Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Tinyshoes

Not seen it mentioned 4 hour Groupon SUPERSALE 15% off local deals ends 8pm. We have missed most of it but might help someone.:)

TrulyMadly

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Dreading what answers you might get to this, what with having three girls. :eek:

Running away to Gretna Green might be an option:rotfl:

Tinyshoes

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Running away to Gretna Green might be an option:rotfl:

Embarrassed to say but it's not something we have ever made plans for, whatever life has thrown our way in expenses we have made it up at the time.

I'm hoping they all don't decide around the same time. :rotfl:

TrulyMadly

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Embarrassed to say but it's not something we have ever made plans for, whatever life has thrown our way in expenses we have made it up at the time.

I'm hoping they all don't decide around the same time. :rotfl:

We have no plans in place either TS to be honest. What will be will be.....my friend is happy to contribute to her sons wedding but knows that her daughters in laws won't be offering the same gesture. Difficult.

savvy_sal

Evening all.

I've been for an afternoon out.
I have family in Lancing(a few miles from Worthing).Already arranged to visit today.They wanted to go to Worthing to buy an iron so I went with them to get my seeds.
On the way back getting petrol they decided to get the car washed.I said I don't like automatic ones but thought this may have changed.It's over 20 years since I last went through one.
Of course it got stuck half way through and I felt very queasy.It's the feeling that you are moving when you're not.
Someone got out to call an assistant and it continued it's cycle.

Glad to get out of there.

Anyway they gave me a few wombles to check and one had a small glitch on it.

1x Heineken Premium Lager (650ML) £1.70 £1.99
1x Estrella Damm Beer (660ML) £1.98 £1.99

The trigger is staropramen premium lager 660 ml.Bar code 501015381486

3 for £5 on receipt dated the 16th.

Stela Artois 568ml and Magners irish are £1.50 in tesco so along with the trigger should return £1.30 on £5 spend

mhoc

LEJC wrote: »

Depends really TM....if they have lived together then some couples want to absorb the cost as it saves mum and dad having too much input!

When we got married we were lucky that my parents sucked up the cost of the wedding and his the evening do....no mean feat as there were 250 during the evening.

I guess nowadays its whoever can or want to chip into whatever if they dont go down the traditional route...it seems very much as if perhaps both sets of parents contribute an amount which is then perhaps spent by the B&G as they see fit.

Perhaps Mhoc has some words of wisdom...I think she's facing a a wedding soon.

6 months left and counting down ...:D

as soon as eldest child and bf were engaged we transferred an amount into eldest child's account, same day. This was to start their wedding fund and there was no stipulation on what they could so spend it on.
4 months later BFs parents (on twice our income - I need an emicom for raised eyebrows) decided they were paying for the catering so eldest child had to expand the catering budget to make it a similar ammount to what we had given
Everything else they are paying for themselves so very roughly it's been 2/3 paid for by both sets of patents and 1/3 by themselves

eldest child has got a very detailed excel chart - a friend passed on hers so she adapted it to their own requirements and everything is nearly accounted for - a few knotty details yet to be sorted like where to stay the night before and the hairdressers on the day ...

Serendipitious

TrulyMadly wrote: »

We have no plans in place either TS to be honest. What will be will be.....my friend is happy to contribute to her sons wedding but knows that her daughters in laws won't be offering the same gesture. Difficult.

It's impossible to make a decision based on what others involved in the wedding are doing, and equally impossible to know whether anyone else's lack of input is due to unwillingness to help, or simply not being in a position to help. And some people will look really unwilling whereas the reality of it is that they just don't want to disclose their lack of finances.

I only had one DD so I didn't have to worry about siblings. But if there had been more, I know I would have had to do the same for each of them. Someone I know took this to its extreme. They paid for Child One's wedding then the same day gave Child Two a cheque so they'd both had the same...

I think you just decide to do your best for your own, irrespective of what seems fair or not regarding the input of the 'other side.' Then none of it can hurt or rankle.

mhoc

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Running away to Gretna Green might be an option:rotfl:

and the best option

Serendipitious

Anyway, having just mentally reviewed the £ks I spent on the marriage-that-ended-in-divorce, it's time to return to brass tacks.

It says on the JF bundle deal, 80 points with this purchase. I see they have only added 40 points.

Please has anyone else had 40, or did you get the promised 80?

ETA for obvious reasons I won't be raising this with them, just curious about what people got.

mhoc

LEJC wrote: »

It does seem very quiet at home this evening......

it won't be long until the end of term and sometimes they have reading weeks so hang on in there ....

hugs