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Blue Monday

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  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    I had a great day yesterday, got loads of work done.
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • hermanmunster_3
    hermanmunster_3 Posts: 647 Forumite
    carolt wrote: »
    Doubt it very much actually. They're inhalers. Inhalers can't cost £7.10, I'm sure. I'm pretty sure that £7.10 is subsidising someone else's expensive medicine, actually. Sorry to disappoint you.
    you hardly disappoint me - just sorry that you don't realise the true cost of medication !!!!
    all the inhalers (bar small vol salbuatmol cost at least 7.10 after VAT (ho ho) and dispensing charges.....
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    SingleSue wrote: »
    .strangely, I can get them free now due to being on benefits but don't bother because I think I got into the habit of not filling the prescription/going for asthma checks.

    My mother reckoned she went for about 10 years without paying for a single prescription - by having 4 children. Quite an expensive way of saving money, though...
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    edited 24 November 2009 at 12:45AM
    I had a nice day.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    hermanmunster wrote: »
    you hardly disappoint me - just sorry that you don't realise the true cost of medication !!!!
    all the inhalers (bar small vol salbuatmol cost at least 7.10 after VAT (ho ho) and dispensing charges.....

    Are you a pharmacist?

    I find it hard to believe that a v small salbutamol/steroid inhaler costs £7.10, actually.

    It's a small mass-produced piece of plastic with small amount of generic powder in.

    Interested to hear the 'market rates'.
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    carolt wrote: »
    Well said.

    Lucky you with the weather!

    Wish you could post us some!

    You did post us some!

    Weather yesterday was glorious!

    Stood for half an hour at a bus stop with little one, having just missed the bus, and revelled in the sunshine!

    Blossoms on trees!
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    carolt wrote: »
    You did post us some!

    Weather yesterday was glorious!

    Stood for half an hour at a bus stop with little one, having just missed the bus, and revelled in the sunshine!

    Blossoms on trees!

    I hate to disappoint!

    We've got a nasty few days of bush fires coming up it seems. A mix of wet weather to make the plants grow followed by some hot to dry them out means tonight's storms will set off lots of little fires.

    A hot day with a breeze is set for tomorrow so that'll get the fires going nicely. Plus of course all those little !!!!s who start fires deliberately.

    The nice weather has a sting in it's tail! Bush fires for England next week perhaps...?
  • mummytofour
    mummytofour Posts: 2,636 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Well try smiling then! Perhaps you'll snap out of it.

    Of course depression is sorted with a smile, silly me why didn't I think of that?!?
    Debt free and plan on staying that way!!!!
  • ShelleyC_2
    ShelleyC_2 Posts: 1,500 Forumite
    carolt wrote: »
    Are you a pharmacist?

    I find it hard to believe that a v small salbutamol/steroid inhaler costs £7.10, actually.

    It's a small mass-produced piece of plastic with small amount of generic powder in.

    Interested to hear the 'market rates'.

    Salbutamol (generic) would cost around £2
    Steroid inhalers more expensive as mainly all branded cheapest around a fiver - I think
    If you want the new and popular combi inhalers depending on strength you're talking £20 upto 60ish
    Looking for the perfect home and saving to make becoming a MFW easier
    MFiT3 48103/50000 Saved So Far :j
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