Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

pandoraskids

bubbs wrote: »

My body is living on knackered at the minute :rotfl:
2000, 2 x 1000, 4 x 500 and 2 x 200:D
When I have sorted this stuff will have a complete count up and only bought what I needed so no returning :T

Good work bubbs

Anon

Why would someone spend £300 in S ... in one transaction full of small items :huh:.

That would be 30 goes ... though if you are daft enough to spend that much in one transaction perhaps you have more money than sense anyway .

Anon

Savvybuyer

pandoraskids wrote: »

It didn't really take me that long tweets, I think it was Savvy that suggested an hour :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I meant taking a pile of about 15 individual magazines, taking each one in turn, finding the page from each with the crisps coupon, cutting it out and putting each cut-out coupon in turn into a pile and then putting that pile of coupons in a safe place. And then disposing of the mags. In fact my explanation now probably took an hour to read:rotfl:.

Or is it me that just takes an hour for? Actually I don't think it was quite as long as that, but does take more than a few minutes to find and take a coupon out of the 'middle' of several separate mags., together with what I think are my extremely subtle and almost not there fine motor problems. I don't think I grip scissors, or anything else, "properly" but it's such a minor and extremely tiny difference from the norm that it would hardly be noticed it existed and, on its own, wouldn't even be thought of as much of a problem at all but I suspect it adds about two or three seconds to the entire thing. Or maybe it took only a few minutes but it felt like an hour:rotfl: - even though it's a repetitive task, it's something that's practical rather than writing things down repeatedly.

The fine motor skills are more about inability to catch a football during a game of play. I can catch one fine, if someone throws one to me just as part of throwing a ball to me but, in a game, where you have to concern yourself with other things as well and how the game is being played, together with me getting no body language that someone is wanting to send me the ball, it doesn't work at all and it's now obvious why I was always the last person anyone wanted to pick for their sports team.

One of my relatives, whom the medics claim to have Asperger's, who actually I think has pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (because they don't have a specialist interest which is part of Asperger's), doesn't have problems with things such as peeling potatoes, which I have always, to some extent, had. Again, my 'problems' are almost not problems, because I can peel potatoes, I can do them fine - maybe takes me 'ages' to do:rotfl: - not as long as some people though, who are properly physically disabled or unable to do them at all - but I've never gripped a potato in the right way. Or a pen or pencil. People have shown me how to do it, but when the situation comes, I can never hold them that way - I hold a pen in a very slightly ususual way therefore - always have - but I use a pen and write perfectly well (other than the fact that it seems I'm not holding the pen in quite the 'right' way but it doesn't really matter). My relative has no difficulty gripping potatoes correctly, so they don't tend to keep slipping out of your hands - I'm clumsy with things anyway from time to time, sometimes turn the tap on a little bit too much and it splatters everywhere in the split second before I put it down to the level I ought to have turned it onto - but mhy relative is absolutely fine. I think the clinicians are wrong anyway - even though I go along with them - my relative is supposed to have schizophrenia (I'm not sure it really is although, unfortunately, they clearly are mentally unwell) but they also say they have Asperger's. However, one of the criteria for Asperger's is that someone doesn't have another condition such as schizophrenia. So, as usual, the professionals - that don't have autism - are technically wrong as, if they have diagnosed schizophrenia, then they 'can't' diagnose Asperger's - although, if the issue had occurred to them which it probably has not, they'd doubtless come up with some exception to their rule and decide that they can. They could be looking at different criteria for Asperger's as different medical manuals may differ and of course I haven't explained or discussed all this long technical stuff with them as would take too long and be complex. However, my relative clearly does have - it's technically not Asperger's but I think has to be the "not specified" condition so it would not be right to diagnose them with schizophrenia and not with some autism condition that they clearly do have (and which is probably more pervasive). I don't think it's really schizophrenia. Anyway, who am I to know? I haven't done any medical study and I'm totally not qualified - although I did think, and then rule out wrongly, that I had Asperger's for about a week in the 1980s (dared not breath a word about my thought to anyone back then as I was at school and feared I might be pulled out of successful mainstream school, be put in a specialist school and be forgotten about) long before the medical professionals even diagnosed it in anyone - first diagnosis of anyone in this country was 1996.

So, I'm way ahead of everyone again aren't I? They'll probably tell me, in fifteen years, that it was the development disorder not specified all along and was never schizophrenia but is something else:rotfl:. It's not funny though as - well I wouldn't say it was necessarily hard living with - I'm looking at me having to cope with having a relative who supposedly has schizophrenia (or the way in which it presents in them) - but that's just the situation you have to deal with (you don't know if it had been any other way it would have been any easier) and you just deal with whatever is. You just get on with your life and are dealing with it - it's not, for me, necessarily harder than anything else. In fact, just like I don't know that I am dealing with some aspects that arise from my autism, as a result of never having experienced not having autism, I don't necessarily know that I am dealing with anything extra that I wouldn't have otherwise had, if that makes sense. Because I don't know that I wouldn't have had that thing to deal with had it been any other way. As for not knowing what extra my autism is imposing on me, I mean those times when, in the past, I felt I was "putting my back out" to achieve merely the same as everyone else seemed to be achieving with no effort (then again, I don't experiences all their struggles that they had in trying to achieve that thing) - those are the extra burden, perhaps, of my disability but I can't assess how much as I've always naturally been doing that - so I don't know that extra that I'm having to deal with but certainly do know the extra in other areas - such as my repeated lack of success in social relationships or situations. That is clearly a "burden", although it has never felt like one. It was merely frustrating never to make proper friends - and I still don't have proper friends - not in RL that I see - and upsetting when reminded I didn't have a girlfriend - after several times over years of being reminded - however, now, there's no frustration or upset at all as it is clear why things developed as they did. And I am happy with less social interaction out in the world with face-to-face - I deal better on my own, or just me and my relative, to whom we rarely talk to each other unless actually needed for useful tasks and information:rotfl: - though we do talk many times a day - I mean we'd aren't constantly chatting to each other - I do need to see other people, about once a week or once a month, other people are important in our lives, but I need it much less than most, like being left alone undisturbed just to get on with doing what I am doing - whether writing on here:rotfl: or doing everyday essential home life tasks - and I just deal better if I see outside people only occasionally rther than have them as a constant presence. Occasionally could be five minutes on a couple of days, then nothing, then five minutes in two days' time depending on if I happen to be in a shop needing to buy groceries and just see a particular staff member, purely by chance of their till being free, then. No problem doing that, as I and when I need to buy anything we run out of - if we needed something every day, I'd be there every day - and you don't have to say much except put your groceries on the conveyor, tell them you're fine packing them when they ask if you want any help, pay for the goods and perhaps thank them if they give you any change so it's not a social interaction conversation (though some customers occasionally, to my annoyance:mad::rotfl:, use it as that - annoying in keeping me waiting though - I think they recognise if any non-autistic person is waiting in the queue but don't know I'm there as no body language or perhaps I'm inadvertently saying I'm fine if you keep me waiting for ages:mad::rotfl:).

fuzzgun19

mrsmac10 wrote: »

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Thanks, I’ve made a claim on Slopimum for all 3.

Today’s shopping was a bit of a let down. Traveled to another T, no bbq crisps, and the jobsworth on ss was awful “only one per transaction” managed 3 packs.
I did get 5 tuna though, thanks to op on that one.

Then on to S, only did one transaction which gave another 500

So I’ve spat my dummy out with S. 11 transactions 8x 500 and 3x 200. No wombles either. Disappointing:(

elainemn

What a good shopping day.

OH put £70 in the van and I paid in the shop so it was quicker. He got 1 x 2000, 3 x 500, 3 x 200 which was not too bad for something he would buy anyway. Also got 2 x £1.50 off £10 which were used later.

I managed 20 packs of tuna, a few crisps (still have 6 MOCs left), 5 packs of Magnums. I also got 2 packs of flour from the jumble sale.

Then went home to empty the boot & next to Sainsburys where I wombled 1 x 2000 screwed up in a receipt, 2 x 500 & 2 x 200. This is the most I have ever wombled on nectar points. I also wombled some receipts where the person had not used a nectar card and a £7.50 off £50 which a kind SA gave me in cash when adding my points. I used a wombled £4.50 off £30 on a bag & a few bits. I paid for this with a gift card and when I took it back, they gave me full price back onto a gift card. I had made the shop up with more cereal for cash back that I took straight back as was out of date (a different store to yesterday). When I got my refund, she put an extra £5 on a gift card for my trouble. I spent this on a couple of nice panda items for stocking fillers for DD to get another £10 shop.

I need to do a check on how many points I have got, but have totally lost track.

Next to A for woopsies (first time in weeks) and to spend some of my APGs. I am now shattered and need to cook the tea.

pacifica9

Kettle's on.... Any cake left TM?

mrsmac10

oops Forgot to lift my nectar card so no fuel I was Sainsburys when I noticed so no big shop but I did buy hair bobbles and a hairband that were reduced

Thanks to the op for reporting Sorry cant remember who Most of the really reduced stuff was gone but happy with bobbles at 34p and a couple of compact mirrors at 38p

fuzzgun19

So, bit of a dilemma for me. I have 10 crisp mocs left.
Do I travel again spending £3 ish in petrol to a different T in the hope of getting multiple packs.. not worth it for only 1 pack.

Does anyone local know what staff are like with crisp mocs in T st0ckton?

bubbs

pandoraskids wrote: »

Good work bubbs

Just counted up and got 19,200 points so double up that is :T:T:T:T:T:T

P2TKL

Does anyone on here write reviews on trip advisor? I do and keep getting awarded points. However I haven't a clue what you can do with these points. Does anyone know please ?