Preparedness for when

calicocat

Just popping in to say Happy New Year to everyone before I go to sleep after work.

Hope 2015 is good for all whatever you wish for.

Xx

COOLTRIKERCHICK

jk0 wrote: »

Evening all.

The other day someone mentioned CC41 price control goods as being particularly good quality. You were quite right. I just received two unused sheets, and a blanket, and they are gorgeous.

I'm sure the sheets will boil wash perfectly, but I am a little worried about washing the blanket. I know it was not machine washable wool in those days. Would it survive a machine wool wash at 30C, or should I try to hand wash it?

I wash all my cc41 and welsh blankets in the washing machine... warm wool wash. I also tumble dry the blankets... BUT I do have a large drum washing machine, AND an a very large Drum American style dryer.. especially for doing blankets ( I sell vintage clothing, bedding, linen etc)


Wash the blankets individually with nothing else in there..



Your cc41 sheets will prob out last you lol..they were so well made...

mardatha

My son works in security and when he went home after a nightshift at 6.30 this morning, he said Edinburgh was still jam-packed with people! God they must be keen...

ivyleaf

Happy New Year to you all x

savingqueen

Doveling wrote: »

Thanks for all the info and useful posts through last year. You've all helped me a lot. Makes me wonder how many people do just actually read but don't post. Must be loads.

Here here doveling, thanks guys

Delurking to say - I read along but have only posted a couple of times on here as I don't have anything much to add. I do prep but not on the scale as most do on here. However as with all OS activities, there is no going back for me so I anticipate more prepping as the year goes on. I have been thinking about how a lot of the threads are interweaved eg. I am dehoarding so I will have more room for preps - less clutter means a simpler life and so on. I am avidly reading the new make do and mend thread as well as the new not buying it one, natural bedfellows. I won't bore you with the rest of the list in my head!


Wishing you all a happy, healthy, peaceful and resourceful 2015!

thriftwizard

Aha - CTC, was that you with the French military hats, back in about May/June, on a certain well-known auction site? I was really upset that I got delayed out & didn't get back in time to bid!

Not my finest morning - got up, fed, watered & liberated livestock, went back to bed... should have known better than to drink anything at all, let alone too much, when I wasn't feeling exactly brilliant yesterday afternoon. I have a nagging memory that I agreed to help fund DS3 through his Master's degree, and tried to insist that DS2 went & did one too - where did I think I was going to get the money from? It all seemed so logical last night! But then the sheer amount of money involved hit me when I was doing the washing up and I went into panic mode.

DS1 had it about right at Christmas when he pointed out that most cases, our generation is being bled dry in two directions, senior care & funding offspring through higher education. To be fair, DS1 & 3 have shouldered the debt burden themselves up to now, & we have just helped with living expenses, but DS3 now owes more than our mortgage was for, before he has earned a penny, and now he wants to sign up for more, and needs to if he's going to get where he wants to go!

meanmarie

Harking back to Karmacat's post about yew and whether or not all parts of tree are poisonous, my late father (born 1913) insisted that he and his siblings ate 'snots' from the yew growing in a nearby estate....must have been the fruit as none of them died young or of poisoning.

Maybe an idea to research a bit?.

Marie

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Yes Thriftwizard... that is one of my accounts..


sold quite a few batches of them, people were buying them to re-sell on for the tour de france bike race..still got some knocking around somewhere in the warehouse lol..


I am starting to think what the economy is going to be like after the elections, and this time next year??


and how many more big companies are going to go to the wall??
its also made me think... with the uncertainty and not knowing how stable companies are, is it worth considering going back to shopping in store? so when you physically pay for something you take it with you, rather than pay online, expect it to be delivered, and then the company goes belly up...

Frugalsod

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I am starting to think what the economy is going to be like after the elections, and this time next year??


and how many more big companies are going to go to the wall??
its also made me think... with the uncertainty and not knowing how stable companies are, is it worth considering going back to shopping in store? so when you physically pay for something you take it with you, rather than pay online, expect it to be delivered, and then the company goes belly up...

I suspect that there will be a few.

As for the problems of buying online. That should be covered if you paid with a credit card.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Frugalsod wrote: »

I suspect that there will be a few.

As for the problems of buying online. That should be covered if you paid with a credit card.

is that for things under £100 too??