Posted on 08/14/2022 2:08:04 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Now that we know it’ll cost eleventy million pounds to heat our houses this winter, and that we won’t be able to afford to pay because our monthly mortgage repayments will be bigger than the gross domestic product of Switzerland, many commentators are offering handy tips on how to save money.
You should put on an extra jumper, they say, and burn litter if you want to stay warm. You should glue your teeth together so you don’t waste money on food and if you do, by some miracle, need the lavatory, you should wipe your bottom with a smooth stone to save on bog roll. It all sounds very uncomfortable and horrid. But happily, I have an easy and actually quite pleasant way of saving yourself an absolute fortune. Simply remove from your life every single luxury brand name.
Then we heard about a “little man” in a nearby village. An old-school craftsman. A chap who wears dungarees and gets away with it. He operates out of what’s nothing more than a hut, which is rammed full of tables he’s restoring and chairs he’s reupholstering and yes, he could make us a sideboard that would fill, exactly, the 12ft gap between the loo door and the door to the kitchen.
And now he has, and it’s one of the most exquisite and beautifully crafted things I’ve ever seen. It’s made from Brazilian rosewood, has a splash of marquetry, legs more captivating than Elle Macpherson’s and lovely lion head handles. And the cost? It would be rude to say here but it’s way shy of anything modern that you could find in London....
(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes.co.uk ...
That was over ten years back she still likes it and the dogs have yet to level a mark on it!
And the couch is long enough for me to nap on! Unchanged!
Win-win.
We are furnished in Early Garage Sale and Thrift store.
We’re so poor looking someone broke in once and left a $20 on the kitchen table for us.
We get good laughs though when the people who looked down on us and had everything perfect and expensive had to declare bankruptcy and lost everything.
Elle McPherson’s legs are now 58 years old. I’m sure they aren’t what they were.
In our area you can buy wonderful furniture handmade by Amish craftsman. Not expensive …… and they deliver…..
Jeremy Clarkson has some great ideas here, and he is supporting his local independent craftsmen by buying from them.
Oh....that ‘little man’.
eleventy million pounds
I think I’ll burn a few hundred dollars of firewood this winter. Gladly sell it for eleventy megapounds.
Can split more by October.
Sounds very expensive, though...
Is that eleventy million pounds per household, or per country? 😂
James May thinks Clarkson is a pillock, but he's the pillock who gave him the job that made him rich and famous.
Jezza is the 'Don Rickles' of the automotive world. Clarkson making fun of you is prima facie proof that you've made it. Or proof that you had it but lost it.
—”Elle McPherson’s legs are now 58 years old. I’m sure they aren’t what they were.”
Some memories become frozen in time.
Lets have a look...
Elle Macpherson Shows Off Her Famous Legs in Swimsuit
Elle Macpherson is 59, and still looks every bit the supermodel as she did in her twenties when earned her nickname, “The Body.”
https://celebwell.com/news-elle-macpherson-shows-off-her-famous-legs-in-swimsuit/
Looks a bit spindly for any productive work, like humping sandbags to build up the bunker.
…… and they deliver…..
By horse cart?
Around Chiraq the locals would harpoon the unfortunate horse and fire up the BBQ... Later in the evening, they might fire up the neighborhood.
Sasquatch said, Can split more by October.
“Harry and the Hendersons” with an extra heavy splitting ax...
Makes quick work of it!
There are some things that just make a fella glad to be alive.
We are about the same. Besides the couch and a couple chairs, all of our furniture is used or the kind you have to assemble.
Next time we move, our plan is to not move any furniture except maybe the matttress. The headboard was Early Salvation Army from 36 years ago.
—”There are some things that just make a fella glad to be alive.”
6 June 2012 one of my two alive days...
An evil car struck me on my bicycle, ten days asleep, twenty days in the hospital.
Only false memories of the event.
Still difficult for me to watch.
One of the best shows ever!
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