'supporting each other through really tough times'

Popperwell

It may change but my BB may get cheaper in April when/if I renew as it is half price for a year. My present offer was originally half price for six months. Trouble is they keep increasing the phone line rental.

I could save a little by going back to evening and weekend calls but if dealing with some places(usually government/housing associations/cab etc...)they are only open during the daytime.

Otherwise I could manage using the phone less. I think the BB has come down to £5 a month.

VJsmum

Oh Fuddle, I am literally crying with laughter at your phone and its Mrs Malapropisms. Please continue to use it!!

:rotfl:

Just been to the flicks - lord it was busy. I thought no-one had any money in January? Cost OH and I £16 for 2 tickets and we bought some cokes from the garage, so I guess a night out for £18 is OK these days. We went to see "THe Impossible", the film about the Boxing Day Tsunami. Won't spoil it for anyone who is going.

Most of the downstairs of the house is clean and tidy now - just upstairs to do tomorrow. Cooked lovely roast lamb for tea - I had a craving, but should have changed my cardi before going out as it stank of R. Lamb

We don't tend to be ones for latest technology either. DD has a smart phone, but it is a cheap one and was her birthday pressie nearly 2 years ago. DS doesn't really use his phone. We did invest in a new tv earlier in the year but it was by no means a super duper expensive one. We do spend money on holidays though. although many are cheapy caravan ones, we do have the occasional "big" holiday - like our trip to America last year.

jem132

Hi all sorry this is going to be a bit of a rant. Not only have I got a banging head I broke my tooth right down to the gum with a sharp point poking out yesterday. Arhhhhhh so I made an appointment with emergency dentist went out to the bloody car and the street was all cordended off by police someone had ran down our street naked and tried to get in to someone's house and been attacked. I was skered to bloody death I can't imagine how my poor nabior must of felt. I really do worry what this country is coming to, to top it all off my car was blocked by police tape and could not be moved I missed my dentist appointment. Arhhh I have to pay £25 to be allowed another appointment. So I rang the emergency dentist for my area and got an appointment for 4.15 tomorrow I am in so much bloody pain. Sorry I will go back and read now it's like living on the set of shameless hear arhhhhhhhhhh

kidcat

Jem ((hugs)) dental emergencies have been the bane of my life this Christmas

I agree over the "stuff" stuff , we have some good stuff, but it is bought to replace items beyond repair, most is second hand. Although since being here I have been attempting to replace with new and good warranties rather than cheap second hand. Its a permanent thing for us I think.

We have a "good" flat screen TV bought second hand when the last one caught fire, I am shopping to replace it with a new one currently, as I plan on moving it down into the dining room (where DS has his down time) and fitting it to the wall, this allows me space to have a multi stove type thing fitted.
The dining room TV currently is a huge bulky CRT type, many years old, and was third/fourth hand when we got it, its definitely on its way out now and I am terrified it may catch fire like the last one, so am anxious to replace it quickly.

My kids all got tablets for Christmas but they were all incredible deals that I had saved for, and will all be well used,DD18 needs hers for study.
We havent had a holiday in two years though.

bluebag

fuddle wrote: »

Can I ask you about deodorant before I go? Is there a money saving solution, or a natural solution? I'm tired of paying money for fake smelling aroma of died flowers just to keep body odour away. I get a wash down, shower or bath nightly but the walki g will make me sweat so dare not do with out. What did they do war era and after?

http://www.highlandsoaps.com/natural-deodorant-stone-160g-cat-13-subcat-64-product-598

Read about it but I've never tried it, (I like the fake flowery nonsense, quite sad really!) there are some reviews on the interwebs tho if you fancy giving it a go.

bluebag

jpscloud wrote: »

Hooray! I've had such moments frequently myself! Over the years I've learned to wiggle wires and reseat plugs before going into a flat spin :rotfl:

I still have a wired router, with a splitter arrangement as well. When I first set it up, I had a different splitter - it used to pop itself out and I'd have to re-plug it back in. Not all the way out, or I'd have called an exorcist, but just enough to disconnect. It was weird and I never found a reasonable explanation for it.

You should live in my house, seriously..... EVERYTHING needs re-seating and wiggling before it will work!!

I've given up flat spinning, otherwise I would have spun myself to mars and back.

jem132

Hi I agree re stuff we all have tablet and 2 laptops in the house .
Kids got tablets for xmas off us and nanna and not much more my old faithful laptop an acer that was £600 bought for me by my mum and they got a laptop for xmas last xmas my tv is a modern flat screen that I bought with my first wage as a single mum as ex husband took my old one the kids had to watch tv in there rooms.

But we save or mum buys us it if on offer on her cc and I pay her mt installments. She's brill I love my mum xx

Softstuff

Fuddle, I switched to mans deodorant. The fakey florally womens ones didn't appeal, and I do like a bit of scent.

I love your phone posts too, they test my brain trying to figure out what you're actually meaning!

We have "stuff" that we like and use, particularly technology, but I wish people would stop trying to give us decorative bits and whatnots, we literally have no-where to put them, short of hidden in the wardrobe. And if you'd seen the size of my kitchen (so small my pantry shelf is in my wardrobe), you'd seriously wonder why anyone who knew me would buy me a kitchen item.

meme30

Oh Softstuff, I so hear you there! We get given photo's in frames!
They are something I don't like and don't have but we have got three now. All given by our DD's with children and deceased Mil in them. I have to keep them out
I have never liked photo's everywhere, (DH's family have walls of family photo's)
so I keep my photo's of the grandchildren on the fridge in those magnetic photo wallets. I know, I'm odd, but I can't explain how they make me feel.:)
I dread when the grandkids are old enough to buy us stuff, (God, I sound nasty!) I love their homemade stuff, but the thought of old lady knick knacks ! It will drive me round the bend!:rotfl:

Yesterday I acquired a new mobile. It's one of the ones you have to swipe. Fuddle you have all my sympathy. Who knew fingers tips are so big that they hit three letters at once! DH shrank to the end of the settee in an attempt to hide while my levels of frustration threatened to explode! :rotfl: It took me three hours to learn how to put the bl**dy thing to sleep! If the old one had not died I would have gone back to it.
Didn't help that my 3 year old GDD can use a tablet and showed Grandma how to do it! :rotfl:

Blimey Jem what a situation! I hope the dentist can sort your tooth for you.

Possession

Really I'd like to know more about Timothy and his relationship to Fuddle's phone. Seems like he may be the phone's fancy man and he has a connection to geese.

Jem that tooth sounds painful, sorry you're having such a tough time of it. I had three teeth knocked out by a metal tennis racket when I was 12. The crowns have since needed replacing but luckily for me I was on maternity leave at the time so no charge. Am dreading when they need replacing again, think I'd have to take out a mortgage for 3 crowns.
Am not sure what our plans are for today but am hoping it's not very much. One more day of hols and then the children are back to school.