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annieme

I never seem to be able to keep up with the thread & what I'm about to say might be really old news but in case others aren't aware:
I offered my dd some Xmas cards bought in sale a couple of years ago. She declined as the date was printed on the back. I had no idea some stores did this. Presumably it's to make people like her buy current cards at top prices. I must admit I've told dh the rest of my 2012/13 cards are going to the charity shop!

bubbs

spud01 wrote: »

Thankyou bubbs, my £10 Morrison voucher from the sun arrived today, so a cheap salmon for me, and I will get the fish monger to fillet it.

Glad i could be of use:T:T

bubbs

mhoc wrote: »

The Christmas tree hunt

Firstly we went to Aldi which was tree less.

Then we went across the road to Morrisons which always has a man with a container of trees every year so we asked him how much - the small ones were £25 and the big ones, the size we wanted were £45 :eek: - about twice as much as I was expecting to pay

so then I said we would try another place by a pub on the way home but in the meantime as we were going to Sainsbury's I said we would look in at B & M - I am short of gift bags ideally silver and ideally reduced but B & M didn't have them, in fact very few decorations left.

Firstly we found a trolley with a £1 coin still in

Our B & M has an excellent garden centre outside and its been a great place for plants over the last 2 years.

And then we found Christmas trees, OK not bare rooted as I wanted but still they had Christmas trees of the right height and shape that I wanted so I got a chap to fetch one for me.

The best thing was all trees and wreaths now have 25% off so a £24.99 tree was £18.75 :j

Then OH pipes up "You do realise that we are in the wrong car and there is no way in hell that tree would fit in the small car"

Then he emphatically denies that he was aware when we setting off that we were looking for trees and hoping to get one today :eek::mad: - who on earth was I talking to before we set off then - the cats :rotfl:

Yes I should have noticed myself that we were in the wrong car but its such a mither now getting out of the house - as well as nagging OH out of the door even though he was insisting he was at deaths door you have to remember the shopping lists, the right loyalty cards, tills pits and MOCS for the shops you are going to, £1 for the trolley, bags for life, the basket with the recycling stuff etc and you automatically just pick up whatever keys are for the car easiest to get out of the drive or pointing in the right direction.

so the chap put the tree aside for us and we drove all the way home again.
Then OH decided to take youngest sons car as its an estate car - only just taxed and re insured it this morning and freshly back from the garage - very good timing
I was aghast, very nervous about cars I am not used to being in but its a very comfortable safe car but it was the right car to take as the tree only just fitted inside

so we did another trip back to B & M - so about 20 mile all told and sons car which was messy anyway now is full of tree bits

But we now have the Christmas tree and its standing outside in the cold for the time being in a bucket of water to keep it hydrated.

Yeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa glad you got one:T:T:rotfl:

mhoc wrote: »

at least you lot listen when I need to vent off steam, OH just tried to talk over me. I end up writing down on a piece of paper whatever point I am trying to get across :rotfl:

My OH - well he cant be all bad for us to have managed to stick together all of these years

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: i always say dont know how mum and dad been married nearly 50 yrs:eek: she does nag and always has especially at him:o

bubbs

annieme wrote: »

I never seem to be able to keep up with the thread & what I'm about to say might be really old news but in case others aren't aware:
I offered my dd some Xmas cards bought in sale a couple of years ago. She declined as the date was printed on the back. I had no idea some stores did this. Presumably it's to make people like her buy current cards at top prices. I must admit I've told dh the rest of my 2012/13 cards are going to the charity shop!

Oh bloomin heck i didnt know that:eek:

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annieme wrote: »

I never seem to be able to keep up with the thread & what I'm about to say might be really old news but in case others aren't aware:
I offered my dd some Xmas cards bought in sale a couple of years ago. She declined as the date was printed on the back. I had no idea some stores did this. Presumably it's to make people like her buy current cards at top prices. I must admit I've told dh the rest of my 2012/13 cards are going to the charity shop!

I can't say I've ever really noticed whether or not there is a date on the back of the cards. It is not something I would look at when I receive a card either ... So I'm going to hang onto mine and continue giving them out :money:

mhoc

annieme wrote: »

I never seem to be able to keep up with the thread & what I'm about to say might be really old news but in case others aren't aware:
I offered my dd some Xmas cards bought in sale a couple of years ago. She declined as the date was printed on the back. I had no idea some stores did this. Presumably it's to make people like her buy current cards at top prices. I must admit I've told dh the rest of my 2012/13 cards are going to the charity shop!

That's my next job, to get OH to find the cardboard box in the loft with the cards as I really need to get at least one card in the post.

But mostly I am going to send everything I can off to the charity shop

When the kids were little I used to have three selection boxes with their names on full of an assortment of cards and they could write any amount of cards they wanted for teachers and school friends, I still have the boxes but I think I really need to cull the contents a bit

I still have cards that my dad wrote and these still go out every year, my mum has been gone too long so I have none of the cards she wrote

Tinyshoes

annieme wrote: »

I never seem to be able to keep up with the thread & what I'm about to say might be really old news but in case others aren't aware:
I offered my dd some Xmas cards bought in sale a couple of years ago. She declined as the date was printed on the back. I had no idea some stores did this. Presumably it's to make people like her buy current cards at top prices. I must admit I've told dh the rest of my 2012/13 cards are going to the charity shop!

I've just sat this afternoon and written all my cards I noticed this too half way through writing mine the Ts packs have Chistmas 2013 written on the back. I must have no shame I carried on writing them.

The Boots ones I bought before that don't have any date. :T I also have last years WHS I got free on O2 no date :T hope this years don't either not looked yet. But have just opened the ones bought 10p in Ts earlier this year have 2014. :eek:

mhoc

bubbs wrote: »

And what?:p

I think it was the Christmas tree quest mini saga that got a bit disjointed :rotfl: