Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I always buy straws. I drink everything I can out of straws and ATM I have run out. .

I've never bought straws. I've used a few over the years but always find them awkward and discard them.

We used to have straws as a treat - at our birthday parties. Probably the same box of straws as a birthday party was just 6-8 kids drinking squash, so wouldn't have got through a lot each year.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's not important - and my Aspie side requires that I buy a new one and revel in the newness of it and the folds the manufacturing/folding process put in place

And .... I don't need a 2nd one, it's just a bit of frippery really.

New things are always nice.

I think DH when mad at one point and bought loads of them....they are incredibly useful, (I load clean washing into them to be carted back upstairs mainly, but DH likes them for grocery shopping too...I don't (too heavy when full). We've used them for logs between barn and woodburner too.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I like a series of washing baskets to divide into washes as we go.....unfortunately this takes up a lot of room. In reality what happens is stuff gets thrown down the back stairs into a horrific heap of dirty Laundry where I divide into many heaps across the floor which never quite go......:mad:

My house. Exactly. I have four washing baskets, mainly MIA, a pile of kid's clothes at the top of the stairs to trip over and a pile of muddy building gear to land in at the bottom.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never bought straws. I've used a few over the years but always find them awkward and discard them.

We used to have straws as a treat - at our birthday parties. Probably the same box of straws as a birthday party was just 6-8 kids drinking squash, so wouldn't have got through a lot each year.

My teeth are going to fail soon, so every protection helps,but mainly because I am meant to drink such big qualities straws help it slide down more easily.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I'll sip a coffee and eye the little green cakes that look like saddleback pigs with round envious eyes.

No idea what they are; only actually been in an Ikea cafe once; had a kids' fish/chip meal and was a bit taken aback that it was on a kiddy plate.

lostinrates wrote: »

Are you arranging this birthday bash then PN? Can you PM The date to Spirit and I so we can see if we can both do it?

I wasn't going to; I was kind of jesting about my birthday. Just looked, the actual day's a Saturday this year, so if it did happen I'm guessing it'd most likely not be on the day.

And Spirit's not becoming a skiver until next year.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

A big fat pie

Hmmm, I don't think so....

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

New things are always nice.

I think DH when mad at one point and bought loads of them....they are incredibly useful, (I load clean washing into them to be carted back upstairs mainly, but DH likes them for grocery shopping too...I don't (too heavy when full). We've used them for logs between barn and woodburner too.

Oh yeah - forgot that one. Perfect for Lidl shopping.... ideal for carrying 24 cans of Pepsi from the car to the house too.

They're just brilliant for carrying loads of stuff.

One of my "conditions" is that I can't carry things. It doesn't matter how small things are, once I have 3 items to hold/carry I can't cope and drop the lot.

It's like my head can't balance them any more; my eyes can't keep an eye on if they're moving. It's a very bizarre part of my speshulness I believe.

Even, say, carrying 12 eggs, a box of cereal and a bag of spuds would be a disaster. Ikea bag carries everything. Brilliant.

I don't put things directly into it often - but will use it to load up a collection of bags of items. e.g. I might get 3 supermarket carrier bags and carry those to the car.... then into the Ikea bag they go.

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

My parents are due to visit this weekend. They are taking me to Ikea

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So far my shopping list is: an uplighter, some tealights.
I will be trying to delay our leaving time so that we have meatballs for lunch/ dinner.

I got to wondering where the IKEA would be near you. Looked up and realised they're still actually a bit thin on the ground in general. Israel's lucky to have two - Ireland's only got one (and one in the north).

We were drivng past Brussels once and were unchuffed iwith the services and pulled off the motorway when we saw an IKEA and used their cafe for our motorway meal.

Generali

Nikkster wrote: »

My parents are due to visit this weekend. They are taking me to Ikea

I'm not sure how long a shopping list they think I have, but my dad has said they're coming the night before to make sure we have an early start :eek: and have time to go elsewhere if I can't find what I'm after.

So far my shopping list is: an uplighter, some tealights.
I will be trying to delay our leaving time so that we have meatballs for lunch/ dinner.

I once heard a fireman say, "At the bottom of every pit of misery and despair sits an unattended tea light".

It's Melbourne Cup today, aka The Race That Stops a Nation. 3 hour lunch break planned.

neverdespairgirl

Spirit wrote: »

I am getting old.

I have been making enquiries as to the interests of small nephews. I understood the not into cars, into wooden trains. Then I thought deadly 60 was a typo.

Now I know it is a cbbc prog about deadly critters and I am on the hunt for lego that is themed to it.

In my day you build a lego crocodile out of..lego.

Deadly 60 is an expanding franchise that Isaac adores - there is also "Deadly Art" and "Deadly Top Ten", and they all feature really nasty animals, fish, insects and so forth that bite, scratch, poison, claw, or otherwise alarm and injure. Perfect for small boys.

I'm not quite so keen on the lego that's massively structured, and you can only build the specific thing that the kit tells you to build. Isaac has a fair few medieval bits, such as helmets, weapons, a portcullis or two, etc, but he gets most fun out just building things out of the general bricks.