Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Yeah, I reckon its still worth buying white goods.....

The time scale of kitchen matters....

If its a code of years and you want built in then buy the ones with funny missing doors. We reckon were longer than that so bought ones with doors....white goods don't last THAT long nowadays, , by a decade we'll probably be ready to replace I guess.

That said, I love something's so much I'm not sure I want to replace. Silver car advised really well when she said to get a quiet Miele dishwasher. Its almost silent. Same with my Miele washing machine, I barely hear either. They'll hopefully live forever, and then later I'll have doors made to match whatever replaces them


If you are not going for concealed appliances of course, it makes no odds, and its worth just buying them I the soonest sale.

I don't think I'd bother with concealed appliances, doubt I'll be getting a dishwasher either.

If I have to buy a fridge/ freezer, I'll get a free standing one. If I can't buy the under-counter ones that are in the house, I'll be taking out a kitchen unit which is blocking the dining room / kitchen door sooner rather than later (dining room has been used as a bedroom).
Don't worry, I'll skimp on most things, but a fridge/ freezer is pretty high on the list of things I need

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Somebody has a full box.

I don't (any more )

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's a biggun. I am going for "compact and bijou, while possessing the features I desire". But my place won't be "for now", it's going to be "until the sheltered housing", I also have no money to do a thing to it, so it has to be pretty much "done".

I won't have too much money (and will be re-adjusting to not seeing my deposit in my savings accounts), so it will be a slow process of getting things done. I'm not planning on moving for a while (probably the thing I hate most about renting).

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes - you can never have too much space for frozen oven chips.

More like for my yellow-stickered food collection

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I won't have too much money (and will be re-adjusting to not seeing my deposit in my savings accounts), so it will be a slow process of getting things done. I'm not planning on moving for a while (probably the thing I hate most about renting).

When I buy a house and get the keys, I might have had to borrow up to £1k from somewhere to cover solicitor or something ... and when I walk in the door I'll probably have £10 in my pocket. And no job, no credit cards, no access to money. I'll have to sort out where money comes from once I've got the keys.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

More like for my yellow-stickered food collection

I've not seen worthwhile yellow stickers for some years. I was in Mr T yesterday 15 minutes before they closed and in the entrance area they had a small tiger loaf and they still wanted £1.08 for it.!!

No bargains, nothing's ever reduced to anything semi reasonable unless you were absolutely going to buy it right now at the higher price.... and, even so, there's rarely anything reduced anywhere.

Masomnia

Are we at 10,000 posts yet?

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Picked this up via a police force twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/ultramacky/status/363644323545358336/photo/1

No idea if it's legit, just tried to read the real twitter but it's locked down.

Oh, that would so serve her right..

GDB2222

I am indebted to Tim Harford (the Undercover Economist at the FT) for this penetrating insight into a thorny household issue.

Dear Economist,
Should I leave the lavatory seat down, as my wife demands? Or, with gravity on her side, should she be lowering it herself?

Michael Govind, Cirencester

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Dear Michael,

Jay Pil Choi, a (male) economist at Michigan State University, has demonstrated what men find obvious and women seem unable to grasp: that the “status quo” rule (leave it how it was when you finished) is more efficient than the “down” rule (put it down afterwards) under most plausible assumptions. The reasoning is that the seat should be moved only when necessary - just before someone uses the lavatory.

If a man visits the lavatory twice in a row, the “status quo” rule saves the cost of lowering the seat when leaving only to raise it when returning. Choi also shows, using some fancy maths, that the “status quo” rule is still superior even if the inconvenience cost to your wife of moving the seat is nearly three times the inconvenience cost to you.

Why then, the continued controversy? Richard Harter, a (male) mathematician, has calculated the incremental costs of moving from bachelorhood or spinsterhood to connubial bliss. Since men sometimes need the seat down, they are used to bearing the cost of moving it. Women who live alone or with other women need never move the seat at all; therefore the incremental costs of moving to a mixed household are obvious.

Yet I feel that these thinkers have missed the bigger picture. Assume two types of man: the considerate gentleman and the selfish pig. It is famously difficult for women to distinguish them at first sight. Nevertheless it is easy for the gentleman to signal his “type” by returning the lavatory seat to the horizontal. This is a profitable lesson, and one that I learned early.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6860487a-bfba-11da-939f-0000779e2340.html#axzz2avwZ17IS

PasturesNew

The answer is that both the seat AND the lid should be put down after each use. The lid is there for a reason.... two in fact: [1] to prevent air-borne matter going air-borne [2] to stop you dropping things down the loo.

It also looks nicer.