What is your story? Lighthearted thread!

Hootie19

My work colleague told us that her partner went out to buy a bird feeder.

He came back with a mahoosive, all singing, all dancing TV.

No bird feeder though


So what did you go out to buy, and what did you come back with instead

kingfisherblue

OK, you did ask!

Yesterday I went to Wilkinson's to buy some pins (some of you might know I recently bought a sewing machine. adn I needed the pins to attach the paper pattern to the fabric for cutting out). The pins that I chose were £1.12

I spent £30.46 :eek:

I bought
* 16 foam photo frame kits, down to 25p each
* 16 cupcake shaped notebooks, down to 50p each
* 13 doodle colouring books for girls, down to 25p each
* 3 packs of stickers, down to 25p each
* 4 pads of paper, down to 25p each
* various pens and pencils, all reduced
* various pieces of stationery, including packs with rulers, pens, etc in, all reduced

I also bought some cleaning stuff for home.

I am a Brownie and Rainbow Guider, and most of the things that I bought are for the girls, mostly for Christmas presents and prizes

gunsandbanjos

Not quite what you're after maybe but my old boss got drunk and bought an expensive caravan on ebay. His wife was unimpressed when she found out!

kingfisherblue

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Not quite what you're after maybe but my old boss got drunk and bought an expensive caravan on ebay. His wife was unimpressed when she found out!

:rotfl:

I wonder if he had to re-sell it

caroline78

My Mum has done something silly like this.

She got up one morning and found the tv wouldn't work. Went into Belfast and got an all singing all dancing telly (from Shop Electric, who also give her up to £5000 to spend in store which she spent over the course of the year helping my brother and me do up our new flats...all paid by now, but massive interest and totally unlike her to get debt).

Anyway when she struggled home that night and got out of her taxi with this massive box, my brother and I were watching tv !!!

Dad had turned the tv off at the wall before he went to bed and there was nothing wrong with the one at home....lol

lilac-straw

I sent my husband out for some hoover bags a few years ago and he came back with a Dyson!

Caroline_a

Before I was born (so the story went), my mum and dad went out for a loaf of bread and came back with a car!!

kingfisherblue

lilac-straw wrote: »

I sent my husband out for some hoover bags a few years ago and he came back with a Dyson!

Well at least you won't need to send your husband out for hoover bags again - who knows what he would come back with next time :rotfl:

Hootie, thanks for starting this thread. It's good to have some light hearted laughter tonight!

libbyc3

we've just done the caravan thing! Went to view a car for sale - private sale by the owner of a campsite in an area that I have alway adored.

Didn't get the £800 run around that we needed - but did get a £12000 static caravan on site!!!

don't think I regret it (had it 5 weeks now) but now cutting back on day to day spends ready for next years site fees bill - ooopppsss!!!!

lilac-straw

kingfisherblue wrote: »

Well at least you won't need to send your husband out for hoover bags again - who knows what he would come back with next time :rotfl:

Hootie, thanks for starting this thread. It's good to have some light hearted laughter tonight!

:rotfl: That was his [STRIKE]excuse[/STRIKE] reason for buying it. He said he couldn't remember what type of hoover bags I wanted so he thought sod it I'm off to Argos to buy a Dyson.

My friends thought he was wonderful as they said they wouldn't be able to get their husbands to buy the hoover bags never mind a Dyson.

SaLoGo

My friend wrote on Facebook the other day that she had driven to the petrol station to get some fags and started filling up with petrol before she realised she didn't need petrol she needed fags!