose

On a different topic I saw this in the Telegraph. It makes me wonder about those rumours of a coordinated bank levy that are circulating on the alternative news sites

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100025877/draghi-letter-please-dont-destroy-europes-banks-yet-again/

GreyQueen

Possession wrote: »

I didn't know the bon bons one was an option GQ or I'd definitely have gone for that.

It's never to late to set yourself up in Bon-Bon Heaven.

I recommend a trashy novel and a luxe couch, somebody decorative to fetch tea/ cocktails/ whatever and a Do Not Disturb Mother or She Will Be Werry Cwoss sign.

Servants with ostrich feather fans and all the perfumes of Araby (lock up the kitchen knives first) are optional.

It may be an urban myth but one long-suffering woman apparently left her husband a note; gone to get an education, back in 4 years.

maryb, interesting. Very interesting. And The Telepgraph isn't exactly the wilder shores of financial reporting.

My own feeling is that, having got away with Cyprus, the Too Big to Fail banks regard confiscation of accounts as an option. Of course, they will dress it up in better clothes, and may replace the accounts partially with some kind of bank scrip/ bond/ IOU but you can bet that the little person will be coming off the worst of the deal.

maryb

Ambrose Evans Pritchard does seem to have his finger on the pulse although he has predicted the imminent demise of the Euro so often, he looks like an incurable optimist every time he writes another article saying this could be the start of the unravelling. But in the last month he has posted two articles about a possible French exit. One was predicated on the National Front coming top in recent elections. But the other is about how some of the French elite are beginning to say it just isn't going to work.