poundland bargains

annie123

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Annie123, is this the shop down by Argos, or the one between Mothercare and Allders? If I'm going to brave the horrors of central Croydon (especially as it'll be with my mum :eek: ), I want to know exactly where I'm going, so I can plan attack and most importantly, a rapid escape by 10.30am, when the main population starts rolling out of bed!

The one Next to Allders and yes, in and out on a Saturday by 10.30 is a must.
The original post was last year, but they have much the same stuff this year.
I used their garden fleece this winter/spring and its been really good, just as good as the expensive stuff I used to buy years ago.
They also have a pack of 10 permanent markers a few weeks ago, I'm always losing them in the garden, work well on homemade plant labels
Happy shopping:D

GarnetLady

Orange King you're a star! I went to B&M with my dad today (he has more tolerance for my gardening and shopping habits than DH!). I managed to get garden sticks, netting, a lawn rake and plant food for about £7.50. :j

heynonnynonny

Got 2 climbing roses today - how could I say no for a pound each!!?!

Orange_King

GarnetLady wrote: »

Orange King you're a star! I went to B&M with my dad today (he has more tolerance for my gardening and shopping habits than DH!). I managed to get garden sticks, netting, a lawn rake and plant food for about £7.50. :j

You are very welcome - I went again on Saturday and bought 2 more of their 4 tier greenhouse staging units to add to the 2 I bought the other week. Think I may just majke a couple of 6 shelf ones and a 4 just to be different and save space!

Chaos_Monkey

cooking-mama wrote: »

I got garden fleece..1.5m x 5m,and a (rather flimsy,but still may work)polythene cloche,and garden twine, a 6 pack of 8inch plantpots, seeded potatoes,cucmbers/spring onion and cabbage in their own little propagator tubs with compost...cucmbers look great spring onion and cabbages look dead!!(my fault I think)..also got a massive big green gardening bag,and a roll of bubble wrap,im sure ive bought other gardening stuff from poundies,just cant remember it all just now...Oh aye...a watering can..-its rubbish,but it looks nice so i might just plant something in it:rotfl:

My DH was very pleased with himself to buy 4 packs of this....only to get home and on closer inspection it's actually closer to (cheap) bin liner plastic! He's taking it back - £4 isn't much, but he could get 100's of seeds for that if he swaps them!!

cooking-mama

Originally Posted by cooking-mama
I got garden fleece..1.5m x 5m,and a (rather flimsy,but still may work)polythene cloche,and garden twine, a 6 pack of 8inch plantpots, seeded potatoes,cucmbers/spring onion and cabbage in their own little propagator tubs with compost...cucmbers look great spring onion and cabbages look dead!!(my fault I think)..also got a massive big green gardening bag,and a roll of bubble wrap,im sure ive bought other gardening stuff from poundies,just cant remember it all just now...Oh aye...a watering can..-its rubbish,but it looks nice so i might just plant something in it:rotfl:

Chaos_Monkey wrote: »

My DH was very pleased with himself to buy 4 packs of this....only to get home and on closer inspection it's actually closer to (cheap) bin liner plastic! He's taking it back - £4 isn't much, but he could get 100's of seeds for that if he swaps them!!

Are you sure it was fleece he bought???,there's no way the stuff i bought could be mistaken for bin liner plastic...The fleece is white and very soft cottony/fluffy feel.....However the Mulch sheets they sell are black and very much resemble see through cheap binliner plastic,but the fleece could never be described as resembling plastic at all.

annie123

I agree cooking-mama, the fleece is white and lovely and soft. Has worked well for me over the last few months, must have got weed suppressing/much sheets.

Mankysteve

cooking-mama wrote: »

Originally Posted by cooking-mama
Are you sure it was fleece he bought???

I presume she referring to Clouch with agreed are rubbish last about 2 days outside my house.

Went and built a better one out of some exterior timber a couple length of 15mm plastic water pipe and some thicker plastic sheeting.

Chaos_Monkey

[/QUOTE].........Are you sure it was fleece he bought???,there's no way the stuff i bought could be mistaken for bin liner plastic...The fleece is white and very soft cottony/fluffy feel.....However the Mulch sheets they sell are black and very much resemble see through cheap binliner plastic,but the fleece could never be described as resembling plastic at all.[/QUOTE]

Well, that's just it - the packet said fleece, and had a picture of fleece, but when it was opened up, it was thin black plastic :think:. Bless him, he's not the most observant - I asked him how he thought 5m of fleece could be in such a thin packet.......he was so pleased with his purchase until he realised it's got the wrong label on!

jaxx46

Can't wait, Poundland finally opening in Canterbury next week!!!!!