2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Cherryfudge

Welcome, @prepareathome, nice to meet you ☺️. 

I’ve just surrendered 3 coupons for two bras so I think yours will be six coupons. We think a bra I’d half a corset!

Watch out for the dog, he’s behind your chair hoping for crumbs but we need to be a bit strict, he’s getting rounder!

Cherryfudge

Our internet is off but I have a little tale to tell you all. Over the weekend I met an older lady steadily crocheting and we got chatting. Apparently she and her husband were shopping one day in 1952 and the salesman showed her a set of knitting needles and crochet hooks. I didn’t find out what was in the set but it must have been a super one as it cost £20!
When her husband heard the sales pitch (the needles are quiet so you won’t get ‘click, click, click’ while you’re listening to the radio!!) out came his wallet.
’This is your Christmas and birthday present’ he said, ‘so I don’t have to hear ‘click, click, click’ all the time!’
They were actually a great investment as she still has all but one and they’re still in use. The pale bamboo has worn to a mid-brown with a lovely sheen.
She went on to start a branch of the yarn bombers and is still making items for good causes. I don’t know how far into her nineties she is but she’s seen great changes and her crafts have gone with her from then to now.

MrsCD

Oh the stories she could tell while crocheting...
.😊

PipneyJane

Cherryfudge said:

Our internet is off but I have a little tale to tell you all. Over the weekend I met an older lady steadily crocheting and we got chatting. Apparently she and her husband were shopping one day in 1952 and the salesman showed her a set of knitting needles and crochet hooks. I didn’t find out what was in the set but it must have been a super one as it cost £20!
When her husband heard the sales pitch (the needles are quiet so you won’t get ‘click, click, click’ while you’re listening to the radio!!) out came his wallet.
’This is your Christmas and birthday present’ he said, ‘so I don’t have to hear ‘click, click, click’ all the time!’
They were actually a great investment as she still has all but one and they’re still in use. The pale bamboo has worn to a mid-brown with a lovely sheen.
She went on to start a branch of the yarn bombers and is still making items for good causes. I don’t know how far into her nineties she is but she’s seen great changes and her crafts have gone with her from then to now.

Maybe we should adopt her as our honorary vice-president?

Welcome @prepareathome.  More tea?  Please remind me what "C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z " stands for.  I know I'm the official bean counter - or was that "body counter"? - and that I signed up years ago, but I can't remember what all the letters mean.

- Pip

ETA:  yes, a bra is 1.5 coupons, equivalent to half a corset.

prepareathome

PipneyJane said:

Welcome @prepareathome.  More tea?  Please remind me what "C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z " stands for.  I know I'm the official bean counter - or was that "body counter"? - and that I signed up years ago, but I can't remember what all the letters mean.

- Pip

I went back and looked as I could not remember - just left it all in my signature.

This is your post :  - you were vanoonoo then 

19 September 2012 at 7:35PM

anyone fancy signing up to the 'conspiracy researchers and preppers really oldstyle loonies living zombie challenge' (C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z for short)?

Thread was Prepardness for When

prepareathome

PipneyJane

This is what you put:

the challenge:
to consistently defend the right to prepare for every possible disaster scenario including but not limited to the zombie apocalypse

proof positive of membership (must be able to demonstrate at least three of the following):
ownership of a paracord bracelet or similar (a ball of string or an elastic band is a perfectly acceptable alternate)
a stock of at least 4 toilet rolls in the house (or the shed or garage or car)
a manual tin opener (and use of same)
basic first aid knowledge (such as being able to dial 999, find a blanket, know where the plasters are)
ability to read through the lines (essential)
UHT and dried milk (even if dairy intolerant)
shop at ald! and or pound1and (receipt acceptable if storecupboard is not accessible)
a camping stove (preferably several with different fuels)
grab bag (or at least a mental list of what would be needed evne tho you'll probably never put it together)
safety pin functionality (preferably with a pin stashed about your person at all times)
homemade cake consumption (baking skills a definite advantage)
a love of tea (or coffee, or diet coke, or any other beverage except water which needs to be preserved for in the event of emergency)
pinch of salt (key element to survival in all eventualities)
toothbrush (sharpened if possible)
kevlar suit (to fend off backstabbing)
a blind eye (turnable)

Right posts on fashion on the ration posts will resume and I will add my coupons to my signature and I suppose better reduce it x

Laura_Elsewhere

I had the dentist today and My Intended was too busy o take me, wait and bring me back so I had an hour or so either side of treatment, just wandering around the lovely little town where my dentist is... and its lovely little knitting shop...  

2 coupons for 50g of wool, yes? they had Rowan Valley Tweed half-price, down to a fiver each, and 8 of them came home with me, and so did a weird 100g Wendy ball of pure Aran-weight wool in a nice soft grey, reduced to only £2...
So that's 10 x 2oz, so argh, 20 coupons, oops!

PipneyJane

prepareathome said:

PipneyJane said:

Welcome @prepareathome.  More tea?  Please remind me what "C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z " stands for.  I know I'm the official bean counter - or was that "body counter"? - and that I signed up years ago, but I can't remember what all the letters mean.

- Pip

I went back and looked as I could not remember - just left it all in my signature.

This is your post :  - you were vanoonoo then 

19 September 2012 at 7:35PM

anyone fancy signing up to the 'conspiracy researchers and preppers really oldstyle loonies living zombie challenge' (C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z for short)?

Thread was Prepardness for When

It wasn't me. I didn't start it.  I have always been PipneyJane.  I'm #43 on the list.

Thanks for looking it up, though.

- Pip

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

I had the dentist today and My Intended was too busy o take me, wait and bring me back so I had an hour or so either side of treatment, just wandering around the lovely little town where my dentist is... and its lovely little knitting shop...  

2 coupons for 50g of wool, yes? they had Rowan Valley Tweed half-price, down to a fiver each, and 8 of them came home with me, and so did a weird 100g Wendy ball of pure Aran-weight wool in a nice soft grey, reduced to only £2...
So that's 10 x 2oz, so argh, 20 coupons, oops!

1 coupon per 50g, @Laura_Elsewhere.  So you're down 10 coupons, not 20.   

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

PipneyJane said:

1 coupon per 50g, @Laura_Elsewhere.  So you're down 10 coupons, not 20.   

- Pip

Phew! Thanks - it did seem an awful lot