Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Serendipitious

tweets wrote: »

Thank you for the burnt on pan tip :T

You're welcome.

Put pan on stove with water in, add a bit of Daz and bring to boil, leave to cool then wash as normal. Or repeat, if it's stubborn. Rinse well.

At present, I have some Daz with boiling water from the kettle in a pyrex dish (I made and baked stuffing in that, so you can imagine.)

Picasso7

I bought a new office chair from Viking which I have been needing for some time now. £4.44 pending from Topcashback and 3000 Nectar points so I am fairly happy.

underperky

Iams cat food reduced in sada for the cat owners

bubbs

Afternoon all
Picasso where was the xtra points my nectar? please

Picasso7

Bubbs, it was on my app under offers. I had to link my account to my Nectar card and it seems to think I am a business so I didn't tell it I wasn't. Search for xxxxxxx (whoops sorry Redfox, forgot!) and it comes up. It didn't work with a one4all card but does seem to work multiple times though only one per order.

Picasso7

I couldn't find the right Optiwell yesterday and bought the larger size using my MOC for a free one. COS has just accepted it and credited me £1 so I am very pleased.

LEJC

For any one who still hasn't been hooked into the Mr shoes haircare RTC/own brand cheap and wants to make use of the advantage points
voucher.....I noticed that they do a large own brand sized hairspray range that seems to be reduced to £1.50 a can....might be something a little different to shampoo and probably good value at 2 cans for £1.

I went for a little walk in the sun this afternoon....and although I had a good look in Mr Shoes....I did resist.

Serendipitious

LEJC wrote: »

For any one who still hasn't been hooked into the Mr shoes haircare RTC/own brand cheap and wants to make use of the advantage points
voucher.....I noticed that they do a large own brand sized hairspray range that seems to be reduced to £1.50 a can....might be something a little different to shampoo and probably good value at 2 cans for £1.

I went for a little walk in the sun this afternoon....and although I had a good look in Mr Shoes....I did resist.

I got medium sizes £1 each as I find the large cans a bit unwieldy. Got extra points too, as in my A-card offers online they were doing 50pts and 75pts - one of these was vaguely labelled 'Professional Hair Care' and both worked on the own brand spray, both were applied to one receipt automatically, so I had 325 pts on one transaction. Also there's triple pts on any Shoes own brand toiletries and that worked on the cheap poo.

Just did kitchen and bathroom floors with a teeny drop of Mint & TeaTree in the water - came up lovely with no artificial chemical smell. Whole place just smells clean.

LEJC

Sadly seren,I rarely use hairspray and a can will last years....I still have a few of the testing ones I think either mr shoes or the scots sent last year or even the year before...

but I have loved this current promotion on RTC/points!!!!!

What has been good is that each shop has different things...and the more you look,the more you find.....

TrulyMadly

LEJC wrote: »

Thanks HG....I'm not always convinced about having energy to do things,sometimes it's just better to keep myself busy rather than to dwell too much on other issues.
I've felt myself slowly sinking back to a very dark place very gradually over perhaps the last 6 weeks or so....and its a place I dont want to be....therefore its time to start to put things in a better order.
My new role I think will help.it's doing what I'm good at but have not done since working days.Hopefully it wont take up too much time once things are licked into shape but in the interim 6 weeks or so I can see the challenge that awaits, and in a weird way I'm quite looking forward to the battle!

Just on this LEJC....a close colleague has amazed me in recent weeks. She had descended into a low mood after Christmas and challenged herself to start feeling better ( I'm not talking about depression here and obviously not talking about a quick fix)
She has set herself small targets and built a strict routine into her day and it's around the following. It's common sense really

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