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grousescot

calicocat wrote: »

Grousecot and If at first......!!

I hang all my clothes up to dry so they don't need ironing, the only thing that will need an iron are linen trousers and haven't worn those for nearly 2 years I think, and I don't iron bed linen. My mother is the opposite, and will iron everything the doesn't move.

Yup do this but shirts seem to be the most liable to creases. I've taken to wearing dark coloured ones outside of work as the lack of ironing isn't noticeable. I think anyway!

calicocat

grousescot wrote: »

Yup do this but shirts seem to be the most liable to creases. I've taken to wearing dark coloured ones outside of work as the lack of ironing isn't noticeable. I think anyway!

If you HAVE to iron shirts, iron them when they are still damp, takes half the time, and then hang them back up again to finish drying if the ironing doesn't dry them completely.

Also, apparently the quickest and best way to iron a shirt is do cuffs, then collar and shoulder bit, then sides and back.



Bet you didn't think I would know that bit or trivia.....i remember this from doing needle-work and sewing at school. I have no ruddy idea why my head has kept this boring snippet of information.



edit......yay, another bee saved , what an odd place to be in your hairbrush , must have had a major sugar drop.

if_at_first...

I have finally decided to do it! Nobody is going to stop me - I am just going to go ahead and do it!. I mean... what is the worst that can happen right. I have the dye and I will do it tonight! Why pay the hairdresser a fortune when I can just do it myself. I will do it, I will do it, I will do it, I will I will I will


At least if I mess it up none of you will ever know!
Tonight for the first time ever I will dye my own hair. My copperish roots have grown out too much so I have a colour that resembles my natural darker colour and I am going for it. I just hope I don't end up with dodgy hair!

calicocat

if_at_first... wrote: »

I have finally decided to do it! Nobody is going to stop me - I am just going to go ahead and do it!. I mean... what is the worst that can happen right. I have the dye and I will do it tonight! Why pay the hairdresser a fortune when I can just do it myself. I will do it, I will do it, I will do it, I will I will I will


At least if I mess it up none of you will ever know!
Tonight for the first time ever I will dye my own hair. My copperish roots have grown out too much so I have a colour that resembles my natural darker colour and I am going for it. I just hope I don't end up with dodgy hair!

It'll be fine.....it will probably fade quicker if it's over red as red is difficult to get rid of, but just means you might have to do it slightly more often. When I was doing mine I used semi permanent (26 weeks or something like that), as they all fade even the permanent ones. If you don't like it you can always get a hairdresser to sort it later, but going to a darker colour should be fine.

MrsAtobe

For all those who just want to cuddle kittens and puppies, have you ever thought about pet sitting/walking?

JustKeepSwimming_2

grousescot wrote: »

Yup do this but shirts seem to be the most liable to creases. I've taken to wearing dark coloured ones outside of work as the lack of ironing isn't noticeable. I think anyway!

I'm firmly with you Grousescot - dark clothes are more forgiving when they've not been ironed. I hate ironing almost as much as I hate shopping, but even I have to do a few things each fortnight when I really have run out of work clothes.

One of the worst uniforms I had to wear was a white cotton mix dress when I worked in a hospital - when I finally qualified I had a purple band of piping running around the short sleeved cuffs & the collar & I could wear a purple elasticated belt with a fancy silver nurses buckle (obviously this was well before having children - now a belt is the last thing I'd wear :rotfl:). It didn't seem to matter how thick a slip I wore, every detail of my underwear could be seen & the darn things needed careful ironing.

calicocat wrote: »

......yay, another bee saved , what an odd place to be in your hairbrush , must have had a major sugar drop.

I thought it was a weird place, although bees do seem to be attracted to my bathroom more than any other room. Maybe I have really nice smelling hair (to bees I mean)?

if_at_first... wrote: »

I have finally decided to do it! Nobody is going to stop me - I am just going to go ahead and do it!. I mean... what is the worst that can happen right. I have the dye and I will do it tonight! Why pay the hairdresser a fortune when I can just do it myself. I will do it, I will do it, I will do it, I will I will I will


At least if I mess it up none of you will ever know!
Tonight for the first time ever I will dye my own hair. My copperish roots have grown out too much so I have a colour that resembles my natural darker colour and I am going for it. I just hope I don't end up with dodgy hair!

Ohh - exciting. I can assure you the novelty will soon wear off, but it is so much cheaper doing it yourself. Hope it comes out as you want. My only advice is to make sure you wipe up any spills quickly - I still have 3 splodges on my bathroom floor that have failed to respond to all kinds of cleaner over the last 3 years. Wish it lasted as well in my hair without fading :rotfl:

BW - the job dilemma is so hard, I feel for you. I feel lucky in a way that I was forced into giving up my career (although I'd much rather not have the health issues that forced the move) as I can now see the move was the right thing for me to do. But that's with hindsight; so much easier to know something when its all worked out in the end, isn't it?

But on the other hand, I do think the stress of trying to hold everything together & cope with a demanding job that was making me unhappy probably contributed to the health problems in the first place. Maybe if I'd made the change earlier I wouldn't have suffered the decline in health?

I do wonder how well I'll manage financially when the child benefit & small amount of CTC/WTC & my ex's maintenance stop in the future. The plan is to sell the family home when DD & DS have left, downsize to a 1 bed & live off some of released equity as well as my tiny salary - but who knows what will happen? DS is still at the stage where he thinks hes going to live with me forever, & seems genuinely horrified that I tell him he'll want to leave home one day . Maybe I should start to make things a little less comfortable.....

Love to all.

calicocat

MrsAtobe wrote: »

For all those who just want to cuddle kittens and puppies, have you ever thought about pet sitting/walking?

I don't think It would pay what I get now to be honest, but something I would look at if lost job.

Byatt

No, it doesn't pay much, pet sitting/walking, not unless you have enough clients that you can employ others/ run an agency. It's ok if you have other income and want some extra money. But by the time you factor in insurance, petrol ( a huge amount of travelling back and forth), not knowing what job you will get from week to week, so, well in my case, without WTC it wouldn't be worth my while.

And when you're a "one man band" you can only do so much anyway, plus not take holidays or heaven forbid, be ill (or lose your car through an accident :eek:).

If my retirement age had not been changed, it would be a fab little extra earner, as it is, it's tough.

LavenderBees

Regarding jobs/changing jobs, the truth is that, at 48, and with only one income to rely on, I couldn't possibly consider changing jobs to one with less income, even if that made me happier during working hours.

Maybe it's not the right way to look at it, but I have one eye on today (hence trying to make my out of works life full of the things I love doing like gardening and animasl), and the other eye is very firmly fixed on the future (albeit a future I don't know I actually have).

But I personally feel insecure if I take a short term view and only look at getting through today. I am, unfortunately, at that middle age (how did that happen!? :eek:) when pension provision/sick pay/paid holidays etc are important.

If I lose this job as I expect to at some point when my work disappears, then, if the only jobs around are poorly paid ones, my aim will be to work at something I enjoy. To be poorly paid and in a job I'd hate would finish me off.

I can just about cope with a job I dislike, sometimes hate, but am reasonably paid/have reasonable benefits. It would be wonderful to work in a job I'd love and be reasonably paid, too, but that doesn't exist up here.

So, I've given orders to my team member here, that when she buys the office lottery tickets today, she makes sure she has the winning one for us. She hs promised to do that :T

No begging letters, Folks! I'm not nearly that nice :rotfl:

LB xx

calicocat

LB.....no begging letters from here....

.......remember I know where you live, I shall hunt you down and stalk you until you share....lol.


Well......typically, I cancelled going to festival due forecast being constant rain....and it doesn't appear to doing that. To be fair there were a multitude of other reasons too making me unsure about going.

So, plan is, home made burger , chips and coleslaw for tea as made loads of burgers for festival (plus too tired to cook). Over the weekend I plan to potter in garden and sunbathe when sun out. Sort out my shoes into one area, I moved a year ago nearly and still don't know where half my shoes are.

If weather isn't too bad I may have a go at up cycling my bedside units by sanding and spray painting them white...haven't spray painted furniture before.

Also get all ruddy festival gear that is all over dining room into the loft. Then see if mum wants to come up monday /tuesday.


LB, that is pretty much how I feel about the whole job thing, I would be too scared in a low paid job at the moment due to needing money for the upkeep of a house, I am hoping to get the cosmetic things done and a pot saved before more wards go down the swanny, but this could happen anytime and we are always the last to find out. The last ward I was on that closed, staff found out it was shutting due to the domestic supervisor ringing to see if we needed a cleaner as we were closing!!......then it closed whilst I was on holiday, if it hadn't been for a friend texting to say it was closing down el-pronto I wouldn't have been able to go get my stuff out of there.

The staff that work there are always last to know what's really going on.


Right, must get up and eat something as starving.