Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

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TrulyMadly wrote: »

You haven't got a cat have you pippo?

Diffusers make them ill:o

I fully intended starting my stash clean out today but failed miserably:o

tweets wrote: »

They make Poppy ill and also plug in smelly things

Same with birds, essential oils are lethal, fine in other rooms though, it is the concentration level that matters.

Talking of which, the little devils did not want to go back in earlier, ďidn't help that one must have been watching the door and shot out when it was opened :rotfl::rotfl:

TrulyMadly

mhoc wrote: »

Savvy I expect that you are still in bed recovering from last night marathon posting session

I need your expert thought son the subject of oranges - best places to get them ideally in bulk for the cheapest prices.

OH has taken to eating oranges as if they are going out of fashion - never bothered before with fruit other than the odd banana but now he can eat 2 or even 3 oranges a night!
(I suppose its better than the biscuit eating but he still manages to produce a tide line around where he is sitting ...)

So maybe 20 oranges a week - I've just been getting packs of 5 or 6 at a time from wherever we are but he is always running out - yes he does have a desperately sweet tooth and possibly type 2 lies ahead. And yes he is an expensive man to keep.

When we have been away and we have a look at local supermarkets they seem to do huge bags of oranges - we even saw them in Alta, massive bags of 20 oranges from the Canary Islands! So they are available above the artic circle but its a bit far to go for a normal shopping trip!

I feel your pain mhoc. I try and have an orange every day and they are so expensive. If I had lots in the house I would eat more. They were usually one of my 8 items in an A shop. I sniff them out when they are whoopsied and that's the best I can offer:o

The only thing that comes close for me is dried mango and that's not cheap either:o

davemorton

TM, I dont think essentials such as fizz count. :A

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TrulyMadly wrote: »

I got some today in H'pool which means I can withdraw £20. Before I had time to put the bottle away the money was in my COS account:T:T

I picked up a leaflet and a temp Morrison's loyalty card and got 45 points on my £9 purchase.

So another failure on the Froctober front.

But to make up for it I got these 2 bad boys to go in the freezer for trifles:rotfl::D:o

I am doing this Froctober thing right aren't I?:rotfl:

I keep madeira cake in the freezer for summer pudding, slices lovely and thin straight out the freezer.

TrulyMadly

tweets wrote: »

They make Poppy ill and also plug in smelly things

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Same with birds, essential oils are lethal, fine in other rooms though, it is the concentration level that matters.

Talking of which, the little devils did not want to go back in earlier, ďidn't help that one must have been watching the door and shot out when it was opened :rotfl::rotfl:

I didn't know about this until Izzeyb posted and I put 2 and 2 together. Oz became really poorly, his inner eyelid drew across his eyes, he was severely dehydrated and was sleeping around the clock. The vet didn't have a clue what was wrong as nothing showed up in an examination. Within hours of removing the diffuser he started to pick up and I've never used one since.

TrulyMadly

davemorton wrote: »

TM, I dont think essentials such as fizz count. :A

Oh thank goodness:T:T

I think these cases will either be spectacularly good or the sweepings up...they will be some of the last going out I think as Twine closes on 8th. Delivery is Wednesday so I'll post pics then:)

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I feel your pain mhoc. I try and have an orange every day and they are so expensive. If I had lots in the house I would eat more. They were usually one of my 8 items in an A shop. I sniff them out when they are whoopsied and that's the best I can offer:o

The only thing that comes close for me is dried mango and that's not cheap either:o

I agree, the only thing I can suggest is whoopsies - I know of no good offers on oranges at the moment - I am now out of touch with M (perhaps what A wants) and haven't seen any good offers in Aldi/Lidl (then again, I haven't visited Lidl). I wouldn't buy single oranges, unless they were about 3p - they're even worse than the price of the packs. They will just have to do without if they have scoffed them, they've used all that was bought so that was it. I know not oranges, but I had a problem keeping my satsumas from disappearing when they were on decent save on 3rd pack offer - the problem is, if I buy more, the people at my home just think they can use them all up. So I unfortunately can only suggest whoopsies, but I'm not the right person for them as

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I got some today in H'pool which means I can withdraw £20. Before I had time to put the bottle away the money was in my COS account:T:T

I picked up a leaflet and a temp Morrison's loyalty card and got 45 points on my £9 purchase.

So another failure on the Froctober front.

But to make up for it I got these 2 bad boys to go in the freezer for trifles:rotfl::D:o

I am doing this Froctober thing right aren't I?:rotfl:

I lost again:mad::(. I bought two of these at full price (well, full mbuy price) in A today:eek:, they being just about the only good items I could find that, if they were to have compared, would only have compared against much more expensive elsewhere. I just never time the whoopsies right as, yet again, I could have paid less:(/got additional items from A for the same amount. I am missing the items for about 75p price as I paid nearly fourfold the cost.

I've also caved in - I've cracked and given up trying to find only items that have no equivalent any competitor or are more than 10% cheaper than any price any competitor would go to as there seem so few grocery items on which A actually is at least 10% cheaper (but then again it does not suggest it will be anymore). I'm having to include items on which A is the same price:wall: as competitors as that is the cheapest price now available to me - although I certainly won't be buying anything that is cheaper elsewhere if I can help it! I'm therefore losing as lost the 10% but can't get the items at any better price elsewhere anyway although I am only doing so so long as I have APGs. As soon as this ends, I will be buying price matched items at competitors or at least anywhere except A as I am certainly not paying cash to them for having effectively put up the cost from 10% off via the now-lost APG to merely price matching a competitor. I suggest everyone does this so as not to reward them for taking away the 10% money - even if sadly it will make little odds as people generally who didn't use the APG but shopped there will still be doing so and will still be paying more expensive prices on at least some items. A won't be bothered as a less than 1% minority will make little impact, even if that minority was enough apparently to cause them to lose enough to take that away. I think neither does buying whoopsies on which A (and other places) may make a loss due to over-ordering make a difference, even though it allows us to get items at cheap cost:money:. If we didn't buy the whoopsies, A would have thrown the item out anyway or given it away to charity if that's what they do and they still wouldn't have got the full price for it so I suspect it doesn't matter - the thing that would would be efforts by the supermarkets to avoid waste. Even so, we are not to become jaded by thinking "What's the point?" but do it anyway, shop away from A if you don't have no alternative, even if it doesn't make much difference to A, where items are same price once your vouchers are gone, as there is now no benefit to buying in A. I'd also be inclined to avoid shopping at S, given that the two might end up being one and any money given to either of them now would still be end up going to the same eventual place.

If the general public had any sense, they would not have wanted "lower prices" from A when it had a price guarantee and would instead have wanted A to be out of line with the other supermarkets. They would have wanted A to have higher prices that were out of step with the others, if they had understood this, as that made for more efficient shopping. A was out of step with competitors, as it offered 10% cheaper possibility which none of the others did. Now the public tells it when it is out of step and it therefore wants to be in step instead - and therefore merely offer the same price:wall: as everywhere else. I want an out of step supermarket - I am disappointed that it is to be in step, if it is to be, and offer merely the same price as everywhere else as there is no benefit to shopping there compared to any other place. Indeed, with the loyalty points offered at every other major supermarket, even though they are low value for each £1 spent, all the other places are marginally better than A. They are still out of step therefore, as being the only one that doesn't. Am I now contradicting myself and wanting them to be in step with the offers? However, there is no extra value to me on having a price which, although it is the cheapest on the market, is the same price as elsewhere. And if that price has been put up, in effect, by offering no refund against it where it wasn't 10% cheaper, it still is't 10% cheaper whether offered or not and as I see it has effectively been put up to the same price as the others - I'd be inclined not to reward the place that put up its price rather than making it cheaper than elsewhere and by at least as much margin as what it did before (because, if not, it is still effectively costing me more).

A is out of step with the price of a competitor, as it is now much more expensive than the competitor on items that were more expensive at the start of the week on which its shelf price remains unchanged (almost everything probably) when previously it could be made to be 10% cheaper than it (in a cynical way of having to draw that out of it by being put to claiming it through the PG rather than the price being 10% cheaper on the shelf in the first place). On so many items, where it could be made to be 10% cheaper, it is now unable to be made so and it's now currently cheaper to buy from the competitor - whichever competitor it is on each of the items, even though none of those can match what A offered and A, if it does put itself merely in step with them, offers no better value than them and we may as well shop (or stay) at the competitor.

tweets

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I didn't know about this until Izzeyb posted and I put 2 and 2 together. Oz became really poorly, his inner eyelid drew across his eyes, he was severely dehydrated and was sleeping around the clock. The vet didn't have a clue what was wrong as nothing showed up in an examination. Within hours of removing the diffuser he started to pick up and I've never used one since.

Poppy kept being sick and not herself and I remembered I had bought a few diffusers so removed them and she bucked up.

Then I was testing plug ins for could have been bzz and put them in bedroom and I always have bedroom door shut and they made me feel sick and Poppy was acting strange in bedroom so they went .

Don't want my girl ill

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tweets

Bedtime for me goodnight see you tomorrow :hello:

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tweets wrote: »

Poppy kept being sick and not herself and I remembered I had bought a few diffusers so removed them and she bucked up.

Then I was testing plug ins for could have been bzz and put thebm in bedroom and I always have bedroom door shut and they made me feel sick and Poppy was acting strange in bedroom so they went .

Don't want my girl ill

enterprise cheeky bird flying out of cage

We actually let them out, Pollux decided to escape the lounge though :rotfl::rotfl:

They were ravenous when they finally agreed to go back in the cage, they are not normally that bad :rotfl: