Money Saving gone TOO far?

pudding06

You can easily buy shattaf here in uk. I am told they are easy to fit to our loos. I have seen them for approx £15 inc delivery. Its definately on my list of things to get to improve our bathroom. Many muslims in uk have them, as we are required to wash after using the loo.

WeegieWumman

I visited a house in relation to my work. The woman was sitting in an armchair soaking her feet in a basin and dried them with filthy curtain which was on the floor. She then proceded to rinse cups and dry them with the curtain she'd just used for her feet and asked me if I wanted tea. Now THAT was a MILE too far.

maman

valk_scot wrote: »

On a day to day basis though? I really, really gag at the thought of eating leftovers that have been on someone else's plate and pushed around by the fork that's been in their mouths. I don't even mean strangers plates, I mean the plates of my own family. Barf! You know these diet books that say "Don't eat the kids' leftovers "? I've never felt the slightest inclination to do this.

I know exactly what you mean valk_scot. When my DD was little I used to gag at the smell of jars of baby food that I spooned into her. I still think I was a bad mother for never tasting it!

WeegieWumman

I'm such a hypocrite! Get ready to vomit! As a teenager at school, I often took the 'step too far' when my friends and I would share ONE cigarette between us. It wouldn't have a filter tip and inevitably the end would become damp from someone's lips but it didn't stop the others smoking it.

VJsmum

Not putting the heating on - even when you are piled up with jumpers etc and still cold.

I could - if i had to - do most of the others, but i can't be cold (i mean after taking all steps to not be IYSWIM)

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as a little girl in my primary school after the war we had to have a spoonful of Virol every morning before our mid morning milk.We all lined up in alphabetical order of surnames and the teacher would walk down the line spooning a lump of this disgusting brown jollop into each open mouth There was one spoon per class, and my class had 42 pupils in it.I was one of the lucky ones as my surname began with a 'B'so I was usually second in line.The Williams twins had a problem though and as with most primary school in winter it was the easiest way to get a cold if someone further up the line had a bit of a sniffly nose .
It would never happen today with H&S rules and regs but in 1948 it was the norm.
P.S. I never did get to like the taste of Virol or for that matter fresh milk as by the time we got pour milk quite often the birds had pecked the tops off in the winter and in the summer it was often on the 'turn'.

Eenymeeny

babyshoes wrote: »

I am a mooncup user and I was also pretty dubious when I first heard about it, but it has actually significantly changed my life for the better! If you are used to normal, non-aplicator tampons, the mooncup is fairly similar in terms of the 'yuck' factor - and with a mooncup you need to go through that process far less often than if you use tampons. If anyone is really curious for details, feel free to PM me with questions.

In terms of what people used to use before modern 'san pro', I can tell you - my grandmother explained it to me years ago - it was what she used in her day. On reaching adolescence, each girl was presented with a series of 'rags' (clean and well hemmed) which were carefully folded in a certain way, inserted into underwear, and then well washed afterwards. Later they developed disposable sanitary towels made from cotton wool and loose weave fabric which were worn on an elastic belt with special loops, a bit like suspenders, before early varieties of the modern types became available.

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I remember my mother telling me about this and they kept a covered bucket of salted water next to the toilet to store them until nighttime when my grandmother collected them for boiling!
The thought of washing these and drying them inconspicously... I suppose that it was no secret though since everyone visiting the loo knew your cycle! Yewh..._pale_
Those first sanitary towels, (known as 'Dr Whites', I don't think that anyone else made them at the time.)I remember a friend of mine using them and they used to put them on the fire when no one was around.
Sorry to wander off thread. I now refuse to use low energy bulbs in lamps. I'm sure that my eyesight was suffering as a result of trying to read by them. Not an awful confession I know, but a conscious decision:)

dandy-candy

Eating roadkill. Not sure if it's ever come up on MSE tbh, but I remember a girl at school saying her dad always had a spade and plastic bag in the boot of their car when they went for a drive in the countryside. The thought of someone scraping up a half mashed animal to eat just make me heave.

System

Eww! Hubby came back with the remains of a pheasant embedded in the front of his car once. Word got round and one of our neighbours wanted to know what he did with it because he would 'kindly take it out of his hands'. *hurl*

valk_scot

My sister and BIL once hit a deer when driving down to Newcastle airport to go on holiday. They weren't quite sure what to do (the deer was killed outright) so phoned the local police. Police turned up, agreed that it wasn't their fault then asked if they wanted the deer??? Err, no, my Sis replied, they were off on holiday. (She wouldn't have had the first clue what to do with it anyway.) So the policeman grinned, slung it in the boot of the police car and said he'd take it to his BIL, who was a farmer that reared pigs and "knew what to do with it". So Bambi Chops for the local plods?

When the gamekeeper comes to do the pest control on our allotment site he always offers us the rabbits that he kills. I love watching his ferrets and his totally demented terrier at work, but I can't quite cope with a warm and still twitching bunny though. The gamekeeper always says he'll find a home for them and as we usually give him a couple of bags of veg too, he's probably set up for the week. Funnily enough I don't mind dealing with a rabbit once it's been skinned and gutted. It's just the fluffy bit....