Preparing for Winter

Hippy110

Thanks for the tip on the Asda fleeces at £1.77, got 2 today

Next task - draught excluders but this will test my sewing skills even if I borrow a machine!!

pigpen

My list is as follows..

1. carpet the hallway!! .. measured up.. *gulp*
2. draught excluders for the french doors, front door and kitchen door
3. Sort blind for the remaining window in the kitchen
4. New pj's for DS2 & DD1
5. Boots for everyone
6. Blind up in DS1's room
7. Get blind up in DS1's room
8. knit new hats, scarves, gloves for everyone
9. another airer
10. stock up on emergency supplies. Candles/dried foods/bread stuff/milk (uht)/jars
11. knit woolly in the house socks for everyone!
12. Find a way to get a curtain at the back door & the front door
13. Get the curtain up at the french doors .. need to paint the frame first
14. Somehow cover the huge hole in the french doors .. being dealt with!
15. Measure up for double glazed units for the back room! we can JUST afford them

Already..

1. Got the utilities capped!
2. New pj's for DD2
3. Got a credit balance on the utilies.. £200cr so far
4. made curtains for french doors
5. got curtains for all the windows
6. electric heater for the back room
7. Decided what jobs need doing!!
8. bought new winter coats .. just need one for DD3 and one for DD5
9. sorted bedding surplus

newlywed

elona wrote: »

Newlywed

You can make rice bags that can be warmed in the microwave instead of hot water bottles.

The pink blankets could be dyed (purple, blue or whatever suits your scheme).

Ok - how do I make rice bags? Do I just bung any dry rice into a fabric bag?

I didn't think of dying the blankets but thought you could only dye natural fabrics, so presume it would depend what they were made of?

oldMcDonald

My to-do list:

Pull out from cupboard and wash fleeces to be thrown over sofa / chairs

Line curtains in hallway

Line lounge curtains

Line with bubble-wrap downstairs bedroom north-facing window

Line kitchen curtains

Line curtains in two upstairs north-facing windows

Make draught excluder

Buy Foam draught excluder strip to fill in gaps around front and patio doors

Mini-curtain over letterbox to stop gale that whooshes through it

Search out an ASDA which stocks the cheap fleeces and place fleeces under the bottom sheet of the beds

Buy couple of hot water bottles

howskint?

Brilliant ideas - love this thread.
Pooky - was wondering where you got your fleecy all in ones from - my kids love them but have out grown their old ones and I was wondering where to get new ones from?
howskint?

mardatha

I'm really sorry but I lost the link somebody gave me to a site where I could buy the clingflim window liner stuff. can anybody find it ? I havent a wilkinsons here and somebody gave me an online site. sorry

pol

Is this the one, it was posted by Gigervamp?

http://www.foxdiy.co.uk/fixtures-fittings/draught-excluders/cat_162.html

pol

Pooky

For those asking about the all-in-ones.....I normally get them from La redoute - the French catalogue (online too) or ebay depending on where's cheapest. House of bath (one of those sunday suppliment magazines - also online I think) have adult sized ones which are just to die for - I could live in mine!

As for the lap quilts - I've just used a king sized duvet - cut into 1/4's - hemmed the edges and then made a fabric cover - I stitch it closed rather than use poppers/fasteners as they fit in the machine for a wash.


HTH

cady

Hi,

This shortage that everone is talking about is it going to be everywhere or is it just in rural areas? just ive never heard anything till i came on here im in the north east outside of newcastle, will this effect us? sorry if im bieng dumb but ive honestly not heard a thing and now im worried.

Cady

sammy_kaye18

Supposably threre is going to be food shortages with the ground being so wet that things like potatoes are rotting before they've lifted as well as things like wheat corn and the like.

Also gas shortages may occur as they are having to import alot now so i think on the whole it may effect everyone not jsut the odd few

x S x