Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

PennysIntoPounds

No writing is wasted, you're just honing your skills until the time is right to embrace the piece that will be completed.
Besides, nothing qualifies you more as a 'proper' writer than doing everything you can to avoid sitting down and actually writing the damn thing!

angela110660

I remember midis in the 70s - minis, midis and maxis. 

Makingabobor2

angela110660 said:

I remember midis in the 70s - minis, midis and maxis. 

Yes, I remember having a lovely midi skirt, in burgundy with gold buttons down the front. worn with a polo neck sweater and a lovely midi coat in faux leather, very shiny with a belt. Thought I was the cat's whiskers. 

BrilliantButScary

Who remembers rara skirts? And going out without a coat, when it was freezing! 

Makingabobor2

BrilliantButScary said:

Who remembers rara skirts? And going out without a coat, when it was freezing! 

think a lot of the young generation still go out without a coat.  The other morning I was opening the curtains, freezing cold and frosty outside and a young girl walking down the road to school in a skirt that barely covered her backside and just a shirt and thin school blazer.  When we went to school we had to wear what our mother told us to wear, and we would always have coats, hat and gloves in the winter.  Also at our school ( a grammar school), if your skirt was more than 2" above your knees, the prefects would take you name and you'd get a letter sent home.  

rtandon27

Haha - I remember the days of demerit points!  If our uniform skirt (kilt) was more than 2" off the floor (kneeling) then we were sent home and points removed.  Our solution was to roll it at the waist and quickly unroll when the teachers came by.  We were fooling no one & I remember in detail some of the dressing down lectures were were given!

DawnW

rtandon27 said:

Haha - I remember the days of demerit points!  If our uniform skirt (kilt) was more than 2" off the floor (kneeling) then we were sent home and points removed.  Our solution was to roll it at the waist and quickly unroll when the teachers came by.  We were fooling no one & I remember in detail some of the dressing down lectures were were given!

Yes I remember doing that - as I told my 14 y o grand daughter, who had had a letter home about doing it

How can it be cool if grandma did it?    

foxgloves

Interesting to think back to what we used to wear. I was never built for ra-ra skirts. My younger sister had one. I was more hippyfied (no change there then!) so favoured long skirts preferably tie-dyed, tassled or with umpteen multi-coloured tiers. 

@PennysIntoPounds - Well that's encouraging. Thanks. I do recall an occasion when I actually found myself kneeling on a damp doorstep polishing the brassware on my front door as a really quite hardcore procrastination activity to avoid tackling the homework set by the tutor at a writing class I was attending at the time! 

Hello Diary Readers,
Just calling in today's budget-friendly contributions:
*Wrote this week's grocery shopping list - then revisited it to cross off cat meat as re-discovered additional supplies in the pantry thanks to generosity of a neighbour's cat. Any cat owners will know how much cat food has shot up in price in the last few years, making it often the most expensive single grocery item on our weekly list. (Ash says to tell you if he doesn't see a box of Persian Queen soon, he'll be packing his red spotty handkerchief & setting off to seek his fortune elsewhere!)
*Wrote a list for town tomorrow, including eco-refill shop which was closed for some reason last time & posting a birthday package while I can still get it there in time via 2nd class.
*Froze surplus scones I baked yesterday plus 2 leftover portions of the lentil & bacon soup. It was lovely soup. I think our butcher may have had those bacon rib racks as a one-off, but if they turn up again, we agreed that we'd like to get some more. 
*Bit low on bird food atm so gave them a pot of kitchen scraps mixed in with a scoop of bird seed to make it go a bit further.
*Did a survey - another afternoon of them being thin on the ground.
*Daily home care hour - Well, it was 2 hours today as I needed longer so bumped yesterday's hour to today. Took everything off my big kitchen dresser, washed & dried. Then cleaned the dresser & gave it a go-over with beeswax polish. Next time I do this, I will re-stain the main surface as it could do with it - pretty sure we have some lurking in the shed. Listened to my audiobook & enjoyed the task. Had a little bit of a re-arrange & moved a chunky cat jug which Mum gave me years ago into the conservatory as it didn't really show up on the dresser & will look really good, I think, with a little succulent planted in it. Finished 15 mins early so used the time to vacuum the kitchen & hall & wash disgusting cat feeding tray (Ash is the messy eater, Soot wouldn't want to waste any!)
*Have started knitting first pair of secret socks to put away in the present bag for Mr F. No cost, as using l/o sock yarns from my stash. Also have a pair on the go for myself for evening TV knitting.
No gardening today, which is a shame in a way as it has been sunny. However, it was minus 4 overnight according to Mr F & very icy & foggy too until the sun really got up. Our garden was frozen white until well into the morning & so I decided to do other things.
Right, I am going to sign off, grate some cheese, distribute cat treats (only 3 as Soot is supposed to be slimming) & then I intend to head for a facial, hair wash & lovely bubble bath.
Stay cosy. I do think there may be a bit more of a cold snap though before we see the end of February.
F x

Makingabobor2

Your dresser looks beautiful.

rtandon27

I'm well impressed to see that you have a Tala cook's measure!  It was one of the first things I bought for my kitchen after moving here from across the pond. I fondly remember my Gran using one when doing her baking!