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TrulyMadly

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

It's a tribute to a very good friend (my BBF if you could have such things back then) who in the 1980s started a band called The Earbleeders and he was the lead singer,and in tribute to Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, called himself Jelly Biactol. Trained as a nurse, and was cycling to work one day and knocked off his bike and died. So it's my continuing tribute to him.:)

For some reason...that wasn't what I thought you were going to say.

What a story:A

zippydooda

underperky wrote: »

Was just thinking today when I took my dad to his first ever supermarket as opposed to village shops. 38years ago this month apart from his sheer shock of a shop that big ,he was to witness his first weekly shop in a trolley as opposed to day today shopping .As I was putting things in my trolley he was taking them out .....not possible to want or need 3 tins beans I can hear him saying.....as I am rebutting them back in my trolley.NOw in them day's you didn't get glitches the best you got was buy say a box of daz and you might get a tube of Vim free. with it and that day I put four boxes of Daz with the four free VIm in my trolley and he started taking them out saying no one could possible want 4 boxes of daz in one week ....and i said no but it will save me buying a box for the next 3 weeks and I have saved on 4tubes of vim cost......well I thought he was going to blow a fuse.....he couldn't grasp the concept and just kept saying you don't need 4 daz nor 4 vim.....I tried then to get him to buy something before something ran out but since he was a child shopping was done on a daily bases then he brought his children up. Alone after my mother died when I was 8 so we would shop on morning for bread then school and shop for tea on return from school ,then when tea was over and pots done back to the shops for supper and the cat and dog food was the order of the ritual of several trips to the co,rner shop ......but the classic was when Safeway started there bogof so say he wanted domestosp and I would take him 2 and say you got 2 domestos they on special offer buy one get one free he used to say I don't want the free one I just want one you have the free one ...but dad I already got 2 as I got the bogof and as if humiliated he used to say well am not having the free one.......I wonder what he would think of me now that I have food in the garage red wine loo rolls.jaffa,s etc etc

what a nice post. but remember, back in his day supermarkets did not put the price UP to give you the impression if you got more it would be cheaper. back then it was a real deal.
we could not do what we do now, with our comparisons if supermarkets done REAL deals. how often do you see b1g1f in one store and the other to be 1/2 price. its when these compare wrongly that we the elite pounce.

zagubov

underperky wrote: »

Was just thinking today when I took my dad to his first ever supermarket as opposed to village shops. 38years ago this month apart from his sheer shock of a shop that big ,he was to witness his first weekly shop in a trolley as opposed to day today shopping .As I was putting things in my trolley he was taking them out .....not possible to want or need 3 tins beans I can hear him saying.....as I am rebutting them back in my trolley.NOw in them day's you didn't get glitches the best you got was buy say a box of daz and you might get a tube of Vim free. with it and that day I put four boxes of Daz with the four free VIm in my trolley and he started taking them out saying no one could possible want 4 boxes of daz in one week ....and i said no but it will save me buying a box for the next 3 weeks and I have saved on 4tubes of vim cost......well I thought he was going to blow a fuse.....he couldn't grasp the concept and just kept saying you don't need 4 daz nor 4 vim.....I tried then to get him to buy something before something ran out but since he was a child shopping was done on a daily bases then he brought his children up. Alone after my mother died when I was 8 so we would shop on morning for bread then school and shop for tea on return from school ,then when tea was over and pots done back to the shops for supper and the cat and dog food was the order of the ritual of several trips to the co,rner shop ......but the classic was when Safeway started there bogof so say he wanted domestosp and I would take him 2 and say you got 2 domestos they on special offer buy one get one free he used to say I don't want the free one I just want one you have the free one ...but dad I already got 2 as I got the bogof and as if humiliated he used to say well am not having the free one.......I wonder what he would think of me now that I have food in the garage red wine loo rolls.jaffa,s etc etc

This post plus the Friday news report of the Matchmaker /After Eight / Drifter/ Lion Bar inventor dying reminds me that I knew a bloke whose dad invented the shopping basket. That doesn't make you a millionaire if one of the big chains decides to own it.

fairclaire

underperky wrote: »

Was just thinking today when I took my dad to his first ever supermarket as opposed to village shops. 38years ago this month apart from his sheer shock of a shop that big ,he was to witness his first weekly shop in a trolley as opposed to day today shopping .As I was putting things in my trolley he was taking them out .....not possible to want or need 3 tins beans I can hear him saying.....as I am rebutting them back in my trolley.NOw in them day's you didn't get glitches the best you got was buy say a box of daz and you might get a tube of Vim free. with it and that day I put four boxes of Daz with the four free VIm in my trolley and he started taking them out saying no one could possible want 4 boxes of daz in one week ....and i said no but it will save me buying a box for the next 3 weeks and I have saved on 4tubes of vim cost......well I thought he was going to blow a fuse.....he couldn't grasp the concept and just kept saying you don't need 4 daz nor 4 vim.....I tried then to get him to buy something before something ran out but since he was a child shopping was done on a daily bases then he brought his children up. Alone after my mother died when I was 8 so we would shop on morning for bread then school and shop for tea on return from school ,then when tea was over and pots done back to the shops for supper and the cat and dog food was the order of the ritual of several trips to the co,rner shop ......but the classic was when Safeway started there bogof so say he wanted domestosp and I would take him 2 and say you got 2 domestos they on special offer buy one get one free he used to say I don't want the free one I just want one you have the free one ...but dad I already got 2 as I got the bogof and as if humiliated he used to say well am not having the free one.......I wonder what he would think of me now that I have food in the garage red wine loo rolls.jaffa,s etc etc

What a lovely story UP. I too ended up on my own with my Dad although not as young as you. He was a bit old school as well, I did the shopping.
I love the way we do things here.....it thrilling! but there is something lovely about that old fashioned pride that yours and my Dad obviously had

TrulyMadly

fairclaire wrote: »

What a lovely story UP. I too ended up on my own with my Dad although not as young as you. He was a bit old school as well, I did the shopping.
I love the way we do things here.....it thrilling! but there is something lovely about that old fashioned pride that yours and my Dad obviously had

We have a fishmonger calls fortnightly and I love his visits. He has a wonderful personality. I remember when I was young we had a butcher, baker, fruit and veg seller, even a general dealer in a huge van. Oh my goodness when I really think about it we had a travelling library, someone selling "pop". And......my e I'm dreaming .....but I'm sure that someone used to call selling paraffin:eek:

Savvybuyer

zippydooda wrote: »

totally agree savvy.
what you said at the start of the so called wine glitch a week back.
it is a better deal when its 1/2 price than the combined 2 deal that we were getting.
see I do read your posts.

But as the 25% off isn't taken into account under T PP (in order to allow a 'fair comparison' under cond. 15:rotfl:), it should compare 6x full price vs 6x half price elsewhere!:):money:

...But then the £10 cap comes into play:(. Okay - probably buy 3 then that are £3 cheaper elsewhere and 3 that don't compare taking advantage of the 25% off across the full 6. Plus - if they're all 6 different - 4 fillers to get the remaining £1 of the PP.

Note: this isn't a current deal, folks, it's just a suggestion what to do once such a deal comes back on.:)

Mildred1970

TrulyMadly wrote: »

We have a fishmonger calls fortnightly and I love his visits. He has a wonderful personality. I remember when I was young we had a butcher, baker, fruit and veg seller, even a general dealer in a huge van. Oh my goodness when I really think about it we had a travelling library, someone selling "pop". And......my e I'm dreaming .....but I'm sure that someone used to call selling paraffin:eek:

The corona man

Did you have a chip van? Ours sold the best chips ever

Snap-ant

Our fab B&B in Weymouth last week

fairclaire

TrulyMadly wrote: »

We have a fishmonger calls fortnightly and I love his visits. He has a wonderful personality. I remember when I was young we had a butcher, baker, fruit and veg seller, even a general dealer in a huge van. Oh my goodness when I really think about it we had a travelling library, someone selling "pop". And......my e I'm dreaming .....but I'm sure that someone used to call selling paraffin:eek:

I lived with my grandparents for the first 5 years of my life. My parents weren't married. Mum at uni and dad in the RAF. They lived in a rural place and I remember all those things I also remember the Rag Man who used to collect old clothes....in exchange for a balloon!! .......better than them scam charity bags that I get 10 of through the letterbox every week!

TrulyMadly

Mildred1970 wrote: »

The corona man

Did you have a chip van? Ours sold the best chips ever

Yes chip van andice cream van:)