22 Foxhole East

greent

Oooh yes! No central heating, single glazed aluminium framed windows - ice on the inside and icicles hanging off from the outside windowsills - brrrrr!!! I remember it well! ❄❄❄🥶

f0xh0les

Waking up with a freezing cold nose, scratching patterns on the ice-flowers on the inside of the window, blankets and sheets not duvets and covers, being able to see your breath inside the house. One  gas fire in the house, on the ground floor in the living room.  The bathroom being a time trial to see how fast you could get naked and into the hot bath! Not wanting to get back out cos you were afraid of forming icicles.

Suffolksue

All of the above ,but this is 1950’s 
no bathroom ,outside loo with no light ,coal fire in one room only  sheets blankets and coats on the beds 
This is turning into the Joke about no beds etc sleep in street !!

f0xh0les

Nah, just how soft we have become, and that my kids think the 1970s were just after the dinosaurs died out and just before rationing ended.     

It has stopped snowing, but it HAS settled!

The govt in Ireland has told people they risk power outages this winter, and to reduce their usage.  Just waiting for any sign of it over here, so when the PM comes on tv and says there won't be any, I will get the camping stoves out of the shed. 

badmemory

Thank goodness for gas.  I really must find someone to service my gas fire.  It's not been done for at least 25 years & not been lit by me for longer than that, & I have no intention of trying without it being seen to.  But last week I spent 3 days heating the whole house from the gas cooker which is in the kitchen extension.  My bill is going to be lovely!  Don't care!  The repair was going to cost so much I said to fit a new one, which I intended to do in a couple of years anyway as the new heat source things would not heat the house up enough anyway.  Do I feel bad about not saving the environment, yes I do, but if I was permanently cold I would feel a lot worse.  I will look into solar panels when they have decent batteries, fingers crossed only a couple more years, but I haven't much roof that gets the sun anyway.  However when I win the lottery.................

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

I remember central heating being fitted in our house in the 1970s!  I was a student in the 80s and when i lived in a student house we had no heating or hot water.  DD2 said - did the landlord fix it?  Nope there just wasn't any of either and we had to go to uni to shower and wash our clothes !!

Deni 

f0xh0les

 My parents got central heating once we had moved out! So it would have been ... mid/ late 1990s ? My 4th Uni house had radiators, before that it was still one gas fire in the living room, and a hot water bottle.

greenbee

Very sensible of your parents @f0xh0les   We had central heating, but it was oil-fired and too expensive to run in the big old draughty house with crittall windows. I remember us getting secondary double glazing, and a woodburner in the hall which meant you didn't need to run from the kitchen (solid fuel aga) to the snug (open fire). I had an oil-filled radiator in my bedroom which I used to hang my clothes so when I switched it on in the morning so they were warm when I dragged them under the bedclothes. 

f0xh0les

Mine didn't like us enough to bother with that! We were just allowed to be cold, and then leave.

I have just spent all my Big River vouchers on a vegan caramel filled chocolate advent calendar to be delivered to DS1 on 29th because he is unhappy and I cannot bear it;  a  brushed cotton blue tartan double duvet set for DS3; and a brushed cotton green tartan duvet set for DS4 - total cost because I am a muppet and should have taken out the 99p OptimusPRIME trial thingie but didn't, is £20.64  - about half of which was postage - doh!  anyway,  it would have been well over £50 without the vouchers. 

Still a win.  Live and learn. £20 on the CC for December.

This is all because I am waiting on payday, and it is killing me.  I do not want to have to move money back from the savings account, so I am only spending what I have to, so I  rounded up all my vouchers and got some of what is needed for next week.  Tuesday should see me with close to £2k hitting my account but at the moment I have less than £12 for Monday.

I am very aware I have a service and MOT in December, and a trip to London, and a trip to step-gran, and DS4s birthday, and THE C WORD.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

i think that is a lovely thing to do for DS1 x