The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

Lemon_Tree

sorry didn't post anything yesterday, was busy trying to work out the best way to build steps to replace the ones i want to get rid of.
Fay we all know you have load of stuff in your freezer lol but you have over estimated just how much of it is edible???? que puffin burgers....
Unix hope you aren't made redundancies, even though i'm in what some think is a secure job i'm still not counting my chickens.

Uniscots97

Thanks Lemon Tree, just feeling really down today. Bit the head off some incompetant assistant in Tesco's (really not like me at all!) and basically told her get rid of all the useless staff and employ people that actually will do better. Whoops! What caused it? Items that I'd picked up that weren't priced properly and then the machine kept jamming and she didn't know how to fix it and kept talking to her pal!!!!!

Kittikins

Don't feel bad about it, have some virtual choc - it is immensly irritating when shop assistants chat to their friends whilst serving you, you only said out loud what most of us say in our heads whilst glaring silently at the numpties. She'll probably curse you with a shower of slugs, but that's okay, Fay's chickens will then be well fed, lol.....

Uniscots97

Kittikins wrote: »

Don't feel bad about it, have some virtual choc - it is immensly irritating when shop assistants chat to their friends whilst serving you, you only said out loud what most of us say in our heads whilst glaring silently at the numpties. She'll probably curse you with a shower of slugs, but that's okay, Fay's chickens will then be well fed, lol.....

Unix starts boxing up slugs to feed Fay's chickens......:rotfl:


You made me laugh Kittikins thanks. I'm in one of those silly angry but teary moods where I could quite happily kick myself up the backside. OH trying to be supportive saying it'd be better if I was paid off. Said all good and well but what if I don't get another job at same level of pay? He shut up at that one and said he'd give me a hug when I got home .

Serioulsy though how can people keep their local shops going with prices jumping around so wildly? OH as a treat likes specific cakes from bakery and they went from 86p for 2 to 1.09 for 2. So I swapped to something else, french cake/bread things 8 for 86p, they're now 1.69!!!!!! :eek: and thats in a week! Apples, pink lady apples 2 was 90p! I bake the rest of the biscuits we have but really some of the food prices are getting ridiculous.................... Sorry guys rant over

Pippilongstocking

GirlySquare wrote: »

Hi Fay, I've just finished reading your diary and had a few laugh out loud moments.

Fay, we mealplan and it's saved us loads on the shopping bill. There's a mealplanning thread here in os if you haven't already found it. A new one gets started every week.

I'm off to find the spending diary link you mentioned earlier.

Hiya many thanks - here's the link

https://www.spendingdiary.com is the link - its ace.

Will post my meal plan on that later ta - prob with me is
A too many bargains and a freezer full of (Edible) things.
B I love cooking and it seems food shopping - I can happily never shop for anything but books and food - and possibly garden bits like seeds and plants - but as for the rest of it - not interested.
C We have started tea lists - then of course i go to Mr T and find many many many reduced things which I HAVE to buy - just need to figure out a cunning plan that actually works.
D our Mr T puts everything down by 90% after 8pm - so we often go late to get bargains etc but it does mean I probably get MORE than I need - nothing is chucked out - my stock control just needs sorting out.
E I am an island chick therefore I hoard everything - did this on the mainland much to OH's amusement - you know full cupboards - just in case the ferry didnt come:rotfl:

I should have a disclaimer that no animals are actually *HURT* in this thread - they merely *EXPIRE NATURALLY*# and are then suitably frozen until a use is found for them or a home (ie bird classes) waste not want not afterall.

#(except the odd few mice that were caught in moose traps, and frozen and kept to enable me to sew some 'bits' into ex-hubby kilt lining)

Uni well done on moving money and GRRR to silly assistants who dont do there job
Hi all x

Piquant_2

fayjmck wrote: »

#(except the odd few mice that were caught in moose traps, and frozen and kept to enable me to sew some 'bits' into ex-hubby kilt lining)

Moose traps!!! :eek: aren't they a protected species Fay? :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Wouldn't want one putting foot prints in the butter - how on earth would you get the fridge door shut?? - waving to you me dear.

Maybe Rabbie Burns had it wrong when he wrote his 'ode to a moose'

Kittikins

I want to hear the kilt lining story, think I'll like that one (and sorry if I've missed it somewhere along the line.....)

Piquant_2

....waving back!!!

Should get on with work, finding it hard, I'd rather read diary threads....

Uniscots97

wasn't that the maynards wine gums advert song?

.....there's a moose loose about the hoose!!!!


or am I just going mad?