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fairclaire

logie wrote: »

Morning all :wave:

Sending positive thoughts Thrifty Sister
I too have Consultant appt today, after my treatment. DH has taken the day off work to come with me. Quite nice to have some company for the drive and when in the waiting room. I am currently banking some brownie points by letting him have a lie in though

DS1 is uber excited with his new John Deere tractor. It's a total hit DH put it together last night and he has been sat on it since he finished breakfast wearing his matching hat

Take care jagbeth and 3dogs

bubbs, any news on your sister yet?

Good luck to you too today Logie, I hope it goes well.

:) at DS, it's great when you get it right in the toy dept.! Make sure you get plenty of pics!

FloFlo

mymerrywidow wrote: »

mornings....

I'd like to extend that:

mornings with my dd :eek:

FloFlo

logie wrote: »

Morning all :wave:

Sending positive thoughts Thrifty Sister
I too have Consultant appt today, after my treatment. DH has taken the day off work to come with me. Quite nice to have some company for the drive and when in the waiting room. I am currently banking some brownie points by letting him have a lie in though

DS1 is uber excited with his new John Deere tractor. It's a total hit DH put it together last night and he has been sat on it since he finished breakfast wearing his matching hat

Take care jagbeth and 3dogs

bubbs, any news on your sister yet?

Best wishes Logie, hope it goes well, you are an inspiraton xxx

Enterprise_1701C

Good morning Elite, started cloudy but sun coming out again today!

Had a couple of trips round T's yesterday to get 8 lattes - OH has decided he likes them. Keep telling him to go steady on them as they are so expensive Strange thing is he doesn't believe me ...............

savingbabs

Hope everyone's appointments go well, hugs to anyone who needs it

Enterprise_1701C

logie wrote: »

Morning all :wave:

Sending positive thoughts Thrifty Sister
I too have Consultant appt today, after my treatment. DH has taken the day off work to come with me. Quite nice to have some company for the drive and when in the waiting room. I am currently banking some brownie points by letting him have a lie in though

DS1 is uber excited with his new John Deere tractor. It's a total hit DH put it together last night and he has been sat on it since he finished breakfast wearing his matching hat

Take care jagbeth and 3dogs

bubbs, any news on your sister yet?

Why do I suddenly feel nervous

Good luck - everyone on here has everything crossed I am sure.

My BIL has two old John Deere tractors parked beside the house in various stages of being disassembled, just wish your DS1 could see them!

hornetgirl

Morning all. Another appointment here, I'm off to the osteopath this morning

tweets

Good Luck to all the peeps visiting docs, hospital etc.

MILLYMOLLY

Morning everyone another hoy day today

Savvybuyer

:hello:Good morning.:) An unexpected 'good morning' from me today - seems I got here late last night but, as I wasn't stopping, I left an hour earlier than normal and woke up a little earlier. Not doing anything at all to the M list I'm afraid as I'm getting ready for work soon, so I'll see you back later.

I was thinking last night (dangerous thing!:D), whilst writing my other post, about the £1 sun creams mentioned on the right hand side. I don't know what you think, but they don't seem a good deal at all to me. Turns out they are travel size, so the 50ml ones for example, costing £4:eek: for 200ml.

What's wrong with the usual Asda sun cream? £3.50 or - you know I'm going to say 'any 2 for £6.00' and therefore £3.00 each (although having to buy 2)? Or, for the same amount of sun lotion, the Asda Protect SPF 30 High (that'll do won't it?) is £4 (the 15 SPF Medium is the same). Twice as much for the same cost as those 50ml ones would have taken off you. Some of the £1 ones are factor 10s - I don't about you - but to me factor 10 is useless.

Even if you're getting the 75ml ones that are £1, that's still £3 to make up 200ml, so may as well buy the Asda Protect one at 200ml. In fact the amount, using 75ml ones, would be 225ml.

We might have hoped for a glitch on the sun creams in Boots or on the A multibuys (on the right one) to compare £3.50 x2 (but getting on 2 for £6) vs £3 each in T. But would still work out, even if that A one glitched and seems unlikely, at £4.40 for the two bottles (may as well just get the Asda 400ml one at £4). Then again I don't think £1.50/100ml for the 2x300ml ones (on normal prices) is that bad.

As for the pound ones, 3x75ml would be the same cost and getting 25ml more - but A vs T on the right one in A would be £2.70 it seems (not £3.50 or even £3) and you don't therefore need to buy two at all! T showing as straight £3. £2.70 for one 200ml only very very slightly more expensive per 100g than £3 for 225ml (3xthe 75ml £1 ones). The Asda Protect Sun Lotion Spray 30SPF 200ml doesn't seem bad for me - vs T's £3.00 - though I know some would be tempted to buy 2 and try for a glitch.

As for the "...low cost sun creams" mentioned in the £1 information, 200ml of Garnier Ambre Solitaire moisturising sun milk lotion SPF 30 from Asda at £5 doesn't seem "low cost" to me. And, for the Piz Buin, the same cost for half as much :eek::eek:. Even with our 10% (assuming it's the same one and that it's on msm) A vs Sains., it's still way too dear in my view and not "low cost" at all. I disagree - the original prices are beyond thinkable and the £5 ones that are 'half price' (or whatever) are still too costly. They're the 'best bargains'???

Mmm...

It seems they are 'bargains' on the most popular products. But, to me, if you want to save money, best avoiding the popular items as those are the ones a load of people buy... and therefore most likely to be overpriced. Do the opposite of what the manufacturers expect, it seems to me, do not follow the crowd - and you'll be quids in!!

Yet another example yesterday in M - a couple of ladies in the cereal aisle came for some cereal. They'd obviously done what the vast majority of people - wrongly - do, wait till they ran out of cereal before they went and bought (at whatever price they were then being charged). :rotfl::rotfl:

They looked at the Kellogg's Frosties and remarked how expensive they were. (Three days earlier those had been £1.14!:rotfl: And even that is a little on the high side for me - I prefer £1 on 500g and then 90p via the APG. But even there 10% cheaper than £1.14 still okay.) Then they tried to work out whether the 750g or 500g ones (this was in M) worked out cheaper. (500g now much more expensive and the Crunchy Nut from two weeks ago now 'any 2 for £3':eek::eek:.)

I think they ended up buying some small chocolate or strawberry Nestle ones at £2.28.:eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: No doubt a 'popular' choice.

(Mornflake Chocolately Squares 500g are in the same store at the same time at £1 - so those two ladies missed that altogether, if the chocolate ones were what they wanted. I'm going to be considering whether they are Tvs M - I don't think they are sold in A. I will be ignoring the Mornflake Strawberry though, as they're only 375g.)

So there we are - yet another example - the vast majority of people paying well over £2 whilst we are paying if possible under a pound. For the very same thing. And it's not too difficult - as we all know. All you needed to do was buy them last week, just before you ran out, and not this week. There are of course other alternatives available - probably best using a different supermarket for that (at least two of which are well within half a mile of the store they were in). Think of that - people paying well into £2 and moaning about high costs of living, when all our items are about 90p - and many far cheaper!!:):)

Alright, that my penn'orth for now, in other words don't get the £1 sun creams - or the £5:eek::eek::eek::eek: "bargain" ones - I'll see you later.:wave: