Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:
Sorry, just me



Why shred them first if you are going to pulp them? Couldn't you just pulp them as they are?

Just paranoid in case they are identifiable. Any chance of any information getting through one process is going to be reduced if you have a back up information destruction process.

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

I can only agree about the state of the economy. Even in our relatively prosperous town shops are closing and charity shops spreading like wildfire. We wouldn't dream of buying new furniture at the moment, most of ours is handed down from grandparents (they don't make stuff like they used to :rotfl:) or sourced from friends, freecycle or fleabay. The furniture we did buy from new (when we had disposable income, before kids) was from clearance shops and heftily discounted. This is all healthy activity which keeps us ticking along, but in terms of the economy, these material transactions take place with the taxman nowhere in sight (fleabay apart, maybe, and I wouldn't be too sure of that), and no transaction recorded by bank or company accounts, so we add nothing to GDP through this frugal OS living.

I think that eventually they will have to change the calculation of the economy because more and more will be transferred to the barter or DIY economy. I was looking at getting a sofa bed next year or later but until I have made space it is not an issue. Though I am actually thinking of other issues like if I have to move or downsize. I do not want to take on any serious financial outlays.

D&DD

Morning all..I'll be singing Robin hood riding through the glen all day now..you lot are naughty lol


Pr*cking out seedlings today,potted on my kamikaze cukes yesterday and they look really happy sat on the windowsill in the sun. Need to sow some gherkins as I have nearly run out of jars and I can't do without me pickles.


Having to do a bit of a jiggle in the greenhouse ATM as OH has still got his nectarines and apricot in there. The plums are full of blossom but the apples and pears have hardly woken up yet,they seem very late this year but at least the frost won't get them.


Right need to get cracking have a great day all XX

mardatha

Different world D3. I have just got my first daffodil out.

ginnyknit

Its a bit odd here, the weather that is. We have blossom on the cherry tree's in the street but its not fluffy its all buds. I think it doesnt want to commit itself but had to show its face We have the green bits of daffs but no flowers....hmmmm....spring isnt quite sure wether it wants to arrive yet in Manchester.

We have always made do and mended out of necessity and habit. Sometimes we could have well afforded to replace an item but why bother. The cash is better in my pocket! People tend to pass things to us as we always know someone who can use it or will drop it at the Cs for them. This morning I took my recycling out to the bin and there was a shiny barely used toaster in a bag on the bin Im guessing its off next door. Her kids buy her stuff , she uses them a couple of times them I take them to the Cs but this time Im keeping it - I always buy the cheap toasters which last for years but this is a multi function jobbie from Swann :T

thriftwizard

Golly - those of you Up North won't want to hear this, but our daffs have been out for a month now & are beginning to go over! The plums have flowered & "snowed" their blossom on us, cherries are out now & I've seen campions amongst the primroses in the hedgerows. Spring has well & truly sprung, despite the frost this morning.

ALIBOBSY

Ginny its funny isn't it, how you can get a rep for taking secondhand stuff. We are always getting stuff passed on, most we keep, some goes on freegle, some to the chazzers or sold. But I think some people don't want to deal with a discarded item whatever it is. By passing it to someone they know will make use of it or direct it to someone else who will get use out of it they can pass that responsibility on quickly and feel good that they haven't wasted things.

Ali x

fuddle

thriftwizard wrote: »

Golly - those of you Up North won't want to hear this, but our daffs have been out for a month now & are beginning to go over! The plums have flowered & "snowed" their blossom on us, cherries are out now & I've seen campions amongst the primroses in the hedgerows. Spring has well & truly sprung, despite the frost this morning.

... and some locals are walking in loafers without socks thinking it's summer in comparison to what they are used to!

*hides afor you all me tell me to never cast a cloud till May's out

craigywv

We had a minor shtf prob yesterday, was tidying shed up and knocked a full tin of emulsion over was so angry with myself anyway 3 hours later and our house looking as if a milk float had upended it was cleaned, why oh why when you fancy doing a simple job something like that happens. Well it does to me anyway.very cold over here our daffs have been and gone weeks ago we now have most seeds planted and peeking through , deffo not as cold as last year,wont speak too soon as its icy cold today though.

thriftwizard

Thinking more on the subject of secondhand, particularly furniture, but also other homewares & even clothing: as you all know, I see a lot of it! And unless you want to spend an awful lot of money, you will be far better off with a good secondhand (or third, or even fifth-hand) piece than buying new. Stuff really isn't made to last now, our whole economy depends on everything falling apart & being replaced at regular intervals - at our expense!

So when good things come your way, hang onto them or pass them on to someone else who knows that the value of something is not the same as what it cost. Older things will usually keep on doing the job long after a newer, shinier (and probably more expensive, for all we keep being told how cheap everything is now) one has fallen apart.

I overheard an interesting conversation whilst tidying my stall this morning. Two ladies about my own age, fairly well-to-do by the look of them; one said doubtfully, "My mother will think I've gone daft, buying old stuff when I can perfectly well afford to buy new!" Her companion said, "Don't be so sure; mine says nothing made after about 1980 is worth spending any money on. And besides, it's all about style!" Which is the whole vintage/retro thing in a nutshell...

Si_Clist

thriftwizard wrote: »

Stuff really isn't made to last now

You know, I was just thinking the same thing when I made the bed just now. When I put the blanket on top of the mattress before the sheet goes on, I noticed that it's actually staring to wear a bit thin in one area :eek:

Not sure exactly how old it is, but I do know that we've been using it since we inherited it from my mother in 1981, who took it home with her when she was demobbed from the RAF in 1946.

And come to think of it, we're still using one of her WW2-issue shoe brushes (marked in Indian ink RAF Wittering 1943). And her 1942 RAF-issue clothes brush ...