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  • michaels
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Been car booting, got some stuff... spent £11 on stuff I wanted/needed ... and a couple of things I didn't really need.

    Had a lucky find, 5 GU bulbs for £1 .... so that'll be the kitchen lights sorted, I needed three.

    Got some plain/cream "faux silk" curtains that were worth trying.... still in the pack, with tie backs, £3. Having them gives me choices/options .... rather than not having a choice and/or having to spend £40-50 on new ones that'd do. Only thing I "dislike" about them is they are plain and I was looking for something of a pattern to "lift" the starkness...


    Not sure you could even give away non-led GU10s nowadays


    WE have various bags of curtain hooks etc - each time we need some though it is normally quicker to spend a quid buying some more from poundland rather than finding where they are put away....
    I think....
  • GDB2222
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    You can get curtain rings that clip round the pole. Saves taking the pole down to thread them on from the end.
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  • PasturesNew
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    edited 12 June 2018 at 12:30PM
    michaels wrote: »
    Not sure you could even give away non-led GU10s nowadays
    Probably can't, that's why two boxes were donated to charity and I got them from their stall
    michaels wrote: »
    WE have various bags of curtain hooks etc - each time we need some though it is normally quicker to spend a quid buying some more from poundland rather than finding where they are put away....

    I'll check £land, I could pop up there later....never been aware of them before, but I wasn't looking before. Need both parts, rings AND hooks to do it.

    I found that a lot of these things were sold in, say, packs of 4-5, so I'd have needed 8-10 bags at whatever price a single bag was - and it all adds up.
  • PasturesNew
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    edited 12 June 2018 at 12:30PM
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    You can get curtain rings that clip round the pole. Saves taking the pole down to thread them on from the end.
    I didn't know that - of course, they'd be pricier and harder to find... but I don't mind taking the pole down as it's an easy one to do
  • vivatifosi
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    Regarding bits and bobs for the house. A few months back, Aldi had lots of nautical themed decorative items for the home. Being that we must be a good 60-70 miles from the nearest proper coast (as opposed to the Thames estuary); these all went into the half price sale bins.

    It's s0ds law I tell ya. I bet they never dropped as cheap in Pasturesland.
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  • silvercar
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Regarding bits and bobs for the house. A few months back, Aldi had lots of nautical themed decorative items for the home. Being that we must be a good 60-70 miles from the nearest proper coast (as opposed to the Thames estuary); these all went into the half price sale bins.

    It's s0ds law I tell ya. I bet they never dropped as cheap in Pasturesland.

    I would have thought people who don't live by the sea would be more likely to buy nautical items; people near the sea can just look out of their window.
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  • PasturesNew
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    silvercar wrote: »
    people near the sea can just look out of their window.

    Here that window would cost you about £1million for starters... I'm in the "cheap seats" about a mile from there. Could probably see it if I got a ladder up to the roof :)
  • PasturesNew
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    edited 11 June 2018 at 11:00AM
    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Regarding bits and bobs for the house. A few months back, Aldi had lots of nautical themed decorative items for the home. Being that we must be a good 60-70 miles from the nearest proper coast (as opposed to the Thames estuary); these all went into the half price sale bins.

    It's s0ds law I tell ya. I bet they never dropped as cheap in Pasturesland.

    Mass produced compressed MDF stamped with a picture of no note in the main.... most wouldn't touch that except on a strange whim....

    I see a lot of it, everywhere. I'd rather go without than see a lot of the tat that's for sale for the sake of cashing in on a "trend" the Chinese are manufacturing for.

    I just googled it. This lot starts on 15 June.
    https://www.aldi.co.uk/coastal-living
  • silvercar
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Here that window would cost you about £1million for starters... I'm in the "cheap seats" about a mile from there. Could probably see it if I got a ladder up to the roof :)

    At least you have the option of walking to the sea! I miss it.
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  • Pyxis
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    Pastures, I have just sent you a pm about offloading stuff you might be wanting to get rid of.
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