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Savvybuyer

Missmaxwakey wrote: »

Thanks for that will have to go in twice tomorrow. With 3 kids, 1 niece, 2 nephews and numerous cousins Easter is an expensive time!
Savvy you sound just like my DS2 he would have confronted too, glad he wasn't with me but he hates crowded places especially supermarkets for some reason. He is on spectrum too and attends 'special' school (hate that word!) Eats the same food for up to six months at a time, because his diet is so fixed and he can't tolerate change I have to give him multivitamins.
Anyway, away to bed now, hope everyone has a good day tomorrow goodnight all

:eek:Is everyone on the spectrum these days? (Clearly the answer is no, folks.) However, I mean so many people - and now a newbie - seem to have an autistic son or, more rarely, autistic daughter (perhaps they aren't diagnosed as much due to the different ways the condition manifests itself in females?:think:) these days.

It's not a rare condition although it is not that common either. But it was now said 1 in 88 have it. I read [red] the other day some figure of about 1 in 62 - in other words, every other school class (assuming 30 children in a class - I'm out of touch btw!).

I don't like supermarkets at crowded times. The reason is it's just so, well, crowded. Just a practical matter of getting around people and having to weave your way in and out - they don't move when you are there, seems often some people will be engrossed in conversation between each other and fail to notice you want to pass. (I wonder if that is an autism thing - I do think normal people are sometimes unaware of my presence - sometimes that can be a good thing, most times though, they continue as if you are invisible... They don't know that I'm there, yet if a normal person walks by them, they immediately turn around and notice them. Obviously no signals coming from me - whereas they pick up the body language of other people and their brain automatically attunes towards someone else. Typical of normal people again though - missing things around them! They do seem not to notice things. My bugbear about what people generally seem to miss - or not notice very quickly - is green traffic lights:mad::rotfl:.)

Being moved into a special school (and, way back then, being forgotten about) was what I was afraid of when in the 1980s I thought, for about a week, that I had autism. I dared not breathe a word to anyone as I thought that might happen. It was a different society back then and, even if I had told my teachers, they would not have had a clue what Asperger's syndrome was. I do not think I would have been believed. It was only known to the real specialists - a handful of people. Plus me - way way ahead of everybody and correct from the very beginning once again:rotfl:.

I don't seem to be as 'bad' as any of the other people on here. I'm a fussy eater, but my diet isn't that fixed.

About it being that someone will either have a relative, or know someone, who is autistic: just last Monday, in fact, in one of the M stores I visited, I came across a customer whose son was having a bit of a tantrum and I heard the man say "[name of child], you know you have autistic spectrum".

I turned and had a look at the child. Probably stared:eek::rotfl:. (But that was because I was analysing his look etc.) Man might have thought 'look, other people are looking' - or may not have noticed me at all as I am autistic (and therefore not transmitting body language signals to be picked up). They say you can't tell by looking at someone whether they are autistic or not. :think:I reckon the trained eye perhaps can. The way someone walks can be a clue, although that was not on this occasion. (Maybe an autistic person's eyes can recognise another autistic person? We do see details: maybe we see details in someone's face, or rather mouth:o, that might show someone was autistic that normal people cannot see. That's speculation: I doubt it but you never know.)

I looked at the child and thought he looked very much like I looked at that very young age. It was the expression - the smile (the 'autistic smile' maybe). I felt he was like my twin 35 years younger. And I thought about how he would grow up - I thought he's a very clever lad - but in a situation that is aware that he is autistic. I threw tantrums occasionally at that age, when I did not get my way - and I was very stubborn (because I was right!) - although I don't think I ever threw a tantrum in a supermarket. If that man is reading, I wished I had spoken with you and told you he has Asperger's just like me. I don't know how people cope, and obviously I don't know what struggles that man has with his child more generally, but would like there to be a lot of hope as I've turned out very well - just shows you what they achieve.

I wasn't staring at the child 'creating a scene'. I was just interested in him, after the man had revealed out loud that he (the child) was autistic.

Savvybuyer

I don't know whether the Tiger Baguettes are still 2 for £1 in M as there was no stock in any of my stores by the late stage in the day that I reached them. Anyway, I will fudge the matter as having to buy 2 for £1 isn't very good so I'll just remove them!:cool:

Still, in the final store, there was an item I hadn't noticed in either of the previous two: Tiger Rolls 4 pack at 50p. The shelf was then completely empty; however not sure why anyone would go for a comparison vs that - I noticed quite a lot of stock in the whoopsies and they were 29p. It will not compare vs 29p on the APG. If it works (it did before) it will pick up price of 50p - and why would you compare vs that?

Tiger Tin Loaf, including Sliced, 800g also at 65p in M. Which I know some go for. Not going to make the list - and why anyway when some of M's standard 800g loaves are on 2 for £1? Itself not making the list - it's Avs S on S/P. Or whoopsies. Or buy in S:p. I think although they are the same weight, there are more slices in the S version, so that they last longer! A's last 10% less it seems:rotfl::rotfl:, so don't appear to gain anything buying in A.

Ooooo... M showing 40p on msm now. However, M's version is smaller, and I mean smaller in weight, so it will not compare to that.

Savvybuyer

Avs M confirmed result 18/2/14:

1 x Nestle Milky Bar Minis (10x32ml)£2.50£1.00

But be careful - price collection will update and will soon be on new one. I'll add it to "the list" - that's one I've, er, missed:o:rotfl:.

Despite the above the receipt was still more than 10% cheaper:mad:. Including they bought this, three days too late:

1 x Comfort Concentrate Pure Fabric Conditioner - 85 W...£4.00£6.00:p

Savvybuyer

Simply Snacks Apple & Grapes (80g) showing straight 50p on msm - others at 5 for £1.50. May cause an mbuy failure if exactly one plus another four are bought and may compare vs Morries:D. Or, safer, probably vs T at 4 for £1.50 (from 50px5). Have we been down this road before:think:, did we find it to be a dead-end?

However, these sorts of items go onto 2p whoopsie, so is it really worth it?;):)

:think::think: When I click on the offer, the item shows in that offer - however when I then go into the product page, it says 50p:think:.

Savvybuyer

M vs Aldi

M Egg Mayonnaise Sandwich Filler (209g)
£1.00 82.555p

Will possibly round up to 83p, if it compares at all, and see you paying slightly more per g. than just getting the Deli Fresh Sandwich Filler in Aldi:rotfl:.

Savvybuyer

M list is updated, again. So do take a look, particularly those reduced frozen and pets items in 'buy in M'.

In the fresh aisle, the Holland's Pies are back showing 50p again:mad:, so they're back onto the list:rotfl:. They were showing 50p last week, with information to say they were on offer supposedly until March. However, on Monday they showed 95p in my only store that has them, so I deleted them - maybe the 50p offer labels had just fallen off. They are back now - however, it appears that the Potato & Meat individual pie is 3g lower:( than what it was last week, judging by the information on the SEL. It's ended up as same weight as the one showing for T on msm, so it's also gone onto Tvs M. However, it won't work if they've just changed weight and branded items should be exact same weight (interestingly, this does not always apply to Sains BM even though the T&Cs of that specifically state that it is exact weight, anyway...). It looks like T is OOS anyway. Ignore Sains.:rotfl: - they've never compared to M.

With my new store:D, I had a SEL back for the Savers Can Opener - 48p. However, still no stock hanging there. I have not seen the Can Opener in any M store I have visited. I have seen the SEL, at various times in the past month or so, in five different stores now (not all on the same day as I've never yet done 5 stores in one day:eek:, instead at the rate of about one or two per price check day throughout the whole period), but I've not seen any evidence to date of any product. Perhaps it just appears at the weekend and then disappears again:rotfl:. So, still no luck for me of any stock. I may eventually find one, months after all the SELs have vanished, just appears at some random part of the store and then scans at 48p. That's what happened last time around for me on this (possibly 2 or 3 years ago).

That's it for me and I'll be back - when I'm back really! (Perhaps a bit like the "When it's gone it's gone" on the C&B multipack tomato soup. That has been consistently in stock in a number of stores for possibly three months now (how long has that been on the M list?:think: You can check previous threads and perhaps work out roughly). When it's gone, it's gone! And it still hasn't gone, even after 3 months:rotfl:! So, no need to hurry then:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:!)

(Or...maybe the one time on the Stephenson's Fruited Teacakes, regularly 50p in M - and a six pack as well instead of the usual 4 pack at same price or higher elsewhere. Even though whoopsies of course of the Stephenson's go cheaper. Those Fruited Teacakes, on one offer, were "When it's gone, it's gone!" And... then it's back again, possibly a week or two later at the same price:rotfl:.)

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Seven posts in a row again:o:o:o:laugh:.

Picasso7

Good morning!

Woke early and trying to catch up after RL taking over again. No healthy glitches .... Ah well!

RootedNomad

Morning everyone

Amazing sunrise this morning but hoping "red sky in the morning" won't bring any bad weather.

Huge thanks yet again to Evangeline for all your brilliant posts yesterday. I can't see pics when lurking at work, but called in at A on the way home to check out cleaning aisle rtcs and placed a c&c order for later today :T :beer:

Also thanks to bebop1968 for the fish :T :beer: Hope to be picking up 10 packs today. Tried to order some more to pick up at the weekend but not showing for me now on A.com - is it gone for everyone? Rtcs do seem to suddenly and randomly disappear from the site, so worth ordering straight away if it is something you want.

Hope everyone has a good Thursday and happy shopping

emmad5689

Morning all, got a delivery of glitching cleaning stuff this afternoon and may do a c&c on different account for tomorrow if it all works as planned.

Evangeline1971 wrote: »

Not that I'm aware of but there is a Dettol multi due next Wednesday but we won't know what it is until after midnight. I'll post and pm you the link tomorrow as I'm on my iPad and these details are on my pc

Could I have a link please, I have always wondered how people know what is coming up xx

emmad5689

davemorton wrote: »

Isnt the next series of Benefit Street from down your way?

It's filmed about a 5 min drive from me if that, they even filmed on the green that I live just off, no doubt it will paint us in a bad light as that's entertainment! x