What's a wetback in NZ? I only know that term from the States, where it's an illegal refugee from Mexico...
Its a back boiler
yes you are right, that is what i was referring to. We have one hot water tank, in summer it is heated by electric immersion heater, in winter the hot water comes from the stove.
(never knew the other meaning of wetback before today)
Tumble dryer, as my stepson used to put one T-shirt on to dry which drove me insane! Thank god it died and we couldn't afford to replace it
Much traffic around us (right on cue the one car an hour goes by!)
A high pressured job
A television in the bedroom - DH tried when we first lived together but it wasn't a successful experiment! We now have a computer in the sitting room that can receive TV. This means we just have a wee flat screen not a vast six foot wide cinema screen dominating the room.
Carpets! We have ceramic tiles and wooden floors throughout and I love it - dread to think what lived in the carpets at our last house
MrsD'ville wrote:
A television in the bedroom - DH tried when we first lived together but it wasn't a successful experiment! We now have a computer in the sitting room that can receive TV. This means we just have a wee flat screen not a vast six foot wide cinema screen dominating the room.
Until our son brought his small, square T.V. home and insisted upon putting it in the sitting room our Grandson had never seen one that wasn't huge and rectangular, he frequently puts his nose right up to the screen and peers towards the side as if trying to see the part that he's convinced is missing.
I don't have and don't want any music thingy Ipod or whatever they are called these days (I still call em Walkmans) or any of these blooming Wii things, whatever they are. If I wanted to do exercise I'd just go outside and jump up and down or go for a walk instead of doing it on a computerised mat.
Basically I don't want anything that I see advertised on telly - I've even gone off the idea of Domino's Pizza now!!!
Yeah that. In fact any air fresheners (beyond incense and EOs), all that icky fake scent......when I was first pregnant and my nose was hyper sensitive I spent some time living in my MILs old lady flat whilst she was laid up in hospital.....the first thing we had to do was hunt the air fresheners and send them all to a remote cupboard. There were dozens of ´em, several per room, and in really weird places too. WTH is that about?
baby-loving, earth-digging, bread-baking, jam-making, off-grid, off-road 21st century domestic goddess....
Clara wrote:There were dozens of ´em, several per room, and in really weird places too. WTH is that about?
With older people I often have the impression that they lose their sense of smell - at least to a certain extent. And they may be afraid that they (or their rooms) start to smell bad without them noticing it - so it may just be a kind of safeguard on their side...
Ina
I'm a size 10, really; I wear a 20 for comfort. (Gina Yashere)
No mobile
No tumble-dryer
No satellite TV (2 very old TVs though, admittedly)
No dishwasher
No air-fresheners
No decking in the garden
No driveway
No MP3 Player
Do use the microwave a lot for things like veg, as it's more cost effective than having the hob on (our hob seems to take 5 years to get the water luke-warm) and the microwave is nicely out of reach of the sprog.....
No willpower....No prospects.....Not much sanity.....
I took my dog to play frisbee. She was useless. I think I need a flatter dog.
Do use the microwave a lot for things like veg, as it's more cost effective than having the hob on (our hob seems to take 5 years to get the water luke-warm) and the microwave is nicely out of reach of the sprog.....
The thing with microwaves though is that they kill all the vitamin content in food (unless there's been another study disproving this...again. It seems to go back and forth). It seems a shame to go to all the trouble of growing your own (or at least buying seasonally and locally) only to zap the goodness into microwave limbo.
