Pound shops - huh!

Caterina

Sometimes pound shops sell real gems - I found boxes of real good chocolate (Baci Perugina and Green & Blacks chocs) as well as packs of 2 of organic pasta in a 99p (got my bit of change YEAH!) shop in Lewisham. They are also great for good brands shampoos only the instructions are written in Arabic, or Russian or something like that, the content is still the same though.

Having said that, a lot of things are also rubbish, I would never buy their chafy plasticky horrible knickers (M&S always wins even if not the cheapest - in the long run they last ages so I consider M&S knickers an investment!).

Caterina

Glad

Austin_Allegro wrote:

My best pahhnd shop purchase was a little 3/4 size ironing board (my flat is tiny) that cost only £5.49. Presumably it was made for little Chinese houswives!

why wasn't it a pound??

Foxy

moggins wrote:

And I know it's a little early, but the best time to go christmas shopping in Wilko's is Christmas Eve about 11.30am, I worked as a christmas temp there last year and it was ridiculous how cheap they were selling things off, along with my staff discount I ended up getting £150 worth of stuff for about £40.

i got about a third of my kids xmas stuff for this year from there before new year in sale, by second of january i had finished buying most things for this year:o guess im the only one who does this :eek:(well my name on here used to be frugalite says it all really lol)

furrypig

Foxy wrote:

i got about a third of my kids xmas stuff for this year from there before new year in sale, by second of january i had finished buying most things for this year:o guess im the only one who does this :eek:(well my name on here used to be frugalite says it all really lol)

I have to say I have most of this years birthday and christmas presents from my Jan sale shopping!!

Only trouble is storing them all and trying not to forget what I got for who??!!

I need a guide to organising my cupboards/drawers/life in general (tried flylady but is a bit scary at times and sooo American, well in time and things it talks about!)

Austin_Allegro

Glad wrote:

why wasn't it a pound??

I did think of asking them that, but the shop sign says 'MOST items a pound' - presumably to stop people haggling!