2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

mumzyof2

ive fixed it!!! it was covered in dust!!!! and thread!

SarahNeedle1872

mumzyof2 wrote: »

ive fixed it!!! it was covered in dust!!!! and thread!

:j Yay! Excellent news!

NEgirl

lol mumzy i had to unravel a load of threads from under mine after i had been sewing the other week - thought it had packed up for good but it was only because they were tangled so much it was stopping the rollers going round!! :rotfl: Glad youre sorted!

mumzyof2

just hoovered me rug to test it out hahaha, woohoo im so glad i dont have to fork out money for a new one lol

Miss_Pink_3

mumzyof2 wrote: »

just hoovered me rug to test it out hahaha, woohoo im so glad i dont have to fork out money for a new one lol

Woohooo!!! Good news for you. Sounds like my hoover. Im forever having to clean it out. Yep, Im messy.

Frugaldom

Aunt_Bessie wrote: »

Evening peeps

All this talk of electricity got me thinking way (way) back to when I was a poor student.
We used to boil one kettle full of water ( the old whistling type pmsl) & fill flasks......the grey matter seemed to work better on copious amounts of coffee (& our Mums supplied us with that!)

I was just wondering which way would be cheapest with todays modern electric kettles.
Filled to the top & boiled once?? (...decant into flasks)
or only boil a cupfull, half a dozen times ??



xx

Nice to see you here and I agree with the above. During winter, we try to remember to have a flask filled at any given time because of the power cuts. I also invested some time ago in camping kettle and camping pans that can be used on an open fire when there are power cuts. Let's face it - no leccie here means no heat, no hot water, nothing. My old house had hot water heated by the fire, which was great through the winter, except coal's getting so expensive. I would LOVE a woodburner but investing any sort of money into a rented house is crazy. I will try to remember to check the meter next time I boil the kettle. I don't think there's any difference in cost per cup boiled but may be wrong.

Of course, I could always get a really big flask and boil the water durng cheap rate then store it through the day! :rotfl:

Frugaldom

mumzyof2 wrote: »

just hoovered me rug to test it out hahaha, woohoo im so glad i dont have to fork out money for a new one lol

See? It was simple to solve. Now, if you were a rich chick, you would have gone and bought the new hoover already. Soon, you could be a semi-rich chick... that's one that finds out best cost of the new hoover, banks the money in a savings account and then fixes the old one I did that with my washing machine! I now know how to replace the belt without breaking a nail and I really did save the £25 call out charge!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Ephemera

Well done Mumzy - it shows that sometimes necessity is the mother of invention

Might be worth keeping one eye on your local freecycle for another if your vacuum is getting elderly - you never know, someone may be emigrating / divorcing / downsizing and may need to get rid of a perfectly good one fast to someone who needs it. My local freecycle group had someone offer a static caravan once - sited with six months paid up fees! I missed it tho

Just goes to show, sometimes we are too quick to buy a new one rather than the old make do and mend :rotfl:

...and you could always offer your neighbours a vacuum repair service!

liuhut

Is anyone monitoring their gas usage?? We've been using 2 units a day for the last week, wasn't sure if this is good or not. The Lecky varies between 14 and 30 units a day ( the 30 was today but I have done three loads of washing). I've started to do a tour of the house to make sure things are turned off....starting to sound more like my mum with the 'turn the light out' shout!!

Today was a no spend day for me!!...yay!! but not for my OH ...boo..., had an argument as he wanted to buy a bottle of wine as its the last day of our hols....he won and has spent £6.50 so £6.50 off my total then....I think I might end up not including his spending in this if I cannot get him on board!!!

Glad everyones doing well and well done Mumzy for fixing your hoover!!

mumzyof2

Hahaha. My hoover is only about 15months old lol...my old one b4 that..i was hoovering one day and it wouldnt pick up so i stopped hoovering and dragged kids to comet where i bought one in cash for £90 god knows how i afforeded too being a single mum of 2 on benifits