It's time to start digging up those Squirrelled Nuts!!!!

Crabby

Just done a shop in Lidl at lahao, apart from it costing a bit more, drop in the £, (or maybe the wine and beer we bought), nothing has changed. We're still within budget and the nine year plan is holding up. So I'm going to continue enjoying the 23degrees and wall to wall sunshine.
Chau.

Sea_Shell

Business as usual in Aldi.

No panicking buying by anyone and most "in demand" items available.

Panic selling on the stock markets is another thing entirely!!!

JoeEngland

MallyGirl said:

I am glad I am a homeworker as this situation has meant they have stopped hassling me to visit the office more often - it takes 4 hours on a train plus transit to/from stations and requires an overnight stay so I try to avoid it as much as possible. They have even agreed to do my EOY appraisal by phone so I don't have to put my 'engaged' face on and pretend it's not a pointless exercise

Ah, the annual appraisal, that's another thing I don't miss about working!

DairyQueen

Sea_Shell said:

DH was high level management and so he would have had the responsibility for making decisions around all this stuff and the HR nightmare that would ensue.

Mr DQ is a consultant director. On Friday, one of his clients (the MD and company owner) decided to proceed with his skiing trip to the Italian Alps (yes, really). Adding insult to injury the maverick decided to drive. OH has been left with the task of preparing the company for Covid-19. His first recommendation will be that Mr MD self-isolates for 14 days on his return. This may be delayed for a while given that the Italian Alps have been closed today.

Presumably taking risks has built a successful business. Not quite as useful a trait when combating a global pandemic. 

DairyQueen

Village supermarket and pharmacy are still out of the usual suspects (sanitiser, tissues, paracetamol, blah de blah). I was lucky to snaffle the last, lonely anti-bac spray. Parents have been doing their usual online shop at Tesco and report very limited stock of loo rolls, beans, tinned tomatoes, dried pasta and, of course, zero sanitiser and anti-bac spray. They are 80s and housebound. They simply want to buy their usual one/two items.

Has it occurred to the stock-piling 10% of the population that they are creating shortages for the other 90%. Never realised just how many idiots are lurking in the UK population.

shinytop

I was in a supermarket today and the loos had run out of soap/hand cleaner.   
I told customer services but they didn't seem that bothered.

Username999

shinytop said:

I was in a supermarket today and the loos had run out of soap/hand cleaner.   
I told customer services but they didn't seem that bothered.

Try here... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/hand-sanitizer-gel/164116747024?hash=item26361ed310:g:NX0AAOSwPiFeZgDA
"hand sanitizer gel. Condition is Used. About a quarter of a bottle if anyone is desperate"
 hand sanitizer gel

Condition: Used

Time left: Time left:6d 07h 

(16 Mar, 2020 08:41:24 GMT)

£5,100.00 (9 bids) You get Nectar Points!!

DairyQueen

Username999 said:

shinytop said:

I was in a supermarket today and the loos had run out of soap/hand cleaner.   
I told customer services but they didn't seem that bothered.

Try here... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/hand-sanitizer-gel/164116747024?hash=item26361ed310:g:NX0AAOSwPiFeZgDA
"hand sanitizer gel. Condition is Used. About a quarter of a bottle if anyone is desperate"
 hand sanitizer gel

Condition: Used

Time left: Time left:6d 07h 

(16 Mar, 2020 08:41:24 GMT)

£5,100.00 (9 bids) You get Nectar Points!!

'9 bids'... You couldn't make it up.

Sea_Shell

I did manage to get a small bottle of "regular" hand gel in Aldi about 3 weeks ago, but that is the one thing they have run out of.  I don't think they ever stocked alcohol based gel.    However, I do have a small bottle of Spirytus 95%, which is a Polish drink that a colleague brought back from holiday, which I've never opened and dared even have a sip of.    That should do the job if it comes to it!!!    I also wondered if Acetone could do the job??   It's strong enough to strip gel nails off!!, and I've got a litre of that stuff.

We're not too worried about not having a "stash" of hand gel as we're not really out and about (or at work obviously).   We just have a really good hand-wash when we get back from anywhere.    

Like today, we're popping to the library.   We'll only be 30 mins tops, drop some off, pick up some more, straight home.

Had a look at the ISA figures.....oh dear!!

Thrugelmir

Buy good old fashioned Imperial Leather soap. PZC are well on the way to sourcing all their palm oil from renewable sources. Saves on plastic packaging as well.