With my daughter almost certainly coming to live with me full-time
sometime soon, I'm looking to make some big changes - namely getting a proper well-paying satisfying job, maybe a car, and a proper house instead of the one-person annexe I live in currently. It's all excitements!

As I'll have to get all the little things that complete a home, my question is: what household gizmos or bits of kit could you not live without?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:04, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I cant' live
without my water cooler.
I get a 5 gallon bottle delivered every two weeks, and use it in everything from drinking, to the cats' water bowls, to cooking. I get chilled water out of it, and also there's an option for water at room temperature.

Oh, and congrats on getting the rugrat :)
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:08, Reply)

Cheers!
I like my water tepid and cloudy from a tap, else it's just not British.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:11, Reply)

The tap stuff here is
utterly vile, and not quite safe. There's no natural water sources around - everything comes out of the Sierras 300 miles away, and is used for sewage, plant irrigation etc and then recycled for tap water.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:12, Reply)

Obvious one
But you don't realise how much you need a toaster until you don't have one.

Having to live without marmite on toast is just hellish.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:10, Reply)

I can't live with
asterisks that don't have any subtext. *cries*
Wait... did you eat it? DAMN YOU
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:10, Reply)

^this

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:11, Reply)

Hahaha
I deleted it before you posted. It was to indicate that I've got inside information that her mother's relationship is due to go out of the window anytime soon, so she's not going to have anywhere to live for the second time since Easter, and she's probably going to do a bunk to the city. Her fella and I have been emailing.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:13, Reply)

*Shakes a little bit* hay man, hay, hay, HAY, yeah', *shakes* yeah', you.
*Scratches arms* do you have any, erm, you know, got any lights? christmas lights? yeah' man *shakes* I got a wall that isn't covered *shakes* yeah' man, desprate.

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I just had to stop myself from ebaying some more.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:14, Reply)

Planes will land on your roof, you know.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:17, Reply)

Santa ain't missin' my house this year.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:20, Reply)

Gonz, stop polluting the skies!
You'll have planes trying to land on your roof.
(Looks brilliant though.)
EDIT: Noel, I'm in your head being manish.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:17, Reply)

*diddles your penis*

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:19, Reply)

Oh now I have officecock!
ta.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:32, Reply)

How cool would that be though !

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:21, Reply)

Not cool at all if it kills you!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:32, Reply)

Totally worth it.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:50, Reply)

I may have been killed
but at least I caused Britain's Worst Transport Disaster.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 13:03, Reply)

Hahaha

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 13:30, Reply)

I have lived without an iron
for 15 years. The last time I used my hoover was prolly ten years ago. I've never had a dishwasher, or a tumble drier. My washing machine is almost as old as me. It is neither newfangled nor shiny. I can live easily without many of the "must have" domestic appliances most people take for granted.

But if you try to take my recently acquired breadmaker away from me I will scratch your eyes out with a crusty loaf.

I also have the coolest kettle in the world. It keeps the water hot all day, and glows blue.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 23:17, Reply)