Sellotape and duck tape, I can't live without them

The occasional pritt stick comes in useful too, can't trust myself with superglue 

Had to make do without the washing machine when all 5 of my children were small...only for a couple of days mind........NEVER again!!!!...got blisters from trying to get me whites white!

Awwww Slim (((hug)))
GEL - Wot did we do before Sellotape?

If i lost my car or if it broke ... i WUD NOT be able to cope, honestly i wud cry

Haven't got a clue Renton

I once fixed the kitchen tiles with sellotape!

I later solved the problem by marrying my very handy DIY guy

Now we use blue tack!

When the car broke, we got the groceries delivered by Tesco.  We liked it so much, we continued to have them delivered after the car was fixed. 

When the fridge broke, we didn't cope very well.

Brilliant!

Our old fridge freezer packed in about 4 years ago,in the middle of July! Thankfully we "farmed" out our frozen stuff to some nieghbours and relations,Had to end up buying small bottles of milk etc daily .Nothing would keep,new one took four days to deliver.Sigh of relief when it arrived.

WOt cud you NOT live without - something where you wud really realy struggle
Ok mine . . .
Hair gel ... serious, i need it in my life
And tea ... and erm .. internet ... TV and erm . . .

We hardly use our microwave. 

Oh tea, now that is one of life's necessities.

Am with you on the internet Renton...& certain folk on it!..
Tuna straight from the tin...one of me fave snacks...has to be in sunflower oil though not that salty briny crap!
Nail varnish...love to paint my nails!

Bound to be more...will have a think!

TUNA in sunflower oil - yerk !!


Let me think ... a cuppa for defo ...
Hair gel ... i have to or else its murder, lol
And my car - i adore my cars (its a boy thing)

I drain the oil off first of course...

My pooter - can't do without my pooter and it's playing up today and lost an essay I wrote  so despite cursing it, I loves it too

My kettle...water takes too long to boil on the hob and the tea doesn't taste the same...and my fridge, washing machine, car and t'interwub (natch)

I always used to be paranoid about that, every half paragraph I'd be pressing save like a nutter

I have to have cash in my pocket (pronounced Poc-qwet) or else i'm panicking

that's what I did when I re-wrote it Leccy  it's also been saved on a usb stick and the other house pooter .  Think I've got it covered this time

I've thought. I could do without virtually everything except a functional loo, my shower and laptop.  I could eat sandwiches, drink Coke and watch TV on the lappy. I may have to resort to munching coffee beans though.

Electricity, drives me mad when it goes....

Oooh yes! an absolute must!..diggin a hole in the ground just wouldn't be the same!..

Absoutely need a bath and functioning toilet.
Would be lost without Sky, internet, mobile, kettle and cigarettes.

Our microwave died last week too.    I initially thought I could do without it til payday.... til ten minutes later when I was holding a pack of frozen chicken breasts I needed to defrost!

Out came the "for use in life or death situations only credit card" and we went and got the cheapest one that Tesco's had in stock.  

Was £30 ....  in their value range.... and works a treat!

I bought a microwave about 5 months ago, thats the first time ive had one in over 5 years. Didnt miss it at all, and still find myself using the hob.

Cloth pegs, I use them to seal back open packs of anything in the kitchen. Dead useful around the place, as good as blue tack. 

I couldn't live without my laptop, phones, car, mascara and lipstick.

I need it for defrosting mainly.  The stuff we really cook in the microwave is veg (the spoon of water & clingfilm covering steaming method), scrambled dgg (when the kids make their own in a morning)... and for reheating meals when one of them decides to be late / go to the loo for half an hour / forget to mention they are off to a parish council meeting, when the meal I have lovingly prepared is being served!

I had to post this.... I didn't want anyone thinking I was like my mates mum... who I have seen cook a whole chicken sunday dinner in the microwave...  I have never seen such an anaemic looking chicken...  and I wasn't fooled by the gravy granule brown colour she brushed over it to make it look better.

noo i didnt think that Thats what i use it for, but ive got so used to not having one that i dont even remember to use it for that. Once i thought id never live without a microwave.