Live on a tenner a week ???

FunBrum

I'm looking forward to seeing how you get on this month Jackie0

Good luck!:T

GreyQueen

lillibet_dripping wrote: »

GreyQueen wrote: »

If I had a regular visitor who only drank coffee, I'd get some in for them (and aim to get their preferred brand)./QUOTE]

Bedsit Bob?:D

:cool: BB has to bring his own provisions (and his own 'special' fancy dress costumes) when he visits me.

Just looked at my average weekly spend for housekeeping (food and non-food consumables like tp and cleaning materials) - £9.83 in 2014 and £8.78 in 2015.

meritaten

yep, family all take their shoes off and leave them in the porch. I have oatmeal coloured carpets (not my choice but OHs). I don't stress about a bit of mud - I just let it dry and it vacuums up. so no, don't insist visitors take shoes off.
I like real coffee OH prefers instant so I have both. we both drink tea so we have tea, I don't use milk but OH does so we have milk. I don't eat bikkies but OH does so I can offer visitors bikkies with their choice of tea or coffee.
I think we have it covered apart from those who only drink herbal concoctions. sorry - you will have to bring your own!

honeythewitch

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Errr...nope....imo.

Black is an extremely common colour for women to wear these days and it shows up animal hairs a lot and add if they are wearing a material that picks them up a lot (eg wool jumper or dress). Its not always possible to think "Going to pet-owners house - so must wear coloured clothing and suitable fabrics" and I always end up covered with hairs in those circumstances and looking a mess for rest of day and then putting the clothing for washing immediately when I get home.

What would be very easy to do imo - if the animals have gone beyond "training" not to get onto the furniture would be to keep cheap thin duvets in covers to place over the furniture just when humans are sitting on it and then the hairs couldn't transfer themselves onto peoples clothing. I would think leather furniture could easily have hairs brushed off it with a quick flick of the hand also.

Mine are trained to sit where they like. I do have "special" covers that only come out for guests, but if you drop in without phoning first you can expect to leave the house looking like a yeti.

VfM4meplse wrote: »

No...!

Dirt stays outside, the inside environment must be clean. This has always been my policy and buys me peace of mind that the baby is not crawling through all kinds of filth.

Oh yes, its quite different if babies are crawling round.

Lynplatinum

Everyone can have their own standards of cleanliness - their friends will know and not mind and new folk can choose to come back or not as they choose :-)
We all think they are reasonable but there was one house where I had to go into for work and it was so filthy - smelt of cats p**ss and cigarettes that I used to pin my hair up tightly and come home and immediately strip down to my underwear beside the washing machine and put clothes on to wash. Dreadful!! I had dog and kids and was as clean as it was possible to be without being neurotic! But this house just stank and after 2 hours there so did I! My dog used to refuse to come near me when I got back and would stand there sneezing at me!
nite all

FunBrum

Lynplatinum wrote: »

Everyone can have their own standards of cleanliness - their friends will know and not mind and new folk can choose to come back or not as they choose :-)
We all think they are reasonable but there was one house where I had to go into for work and it was so filthy - smelt of cats p**ss and cigarettes that I used to pin my hair up tightly and come home and immediately strip down to my underwear beside the washing machine and put clothes on to wash. Dreadful!! I had dog and kids and was as clean as it was possible to be without being neurotic! But this house just stank and after 2 hours there so did I! My dog used to refuse to come near me when I got back and would stand there sneezing at me!
nite all

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owing to a bit of a problem with my joints (apart from old age ) if its above my shoulders or below my knees it doesn't get dusted I have a very useful eleven year old tool that gets into all the nooks and crannies in my house for dusting etc its called a Mikey and he will do virtually anything for HM cake or biscuits :):), he also gives a pretty good hug bless him :):)

DGS Jack (almost 16) will hoover like a man on a mission given the fuel of a Victoria sponge cake :):) and DGS Henry is great for helping to change duvet covers, makes a good cup of tea as well.Eldest DGS Ben makes a very decent cup of fresh ground coffee in the cafetiere. They are all open to bribery in the form of HM food :):)

Tonight I came home from DDs with a screw topped jar of HM leek and potato soup that Mikey had made at food tech, very nice and quite peppery which I enjoyed, I had some as a starter before my fish and I was very full by the time I had finished dinner.he has quite an interest in cooking and loves to help.
just off to bed for a read now ,tomorrow night is quiz night so I will get a meal there so only have breakfast and lunch to sort out,not a problem as for lunch i will have more of Mikey's soup and some spicy mexican chilli cheese I have dug out of the freezer with some crackers Its really hot so you don't need a lot and grated it will go even further

Good night ,God bless all here


JackieO xx

juliettet

Lovely family Jackie O.

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Indeed I am a very lucky person to be so blessed with my two Dds and their families. We even go on holiday every August together.The boys are brilliant and the light of my life bless them.

Another NSD today, had enough of Mikey's soup left to have some at lunch time and there is a little bit left for a mug for me before I go to quiz night tonight.

moments_of_sanity

My dear Mum passed away in 2004 and my Dad still lives in the house but every time I go over, I still, after 14 years automatically take my shoes off. I do it without thinking and my Dad always laughs at me, my Mum never allowed anyone to walk around indoors with shoes on :rotfl:

My Daughter dated a man from Singapore for a while and when they went to his parents house shoes were taken off at the front door and if you entered the kitchen you had to put slippers on (provided for you) but these could only be worn in the kitchen and no where else. She got herself in trouble a few times as she also didn't know that you couldn't leave the house bare foot so she would have left something in her car and being a typical youngster, ran out to retrieve it in bare feet only to be told that she couldn't walk around the house as her feet were dirty!