Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Sunshinemummy

LEJC wrote: »

PD...

"If I can be honest with you",stop "thinking outside the box" or you will be "on the bus"!!!!

'No offence' 'with all due respect' I flipping hate these

Sunshinemummy

Tomorrow I am going to T.

Armed with a £6 off £40 and a £4 off £30 spend.

I have the following coupons;

Hipp (lots of)
New Covent Garden Soup £1 x 11
Little Dish x 6

My aim is to get a shop for 0.00p

With CS/COS.... Yoghurt and raisins...bread.... anything free

savvy_sal

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

Tomorrow I am going to T.

Armed with a £6 off £40 and a £4 off £30 spend.

I have the following coupons;

Hipp (lots of)
New Covent Garden Soup £1 x 11
Little Dish x 6

My aim is to get a shop for 0.00p

With CS/COS.... Yoghurt and raisins...bread.... anything free

The soup is £2.35 in tesco and won't brandmatch because they are 700g and morries and asda are 600g.

Sunshinemummy

savvy_sal wrote: »

The soup is £2.35 in tesco and won't brandmatch because they are 700g and morries and asda are 600g.

Thanks, I have to put some thought into my shop.... maybe some bacon like our Zippy.

I also need to go to Waities... :D:D

And HOF...:D:D:D

LEJC

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

'No offence' 'with all due respect' I flipping hate these

Oh come on SSM..."play the game" and "be in it to win it".....we all need you to give it "110%"

zippydooda

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

OMG..and I have had a cidre... I knew I should have gone to Tesco's first!

you do know, you need the hipp vouchers and bacon on cos/cs
get hipp in 3's

LEJC

..you know what I think I'm going to "raise the red flag and see which way the wind blows it"....never really understood what that one meant.

...but its time for a glass of wine in the garden and we'll follow that with a kebab....all class us!!!!!!
(and no not a single euphemism intended)

night all x

mhoc

so I thought this afternoon to distract me from the Superdrug website I'd do a bookshelf cull

in our dining room are 2 bookshelves with 4 shelves. The right hand one has three shelves of books I've got listed on Amazon (no I have no idea why either as only about 6 a year sell) I delisted half a dozen to go instead in the charity bag but then I found another half a dozen to take their place on the shelves so that was a false start

The left hand bookcase has all of the reference books. Many eons ago if you wanted to enter competitions to answer the comp question there was no google, you either had to go the library or you had to find answers amongst your own collection of reference books so over the years I accumulated a vast array of reference books on every subject and every version of encyclopaedia and dictionary ever invented. Not only were they in the left hand book case but a few others were scattered about so I rounded them all up in one place.
Some I am emotionally attached to like my big Collins dictionary and my very threadbare rhyming dictionary which helped write tie breakers and slogans so I will never part with these.
The rest though have not been used or even opened in years so I had a ruthless cull of these, think big coffee table sized books and library sized tomes - altogether I filled three of the big Aldi bags for life with these and then having sorted through and organised everything that was left - the left hand book case is still full to bursting so it needs a further cull on another wet afternoon.
Also at the bottom of the Amazon bookcase was a shelf mostly consisting of old YHA, National Trust and English Heritage dating back decades so all of these went into the waste paper collection - again not looked at for years and not giving me any joy just sat there.
Whilst on the floor I spotted an old wine box loitering under the dining room table which mostly had tourist brochures we brought back 3 years ago from a holiday and also very oddly Sophie cats pet insurance papers from 5 years ago - no idea why - all now in the recycled paper basket. Yes I do regularly vaccum and clean under the table but I must have just ignored it for 3 years

so then we went up to the Sainsbobs recycle centre with 3 large bags of books for the Oxfam bookbank, various old pillows and cushions for cloth recycling and a basket of the usual household plastics.

So after an afternoon of great effort I now have one empty book shelf which does not seem to equate to the amount of stuff that has left the house - no rhyme or reason. I think decluttering this house is going to be a very long job

Westvleteren

purpledonkey wrote: »

Do I want to look that up? :rotfl:

My mind is clean

LEJC wrote: »

"kummerspeck" - a German word which loosely translates to "excess weight gained from emotional overeating", but which is much better under its literal meaning: grief bacon.

Well I did learn two new words today but didn't want to seem boastful The other being hygge a danish word which the nearest english translation is cosy. Which ties in nicely with autumn :cool:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wellbeing/mood-and-mind/Danish-cosy-hygge-lifestyle-cosiness-winter-warmth-Nordic-Danes-Scandi-home-interiors/

Dizzy_Ditzy

Minihauk wrote: »

QOC - have you tried Calypso once a day sun stuff, on sale in Wilko and other stores? I find it good and much cheaper than P20.

Good evening All.

I burn with it P20 is the only stuff I can tan with, everything else I either stay lily white if fry with