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Beruthiel · 11-08-2006 12:18PM

Hobbes wrote:

You know in the case of tesco you can order the food online and they deliver it to you.

Oh believe me I've tried them, you get the bruised fruit, out of date bread and if they don't have a particular item you asked for they just throw in something else that they think is ok.
In short, a crap service.

Ironing is for people with nothing better to do with their time.
You wash your clothes and as soon as the machine stops you take them out before they have time to crease. Hang them straight onto hangers, voila, no ironing. I haven't ironed in 15 years.

Degsy · 11-08-2006 12:18PM

The only thing i miss is having a clean house without having to do it myself.There's dirt in my house from when i first moved in and my ma notices it every time she calls around.Also how do socks manage to show up in such strange places when she's a-visiting?And bottle tops,unpaid bills and assorted other filth that never escape her eagle eye,i dont know how she ever kept the family hous eso clean when there was six of us living in it,my place is like steptoe's yard and there's only me.

scojones · 11-08-2006 12:21PM

Beruthiel wrote:

Oh believe me I've tried them, you get the bruised fruit, out of date bread and if they don't have a particular item you asked for they just throw in something else that they think is ok.
In short, a crap service.

Ironing is for people with nothing better to do with their time.
You wash your clothes and as soon as the machine stops you take them out before they have time to crease. Hang them straight onto hangers, voila, no ironing. I haven't ironed in 15 years.

I've tried that - it doesn't work. Shirts and jeans come out of the washing machine / dryer with more creases than jacko has had kids in his bedroom.

Beruthiel · 11-08-2006 12:23PM

sjones wrote:

I've tried that - it doesn't work. Shirts and jeans come out of the washing machine / dryer with more creases than jacko has had kids in his bedroom.

Do you shake them vigoursly before putting them on the hangers?

scojones · 11-08-2006 12:27PM

Beruthiel wrote:

Do you shake them vigoursly before putting them on the hangers?

I sure do. I always manage to hit myself in the nuts with the jeans when I'm shaking them out too. I dunno, maybe I put them on for spin too long?

seamus · 11-08-2006 12:27PM

Beruthiel wrote:

Ironing is for people with nothing better to do with their time.
You wash your clothes and as soon as the machine stops you take them out before they have time to crease. Hang them straight onto hangers, voila, no ironing. I haven't ironed in 15 years.

I've heard this said, and I'm convinced that it only works for women's clothes. Men's shirts come out of the washing machine creased. No amount of hanging will remove the creases.

That said, I don't think I've ever waited around for the exact instant that the washing machine stops. Some of us have to leave the house at least once a day

LadyJ · 11-08-2006 12:30PM

It's weird. I live at home in the house I've lived in all my life but it's kinda like living alone anyway. Apart from the fact that someone else buys the soap and the toilet paper,nothing much else is done for me.

My aunt and uncle live here now,since my granny died. Before that though,it was just me,granny and my grandaunt so I was kind of looking after them.

I own the house now as it was left to me in the will so maybe some day the old folks will leave the nest but me,I'm staying right here!

Beruthiel · 11-08-2006 12:35PM

seamus wrote:

Men's shirts come out of the washing machine creased. No amount of hanging will remove the creases.

It works for me froggies shirts

That said, I don't think I've ever waited around for the exact instant that the washing machine stops. Some of us have to leave the house at least once a day

My german washing machine washes the clothes in an hour and goes into an anti-crease cycle for another 30mins.. It also beeps when it's finished. It's the business

Kiera · 11-08-2006 01:00PM

Beruthiel wrote:

It works for me froggies shirts

That said, I don't think I've ever waited around for the exact instant that the washing machine stops. Some of us have to leave the house at least once a day

My german washing machine washes the clothes in an hour and goes into an anti-crease cycle for another 30mins.. It also beeps when it's finished. It's the business

I find if you put them on the rads as soon as you take them out of the washing machine the heat takes the creases straight out (obviously only on cold days or you'd die from the heat)

My mam loves ironing. She’ll stand and iron while watching Corrie. So anytime I have loads of ironing I ask her to call over for a cup of tea and leave the ironing basket where she can see it. I’ve never once asked her to do it

Giblet · 11-08-2006 01:16PM

Ironing. I Iron and when I'm finished nothing has changed ;(

Smellyirishman · 11-08-2006 01:54PM

Kiera wrote:

Anytime I have loads of ironing I ask her to call over for a cup of tea and leave the ironing basket where she can see it. I’ve never once asked her to do it

Sponge

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Oral Slang · 11-08-2006 01:57PM

Beruthiel wrote:

Ironing is for people with nothing better to do with their time.You wash your clothes and as soon as the machine stops you take them out before they have time to crease. Hang them straight onto hangers, voila, no ironing. I haven't ironed in 15 years.

Thats exactly what I do. The cycle I put my clothes on lasts about an hour, so I only put it on when I know I'll be there to take them out immediately & hang them either on the washing line or on the rads. Only iron about once or twice a year - for weddings or holidays or stuff. Can't understand people wasting their time ironing everything - such a pointless waste of time!

The main thing I miss about living at home is the location. Used to live in the countryside & now live in an estate in a ****ty area! That said, my parents don't live there anymore either (both live separately in housing estates) so wouldn't have it anyway even if I still lived at home.

Lone Wolf · 11-08-2006 02:14PM

I was back home last for the first time in a couple of weeks, got some of my mums cooking, some of her homemade strawberry cheesecake it was great.

I miss the cheesecake

aonfocaleile · 11-08-2006 02:29PM

I miss having someone serve me a fry on a Sunday when I'm nursing a hangover......also, being able to open the wardrobe and select something clean, ironed and folded/hanging to wear without having any of the worry of whether I've washed, ironed and put things away myself.

Sleepy · 11-08-2006 02:37PM

I hadn't had the Irish mammy washing my clothes and making sunday roasts thing since I was about 13 when she went back to work having decided we were old enough to take care of ourselves to some extent so I don't really have any of that stuff to miss.

The only thing I can think of that I miss in my mother's house is the well equipped, well-stocked kitchen where there's a big enough freezer and enough people in the house for buying loads of fresh fruit and veg not to be a waste of money (or result in a stinking mess at the bottom of the fridge!).

Dreamer 7 · 11-08-2006 02:41PM

I dont miss that much funny enough, although its only when i drop in on sunday i realise I havent had a roast dinner in months. Everyday at home dinner was cooked in my house he is lucky if we have dinner twice a week! And the obligitory fry on a Sunday morning is something I brought with me

Plus in my house i dont have wear clothes, god i hate clothes they r so restricting! Esp bras, work of the devil:)

Miguel_Sanchez · 11-08-2006 02:47PM

Well it's been a while since I lived with my parents but I'd have to agree that it's the shopping bit that you miss.

I detest food shopping. I always forget what I was planning to buy and end up buying too much of everything (and it all goes off) or too little (and I'm buying stuff down the local Spar for twice the price later that night).

And the people in the supermarket who know what they want! I hate them. They're so smug, looking at me, judging me, while I wander around with a basket and a vacant expression on my face trying to figure out which is the cheapest pasta sauce and then trying to remember what the hell pasta sauce goes with again anyway.

banaman · 11-08-2006 02:51PM

Having to pay bills. Why can't he pay his own?
That and having to think up an excuse for not letting a load noisy piss-heads come back to your place.

joe_chicken · 11-08-2006 02:59PM

I miss:
A full fridge
A working washing machine
A powerful shower
A bed that doesnt have lumps in it

Other than that... I'm peachy

ferdi · 11-08-2006 03:28PM

shopping and ironing.

ST* · 11-08-2006 03:43PM

agamemnon wrote:

Doing housework sucks ass.

Indeed it does.

My pet peeve is ironing. My four year old asked me last week what something was on top of the kitchen presses - he was looking at the iron. The drier seems to take the creases out of everything, but I have to admit, I do avoid buying anything that looks like it would need ironing.

Tar.Aldarion · 11-08-2006 04:18PM

Shopping. Paying bills, it's much better though. Oh, yes.

Sleepy · 11-08-2006 04:39PM

joe_chicken wrote:

A powerful shower

Actually, I do miss the power shower alright...

poggy · 11-08-2006 04:40PM

hate when ur to lazy to cook and eat choclate for dinner. go to bed starvin.
rather at home cooked dinner when i come in the door and eat choclate for desert, go to bed over full and sick:D

stovelid · 11-08-2006 04:47PM

The fact that your parents gaff always had this incredible assortment of the exact stupid stuff you sometimes go randomly looking for.

I would never think to buy pens/cellotape/spare shoe laces and the like.

Also ironing. I cannot iron and my mother could just iron something by looking at it or failing that, I paid my sister to do it.

stovelid · 11-08-2006 04:51PM

Hnag em up in the bathroom, put all the hot water appliances on and leave them in the steam. Not as good but not too bad either.

ST* wrote:

ut I have to admit, I do avoid buying anything that looks like it would need ironing.

takola · 11-08-2006 05:03PM

I hate having to pay rent and bills! Don't miss anything in particular about home or my family. Just hate that it costs so much!

Ruu_Old · 11-08-2006 05:06PM

Indeed having to set x amount of money for food, spending money and all that jazz.

Milkman · 11-08-2006 05:32PM

the garage full of quality wine... he's a collector.
Mhhhhhh

Star Lord · 11-08-2006 06:11PM

Dear god, what are ye tryin to do to us?

The Sunday dinners and the hugs and my 6 year old sister would be what I miss the most.

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