PeelerSheila

I’ve made apricot jams and plum sauce and gave them out one year. Got the fruit from my then boyfriend’s parents house (they were mostly being left to rot) so all I’d had to buy was the sugar. I made little custom labels for them as well.

I’m sorry but that just sounds far too intelligent and reasonable.

Blue banded bees 🥰

In a leaked email seen by the ABC, the National Farmers Federation (NFF) head office encourages its members to “avoid prolonging the story”.

“Essentially as we expected the story has had very little traction beyond the ABC online and Landline story and that’s how we’d like to keep it,” the email reads.

Thankyou maniacalmanicmania for publicising this across other forums. This issue deserves a lot more heat.

Thanks for the advice, I’ll check those out. I bought gel cushion soles for my work boots, like the scholl brand ones but about ⅓ the price, from a $2 type shop in Sydney road, and they were just as good. Unfortunately my latest pair of boots (Everlast) aren’t as good as the first ones I bought. They seem to have gotten stingy with the quality of the upper material and are already disintegrating (I bought them before the end of the financial year).

My MIL just told me that the shoes she gave me (the runners that this original query was about) were sitting in her wardrobe for 20 odd years. No wonder they’re falling apart!

Not sure if this is a good fit for this thread, but it’s a request about shoes.

I need to buy a new pair of runners (women’s) that are super comfortable. I’ve got an off brand air cushion sole pair that my MIL gave me but they’ve sadly fallen apart after barely 2 months of wear. I’m on my feet most of the day at work, and mostly wear steel caps for heavy duty stuff (they’re falling apart too lol), but it is nice to zip around the factory kitchen in a pair of comfy runners.

Can anyone recommend a women’s runner that’s the comfiest shoe but isn’t hideously expensive? Bonus is if they’re non slip. I’m a flat footed peasant with wide feet, size 10 in womens, or a mens 7.

I never really stop buying icecream through the winter. Demand for Streets Blue Ribbon vanilla ice cream or those generic brand Cornetto knock offs is fairly consistent in this house.

Tried out a new cafe near my place. Was unfortunately overpriced and a bit meh. Doing some cooking and life admin (especially laundry, gotta make an assault on Mount Washmore every week). Got car insurance coming up so have to spend little until it’s safely out of the way.

Hey, maybe they thought you’d like to buff your stuff while they stuff your crust?

I hate to say it but I think they will attempt to shut the gate after the horse has bolted. I hope it’s just my GenX cynicism talking. I don’t want to do this again either. The last time didn’t exactly fill me with confidence, with all the politicking and social and mainstream media misinformation, and people just openly breaching the guidelines because they didn’t care enough, the antimaskers and antivaxers and sovereign citizens. After all we went through, I still see people not washing their hands when they should and coughing all over people in public places. It wasn’t that long ago, not long enough to have forgotten so easily, and it makes me angry and sad.

Thanks for this! I had a go with Budget (who I’ve had a policy with in the past and found they were pretty good) and the quote was almost half the cost! That is a massive difference! Budget offer a 15% online discount too.

Porridge is godly food in this house! It ticks the cheap, nutritious, tasty and ancestral food boxes!

Mr P got his renewal the other day: $1,632! I’ve asked/begged him to get a quote from other insurers but he can’t be bothered, “I’ll just pay it monthly, so what?” I said, you’re paying an extra $200+ per year! You can’t even afford to pay that monthly on Centrelink! There’s no getting through… it’s a tax on laziness and bloody minded stupidity 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Might be just the motivation I need!

Thankyou for sharing this deeply personal experience Baku. As the parent of a child that suffers from anxiety and school refusal I’m hopeful that people will gain a better understanding of the intricacies of the issue. As with my child, there are often a lot of complex and/or contributing factors which combine to lead a child to this point. It’s not just kids refusing to go because they’re being recalcitrant.

That’s a perfectly reasonable question, and the answers are many. It was the house she and dad bought together, and after he suddenly and unexpectedly died, she was really attached to anything which held her memories of him. They had been active in volunteering in the area and had many friends and a strong connection to it, and she just didn’t want to move anywhere more affordable where she didn’t know anybody and had to “start again”. She had an extensive garden which was her main hobby and which gave her an enormous amount of pleasure, and she was loathe to give it up (it was admired by local people and when she died, people came to take photos of it). Mum had Parkinson’s disease at the end, and found mobility a challenge, so the house was easy to modify for her increasing disability. The truth also was that the house itself was kinda crappy and wasn’t actually worth very much and she wouldn’t have gotten much more than it cost for a unit in the area at the time (prices for units in that area were starting to get a bit crazy). After dad died she got all morbid and was talking as though she was going to die soon too, even though she outlived him by about 20 years lol. I guess she thought, why go to the trouble of moving when I’m just going to die anyway? I hope my answer hasn’t bored you with rambling on, my apologies if it has.

I think using your super as a deposit for a house is a terrible idea because you could basically end up like my mum: an elderly homeowner having to pay to maintain and repair an ageing home and no income other than the pension to live on. She’s long gone now, but I’ll never forget how hard it was for her, and how she had to borrow money from a friend to replace the old heater that broke and couldn’t be fixed. Every pension day it was decision time, what to pay and what to delay. Meanwhile the house was slowly falling into disrepair.

Thanks for sharing this, I’m going to save it for later. From an initial skimming, it’s got some stuff which really resonates with me. I’m interested in what it says about earlier first smartphone ownership, increased use of single use plastics and consumption of ultra high processed foods in wealthier countries.

Thanks Melba, I might put this away for Miniest. She’s a prolific creative and the birthday is in a couple of months. Might seem early, but it’s how I do frugal birthdays. I buy things I see at a good price in the months leading up to the big day and put them away. Then, come the day, I have a decent collection of worthy and well priced items and I don’t have to do a big panic ridden shop.

Same here. I’m an old fart, and I can read things my parents wrote easily. But when you get to what my grandparents or great grandparents wrote… the further back you go the more decorative flourishes the copperplate style seems to have and I’ve found it’s not easy to make out every word.