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Preparing for Winter V

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  • YorksLass
    YorksLass Posts: 2,246 Forumite
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    Good idea for a practice run Primrose.  We knew where to find everything during Friday's power cut, but it brought it home to me to have all those things in one place (doh, why didn't I think of that) so they're now all in a storage crate under the stairs.  Not that I'm wanting a repeat performance of course - but you never know!   :)
    Be kind to others and to yourself too.
  • Scrimps
    Scrimps Posts: 362 Forumite
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    I'd love your advice if you have any -

    We have a waffle type heavy blanket and a faux fur throw, both are clean but they smell VERY heavily of the great grandparents' house. Lovely people and very missed, but towards the end they seemed to use a lot of smelly things around the house and even things stored away were permeated. It was a little overwhelming then and it's not a smell we enjoy having around BUT would love to get the blankets used over the winter now. 

    I don't want to pay to get them dry cleaned so I'm just thinking hang out in the sun over the next few weeks? Would that do it do you think?
    We had a cat who had the misfortune of eating a slow worn...then vomiting it up on our carpet. The stink was vile. 

    I scrubbed and used a carpet cleaner and fabreezed and all the usual tricks. I thought the smell was gone (mostly) but flies would come in and always land on that bit of carpet. I put bicarb and soda crystals on it and left it overnight before vacuuming in the morning...the smell finally went.... I would try those if you're unable to wash it
  • Elisheba
    Elisheba Posts: 1,786 Forumite
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    edited 25 October 2022 at 10:31PM
    MrsCD said:
    I bought a spare camping stove from Blacks a while ago in their Summer sale for £15, but when my dad decided he should have one they'd gone up to £24 'on special offer'. I got one at The Range for £20 for him eventually. It's worth a little shopping around, but they are well worth buying. 
    Gosh, they have gone up! I got mine in 2017 from Home Bargains and I think I paid a fair bit below a tenner for it! 
    Live the good life where you have been planted.
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  • MrsCD
    MrsCD Posts: 1,920 Forumite
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    If all else fails try a company in Yorkshire, called Taylor McClure. They were the only company we could find with an enzyme based product to get rid of the dog urine smells ingrained in the floor of our daughter's house when she first bought it. I don't have any connection with them. I'm just a very grateful customer!
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