Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

beanielou · 17 October 2018 at 8:08PM

Hurrah for the regular income for 6 months.
You must be so relieved.

HairyHandofDartmoor · 17 October 2018 at 8:24PM

beanielou wrote: »

Hurrah for the regular income for 6 months.
You must be so relieved.

Thanks Beanie it is a relief

. It's only enough to pay the mortgage, but it will be a relief that that's paid at least.

Willowtree222 · 17 October 2018 at 8:24PM

HairyHandofDartmoor wrote: »

Thank you Nicnak, the first year is the hardest I think for bereavements .

Normally I would crave alcohol every weekend. I think my tastebuds have changed temporarily because I don't even want it. Mind you, like sugar, I think you more you have the more you want.

Deffo agree with this x

redofromstart · 17 October 2018 at 8:35PM

Hurrah for the new work - so pleased for you.

We have a dehumidifier, was about £100 from Screwfix five years or so ago. It's brilliant, cheap to run and it kind of sucks the cold out of the freezing cold damp room rather than heats it up. Perfect if you don't like being too hot. I use the disposable ones in a few of the really damp places, they are usually with the air freshener type things. Like a margarine tub with two layers, crystals that suck the liquid into the bottom.

I'm a recent convert to cashmere wrist warmers. Mine are Johnston's of Elgin and they are like cut off mittens so great for typing and writing, unlike the cheap black thermal ones. They even look elegant with my work suits rather than market trader like my black ones. I paid £15 from the well known auction site. Turtle doves will let you trade in an old cashmere jumper for some fingerless gloves if you have one. Think they charge £4 handling and they recycle your jumper into more gloves. I thought about the imported £8 ones mentioned above but the reviews were very mixed. Love my nice Scottish ones, and plan to inflict them on people for easily posted nice presents. Then I can steal them if they don't wear them...

beanielou · 17 October 2018 at 8:45PM

Glad that you are so pleased with your Scottish ones redofromstart

abba1772 · 17 October 2018 at 9:43PM

Fantastic news about the 6 month contract .........go hubby xx

elizabethhull · 18 October 2018 at 12:33AM

Fascinating reading about differing experiences of temperature. I'm one of the 'hot' people !! When I go to one of my Scrabble clubs there are always several people in thick jumpers while I'm in a t-shirt. Heaven knows how they manage if it gets really cold.

We've been without the internet since last Friday, when we changed our provider but the new router hadn't come. We had an email on the Wed saying the router would be with us in 3-5 working days (so zero chance of it arriving in time), and we'd get another email when all was ready to change. Well, without internet access we haven't read any emails ! I came back online today to 672 emails - aarrgh ! Still, we are getting a free month as compensation.
We still had 2 ideas up our sleeves: taking a very long bus ride as our buses have free wi-fi (we have bus passes), or having a coffee at a fairly local McDonalds which is similarly equipped.
I've missed it !!

HairyHandofDartmoor · 18 October 2018 at 7:38AM

https://www.houseofbruar.com/ladies-cashmere-fingerless-mitts-blue-tg14001periwinkle/?src=GoogleFeed&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9dfww6-P3gIVE4XVCh1_RwlxEAQYAyABEgKkffD_BwE

My cashmere fingerless gloves look like this. Although I expect my mum got them in a sale. She did buy them in Scotland. I expect it would be worth checking out the well known auction site as Redo suggests

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[Deleted User] · 18 October 2018 at 8:05AM

Thanks so much, everyone for the cashmere gloves suggestions and for the link from you, HH:T:T:T. Plenty of food for thought there. I'll definitely be treating myself to a pair before the weather gets really cold. It was really chilly this morning when I was making my first cup of tea at 6 o'clock:eek:. The sign of things to come:(

Commiserations on your internet woes, Elizabeth. I'm glad you have it back again:T. Broadband came very late to our village, I had to rely on the really slow dial-up for so long. Although things are much better with broadband it's the regular type, not superfast and there's no hope of any of the cable companies venturing this far either. We don't even have mains gas within 4 miles of here:eek:. Whenever I question my broadband speed they do a test and say it's working fine and that's the best I'm likely to get because of the distance of our property from the exchange. Seems odd to me that old rural telephone exchanges still play such an important role in internet efficiency:(.

in_need_of_direction · 18 October 2018 at 8:38AM

Every Christmas DH buys me either cashmere gloves or cashmere socks. I tend to be one who falls into the too hot category and I only wear gloves when out and about and prefer leather. Last year's offering was from a by appointment to royals supplier and were cream cashmere gloves. I don't want to be ungrateful but.... Cream!
It's too much money for him to be spending on something that I don't need or use. I do wear the socks occasionally but 2 pairs is the max needed. However he knows I love cashmere. Unfortunately, my cardigans have been attacked by moths to the extent that one is now referred to as the colandered cardigan. This is despite being stored with cedar cubes

Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

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