Plugging in is getting me down ( just a little)

Back in 1964, we got married and purchased an old Victorian house. We had to have it totally re=wired immediately, as the previous owner had run what looked liked power points in each room, from the lighting circuit.

Electrician asked us how many points he should install in our tiny scullery type kitchen. We ticked off on our fingers what we would ever (as we thought then) would need. Maybe a washing machine, electric food mixed (( so wanted a Kenwood), electric kettle, (fridge and toaster were in the living/dining room which was off that kitchen.

So we agreed on four points (to give us a spare!!!

Four years ago I had a completely overhaul of the kitchen in my little flat. I asked electrician to put in there hidden points for fridge/freezer, washing machine, dishwasher, oven, microwave, hot water tap and additionally to have above worktop five double points. How times have changed!!!!!

Even my bed plugs in but now I've lost the remote! (I seem to spend half my life looking for things I've set down in the wrong spot - trying to improve on that)

I agree, most annoying. I bought a useful gadget which has all the chargers you might need in one phone size box. Difficult to describe. But guess what, it needs charging too!

One word of warning a fire officer came to my workplace, before I retired, and warned never to charge overnight as it is a fire risk. I’m sure all you sensible grans netters know this already!

Ps as we cannot advertise, other makes are available but the other one I had needed batteries. It was very good too (can't remember the brand).

Witzend

Allira

Forgetting to plug is is worse!!

Don't forget the rechargeable vacuum cleaner.

I bought a new debobbler, it's very good.
But it needs plugging in 😀

Please tell me which debobbler you’ve got! I really need one that works! I don’t mind if it needs charging.
Thank you!

Oh, I'll have to check, just a mo!

Garstor Fabric Shaver, Electric Lint Remover, USB Rechargeable Wool Defuzzer, Cordless Sweater Shaver, Debobbler for Clothes (2.0 Pro,White)

Mamie

You should try moving back to England after twenty years in France! We still have about 30 plugs to change....

We moved back to the UK 8 years ago, after 17 years in France. We still have some gadgets with French plugs, but we have plenty of adaptors.

Just be grateful we don't live in the days before electricity was invented.

I have a cordless:

Vacuum cleaner
Karcher window vac
Lawn mower
Leaf blower
Strimmer
Screwdriver
Drill
Revitive foot massager
Car vac
Mobile phone
Tablet

Not having a lead makes life so much easier, all the plugs have a sticky label on telling me what they're for, but it would help if manufacturers just made one charging lead for everything, just like a 3 pin plug is a 3 pin plug, why can't the other end be universal? 🙄🤷

Allira

Forgetting to plug is is worse!!

Don't forget the rechargeable vacuum cleaner.

I bought a new debobbler, it's very good.
But it needs plugging in 😀

Please tell me which debobbler you’ve got! I really need one that works! I don’t mind if it needs charging.
Thank you!

Elegran

TanaMa

I wish all chargers had the Maker's name on them!! I have various products, some of my late husband's that I would like to use, but although I have a bag full of chargers and plugs, I cannot partner the two together!! My Sharp stick vacuum charger etc is marked, meaning I can always match the correct one when needing to recharge the equipment.
I am sure it wouldn't take too much to mark them.

It is the same with kitchen devices. I have more plugs than sockets and was always having to swap the cables around, so I invested in a labeller. Each power plug and charger cable has the name of what it is for. It makes life a lot easier.

I have a white and a black fine permanent marker pen to label my many chargers, not all of which have the maker's name.

I have just bought some little tags to label all my plugs. I have used 14 of them in the living room for permanently plugged in items, let alone the things I plug in as and when I use them! I only have 6 sockets, so a spaghetti of extension leads and adaptors abounds!

You should try moving back to England after twenty years in France! We still have about 30 plugs to change....

JaneJudge

what is a leg massager? I think I could do with one

I have a leg massager to calm my restless legs. It goes around the calf, fastening with Velcro, and then inflates and deflates at regular intervals.

Mostly it works but not always.

You can get a charging hub, 4/6 or 8 charging ports run off one socket. I always set up a reminder to pack the chargers when going away, would be drastic, especially the one for my hearing aids, oh and the phone and the iPad and the kindle and the ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I take a 4 plug extension lead when I go away . It means only one adapter plug .

JaneJudge and Allira, I've got one of those machines, it's called Revitive and was about £200 a few years ago. I have fibromyalgia, spinal stenosis, restless legs, Morton's Neuroma and plantar fasciitis. It does absolutely nothing for me 😟.

Apparently one of the joys of private hearing aids is to plug them in. My SIL has these and her charger would no longer work and she was told she had to return them to the store she had purchased them from. She was nowhere near the store at the time and had to put up with no hearing aids for a week or so. Give me a small card of batteries that can be easily taken anyway. Also do not want a rechargeable vacuum cleaner for the same reason. Phone, iPad, toothbrush, lawn mower battery, Yes I understand the plug problem and agree. Wouldn’t fancy an electric car either.

JaneJudge

what is a leg massager? I think I could do with one

Are these the machines that Ian Botham advertises?
And Clare Balding?

what is a leg massager? I think I could do with one

It's all better than shelling out £5 notes for non-rechargeable batteries.

MayBee70

Going away anywhere is a nightmare, too, making sure you haven’t forgotten to pack the right chargers!

Not to mention someone nicking your Kindle charging cable at a big family get together! It was a red cable, too - to match my Kindle case! I never did find out who took it. 🤬

henetha

One brilliant thing about my robot vacuum cleaner is that it plugs itself in after cleaning and tells me it's 'charging'.

That is brilliant. Mummy’s little helper🤣

We always used to take an extension lead when we went away. Two SLR cameras to charge plus phones!

Earlier this year I bought a recliner sofa and armchair for my new snug.
Because the recliners are powered the side has USB points for my gadgets so I leave the leads, you don’t need heads, permanently in them.
As soon as I sit down I attach them to my phone and IPad.
The vacuum cleaner is plugged in in the utility room to recharge after use.
I am mostly tech free apart from those.

You need a session pairing up all the chargers, plugs and cables with their respective devices and another session labelling them all, then you wrap a velcro cable tie round each to keep them all from tangling together. You also need to be an OCD filing addict prepared to wrap each one up again once it has been used and tidy the box/bag/drawer at frequent intervals.
Whatever happened to all the time we were supposed to gain from buying all these efficient devices?