Every Little Interests The Elite

Tinyshoes

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I'm guessing that you will have several children's baking sets on top of your wardrobe, a proper children's china tea set wedged under the bed and several little aprons folded up neatly behind the towels in your airing cupboard:)

Kids Tupperware baking sets that are in the loft. Timeless. :cool:

DD1 already bought a china tea set. I did have a kids apron think I already gave it to DD1. :rotfl:

purpledonkey

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

:eek::eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

What?! I didn't say a word. :whistle:

rebeccalb

silvercar wrote: »

Someone once told me that there is a reverse logic to Disneyland. Everyone assumes it will be mobbed on bank holidays, so no one goes and it is actually quiet.

We bought a book called "the unofficial guide to disney" and followed it to the letter. So much so that we were convinced that there just wasn't any queues that Summer and abandoned it one day, where we then found proof that there were queues.

2 quick tips:

Always start from the back of the park -everyone else starts at the front.

If you are doing a character meal in a hotel, do it on a non-park day. That way you are not wasting some of your in-park time and you are adding something to a rest day.



Message to arms = you have only 5 weeks to tone up. :eek:

Agree with this. When we went to island of adventure, we went straight for the Harry Potter area, and it was so quiet. 5-10 minutes for the rides, By the time we left it was heaving more like 60 minutes.

Tinyshoes

bubbs wrote: »

Yes but i am not as old as you, not the big "0" yet:p:p

Which "O" is the big one then?

hornetgirl

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

America yes. Rich, sadly not

qoc have you seen the thing in the box to the right about passport issues and the US? They have very recently changed their rules and quite a few people have been denied admission as a result in the last couple of weeks. Make sure you have the little gold camera symbol on the front.

TrulyMadly

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Wich "O" is the big one then?

Double 0 :rotfl:

purpledonkey

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Wich "O" is the big one then?

I think she means this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRiZRMLGjCY

Savvybuyer

hampydoodums wrote: »

Morning luvlies, savvy, my M have Vimto Strawberry pyramids, the sel has always been full price for me, no cherry flavour stocked

I don't think that's any good as the Strawberry version is £1.37? The Cherry version is the only one I'm aware of that is 34p. You should try all four of my four stores today, as I had the Cherry version in all of them. I had just a couple of battered packs in the only store today that had a 34p RTC label. It's the same story as with other items before though: I was helped by the other three keeping them in stock, seemingly because two of them both had what I believe to be incorrect SELs of £1.37* and the other store had no SEL at all for the 34p version+.

So, it looks like I've resolved my own query on the Vimto Eezy Squeezies but I now have other things that are unresolved. I think there's not much change overall in M today, except that, as now usual, I have lots of items including RTCs randomly in my stores, some of which have gone down even further. However, it seems there is no price crunch involving the Lightbody Me to You Cake and the Thornton Smiles Cake as each of them seems to have gone up from £3.50 to £4, if the SELs for £4 that I now have in my Ms are correct, and I think they probably are, and if the items were ever £3.50 in the first place as I think they probably were. I think the items were £3.50 before as that was on the SELs in every M I've had them in and also what m.com had; however I cannot know that any of them were ever correct:rotfl:. I just don't want to give incorrect information and say or suggest that something has gone up in price if in fact it hasn't. However, at some point you have to trust things.

I think, at the same time as the price crunch campaign, M does seem to have become very pricey on fresh fruit and vegetables to me. This is not just today but over the last couple of weeks, with the Broccoli at 50p and other items seem expensive to me as well. As does Kellogg's All Bran 750g, which came over the tannoy with the price crutch message, as it's gone down all of 38p to £2.50. However, I'm sure I've had All Bran 500g at £1 before, so 750g "should" be £1.50 and not expensive £2.50:eek:. I think the 38p will be immediately lost, and more, if you buy a Lightbody gift cake in M.

I have some RTCs, particularly on desserts and some yogurts:rotfl:. I've also lost a handful of items however:( and no longer know what price they are. I've lost the John Smith's Golden Ale (500ml). I also have an item only in two stores but with different SELs in both and no stock in either, so I am unable to confirm what price it is - and it does make a difference. I think the queries that weren't resolved at the second store weren't really resolved at the third or fourth store either - instead I was getting more conflict or lack of clarity over things that were clear prior to the third store coming in with a different price showing:(. I would have had an incorrect price on at least one item if I had stopped at my third store however. I know that because only the fourth store had the item and it revealed that it had gone down in price. There's most likely items that I have on my list that have gone down in price but I'm unaware about it. To be fair there wasn't much left unresolved at the third store, so I could have stopped at that point - but then the fourth one, whilst not having everything I could have done with seeing, was the only one that's told me one item has gone down more.

The item in question is an RTC that was on this thread last week which, at the time, to be honest, I thought was a bit bog-standard and wasn't a good price. I'd been seeing it in the last few weeks and not really bothering with it. Some of the items, such as the Finish dishwasher tablets, have been regularly £6 and hardly any good either. It's the Gordon's Apple & Elderflower Frozen Cocktail (250ml) at what my list currently has as "£1.00:eek: RTC". Indeed, this does appear to be too high, as I found Kopparberg Elderflower & Lime (250ml) in another M at 75p. In that light, I would never have gone for the Gordon's product at £1 and that seemed too dear for me. Not all RTCs are good - indeed there is one item now on RTC at £4 which has been £2.19 sometime last year:rotfl:. I was right to think the Gordon's cocktail shouldn't be bought at £1. It has now gone down to 47p RTC - but, as usual, the best price is available to far fewer people it seems as it's gone from elsewhere (my 47p store, surprise, surprise, also now had no stock). I wonder whether the Kopparberg has gone down further? I'm unable to confirm whether it has: does anyone know? TIA.

Meanwhile, I overpaid again:( - as I bought M's own wholemeal bread at 25p whoops, only to find one in my next store at 9p:(:(:p. I must console myself with the fact that there was only one bag at 9p left in that store and I bought it, so could not have got the other one, at the time, any cheaper than 25p. However, it's no good as I've paid 16p too much and, if I treat both of my breads as being 9p, I've effectively made my Vimto Cherry freezepops cost 50p instead of the 34p they should have been. I don't go for this 'save on one thing and then pay them back more on something else' as it's the same as not saving on anything really. So, another 16p given to them - although, I suppose, I don't pay too much in the first place, not like most people paying well over the odds on some things.

Finally, I've become aware, for the first time, that the Frugo drinks and Black Energy drinks are actually on a mix and match of 3 for £1 involving each other. Most of my stores, that have them, don't even show any mbuys (it's been so bad in previous weeks that, on one occasion, I had to rely on m.com and msm to know that they were on mbuy at all). However, one store today, for the first time, has revealed it's actually a mix and match. Previously I've only seen 3 for £1 offer label on them separately; however the store today now has an offer label that says "Frugo/Black Energy drinks" and it does help to know! :think:It is clear from msm now that it's a mix and match - however it has at least two versions of the Black drink missing:rotfl:.

*I don't know that they scan at 34p in these stores, although they probably do.
+It did scan, in this store, at 34p. I checked all other flavours that I found there - and, allegedly, they are £1.37. This was the same till where they told me the Cherry version was 34p however - so the £1.37s are most probably correct. My "£2" item there scanned at 98p - just, randomly, see if this really is £2 and, no it was not - but, whatever it was, it still wasn't good enough for me:rotfl:. I also found a different extra flavour in another store and checked it there and, again, supposedly £1.37 on that one (even after I am told the price I still do not know for sure that I have been given correct information, though, again, probably I have on this occasion) - so it looks to me like it is just the Cherry version.

savvy_sal

Savvybuyer wrote: »

That's not the only difference - they are different BCs and therefore completely different products. The product on the BC that includes the digits 402420 is therefore a potential trigger, if there is any A mbuy involving it.

http://groceries.asda.com/promotion/2-for-pound350/ls84844

Tinyshoes

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Double 0 :rotfl:

How rude. :eek: