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  • kitschy
    kitschy Posts: 597 Forumite
    Hey :)

    I got my cutlery from Matalan. And before you roll your eyes at having to venture into a shop - it is a Viners set and cost me £18 for 6 place settings. I am really fussy about the weight of cutlery (like a hefty knife) and it's lovely. I've had some plasticky handled ones before but they either broke or went funny in the wash.
  • kazwookie
    kazwookie Posts: 14,341 Forumite
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    Where is my new project gone?? :j :rotfl:

    SS

    Get yourself over to the competiton board and start winning stuff, start with this one

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  • mrbadexample
    mrbadexample Posts: 10,805 Forumite
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    fizzel81 wrote: »
    hmm same with my steamer

    :think: Would that by any chance be a vegetable steamer? :D
    If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
  • fizzel81
    fizzel81 Posts: 1,623 Forumite
    it sure would be mrbe
    DFW nerd club number 039 :p 'Proud To Be Dealing With My Debts' :money: i will be debt free aug 2010

    2008 live on 4k +cb £6,247.98/£6282.80 :T
    sealed pot 2670g
    2009 target £4k + cb £643.89:eek: /£6412.80
  • skintchick
    skintchick Posts: 15,114 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    I'm sure I'm waaaaay too late to this thread but hello SS! When I moved out of home (aged 19, back in 1995) I had all borrowed/given stuff - and it was fine!

    I had:
    one big saucepan
    one small one
    a frying pan
    a wooden spoon
    a spatula
    cutlery
    some mismatched plates
    two big old knives
    a carving fork a chopping board
    a baking tray

    and that was it! And to be honest, I don;t have much more now!

    Don;t buy loads of stuff yet. Get a few basics and see how it goes, You will soon work out what YOu need for the things you cook.

    And for honewares, please don;t spend on expensive TVs and stuff when you owe 8k and still have two years to go to be debt-free. It is better to scrimp now and bring that date forward than have to push it back cos you got carried away.

    Freecycle is great, as is seeing what friends and family want to offload. I was given all kinds of things like a coffee perculator and a deep fat fryer - just ask of people have anything they don;t want.
    :cool: DFW Nerd Club member 023...DFD 9.2.2007 :cool:
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  • In_Search_Of_Me
    In_Search_Of_Me Posts: 10,634 Forumite
    ...first he has to learn to cook...needs to impress the laydeees!!! (and his mum!)
    Nerd no 109 Long haulers supporters DFW #1! Even in the darkest moments, love and hope are always possible.

  • poorandindenial
    poorandindenial Posts: 4,097 Forumite
    ...first he has to learn to cook...

    And while he is doing that he might want to look for a flat too:rotfl:
    £34,547 (Dec 07); Current debt: £zilch (Debt free December 2010)
    Sealed Pot #389 (2010=£133)
  • Mrs_Weasley
    Mrs_Weasley Posts: 335 Forumite
    Don't know if some one has already said this.............IKEA!!!!!!!!!

    I wish i'd gone there when i left home...........might not be in the mess i'm in now:rolleyes:

    For a fact they've got crockery ( plates bowls and mugs to you:rotfl: ) for 19p each:j
    :D I know i'm in my own world~it's ok they know me here!!! :D
    :) "It will be fine" quoted by ....me :)
  • angelfairy
    angelfairy Posts: 3,594 Forumite
    Nets aren't very 'bachelor' though are they? :undecided

    Oh I think they are (and that isn't the wife in me).

    I am sure the laydeez would be very impressed with you having nets!

    Just think when they get down to their bikinis it will be all for you and not the blokes perving through the windows as well...:p

    Just a thought.....
  • poorandindenial
    poorandindenial Posts: 4,097 Forumite
    I have been with my OH for 2 yrs and I always thought he was a bit odd for having nets (not helped by the fact they were a bit flowery).

    I am still with him but I found the fact that he was a twentysomething man living on his own with nets strange - it felt a little bit too much like his mum might have told him to do it (and she had but then she is something of a force to be reckoned with - I think he is a masochist, stuck between me and her - lol).

    He still has nets in the front now but they are plain ones - although he doesn't understand that:

    lights on + nets = might as well not have nets

    but then he never did.
    £34,547 (Dec 07); Current debt: £zilch (Debt free December 2010)
    Sealed Pot #389 (2010=£133)
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