Nice People 13: Nice Save

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I now need to work out what to buy for the freezer. Else I'll have a glorified £200 chip holder, for £1 of cheap oven chips.

I don't want to overfill it, but it'd be nice to get a few choice items in there from day one.

I think the first items will need to be: oven chips, frozen peas, crumpets and some Morrisons cheese/onion English muffins

I can use this glorious event to visit Iceland at some point, they've always had a plethora of cheery frozen goods, that I would now be in a position to buy.

I read somewhere that the running costs are lower if the freezer is full, so stuffing it full of £1 oven chips may save you money in the long run.

silvercar

NP with the emphasis on nice:

If you scrolled through someone else's phone and discovered that not nice things had been said about you, which is the greater crime: the fact that you had invaded someone's (phone) privacy or the fact that they were discussing you behind your back? Trying to convince a friend that she doesn't come out of this smelling of roses.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I now need to work out what to buy for the freezer. Else I'll have a glorified £200 chip holder, for £1 of cheap oven chips.

I don't want to overfill it, but it'd be nice to get a few choice items in there from day one.

I think the first items will need to be: oven chips, frozen peas, crumpets and some Morrisons cheese/onion English muffins

I can use this glorious event to visit Iceland at some point, they've always had a plethora of cheery frozen goods, that I would now be in a position to buy.

Fishfingers. Frozen vegetables (you know, those brightly coloured things ).

Nikkster

silvercar wrote: »

which is the greater crime

Don't really know - guess first thoughts are they're equally bad (definitely no-one smells rosy to me).

Why did friend look at the phone in the first place? Do they do that to everyone or were they looking for something specific?

silvercar

Nikkster wrote: »

Don't really know - guess first thoughts are they're equally bad (definitely no-one smells rosy to me).

Why did friend look at the phone in the first place? Do they do that to everyone or were they looking for something specific?

They claim that the phone was sitting there and at a glance they saw something that made them suspicious and prompted them to investigate further. I'm not convinced that holds up to scrutiny.

Nikkster

silvercar wrote: »

They claim that the phone was sitting there and at a glance they saw something that made them suspicious and prompted them to investigate further. I'm not convinced that holds up to scrutiny.

Whether or not it holds up to scrutiny, it still doesn't excuse the breach of privacy.

Though I'm pretty sure I count as even less nice than usual here - I've gone through someone's phone before. And their phone bills (it was my ex- and I still feel it was justified).

I'd never go through a friend's phone. I don't even like holding them to take photos.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I read somewhere that the running costs are lower if the freezer is full, so stuffing it full of £1 oven chips may save you money in the long run.

It's true - it's worth filling a freezer with empty canisters as they hold the cold air inside them so it doesn't fall out of the door when you open it.

But, filling it entirely with oven chips seems another sensible solution.

Nikkster wrote: »

Fishfingers. Frozen vegetables (you know, those brightly coloured things ).

Ah, the bright things. Yes

I do love the bright things

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I read somewhere that the running costs are lower if the freezer is full, so stuffing it full of £1 oven chips may save you money in the long run.

Yep, and bread. We also store our ice blocks etc in there between meat purchases, when otherwise the thing would be rather empty. But these can be taken out quickly to make way for a bargain with no loss and stashed in the freezer bags. Over the course of the month ( longer now we are with out big dog) the 'panic room' freezer goes from bursting at the seams to half empty. We have a second small chest freezer in a barn but the electrics trip over there a bit, which has lead to some rather yucky results ( its the dog food over flow freezer). I'm hoping we won't need to use that any more for a long while. ( I used to fill that rather than let big freezer get too empty then turn of smaller freezer once they had eaten all of that food...i know that sounds like weird logic but it made sense on the ground)


When I was about six my father told a billionaire the full freezer thing. The billionaire made like road runner to buy sliced bread from the supermarket.

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

I read somewhere that the running costs are lower if the freezer is full, so stuffing it full of £1 oven chips may save you money in the long run.

That's true. We had a tall multi-drawer freezer two houses ago. Used to fill it with yellow-stickered goods. Stuff your freezer with bread. Unlike a fridge, the more that's in it the better it works.

You don't have to get the cheapest of anything any more; you'll find that you can get good stuff that's in too big a portion and store some for later. :beer:

ukmaggie45

lostinrates wrote: »

Maggie, how much will clearance cost, or is it something your oh plans to do?

Is it something that might facilitate viewings and if so should you proceed with that now rather than waiting for a sale if its not something you'll accept as a deal sweetener?

Not sure how much clearance would cost, though we do have a number for someone if we need it. But there's still stuff we need to get out of the house as we're keeping it (or it's going to the kids/Oxfam). We'd be a lot further on if OH hadn't been so sick all of December. He's finally finished the latest round of antibiotics, but still isn't 100%. At least he isn't snoring and hacking all night now though! If he's not feeling better by Monday he's going to contact GP.

We have a disassembled wardrobe waiting to go to lottie to make raised bed too! Plus another that we still need to disassamble. Plus there's the "shed", which has quite a lot of perfectly good gardening stuff in it amidst the junk, that will go to lottie too.