Everyone Lost In The Ether

cheer1eader

this is the post about the free sweets in case anyone missed

cheer1eader wrote: »

evening everyone :wave:
i had an email saying candy kittens are doing a free one month subscription where you can choose from 3 different options & i've signed up for the deluxe box which has at least 4 big bags of sweets & looks easy to cancel too https://www.candykittens.co.uk/subscriptions/

Annabell5

Hi everyone.Not often I get in Lidl but today I got the smelly Madame Glamour for the first time.Knowing that a few of you buy it I thought I'd try it.Must say I like it very much.Shelves were full so I may go back.

Serendipitious

underperky wrote: »

Part 2 of saga

We enter allotments and the teacher says look children these are cabbages for dinner ....
Mmmm maybe they are Brussels sprouts I say ..

..potatoes are on ground rotting because it's too cold for them to grow ....mmmmm

Then children look we have pea pods here mmmm think they are broad beans ......
And more Brussels sprouts ...mmmm no they are cabbages ....
Look children black berries mmmm raspberries but close ....
Look Guy Fawks in the allotments ....no they are scare crows
But the scare crow does have a Halloween mask on
Puzzled and bewildered by the sweet corn and does Grandma know what they are sticking out of ground ...mmmmm yes they are leeks by this time I am just wondering what would have happened if us oldies weren't there to keep an eye on them
Memo do not eat the vegetable soup the teacher is planning on them all making next week
But all said and done a very enjoyable afternoon
And I didn't half impress my dgd that her teacher had to ask her Grandma the answers ....yes a really nice afternoon ....so am off to eat my tea

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

mhoc

Savvybuyer wrote: »

A shocking occurrence in T today. Another 'woman in front' story. The woman in front...the customer in front of me at T bought a 1.5Kg bag of McCains frozen chips. Probably at T's expensive offer price of £2. If only she had picked the Chunky Cut instead of the Straight Cut and had chosen 1Kg instead of 1.5Kg, she may well have then paid much less. Chunky Cut 1Kg 96p in M. So, buying two of those - T shelf price of £2.60 each! - might have got 500g more product and paid 8p less than what she paid. At £2.60 x2 vs M at a total of £1.92 would have contributed over £3 to a discount! After she'd paid, I saw her receipt come out - she had still managed to pick up branded items that were 42p more expensive in total than somewhere else:rotfl:. So, even then, T's shelf price on her brands was too expensive. She doubtless slashed it down by some other purchase in her basket. And I suspect it just means the £2:eek: McCains - I thought "how expensive is this going to be?" before I saw it scanned - and it turned out £2:eek:. - was the same £2 elsewhere but her expensive branded loo rolls were probably just 42p cheaper elsewhere. Still way expensive - and, of course, she's, shockingly, paid £2 for the McCains chips:wall: instead of my price of cheaper for more! Or even less for a much cheaper price by weight. I acknowledge the Chunky Cut may be bigger chips and see people consuming more (if they aren't careful) - however the 500g extra would surely have made up for that and would, on M's price, have been 8p less than what she paid in total. Or she could have just got 1Kg of chips, if she just really needed that, rather than getting a bigger pack (of perhaps 500g more than she needed) because of some 'offer' price on it on the store that she was in, that is still much worse than a price (by weight) on the same brand elsewhere.

we always bought Mccain chips until the time Aldi chips were on a cashback page and now we only buy Aldi - usually the French fries and curly chips and OH eats the normal oven chips.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/shelves/frozen_chips_and_potatoes_in_aldi.html

mhoc

tonights dinner

Herta frankfurter sausages - £1 in Sada for Shopotize
Heinz beans - Shopotize?
aldi French fries and chips

LEJC

Who is ninetails....
they are on top of me on the quiz...
oh well...I'm currently 2nd my best ever score and none were guesses!

LEJC

mhoc wrote: »

tonights dinner

Herta frankfurter sausages - £1 in Sada for Shopotize
Heinz beans - Shopotize?
aldi French fries and chips

not too dissimilar to us then...I have resisted buying the frankfurter sausages...always think I should at this time of year but no one is really thay keen on them

but we have asda pork joint(compared favourably against M)
Bagette rolls
Aldi french fries
and coleslaw because we dont do beans!

bubbs

Evening all :wave:

mhoc

I keep forgetting to tell you to go to Home bargains

Bronnley RHS Gardener's Therapy Relaxing Bath Soak 250ml (£1.99) (Brown packaging)
natural gardeners therapy soap bar with shea butter 99p
natural gardeners therapy moisturising hand and nail cream £1.99

these were on a shelf together in my store

even in the packaging these smell lovely - perfect gift for female gardeners but the soap and hand cream should be OK for male gardeners as well as stocking fillers

you could very easily make up a gardeners goody bag with these - using a hessian bag with some sort of floral design on it

Savvybuyer

mhoc wrote: »

we always bought Mccain chips until the time Aldi chips were on a cashback page and now we only buy Aldi - usually the French fries and curly chips and OH eats the normal oven chips.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/shelves/frozen_chips_and_potatoes_in_aldi.html

Quite right. I can never understand these people (probably the vast majority of the public:rotfl:) that stick with expensive brands (for me, even on £2 offer McCains are expensive - and, to be truthful, 96p for the 1Kg chunky ones at M is probably still too dear too:rotfl:) - for me SP Oven Chips, will be fine!:D:D).

Or...maybe we use potatoes and put them into the fat fryer?:think:

On those... nicely links to this info. before I leave - I went to A yesterday, in search of some potatoes (and taking a risk in case M played ball on the 12.5Kg Unwashed which today they have not) - and the reason that the White Potatoes are straight £1.69 online... is because they've put the price up, in effect, by taking the mbuy away:mad::mad:. So no 2 for £3 to be had at all. I looked at them and saw the SEL at straight £1.69 and the bags with £1.69 on them too. I went on, initially, to persevere and try to do a useless "10% cheaper" shop giving a few pence:( back off each item - and then the store didn't have any of the right milk - only milk that messed up my calculations - so I gave up and left. So, a wasted journey:o:(. And not even any wombles as no-one shops on a Tuesday at that time. Save money - live better. I will indeed by saving money by not buying anything at all - and living better by going to T and getting the Eday potatoes there:p. £1.18 instead of expensive 10% off M's £1.43.

And then...got to T... and found the Baking Potatoes 2.5Kg at £1:T. (So it cost [Strike]me[/Strike] the other person again:D - but it's all same household:( - less that what I expected. We're too far away from A here now and so straight £1 would make sense - rather than tripping all the way back to A which I think would use more than 10p worth of fuel.) Always pays never to assume that your regular option is the best. Although, to be fair, I couldn't see any Eday potatoes in the store - I'd have been furious:mad::mad: if they had had none left and if there were none - it turned out the Baking Potatoes - on offer. So maybe it can now be A's 2.5kg Baking Potatoes £2:eek: vs £1 T. Can anyone confirm that that is working - so that then we can 'punish' them for, in effect, putting up the price of the White Potatoes and being so expensive normally on their Baking Potatoes anyway? 90p net for 2.5kg Baking Potatoes would be 'alright' and better than Lidl's offer on the Oakland Maris Piper weekend.