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'Home Bargains' Finds - Thread 3.

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  • Sian_the_Green
    Sian_the_Green Posts: 1,584 Forumite
    FatAndy wrote: »
    I've just been in Home Bargains in Colwyn Bay and they were selling 'I'm a driving instructor....' mugs for 99p. The thing is there must have been about 100 of them on the shelf. Assuming every driving instructor in Colwyn Bay buys one of these who'll buy the other 90 :confused:.

    Sheffield Parkway has lots of Checkout Operator ones, similar issue I would have thought!
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  • Natbag
    Natbag Posts: 1,563 Forumite
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    Spotted in Selby today:
    *Del Monte Fruitini apple pouches, great for babies/toddlers/young children and only 19p (much cheaper then 4-packs at £2-something in the supermarkets).
    * Yours magazine yearbooks, hardback books full of stories, puzzles, recipes with diary pages too - 99p (saw a good selection of other annuals too)
    * Cupcake cookie jar 99p
    * Lots of Shilpa Shetty perfume £1.99
    * Playboy pens 99p, pen sets, notebooks 99p, organisers £1.99, all black with pink/silver design and the pens had a charm on.
    Property buying/selling timeline - currently into week 21
    04/12/20: Both properties listed for sale
    11/01/21: Offers accepted on both sales & on our joint purchase
     25/01/21: Identity checks completed, solicitors instructed
     27/01/21: Purchase survey & valuation complete, mortgage offer received 
     05/02/21: Reduction agreed on partner's sale (under-valuation) & on purchase. Mortgage offer amended
     08/02/21: Buyers pack returned to solicitor - sellers packs already returned
    26/02/21: Partner's sale contract signed
    10/03/21: Purchase searches all back
    16/03/21: My sale contract signed
    28/03/21: Purchase enquiries satisfied, Title Report & contracts issued, contracts signed & returned
    11/05/21: Still waiting on final enquiry in the adjoining chain to be resolved. Consent to break the chain granted, instruction to move to exchange given.
    17/05/21: All parties agreed to June 3rd for completion
    27/05/21: Exchanged on my sale only
    28/05/21: ALL EXCHANGED!
    03/06/21: Completion
  • FatAndy
    FatAndy Posts: 7,541 Forumite
    Sian_the_Green wrote: »
    Sheffield Parkway has lots of Checkout Operator ones, similar issue I would have thought!

    I suspect that there are more checkout operators in Sheffield than driving instructors in Colwyn Bay. Actually I suspect that there are more checkout operators in Home Bargains in Sheffield than there are driving instructors in Colwyn Bay :D.
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  • Esoog
    Esoog Posts: 1,489 Forumite
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    Sian_the_Green wrote: »
    Sheffield Parkway has lots of Checkout Operator ones, similar issue I would have thought!

    And they're all massive chavs, although nice and polite/helpful most of the time.
  • Esoog
    Esoog Posts: 1,489 Forumite
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    wendym wrote: »
    If you mean the ones with a central insert for a photo, they still had a few on Monday.

    Quite a few of these on ebay..triple the price! Come on own up, who is it? ;)
  • Sian_the_Green
    Sian_the_Green Posts: 1,584 Forumite
    FatAndy wrote: »
    I suspect that there are more checkout operators in Sheffield than driving instructors in Colwyn Bay. Actually I suspect that there are more checkout operators in Home Bargains in Sheffield than there are driving instructors in Colwyn Bay :D.

    Very true, but I wonder if the plethora of mugs appearing are due to the ridiculousness of the titles on them, I mean 'best dad' or 'graduation' fair enough but 'best checkout operator', really? Is that what you want to receive for Christmas :)
    God is good, all the time
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  • cookiemonster25
    cookiemonster25 Posts: 2,215 Forumite
    FatAndy wrote: »
    I suspect that there are more checkout operators in Sheffield than driving instructors in Colwyn Bay. Actually I suspect that there are more checkout operators in Home Bargains in Sheffield than there are driving instructors in Colwyn Bay :D.
    stockton has loads of "the best travel agent"!!!!:rotfl:
  • kazzieg
    kazzieg Posts: 220 Forumite
    cookiemonster25 wrote: »
    stockton has loads of "the best travel agent"!!!!:rotfl:


    In oswestry loads of "the best civil servant" !
  • Myrtle
    Myrtle Posts: 215 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Haha! is anyone else tempted to go on a Home Bargains crawl and get the full set?
  • costapkt
    costapkt Posts: 428 Forumite
    Is there a ' I am the best debt collector ' ?:rotfl::rotfl:
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