Is anybody here living entirely on benefits?

[Ethel]

Is it as bad as this young couple claim? Are you going to bed hungry and eating rotting vegetables?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlan ds/7643652.stm

I am trying to understand how this can be so.

[puddicat]

We could post our cheap and healthy recipes in the food section!!!

[LoftyLottie]

I'm off to get my soup and jacket potato.

Thanks for the lovely thread Ethel and the chat. I shall always think of you in your bobble hat now! x

[B00]

Have any of you checked this forum out?

I'm forever on it and the ideas and ways to cut back from some of these folk are amazing.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdispl ay.html?f=33

[Ethel]

We could!

And a mini-rant from me.

Why oh why do young people live in shorts and have the heating belting out? It can't be healthy.

[Ethel]

I'd be lost without the MSE, boo, but I haven't really delved in to the forum

[annie0000]

Another tip: your slow cooker will keep the chill off your kitchen as it is simmering your dinner away for 6 or 7 hours. They make lovely rice pudding as well...........Mmmmmmmmmmmm!

[B00]

Oh you should Ethel. Sit with your blanky and your lappy on your knee and while away a few hours on there.

[shaneystar2]

I must go ..me mince and tatties are ready ..see you later girls xx

[LoftyLottie]

Ethel I wore hot pants in the winter back in the 70's. Hot pants and boots (to work)!! I don't think the young feel the cold as much.

I also remember wearing stilleto heals to go out in the snow in the 60's before boots were fashion items!

[theonlyone]

The teenagers were walking to school
today and it was pouring down ...just in
tops as in polo tops ...no jackets or coats ...
but it will catch up with them ..sad but true ...

[shaneystar2]

Well ...Years ago my dear old Dad ( who was never one to mince his words)used to say to me ,as I waltzed out in a pelmet .....Don't bend down fer gawds sake or we will able to see what you had for breakfast !. My mother used to say ..you'll suffer with rheumatics my girl !
Load of old rubbish ! We never felt the cold .We were young and hot blooded .
I've often blamed my arthritis on Miss Green ( the hockey mistress) but it's a fact that these things can affect anyone even if you were wrapped up in cotton wool all your life . In fact these sort of things are heriditary .
My mother had dreadful arthritis and she was born in 1904 when they used to be covered from head to foot and dare not wash their hair in case they got a cold .She still made 92 !

[mrs.chappie]

Hey Ethel, have you thought of wearing a balaclava indoors? It would keep yer ears, face and chin warm .....

I can just picture you now .... sat at yer puter ....

{:0)

[LoftyLottie]

I can remember my son and his mates walking to school through the snow in their shirt sleeves, Shaneystar. I did the whole 'mother' thing and tried to make him see sense just as my mother did to me - it didn't work.

My arthritis is hereditary.

[LoftyLottie]

We can even help our pets out.

http://www.nicerwear.com/accessories/img/acces sories.jpg

[shaneystar2]

I don't t know ...Tut ....youngsters today !
They have no idea .Give 'em a mangle , blue bag and and a chicken carcass and they'd think you were nuts . .)

[shaneystar2]

Oh Bless !
Shaney used to love his blanky .When he got an old boy I used to put a hot a hot water bottle in his basket to warm it up before he went to bed .
I'm a great fan of hot water bottles !

[mrs.chappie]

http://www.military-kit.co.uk/popup_image.php? pID=354

(Looks like summat you'd find in leggy's shop!)

[mrs.chappie]

Hey B00, is this the chicken you're talking about?

http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j5/harknessd rive/?action=view¤t=giantchicken.jpg

[Ethel]

What laughs.

But I wasn't referring to school children being half dressed - I'd think it odd if they weren't :)

I meant the 30 somethings in their own homes, heat blasting out while they wear shorts.

A balaclava, hmmmm.....tempting