Countdown to Freedom

katep23

gallygirl wrote: »

In the good old days when Tesco introduced their Double the Difference campaign I had a few year's stock of free soap powder, conditioner and dishwasher tablets :T. Strangely enough, the free wine didn't last as long :rotfl:.

I have it on very good authority that wine is prone to evaporation so I'm really not surprised at this!

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Hope ds does well. I am sure he will. I have to do the remembrance assembly at school next week and am dreading it as I get very emotional. No one wants a grizzling teacher.

abouttimetoo

Morning all,

Another one here agreeing with all previous comments on supermarkets and consumerism! Have any of you seen the new L£nor Unstoppables that are being advertised? Some marketing whizz has obviously thought of yet another idea to hook people, so, this one doesn't clean your clothes...and doesn't make them softer... So what does it do, oh yes, it seems to exist solely to make them smell nicer for longer oh and some people say they make the house smell even nicer if you are drying clothes inside...

Me and my mother attended the local remembrance parade through my village this morning, very emotional and a fantastic sight as well; the various armed forces were all marching and the parade included local brass bands and beaver, scouts, brownies etc, an excellent morning that I enjoy every year

ETA, my mother has just this second told me about a newspaper article she read this morning, apparently Mr S, MnS, Mr A are now all selling chickens in a 'ready to cook bag' with the article suggesting that it's 'because they don't trust us to wash our hands/fears that people are no longer able to maintain basic hygiene standards'...

Regards
ATT

abouttimetoo

Hi Tilly

Brilliant news about D day being only 9 months off, your 'Countdown to Freedom' diary title really couldn't be better

Regards
ATT x

coldcazzie

abouttimetoo wrote: »

with the article suggesting that it's 'because they don't trust us to wash our hands/fears that people are no longer able to maintain basic hygiene standards'...

Oy... :wall:

shala_moo

Another to agree with the rant.. it takes me an age to go round the supermarkets trying to work out which prices are the best - they purposefully try and mark items up differently to throw you

OH wanted a chocolate cake the other day and we'd just popped to waitr0se (our nearest supermarket) to get some carrots - it was £1.99!! I told him to put it back and made him one for less than 50p.

Congratulations on 9 payments... :T:T Amazing progress.

Goldiegirl

I had some of those Lenor Unstoppables sent to me free ...... And even though they were free, I haven't used them

I use washing liquid and conditioner, and my washing smells fine - why would I need anything else? It's madness

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Good morning, what a fine weekend - weather may have been awful on Saturday but yesterday was a delight.

I'm going to WFH today and get the washing up to date.

Money - I will claim £80 of CP vouchers - not sure which.

I checked a list of jobs we had written out mid October, and virtually every task is completed. I'm definitely back on the no prevarication road ��

I have a couple of receipts to check off today, but all the other receipts which could be destroyed are burnt.

A winter job is to sort every folder in the filing cabinet and destroy whatever is no longer required.

Mr T is WFH as well today and we will walk the hounds at lunchtime - this will give us a reason to stop work and exercise both is and the dogs.

Monday morning beckons and as we all know, it will soon be Friday

Best wishes, Tilly x

edinburgher

I find some quiet satisfaction in seeing the supermarkets struggling at the moment.

I am torn.

On the one hand, I fully agree that supermarkets sell a load of unhealthy !!!! and follow emphemeral trends to the point of being ridiculous.

On the other hand, massive marketing budgets aside, we all have a responsibility to ourselves and the planet to recognise the !!!! for what it is.

In that respect, our demand for lazy convenience and ever increasing levels of luxury (hedonic adaptation gone mad!) is the reason the supermarkets are as they are.

All the discounters do is sell the same !!!! at cheaper prices, retaining the earnings in family owned companies etc. At least with the big supermarkets, the British public get a chance to invest in the tragedy of the commons that is our addiction to manufactured demand and convenience at the cost of everything else :mad:

Poppy_Golightly

I'm fed up with T3sco's dirty little tricks. I buy a packet of chicken roll each week for a treat for my cats. The price of 55p hasn't changed but something else has!