Frugal, thrifty, make do, mend! Let this debt come to an end!

SuzeQStan

A very sensible list Elisheba - completely agree about the bubble baths - I’ve been rationing them since energy costs went sky high - but I when I do have them it’s like it’s more special these days!

I’ll be showing my age here but I have to include a phone with affordable international calls as I have family overseas.  I know we can WhatsApp for free but the sound/connection quality can be a bit hit or miss so I like a traditional phone call. And I’m not really a fan of face time - I like a traditional voice call so I can be in my pajamas slobbing having a good old chinwag.

Also love the log fire - could gaze at it all night.

hope you have a lovely Sunday eve

Makingabobor2

I like that you say you wouldn't want to give up your cordless vac. I am longing to get one, we have an old Dyson, the cylinder type and it is so heavy for me now to lug up & downstairs and DH has repaired it several times...it has had 2 new motors he's put in, it has odd coloured attachments that we had to by 2nd hand and now the pipe where you attach the extending pipe, is broken and not sure how long it will last. I keep saying I REALLY want a new one....but DH keeps saying, this one still works....lol.  But then he moans if I ask him to carry it upstairs for me.  

The things I would hate to give up ( bit are not essential to my staying alive), are
My Kindle & laptop
The car
Charity shops
All our photos on computer and memory stuff that I have in a box
Our lovely fireplace and living flame gas fire
Living near my DD and 4 GKs
And I suppose I should add I wouldn't want to give up DH, even though he drives me batty sometimes....lol

angela110660

With regard to the old Dyson. How about leaving the old one upstairs all the time and treating yourself to a cordless for downstairs only? Might that work for you and OH? 

SuzeQStan

angela110660 said:

With regard to the old Dyson. How about leaving the old one upstairs all the time and treating yourself to a cordless for downstairs only? Might that work for you and OH? 

Really good idea 

Elisheba

Makingabobor2 said:

I like that you say you wouldn't want to give up your cordless vac. I am longing to get one, we have an old Dyson, the cylinder type and it is so heavy for me now to lug up & downstairs and DH has repaired it several times...it has had 2 new motors he's put in, it has odd coloured attachments that we had to by 2nd hand and now the pipe where you attach the extending pipe, is broken and not sure how long it will last. I keep saying I REALLY want a new one....but DH keeps saying, this one still works....lol.  But then he moans if I ask him to carry it upstairs for me.  

The things I would hate to give up ( bit are not essential to my staying alive), are
My Kindle & laptop
The car
Charity shops
All our photos on computer and memory stuff that I have in a box
Our lovely fireplace and living flame gas fire
Living near my DD and 4 GKs
And I suppose I should add I wouldn't want to give up DH, even though he drives me batty sometimes....lol

I have a love/hate relationship with my cordless Dyson. On the love side, compared to my heavy, old push around and trip over the wires one, going cordless was utterly game changing. So, so, so much easier to hoover now. 

On the hate side, this particular model, despite being advertised as being for use when you have animals, gets blocked when it picks up anything over a speck of dust, and often gets clogged up with all the animal hair. It's is still far, far superior to my old one and I would never go back, but it's also not perfect either.

So if I must hoover, and with three animals I must whether I like it or not, then I would only use a cordless these days - although I think there must be better models out there. 

Elisheba

SuzeQStan said:

A very sensible list Elisheba - completely agree about the bubble baths - I’ve been rationing them since energy costs went sky high - but I when I do have them it’s like it’s more special these days!

I’ll be showing my age here but I have to include a phone with affordable international calls as I have family overseas.  I know we can WhatsApp for free but the sound/connection quality can be a bit hit or miss so I like a traditional phone call. And I’m not really a fan of face time - I like a traditional voice call so I can be in my pajamas slobbing having a good old chinwag.

Also love the log fire - could gaze at it all night.

hope you have a lovely Sunday eve

Yes I've been rationing my bubble baths as well. Only one a week now, whereas in the past I could lock myself in there every night 😂.

Thinking on it I might add fires to my list - I certainly wouldn't want to live without them. They are another thing I've been rationing though - it's a lot more economical to use the GCH. 

Makingabobor2

I've heard a Shark is good for animal hair/fur

slm6002

I have a shark and it is the worst hoover I've ever owned.  I would not recommend.  Every time I use it, it either needs de-clogging of hair or unblocking somewhere.  I treated myself to it in the first lockdown as I had never owned anything other than basic supermarket hoover.

SuzeQStan

slm6002 said:

I have a shark and it is the worst hoover I've ever owned.  I would not recommend.  Every time I use it, it either needs de-clogging of hair or unblocking somewhere.  I treated myself to it in the first lockdown as I had never owned anything other than basic supermarket hoover.

Agreed - the ‘anti hair wrap’ is a complete lie of a claim.  

slm6002

And they are heavy too