Monday 6 June 2022

Back to Reality

 So thats the weekend shenanigans over with its been easy to avoid just dont turn on the TV and have guests who were as interested as us in the party. so domestic slavery has occupied my time .

 So what has this weekend taught me ? we need a house with more than one loo and id nearly faint when they all decided to give me a break and order Chinese and i saw the price , my first thought was had we bought a fortnights groceries . The kids cleaned the house sheds out for me and did a couple of garden jobs so im well pleased . The comments about why i dont have a dishwasher its like the dark ages baffle me , theres usually only two of us why would i need a dishwasher ? The other winge is why do i only buy cheap pop and why is there no alcohol . Off on safari to the Coop you can go if you require that. im afraid our budget doesnt run to it . Im sure adult children struggle to understand how skint their parents are , well the ones who have done well in life do anyway. Yesterday i ,managed to get useful son signed up to his local community grocery hes been left with 22 pounds universal credit this month and they havent paid his housing costs either its all a mistake apparently by Universal Credit and will be resolved in his next months payment , fat lot of good that is this month . Hes back to work in the next month now the parties finished so we will help him till then .

 Then MR Bah Humbugs mate turned up and told us we are going on a scooter rally next weekend all paid for by his mates , cos they miss him , i was struggling to plaster a smile on as this could be a bit of a nightmare physically for both us , but hey ho what the hell im sure he will enjoy it , hes already said hes going in the car so he can be nuked off his head with class As all weekend . i will merely be nurse and the only sober member at the party so doubtless i will have to a casualty run for him or one of his mates , theyre all getting to that age where they think they are geriatric teenagers and things go very wrong.

Just been shouted at for the mountain of bedding waiting to be washed , well its bleedin monsoon season and it can wait till the weathers better its not stuff we need ....bleedin men!!! 

9 comments:

  1. People who haven't had to count the pennies don't understand.

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    1. i just do things automatically weve been skint forever and then i seem to get collective shock...lol

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  2. I have neither washing machine or dish washer Kate, I have never had a washing machine even when all the kids were at home, sink and out on the line for me. I do have the luxury of a microwave though, lol. Also never been on holiday abroad, this stuns most people, they think I've come from the dark ages. lol
    Briony
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    1. once went to France on a school day trip and thats my lot , never felt the urge to go somewhere hot , or on a cruise just isnt for me

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  3. My MiL has been nagging me about getting a dishwasher for years. We've moved into new build which does have one. Now we keep running out of mugs. The top of the dishwasher is full of mugs but the rest is empty apart from about four plates.

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    1. my mother has one she keeps her teatowels in it,,,lol

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    2. She did ask if I was going to use it. I nearly replied"No I'm going to keep my gin in it"

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  4. I had a dishwasher years ago when I was. more flush -It was a nuisance (correction the person rushing to load it was)They squeezed plates in and glasses in the wrong places and switched it on without me checking it and lots of stuff got cracked-Plus it was oftenm still dirty x

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  5. I don't have a dishwasher and I don't want one but I understand, surprisingly, they are better for the environment .

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