Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

diluvsdiscounts

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Do you know what Di....I would just go and buy that Ted Baker set at full price......that'll teach'em:rotfl::rotfl:

Teach who? I just don't want to spend £25 on them but at 70% off I want them all :rotfl:

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Have had 2 offers from friends to get me bits as I said I am definitely not going but there really is not anything I want. :eek:

I finished packing the last of my bargains away earlier today and I'm sorted for the year already and beyond if I am honest. I have got better bargains elsewhere this year, afraid Boots have lost my business, nowadays it's sale is too late in the day. I have had no scrums, mostly leisurely online shopping from M&S and SD that has been either ready for me to collect or delivered to my door with no hassle whatsoever.

And I was Boosting as MSE now call it :rotfl: long before MSE even existed. Even if I wasn't going away tomorrow I would still be giving it a miss this year. I am a reformed character...:o

But TS have you seen the treasure chest?

MKS wrote: »

Loved the sneak in there.

rose28454

MKS wrote: »

Another Mamia convert here. The nappies are excellent, far better than the 'leading' brands for fit, absorbency, leakage etc. Thank goodness that Dotty isn't here. He would have turned that comment around. :eek:

Even my son and his wife who both earn good money use Mamia although my dil refuses to set foot in Aldi as she says its so disorganised so my son goes every few weeks on his own. My daughter's in laws buy them a box every couple of weeks. Dil worked for the marketing company that markets Pampers and she said they are such a bad company she would never use their nappies. However when she told her National Childbirth Trusts mums she uses Mamia they thought she was joking. I have to say they are brilliant as my grandaughter is 7 months and I can count on one hand the number of times she has had a leaky nappy.

Tinyshoes

davemorton wrote: »

Sorted that for you, Elliechoons backed me up, as no one would believe I had found something useful

Oh yes far more useful than Jakemans.

Have you been down on your hands and knees to look for more? It has been working for us ladies.

Thanks for finding them will be taking a few up to DD she loves freddos. :T Not sure whether to tell her they are popping candy ones or leave it as a surprise. :rotfl:

simpson100

Noticed on shopmium there's a couple of freebies on go ahead slices and bars. There's also up to 50% off when purchasing 3. T v A £1.69 v £1 on a targeted shop could work out 16p each handy for Cos or cs if u&g or frogs are still to be claimed.

MKS

Tinyshoes wrote: »

MKS, I never did thank you for the heads up on that tv program about the walks, I did watch it, very good it was too.

I've done the part of the walk from Studland to Swanage with the girls when they were younger. Really interesting when it somewhere you know well so thank you. x

You are more than welcome. Watched it too and took me back a couple of years. Have spent more then 25 years at weekends and school holidays in the south of France. NT membership was an MSE way of parking at Studland etc. It's quite ironic really. All of my major purchases have been bought there during that time as were all much cheaper (cars, appliances etc). Just replaced a couple of tv's and got into conversation with the salesperson.:o Mentioned the brilliant deals that I'd had with Purewell Electricals over the years. They not only price matched but beat them by 10%. Happy bunny.

Sunshinemummy

Borrowed from FB

After dropping off her suitcase in the bedroom, she stepped into the bathroom and her hilarious story begins,

When I entered the bathroom I was greeted by a sweet citrus smell. The entire bathroom seemed to have been scrubbed just before my arrival. I looked around astonished that my husband would think to clean the house just before my arrival (God knows how much I hate returning to a messy house) and that’s when I saw it.

One of the children’s cereal bowls sitting on the shelf with what seemed to be an old bar of soap sitting in it. I didn’t remember buying grapefruit scented soap but it could’ve been from years ago. They have a tendency to dig up things long forgotten and put them on display for me.

It looked just like a bar of soap looks years after its prime. You know when it’s all dried up and misshapen? But it smelled delicious.

I picked it up and held it to my nose breathing the scent in. The smell of fresh grapefruit in a perfectly silent house is just short of heaven I believe.

The thing was I just couldn’t quite place when I had bought fancy soap and just exactly where they had found it. Throughout the night I returned several times to inhale it’s tropical scent. In between making dinner and washing my face. I never bothered to wash my hands after fondling it because it was, afterall, just soap.

The next morning the spell had been broken as I left to collect all the children and return to my life of chaos and macaroni and cheese- leaving my grapefruit scented silence as a memory. It wasn’t long after we returned when Eeny emerged from the guest bathroom pressing the bar to her lips and breathing deeply saying “This is my favorite. I love the way this smells.”

“I know!” I wholeheartedly agreed. “What IS that? Where did you guys get that?” I asked.

“Meeny found it in the boys bathroom at Tae Kwon Do and brought it home,” she happily replied.

And that’s when it hit me. It wasn’t some upscale boutique $15 soap I had been caressing for the last 12 hours. It was a urinal cake.

That’s right, catch your breath. An f-ing urinal cake. A URINAL CAKE!!!! A urinal cake from the public gym I take my 5 year old for Tae Kwon Do three times a week. A urinal cake that has been peed on by at least 1000 strange little boys that I just held against my cheek!!!!!

With this realization I screamed and jerked it from her hands flinging it into the trashcan.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!” she cried bursting into tears. “It’s my FAVORITE!!!!!”

“WASH YOUR HANDS, YOUR FACE, OH GOD WASH EVERYTHING!!!!!!” I screamed back.

And everything went black.

When I came to I realized I had only two options. As I went through my memory and all the things I had touched [eaten] since touching the vile thing I realized that in combination with all the things my kids had touched we really didn’t have much of a choice. I mean Tae Kwon Do is on Wednesdays and this was now Saturday!!!! This THING has touched basically everything in my house at this point.

So clearly our options were 1. Burn the house to the ground or 2. Pretend like it never happened and drink a bottle of wine [or two]. I’ll leave you guessing as to which I chose.

But either way here’s to kids being the most disgusting creatures ever to crawl the face of the earth and to teaching us some humility in the process.

MKS

Tinyshoes wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Perhaps we should have a sweepstake.

My will power is pretty good these days, still not ordered any mystery wine boxes. :A

Yet. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

TrulyMadly

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Have you been down on your hands and knees to look for more? It has been working for us ladies.

Seconds later.....after getting up from the floor:rotfl: I walked into someone who I used to work with years ago. She now has a little one and he was in the trolley making a huge fuss, while we spoke, of all the Freddos in my basket:rotfl:

I didn't even begin to explain:rotfl::rotfl:

MKS

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Ladies I am...;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHcDnqIz0jg

And where are you off to?

Tinyshoes

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

Teach who? I just don't want to spend £25 on them but at 70% off I want them all :rotfl:

But TS have you seen the treasure chest?

I have Di and I am still not tempted.

Have a little story, the last really big sale I did was 2013 the year my mum passed, I used to do most of her gift shopping for the year and xmas. I knew she wasn't going to be well enough to get me a birthday present so I picked myself the Ted Baker star gift a vanity case that year. Bitter sweet she passed before the May. I found it hard to move the gift from her bungalow to my house. It sat under my bed until earlier this year when I had to have the floor boards up to fix my leak. And I only opened it in the autumn and used the bubble bath. :eek: