Sudokuaholics Anonymous 8

One more and we should be over the page.
My son has his driving test tomorrow morning, at present he is out on a driving lesson getting that final bit of practice in. My fingers will be crossed for him to pass.

Brenda, I shall cross my fingers also for your son passing his test. Getting that drivers license is a rite of passage for him.

Thank you for getting us off that long lasting page. OK fellow Sudokuaholics, lets move this page along at a faster clip, please.

I am trying to sew some today. Al needs new scrub tops for summer, his choice for a work shirt in hot weather. He prefers 100% cotton, I could buy cotton poly, but have to make the all cotton. Some of his shirts last year were really worn.

So far I have managed to find 4 fabrics suitable for shirts, clear my cutting table, patch my ironing board cover, iron the first fabric, and lay out the pattern. I find I have lost the chest patch pocket pattern, must locate a shirt to measure and make a new pattern. That is why I came out of the sewing room. Discovered I was hungry, and eating can be accomplished while reading the board.

Back to work now. Check back in later.

everyone. I haven't been chatty 'cause that fever hasn't broken, yet. I am hot, sweaty and clammy, and don't like it. At least we won't be having any visitors for a while.

This cold spell should be over, finally. It was in the mid- thirties last night.... by tomorrow, we should be in the eighties!

It's been years since I have done any sewing. I used to make IH's shirts, but got really discouraged when he would either spill ink on them, or put great rips in them within 24 hours. I don't like doing a lot of work for nothing.

Heidi hope you feel better soon.
I gave up on sewing a lot when I found that it was far cheaper to buy clothes than it was to make them. I still occassionally get the sewing machine out for minor repairs or adjustments.

I made clothes because I could make the styles I wanted in the fabrics I wanted, without spending months searching for exactly what I wanted. With eBay, it's MUCH easier to find what I want than make it.

I still find it is less expensive to make than to buy some clothing. Poly cotton Scrub shirts are around $10, I need 2 yards of cottons, and I have cottons I found for $1 or $2 a yard. when I find that kind of price, I would buy a LOT. Hubby will have his third shirt with corn kernels on it, a really good quality designer quilting cotton I found on a mark down table for $1 a yard. The rest of that line of coordinating fabrics was sold out, this was not popular. It works nicely for scrub tops.

Heidi, Al once worked on copy machines for a living, owned his own business as an independent tech. A shirt might get worn once or a dozen times before he got liquid toner on it. Liquid toner will NOT come out. Dress shirts, dress pants and a tie were pretty much the standard, what all technicians wore. We bought his dress shirts at the thrift stores. I was not paying the $25 and up for a dress shirt for him to ruin it first time he wore it!

MizT I wish we had fabric stores like that now, in fact it would be nice to have a decent fabric shop.
Same goes for knitting wools it is so expensive that it is actually a lot cheaper to buy ready made. I know making your own you can make it exactly how you want it but when it costs three times as much as a bought object is it really worth it.

Brenda, I wish we still had fabric shops like that hehe. The stores I frequented that had $1 tables upped them to minimum of $2, and up, mostly up. but I do think our fabrics are much less than they are in England and in Australia.

Now I can really tell my age, and talk about cotton fabric for 49 to 69 cents a yard. Well, it was only 36 inches wide, but I remember going with Mom as a child and picking out fabric I wanted for a dress or a skirt.

Hi everyone.Yippee..I have 3 days off now and have already done the shopping on my way home from work yesterday.Now I dont have to go into town unless I want to.
MizT..suppose they no longer have material sales like that anymore.Enjoy the sewing.
Saw on tv that prices for bread and milk were much dearer here than in UK or USA.Aust doen't have enough competition with supermarkets.

Nola, what is the cost of bread in your neck of the woods. To buy a decent loaf of bread here you will pay anything from £1.75. Milk is £1.53 for 4 pints. Prices vary but that is what I pay.

Brenda...bread here varies enormously but a nice grain bread will be about $4.Milk $2 a litre.
You may be able to convert...I definately can't.

Can't spell either..definitely.

Morning all!
Nola, I saw a brief news story on TV the other day about buying home brands to save money. It said most home brands are higher in fat and sugar etc and saving money could be costing us our health. I buy home brand milk because the 3L bottle of lite milk is $3.70 compared to over $6 for the brand name. I checked the label the next time I went shopping and the home brand was actually better!

MizT, I don't know about now, but when I moved here in 2000 the fabrics were MUCH more expensive than I could get them for in CA. And wools/yarns too. We had several privately owned fabric shops until Spotlight opened. Now we have Spotlight and one quilting fabric shop which only stocks the specialists fabrics at $18-$25 per metre.

Suzy..we dont drink much milk which is why I only buy 1 ltr at a time.I also don't buy home brand washing liquid or toiletries.Have looked at the ingredients for surface sprays and they contain exactly the same for a lot less,some things are good and some we dont like.

Oh NO.Not another paper to do.

By the sound of those prices Nola we pay about the same for bread and milk. If we wanted the 'fancy' branded milk it would be more expensive.

Brenda, the tv reports aren't always accurate then.
Good luck to your son for his driving test tomorrow.

I must hang the washing out and do some housework.Be back shortly.

Last milk I bought at Aldis was $2.25 a gallon, that is why I drive 35 minutes to shop there! A nice whole grain bread is $1.45. A large loaf of 100% whole wheat is 99 cents. A gallon is a bit less than 4 liters, right? Now at local grocery, one of the premium brands of milk is almost $6 a gallon, WalMart is is about $3.75 a gallon. Name Brand breads are over $4 a loaf for whole grain breads. Prices vary considerably.

MizT, Aldi charges about the same as many generic products here (including milk and bread), but have a lot of other stuff that you can't get as a generic product that is a lot cheaper too. I save a lot on the stuff I can get there, which is about 2/3 of my shopping list.

When I lived in SoCal, I remember paying somewhere around $4 for a gallon of milk, but I could get a second gallon for just a little bit more. We used a lot of milk then, and still do, so always bought 2. I buy 6 litres at a time now and it only lasts me a few days. So why did Ally break her arm???

Too much milk, Suzy, too much milk. I buy it only for guests and cooking, about 1 litre a week and usually throw away some of it when it gets to it's use-by-date.
Sorry - good morning lovely SA8 people - Suzy, MizT, Brenda, Nola, Heidi - that's all who've been here since midnight - so where is everyone? Have we forgotten our deodorant?

Ummm, Suzy, I WAS joking about too much milk, I would never advocate children not drinking milk - I do get it in for my grandies but they seldom drink it - I always make them have cereal for breakfast at least. They'll drink it flavoured but I won't buy flavourings except maybe Milo in winter.

Good evening. I am on the phone with my friend Suzanne. She had to get directions to get back as she forgot how. I told her what to do. Hopefully she will post soon.

Tami the Troublemaker is a smarty pants!!! BUT, she is like a sister to me & I had a great time in Florida... Hope to be on the site a lot more now that I know how to do it!!

How much would people like to bet that Suzanne will forget again and call me for directions???

ok, someone is being CUTE!!! she can get away with that because we've been friends for almost 25 years!!!!!!!!! Love you smarty!!!!!!!!!

ok, i guess when SHE gets to be MY age, she can tell me about CRS!!!

So, who is still here?? By the way, thanks again for the lovely welcome messages!!! That was very sweet of everyone.

Suzanne, I will never be as old as you. YOU will ALWAYS be OLDER.

ok, but i look at it as more EXPERIENCED! ha haha

I've also EARNED every one of my grey hairs!!!

If I remember what I have read:
could someone please explain what Anzac Day is? I know I can google it, but that is not as much fun.
I also know how to sew but have not used my machine in years. I don't have time. I used to enjoy making things for myself or for presents. One year I made my dad a short sleeved shirt and hand embroidered his initials on the pocket. He loved that shirt.
I have to buy to different containers of milk. Mitchell drinks low fat milk and Dylan drinks soy milk. He is mildly lactose-intolerant. I say mildly because he still eats cheese and yogurt but since he stopped drinking milk he hasn't had a problem.

Heidi, hope you are feeling better.

Suzanne, are you saying that you are more experienced than me??

one more and over the top. I will leave it for someone else.