Preparing for winter IV

CH27

I've defrosted Dad's huge chest freezer & made a list of everything in there so I can get or make what he needs to see him through.

MrsCD

This week I started saving for Christmas on an Asda savings card. I'm putting £30 a week on for 5 weeks (£24 on the last week) to save £144 so that nice Mr A will top it up for me to £150 around the 15th Nov. I use my M&S credit card to pay the bill, and PAY IT OFF IN FULL WHEN THE BILL COMES IN!!! So Mr M&S also pays me with vouchers for using his credit card. Win, win, in my opinion.

Sorry if there's a Christmas board and this is the wrong place.....

twiglet98

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

I have one of those heated airers and they are good for drying towels and heavy items, I do find you need to move them around a bit when they are drying. I paid £14.99 for mine about a week or so after they got them in so if you can take the risk that they might sell out, it would be worth hanging on to see if they reduce them.

I do have a tumble dryer but can't remember the last time I used it so put my clothes on airers to dry, I also hang them on the airers and put them outside so that if it starts to rain I just run out and bring the whole thing in

Thank you m_o_s, I showed DD the advertisement and she thinks there is insufficient floor space in her shed for it - there is a workbench along one wall for the dryer sit on - but I think I will take a chance on the prices coming down before long, as they usually do in my local store, and get one for myself. DD isn't far away and drops in at least four times a week so she can always bring wet laundry here to hang up. It can go in her old bedroom!

cookie9

Love reading the tips here.

• Need to get new vests and gloves for ds.
• Going to look for a fleece for under his sheet and a hot water bottle too.
• Winter boots and socks sorted.
• Have emergency kit in case of power cut.
• Need to look at foil for back of radiators. Good tip.

sparrer

Ah, the good old days when ice froze solid on the inside if the bedroom windows, washing was a lick and a promise at the sink where we were allowed half a kettle of water each (there were two of us, hate to think how little water we'd have had if Mum had 4 or 5 children), we wriggled into school uniform under the covers, shivered til we got our bowl of steaming hot porridge inside us and Mum warmed our hats, scarves and gloves by putting them on the plate rack over the gas burners of the cooker :eek:. We were very posh , we had a car but of course they no heating in the '50's so we had to help scrape the ice off the windows before tucking a tartan blanket round us for the journey to school. Never gave a thought to poor Dad still standing out in the freezing cold turning the starting handle, but always had a sigh of relief when the engine fired. Was it really so much colder in the winters of my childhood or did it just seem it as we didn't have the luxuries of today?

This morning I've got up from under a nice warm duvet, had a shower in my cosy bathroom, eaten a bowl of porridge for breakfast (some things never change) and am sitting here in my wall to wall carpeted lounge with some washing airing on the radiator racks - no td any more but as there's only me I've no need for one. No fireplace, I do miss that sometimes so we use modern candles but they don't somehow have the same effect.

The cupboards are stocked with packets of pulses, pasta etc, the freezer is always full as I cook for a week in the sc and freeze 6 meals, plenty of flour and yeast etc., to make my bread, some of which is also in the freezer, several cartons of l/life milk as a standby, and if threatened power cuts do happen I have a little two burner camping stove with spare gas canisters. Also bought a couple of lanterns a few years ago and they've been a godsend. Since my caravanning days I've accumulated thermal sox and underwear, lots of warm sweaters, fleece lined trousers and slipper bootees, hwb's....etc., etc.,
Bring it on Winter, do your worst!

sparrer

cookie9 wrote: »

Love reading the tips here.

• Need to get new vests and gloves for ds.
• Going to look for a fleece for under his sheet and a hot water bottle too.
• Winter boots and socks sorted.
• Have emergency kit in case of power cut.
• Need to look at foil for back of radiators. Good tip.

cookie sorry if this has already been mentioned but I just use a spare duvet under the sheet, it's as good as a 'topper' and very cosy. I got a few large cardboard boxes from the local shop, some extra wide foil and some tape and made my own. You have to take a little more care with the thin foil so best to wrap it round the cardboard a couple of times. By DIY'ing I made them to fit behind each radiator exactly and it only cost me a couple of rolls of foil

Doveling

CH27 - how lovely sorting your Dad out like that.

Does anybody prep for maybe having to have a parent stay during bad weather? We have room but there is no way my mother would be able to climb our stairs and at present I am sleeping in the dining room in a single bed as neither can I . We have camping blow up mattresses but I was thinking of maybe looking at one of those foldup Z beds. Any suggestions?

When my girls were small, they would always pull off their gloves or mittens and refuse to wear them. I never wore my gloves because I thought people would think I was a bad mother for not keeping the children's hands warm :rotfl:.
My youngest son is just coming up to fifteen and refuses even to wear a coat so I have just given up!

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I've seen ads for folding beds that fold up into a cupboard with closing doors. They make both a single and a double version which if it has to live in a dining room/lounge would be much smarter than just a bed with a cover on it. Not cheap I think but definately discreet.

Mrs_Cheshire

Had a drive to Lidl earlier to look for the radiator foil, the store assistant knew what I was talking about but it had all sold out. Think I may end up using cardboard and foil, which way round do you put the foil!

boultdj

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I've seen ads for folding beds that fold up into a cupboard with closing doors. They make both a single and a double version which if it has to live in a dining room/lounge would be much smarter than just a bed with a cover on it. Not cheap I think but definately discreet.

Definately not cheap, Tilly on the morgage free wantabe board was looking at on the other day, and there's a link to one, :eek: was the reaction it got.