Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

lostinrates

Mr s probably has felt happy to take care of you spirit. These funny men who end up with sick women, ime when they come up trumps they really come up trumps.

Nikkster

Edit - RANT ALERT!

I think my head is going to explode. Just got back in from the cinema (preview of The Sweeney, our opinion - bit meh) to find I have a voicemail. Its our old landlords. Great. When I moved out ex was supposed to too. Last minute change and he was staying. I was exhausted and fed up at the time, so didn't check up (very silly).

Fast forward to end of July and the landlords keep trying to call. Turns out they haven't had any rent for three months. And didn't know I had left. Skipping the gory bits, that gets sorted, ex eventually leaves blah blah.

Now ll are saying that a clothes airer (ok), an ironing board (no, there wasn't one) and a washing up bowl (I bought one) are missing. They can't get hold of ex so are hassling me. They've returned the deposit (which I paid) with a small amt knocked off (thank you). So why the f are they still going on about this? I stupidly mentioned that if the airer isn't returned I might pay, and they have suggested an amt which is not ridiculous, but is too much. I have sent back some links to Wilkinsons and said I will order so they can pick up if they don't get the airer back by Monday.

Just leave me alone!!!!!!

Nikkster

That feels better

michaels

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michaels

Now the love goggles are gone you must be realising more everyday how much better you are off now.

Nikkster wrote: »

That feels better

michaels

House over the road that was for sale earlier this year for 340, bought by a builder, given a make-over and a small ground floor exensipn (30k work?) has just sold in 3 weeks asking price 525...money for old rope.

The govt are trying to encourage more extensions, locally every street has at least a couple going on already, a few weeks back our street of 100 houses had skips at at least 8.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I bought a smallish bottle of shampoo and conditioner one December, redueced in the chemist, at 50p/bottle. It was good stuff - usually £2 or so apiece. It took me well over a year to get through those bottles. I think the shampoo lasted a year and the conditioner lasted 2 years.

I optimise how much I use - you don't need much unless you hair's down to your arris.... I'd say a chick pea of shampoo and a broad bean of conditioner. Same with toothpaste - the adverts that show people putting a whole line along a bit toothbrush uses double what's needed.

Yup, I remember the story of some guy who made a fortune for a toothpaste company by increasing their sales, by getting them to use a wider nozzle soi you can't stop dispensing more.

Noticed that for lots of budget brands of many products (biottles with wider necks etc.), so I'm wary of comparing just "prices per xxxg" labels on shelves.

Unless you keep a better brand's bottle and decant it or have another dispenser!:beer:

lostinrates

I cannot work the link michaels.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

A modern day "Steptoe and Son" equivalent pay per Kg for old clothes. So you load up a black sack and are paid by weight. This is also what charity shops do with their shabby/stained/torn/cr4p taste donations.

We used to buy our vintage clothing stock from textile waste yards up north during the 90's. All the rejects from the charity shops were sacked up, sold to the rag man who sold them to textile waste yards. I think it was 10p per kilo.

We then had a 'picker' who pulled all the strange things we requested (and the vintage stuff) and paid £2.00 per kilo after going through it.

We then cleaned it, sold it in a lovely shop and got a return of about £25 -£30 per kilo...but a lot of love and labour went into it.
Everything sent there had a use except fibre glass curtains (shimmery floral 50's/60's style) and worn out under-wired bras as they were both unrecyclable.

W Africa was their biggest customer for all the light weights and E Europe for real fur and heavy weight garments.

India couldn't import complete garments (too expensive...maybe an import duty?) so a lady stood all day slicing the backs of jackets (cutting them in half) which were then sold by the bale as 'rag' to India....who then sorted them, matched up the 2 halves and sewed them back together.

All those rag rugs that used to be about £1 were made from waste t-shirts (sold as 'wipers') sent from US and UK all the way to India, un-baled, cut into strips and knotted up as rag rugs and sold back to the US and UK.

I have lots of Rag Yard stories to tell

silvercar wrote: »

Yes and no.

The middle part is walking into asda and buying frizzease.

The first part is an exercise in learning and patience. You need to learn how to play the game. The patience is reading up on the threads that explain how to do it, but it is a thread full of drivel that you have to follow to find the gems.

The last part is that you get paid in Asda price guarantee vouchers that you then spend in Asda, either on more frizzease or on other stuff.

In short hand you buy 5 lots of frizzease along with a very cheap shampoo. Additionally you buy at least 8 items that price compare to Tesco. Then you go home and go through the Asda price guarantee website and (hopefully) that gives you the voucher reducing your price of frizzease down to pennies.

Then you rinse and repeat.

Do you have a link to the thread pls...I can't find it ...do they have a spread sheet like the Tesco thread had?

ETA; the lovely volunteers from the charity shops used to bin all the 'nasty old fashioned stuff'' ......so many poeple managed to run a profitable business before the charities sussed that 'as new' M+S may not be the only thing their customers wanted.)

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Now the love goggles are gone you must be realising more everyday how much better you are off now.

Its such an odd feeling that. Nasty ex, i am over but i remember also the self dislike for having been so stupid.