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You could try emptying the bag out a bit by hand, messy but possible.
or make your own bag out of an old cloth bag / sac - using a rubber band or cable tie to secure it
Not like anyone is using them anyway, is it?
Anyway. Erm, I dunno. Electricals are a rip - for consumer goods like TVs and HiFis get cheap chinese stuff. Not brand name but cheap and damned cheerful.
Fridges and shit - second hand market mate. that is where its at.
Haha! My childhood was ok though tbh, it was when I left home I went back to the Victorian age! Actually that's not quite true, they had mangles and stuff. I'd have killed for a mangle!!
I know, I'm just amazed at how primitive things were for me really! I know how much of a pita it is when things die on you and you can't just go out and buy a new one. I truly do.
As for being excited about going to Tesco.... it comes to us all in the end my dear.
LOL!
When I left home 10 years ago, I had a bin bag full of clothes and a stereo!
Moved into a flat where nothing worked at all worked. I had to wash all my clothes by hand in the bath...wringing out wet jeans isn't funny cos it gives you blisters, and nor is waiting the week for them to dry either! I thought the oven didn't work and it took me a year to realise you had to press the auto button to turn it on...duuuh. We had broken night storage heaters too
so at night you either risked fire from a fan heater or woke up with frost on both sides of the window
It's left me a bit traumatised and now whenever ANYTHING breaks down I loose the plot and don't calm down again until I get a replacement.
My suggestion - Trade It, free to collector section, freecycle or just ask around. If you know anyone that is moving home to parents after being away at uni ask them? Quite often they have loads of stuff like hoovers and microwaves etc that the parents don't want hanging about the house.
SO true. Wringing out things like double sheets and big jumpers isn't much fun either.
I'm just about over that now!
I remember my first fridge. Someone had fly tipped it, so we grabbed it! It was amazingly rusty on the outside so we covered it with sticky backed plastic!!! And it had a tendency to freeze things. But it was a fridge and I was made up. :rolleyes:
ETA: Yikes, just worked out it's nearly 20 years since I left home! Where'd the time go? :eek:
Or ex display ones at places like comet.
Or freecycle or tradeit.