Things we 'think' we can't manage without

Curry_Queen

Spoken like a true Yorkshire lass :T

D'ya know, you're the first person I've come across in yonks to call airers "clothes horses" but that's what I've always called them!

Lillibet_2

spendaholic wrote:

......and my dad had 1 job and did foreigners (or "afters" as they say hereabouts).

For us non-Yorkies please could you claifiy what you mean when you say your dad "did" foreginers? You have no idea of the vision I currently have :eek:

Mango

I've always called them clothes horse too, until I went to Uni down south where everyone called them airers! Except for one friend who calls them 'clothes maidens', which always makes me smile.

spendaholic

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Curry_Queen: Soz, but I'm a Brummie - we only moved oop 'ere last year. But I've always called it a clothes horse, and Off licenses are Outdoors.

Lillibet: Ditto the nationality - we always used to say my dad was doing a foreigner if he was moonlighting, I suppose. He's a carpenter & joiner and used to do jobs on the side. The first time I asked a tradesman up here if he did foreigners, he gave me a right look ... sorry, a "reet look". I've had to learn to call them "afters", i.e. after hours.

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

I have tried to live without using my tumble drier, mobile & dishwasher, but have found it very difficult :eek: So, i have not cut out but cut down :j

Instead of using TD each time I do a washload, if weather permits-hubby hangs outside. I have cancelled my contract mobile and have gone on a PAYG. Dishwasher is used only when full about once every day and a half.

So in theory, I have cut down my TD useage by about 60%, mobile was £30 a month-now on PAYG it costs me £2 a month and dishwasher is used about 4 times a week not 7-9. :eek:

I love this website!!

Penny-Pincher!!
xxx

r.mac_2

Well, I don't have a tumble drier and don't want one

I only got a freezer about 5 months ago ( a freebie from an old family friend) and honestly couldn't give it up now. It also saves me a lot of money as I no longer waste leftovers and can bulk cook etc

I was given a george foreman grill and have only used it about twice, definately could live without that :rotfl:

I'm relatively attached to my microwave, but could give that up....I think.

No way am I giving up my washing machine though!

elona

Curry Queen

I am glad I am not the only one to have heard of a "clothes horse" as I am a Scot and my daughters thought I was mad when I used the term!:j

Curry_Queen

elona wrote:

Curry Queen

I am glad I am not the only one to have heard of a "clothes horse" as I am a Scot and my daughters thought I was mad when I used the term!:j

I don't know where the term originates but it's always been called that in my family going back 3-4 generations

culpepper

I suppose a clothes horse is a bit like a saw horse (trestle type thing for leaning the wood on when you saw it). Ive heard them called that too and Im a londoner.
Our next door neighbour suspends her clothes horse over the bath when its too wet to hang stuff out and I suppose thats what people did when they only had the weekly bath.Reminds me of the family from one end street(eve garnet) where Mrs Ruggles is a washer woman and there are always clothes drying everywhere.

squeaky

I never got the horse bit as a kid. But it made a great tent frame for the tablecloth when playing cowboys and indians or jungle explorers.

There are a whole bunch of things I've learned to live without as my income dropped. The car being the biggest. I'm not sure what the AA's figure per year is for a car but I vaguely remember £1500 per year.

Well to start with, the bus fare into town is cheaper than the car parking costs. I wander round the shops for things I just can't buy in the village and then, being well tired and not at all happy about struggling with loaded bags on busses, I get a taxi home. So round trip cost is about £10.

That's £120 per year as opposed to £1500

When I had a car, living in a village as I do, I really thought I couldn't do without one. Now, well yes, I sometimes miss the convenience when I'm standing in the wind and rain at a bus stop, but I can't honestly say that I need it.