whats your daily routine like?

clayton1106

I get up, heating on very low for an hour till kids have left for school, after which i can sit down and relax with a (use teabag twice or more)brew and scraps of cereal that kids overfilled with yesterday (poured back into packet after breakfast)along with longlife value milk.
Its 9am now, so heating off and getting cold indoors, so i find my hat,scarf and gloves and set out to read some MSEposts. Washing load put in(full load), with lovely HM washing powder on a cold wash ecomony with slowest spin on machine. 10am i decided to put tea in slow cooker to cook nearly all day, made from leftovers and leftover peelings, leaving value soup for dinner. Damp dusted house with damp old sock and polished with HM polish(lemon juice and half part olive oil, with 2nd old sock/rag to wipe dry after). Hoover broken so i used my hard sweeping brush and carpetsweeper(ewbank).
11am looks like ive ran out of milk,so before leaving te house i make sure i spend a penny (washable toilet wipes and dont flush the toile).I walked to town instead of the bus to save money,(slow cooker on timer)and picked up some stardrops on the way(dirt cheap as small amount leaked in shop).
After getting caught in torrential rain, despite my (triple stitched umberella with taped handle and taped up stretchers.lol) i missed putting it up by 10secs. Finally back home again, shoes(cardboard in soles) off, slipperson(sewn up) and kettle on(switched off b4 it boils), ah.... nice hot brew(2nd time 1st teabag) with longlife milk.
Geting hungry now, time for value soup and leftover crusts from DD2 n DD1 packed lunches(wrapped in reused cereal bags) which they wanted cut off.
1pm,due to visit my friend(charge phone,DSi,and laptop at hers) stayed round there for half an hour, returned home and went to bed till timer went off at 5pm,by which time my DH has text me to say hes got kids from the b4 n school club and they walking back.
5.20pm, serve tea up, and not enough to go round for me, so i do without(as long as kids and DH fed, im happy with that). 6.30pm Kids get into pyjamas,(2nd night in same set, which i aired outsideunder shelter in the day b4 warming them up with my hands for quite a while. dressing gown n slippers on, with a hot drink of fruit tea each(their choice) and a cracker each listening to DH reading story.
Washing drying nicely on airer above the bath and eco shower(not power shower),heating goes off,and electric n gas meter used minimum today, yaaay!!
8pm all kids in bed, time to relax again (TV timed for hour a day, no sky),hot brew each(reused teabag and hot veg stock for me only), washing up water into cistern, dirty bath water into garden for plants which also feed from horse poo which i collect every 4th friday,(on foot behind a horse cart), veg peelings shared between composter and 2moras tea of soup with jam on crackers for after. 9pm i discover the freezer broken down so all food in ther which only consists of mix veg,sausages and batched mash n roasties straight into chill box n outside it is.
10pm, lights off, plug sockets off,all doors shut,off to bed with blankets(no duvet for me n DH) n hot water bottle of which waters going to get mixed with stardrops in the morning).

louisaL

Not sure I would feel comfortable taking my electronics round a friends and getting them to pay the electricity to charge them!

Pink.

Hi clayton,

We have an existing thread on this topic:

What's your daily routine ...

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the replies together.

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Jenny.W

louisaL wrote: »

Not sure I would feel comfortable taking my electronics round a friends and getting them to pay the electricity to charge them!

ditto :eek:

hunters

What a card you are, that's made my morning laughing while I get ready for work

Bitsy_Beans

louisaL wrote: »

Not sure I would feel comfortable taking my electronics round a friends and getting them to pay the electricity to charge them!

I thought the same

I don't know the OPs financial circumstances but her day sounds less like a routine but barely existing :o

craigywv

i would throw the rope up if i had to live like that its 2012 not 1812.........liked the bit about the horse poo thogh very ANGELAS ASHES

Ben84

louisaL wrote: »

Not sure I would feel comfortable taking my electronics round a friends and getting them to pay the electricity to charge them!

Me neither. It might cost money on the bus :eek:. I just go around the neighbours with one end of an extension lead (pound landsell them, you can chain them together to save money) and ask if they could plug it in as my sockets won't reach something or another.

good_advice

good story

Gillybean103

OMG is this for real. I would never sit in my hat, scarf and gloves when I'm inside, I would hate for my house to be that cold

I believe in mse but I do think this is completely over the top

Popperwell

Well, I use as little electric and gas as possible and already it costs me around £65+a month and that is only 2 hours of central heating a day...so yes, I wear hats, scarf and gloves quite regularly...even the lady I talked to at the utility company admitted she was wearing slippers at work...so even they are watching the cost...