to think that just because I ring and ask DH if we have a spare large amount of cash........

[Psychomum5]

......it doesn't mean I have just crashed the car again!!!!!!!

Just because I have had three car accidents, and written off 4 cars, none of which have been my fault, or even parlty my fault, it does NOT mean that is all I do, and all I need large amounts of cash for.....

We have a sick bug, DH is at work, and the TV downstairs has just blown up.

(well, more of a fizzle pop TBH, but still no picture).

Rang DH to see if we have any spare money as we will need something big to replace, and that was his first thing to say...

"you not crashed again have you?"

What you need to do Psycho is leave him with the children for a whole day or even a weekend and I guarantee he will be down to Currys or Comet (or wherever they sell mahooosive flat screen tv's) within hours.

DH does this, we had a DVD player which worked perfectly well (if you kind of poked it a little to open the drawer thingy and pressed the buttons a few times) and he bought another...if it's tv or computer related and not working proper like (the Zummerzet coming out in me there ) then it needs replacing. However, my hoover/iron etc etc are rubbish but he wouldn't go and buy those (and I'm not cos it gives me an excuse not to hoover/iron quite so often)

I like the reasoning with the hoover/iron!!!!!

been meaning to ring/text/summit.

are you free anytime this hols for a visit of any kind.....you to me/me to you???

not in the next few days, sickness abounds, but anytime after[hint][hint]

Ours has done the fizz pop thing too.

We got it picked up, repaired and returned for about £80 (Nottingham). It went again a few months later so they did it again for free, under guarantee. It's been fine since.

Much to DH's disgust.

Can't this weekend but DH and A away for the first week of the proper holidays so am around for the latter part of that week (off to Zummerzet for the first few days)

Udderwise, anytime during the week as long as DH is not working fro home. Can't talk about him if he's here can we???

Sending sickness chasing away vibes to the Psycho household.

Psychomum, re prioritising and your list of things you need, while I understand you might want nicer ones, you could temporarily get a very cheap one of some of those things - I think our latest kettle cost £6 somewhere - Tesco/Woolworth/Argos. I do feel embarrassed by it but we seem to go through a lot of kettles. Clock and CD player similarly. Don't know about video player - haven't some shops stopped selling new ones and do you need to do anything with it but watch existing tapes in your collection? But unlike a DVD player where I can see good reason, it's something I'd buy as cheaply as possible.

Hope you get a new TV and that you get some involvement in choosing it and DH not taking it over.

I got a free colour TV with a large stationery order. If ours breaks I make them use it - tiny portable on the grounds I never watch TV and it would be better for them if they didn't. But so far the repair has just about held out although I'm sure after nearly 5 years it's a TV on its last legs. I don't see why they can't last for 20 years however.

elkedie.......tis nothing to do with wanting nicer things here regarding all the other electrical items I was talking about.......they are all either broken or just not functioning properly.

the kettle is boiling ok, but the lid is broken and DH had to superglue part of it together last week, and forgive me if I am being a wuss, but I am rather nervous that the glue will melt just as I go to use said kettle leaving me with horrific burns!

and then the CD player in the kitchen plays randomly, altho seems only to really kick off with my cd's, so am wondering if that might be DH.....

the alarm clock is temperamental so will wake me one day and not another. I am still waking as my body seems tuned in, but it may let me down completely one day soon, and that will be the day the kiddies have tests or something I am sure!

video......not important, but I have vidoes that I cannot watch the the moment and to replace them to DVD will be bloody expensive!

what else?????

oh, bathroom.....well....that comes when I get compensation for one of my car accidents....so again, tis on a waiting game.

oh, and the water filter....well again, that works but the lid is broken, so will need a new one pretty soon as I get too much build up of lime scale in the kettle otherwise, and of course, if I am getting a new kettle I am damn sure I will get a new filter too.

ho hum.......it will work out, just not in DH's favour for his mahooooooooosive flat screen

Psycho, that kettle doesn't sound safe. Get a really cheap one that will tide you over while you sort out how to replace the other things. Similarly, yes, it's worth finding a video player for the tapes that you want to watch. Actually I replace video with DVD if I can find really cheap DVDs but we're talking under £5 here, I can see your need for a machine which will play videos as well. (I also buy videos from charity shops and NCT sales for 50p-£1 a time - whereas secondhand DVDs are often as much or more than cheapest new ones online).

I just got a kettle from tescos for about a fiver, it works great, even better than my old expensive one!