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GreyQueen

Yes, I have the feeling that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. Heaven knows, it's a wonder Greece hasn't exited and Italy and Spain are in a parlous state, too.

IMO, it's not hard to have a sense of appehension at the very least, if not a sense of impending doom. If and when it goes, I feel we'll be seeing an raging fire rather than a smouldering wreck.

I'm a very small potato near the bottom of the economic pile, mercifully debt free and with a low cost of living but, were I in the market for major expenditures on home improvements, property purchases, cars etc I think I would want to be sitting on my wallet for at least the next few months.

Still, it's easy to talk when you don't have a dog in the fight.

Molly41

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

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

I have one of those electric heaters from L@kel@nd and it is great for drying in winter and only uses a tiny bit of electricity. They do a small version or towel warmer which might be good for polo shirts. I got my eldest son one as he needs his uniform clean daily and he cant manage without it x

Molly41

GreyQueen wrote: »

If it's a workday, and I work part-time at a desk job, I dress just before leaving the house and change once I get home, hanging up my clothes, often with an open window to air them out. I aim to get another day out of blouses, and another day or two out of trousers. I don't usually wear the same top two days running in case people would notice and pass comment, but I would wear it again later in the week. My work trousers are identical so the issue doesn't arise with them.

I think we need to look at laundry habits for a variety of reasons. Home laundry is one of the biggest energy and water hogs in the home. We also wear out clothes more rapidly; we say that things are worn out but it's often the laundering rather than the use that they've been put to, so it would be more correct to say that they are washed out. Plus the tumble-drier, if applicable, scalps clothes; that's what's your dryer lint is; the goodness from the fabric.

So with careful use of clothes, choosing the levels appropriate to the task (French women are apparently very much for changing out of their good clothes as soon as possible after coming home). Hanging things up, preferably in a flow of fresh air, getting one or more than one extra use before laundering, and then you have less laundry and less work to do.

We all change when we get home - into our PJs if we are not going out. Me and the kids love our PJs x

bluebag

thriftwizard wrote: »

Now I need to get DS2 and his girlfriend to read this, about the washing; they're horrified that I keep insisting that things aren't usually dirty after one use (footy kit excepted) and when they can finally afford a place of their own, I am confident that my laundry bill will at least halve! Not to mention the time spent...

My DD hangs everything up on the floordrobe, and is very good at not putting away her clean laundry,so, I just mix it all up together,(well... I can't help it can I?) halved my washing!

bluebag

jk0 wrote: »

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

It's with loads of my stuff in the cupboard at the end of the universe.

Perplexed_Pineapple

I no longer have any understanding of what to expect in European politics. It gets more like Alice Through the Looking-Glass every day. It defies belief that the Greeks and Spanish accept a 27% unemployment rate because staying in the Euro makes their economy uncompetitive, that the Greek and Italian premiers can be replaced with unelected bureaucrats, and that the UK government has decided to use tax-payers money to fund another housing bubble while some people are living in tents.
I'm just listening to this interesting radio interview I found on utube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGuZhBSoWI0
There have been some interesting stories in the last few pages of people who managed to access supplies in times of shortages because they were regular customers of their local shops. That sort of relationship has become rarer as more of us shop in big supermarkets, but I''m trying to strike a balance between shopping in the big retailers (for their YS goods, bulk buy deals and general cheapness) and using pricier local farm shops to build up those relationships.
I like the look of the stoves with butane cylinders but we probably have enough stoves, between the paraffin stove, the Trangia and the Camping-Gaz one that runs off the big cylinders. Particularly since Bedsit Bob pointed me towards biofuel for the Trangia :T

GreyQueen

Molly41 wrote: »

We all change when we get home - into our PJs if we are not going out. Me and the kids love our PJs x

Saluting you from Provincial City, in pjs since 5 pm.

bluebag wrote: »

It's with loads of my stuff in the cupboard at the end of the universe.

Wasn't there a quote from Andy Warhol about how you could switch the contents of most people's cupboards with other people's cupboards and they wouldn't even notice?

PS; I have currently misplaced the following; medium sized pair blue plastic handled Shearline scissors, a Stanley cross-headed screwdriver, a toe gel thingummy and my second-worst pair of trainers.

Could any readers please check their cupboards for these items and PM me if they are around your home; can send an SAE to get them back, excepting the trainers, which you can bin if you find them (you'll recognise them as nearly thru the soles and can only be worn in dry weather). I will reciprocally cupboard check mine if you tell me what you've lost.

I've also lost a fair few little grey cells but I fear they may have made good their escape and be Beyond Our Ken.*

* That's Ken who used to be with Stacey Green ** (as was) and she's no better than she oughta be, IYKWIM.

** This is a pseudonym before the real Stacey Green *** takes offence.

*** I do know someone surnamed Green but she's not a Stacey and is a very nice person (Phew, Mr Carter-Ruck just wanted me to clarify that before the [STRIKE]bats[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]brats[/STRIKE] writs fly.)

elona

I seem to have had a subconcious urge to get to grips with cupboards this week.

Spent a day sorting out AF delivery - cleared kitchen cupboards of jars and tinned goods which are going to be stored in garage. Rearranged things so all breakfast stuff, tea and coffee and hot choc,baking ingredients is in one separate cupboard and arranged so I can see at a glance if I am running low.

Went to CS yesterday and found a swivel double layer spice rack that only takes up 4 inches of space in width and holds 20 jars :j
I can't remember what it would have cost new but looks unused and only cost £1.

I even sorted out the boxes of stuff in my wardrobe so I can find things - real SHTF things are at the bottom and things like candles, matches, wind up radio and torches are at the top.

Situation with Europe and banks etc seems even more like "Alice through the looking glass" and more like "It's a mad mad world!"

Politicians seem to adopt the Red Queen's philosophy that "when I use a word it means exactly what I want it to mean!"

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metherer wrote: »

(My bedroom door is just off the top of the stairs, so if I were to go to the loo in the middle of the night with no light, I could quite easily end up at the bottom of the stairs)

I know falling down stairs is a serious matter, and I shouldn't, but that made me :rotfl: