Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2015

silvasava

Be careful what you wish for........DS1 has told me the club house is being used for a wake today with possible a couple of hundred people. Power washing will have to wait as we dont want to shot blast people's cars with barnacles!! Bum - I'll have to do the housework!

Lynplatinum

Hiya All

Well Thurs went to see a comedian do stand up in London. Cheap meal in W!spoons - they still have their Beer Festival on so beer was £1.98 a pint Result! :beer: Afterwards we were stranded on a station with no heating in the waiting room (which was a stripped out old Victorian one) no loos and no where open to buy food for 2 hours.

Now you might think this initiates a moan but it doesn't!!! :j The comedian had been saying how everyone spends their time on their i-phone instead of playing games like i-spy. So, more for the laugh than anything I started off with 'I spy with my little eye...' well 3/4 people phones had lost battery! :eek: mine still worked but its not a smart phone - and I only use it to txt and phone!

Anyway we all started to join in and the teenage girl said ' are we seriously gonna play this dumb arsed game then' and I said 'Yeah - just cos you cant work out my clue!' Well a few turns later she worked out a clue and then started out with 'I spy....' I could not resist and said 'Oooooh its a cool game when we start to win then is it??' To give the kid her due she then laughed at herself! We played this for the majority of 2 hours and had a really good time! bear in mind we were in a very bare space so the clues had to be clever such as 'C' for sash chord for the old fashioned windows! In the end they all admitted to having fun :rotfl:

MM&M - Making Do (without the magic of phones) Minimising (we needed no equipment to play the game) Mending (the mood which had started to go downhill after a giggly night out!!:rotfl: Old ways rule!!!!!

And dont worry the claim for a refund on the tickets is underway!

Lynplatinum

Silver - whooops - there is an old saying - the Universe gives us not what we want but what we need! How proud you can be of yourself re getting the house work done!! :-)

silvasava

Lynplatinum wrote: »

Silver - whooops - there is an old saying - the Universe gives us not what we want but what we need! How proud you can be of yourself re getting the house work done!! :-)

Haha - didn't do any housework! I started making my neighbours DGD her corpse bride outfit and mended DS1 rucksack. Had to take a form in to our local Age Concern so nipped in to our local chemist & picked up some tiny bow hairslides for DH Pirate beard. :rotfl::rotfl:
I will get the housework done this weekend though

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well made a start on the housework,(got the hoover upstairs whilst sitting on my stairlift with said hoover on my lap, cursing in olde english at the narrowness of my cottage stairs and the weight of my "lightweight "hoover. I am seriously thinking of getting a small second-hand one to keep upstairs as it only needs a quick whoosh round once a week.

I have just put a vat of leek and tattle soup on to cook,I had a spare parsnip so have diced that up and bunged it in as well to thicken it up and flavour,it was past its best anyway. I want to make a sultana and cherry loaf cake as well and will have to have a dig around my old recipe books as I'm sure there was a recipe in one of them.

I'll make the boys some melting moments biscuits for next week as well as they are on half term.

Ironing and watching catch-up tv this afternoon I think. I am on square 12 of henry's Liverpool football blanket so its coming along nicely,only another 38 squares to go :) NSD at all this weekend but I may have to chisel my way into my purse on Tuesday for some essentials.really pleased at how much I have been eating from my food stocks this month.
Have a good and frugal weekend chums
JackieO xx

Siebrie

Lynplatinum wrote: »

FP - re pumpkin soup - I suggest a little lemon juice - because pumpkin is sweet it needs a balance

Someone told me that pumpkin should always be accompanied by ginger (ground is fine).

misstara

A lovely day off for me today I did the shopping and got some good YS bargains again. Other than that I've not done much, mostly knitting in front of a DVD and got the ironing done.

I've made a start on clearing out my wardrobe but haven't got very far. I've got about half a bag for the CS so far, will try and get a bit more done next week.

Lynplatinum

Hiya

Well, as you may gather from my title today I had another house viewing today. Dont think they were very interested tho - they said they wanted it for their son but I think they were HMO landlords looking to see if it could be converted for that use (by the way the bloke was tapping walls etc while she kept me talking!). Given the way this house works it would be difficult without significant investment. We ll see

Its amazing how inventive spiders are - little rotters keep on invading and as for the dust monsters.........

Might have something to do with living by a quite busy road. Making Do today - ate up the pumpkin that I roasted yesterday with some grilled bacon (which needed using up following the breakdown of my fridge!) and a grilled tomato.

For those that are interested I have lost 3 LBS this week :j (Am eating only meat/fish + veg + fruit + one slice of cake per day - carbs other than cake only for breakfast - eg toast/oatcakes/museli!)

Minimised some books today and they have gone on the pile of books which I am gonna offer to 'We buy Books.com' once my boys have checked though it to see if they want anything.

Mended a blind as a bit had fallen off when I cleaned it but now it is up and functioning!

Jackie O my boys are coming home next week to help me get the house sorted and Melting Moments sound just the ticket!!!! I think your recipe is in the front of the thread - am gonna borrow it thanks! :A

Nite all

vulpix

Good Morning,I hope you enjoyed your extra hour.I woke at my usual time,takes me a couple of weeks to adjust but not the other way round when we lose an hour.

Thanks everyone for posting on the thread,I enjoy reading but haven't felt up to posting,plus I haven't got owt to say.

Lyn well done on the weight loss.Your method is what works for me too.I am all talk though,we went to a chinese all you can eat buffet last night with some old friends.We had a lovely time but I MUST get a grip on it now.I am still in poorly mode and treating myself with food.I start phsio on Monday so got to get back in a routine.

I have wrapped most of the Christmas presents ( sorry to no Christmas before December people)I will have to wait 'till youngest is back at school before making her giant selection box.Saw it on -interest and she is at an awkward age to buy for.Need to also make the Rudolph chocolate oranges.also -interest.Yes I have been spending too much time online recently.

Some of my gifts are homemade,some new and some from the charity shop or carboot sale.Would you give a 2nd hand gift?

Vx

GreyQueen

vulpix wrote: »

Some of my gifts are homemade,some new and some from the charity shop or carboot sale.Would you give a 2nd hand gift?

Vx

In a word, yes.

I would, I do, and I also gladly accept pre-owned things as gifts. If I thought the recipient might be snitty about it, I'd keep schtumm, though.

My take on it is simple; by choosing to purchase pre-owned things I can give someone something I couldn't afford to give them new. Like a relative with a taste for books which typically retail new at the £25 mark. If I can see something like that, in immaculate condition, I am happy and they are happy. They can even have several of them at once.

We're funny about old stuff, aren't we? Can you imagine being offered one of Van Gogh's sunflower paintings and turning it down because it was OLD and OTHER PEOPLE USED TO OWN IT? He could hardly give those away in his lifetime, btw, now they're multi-million pound daubs.:rotfl:

Try forming the words 'secondhand' with your mouth and imagining (or stand in front of a mirror) your facial expression. Substitute secondhand for 'antique' and see how much better you look and feel. And isn't 'vintage' such a great word for 'unfashionable old tatt your grandma's generation was glad to see the back of'.