You know your an MSE Oldstyler when...

lipidicman

Queenie wrote:

When the FIRST place you hit in a supermarket ... are the reduced counters

Dont forget the thrill of the 'second round reductions'. Do you look cool and take a risk that someone else will pick up your target, or do you pick it up, wait, then ask the reducer to 'reduce mine too'?

However I hope you dont 'trolley block' the counter while all this is going on

Queenie

:eek: trolley block? :eek: Moi!? I take a basket LOL If there are enough goodies to justify more than a basket ... I send Mr Q off to grab one :rotfl:

MATH

You know you're an Ol'Style Extreeminst when:-

1. When ya wally trolly clocks up more miles per anum than the family car

2. When you think the film BRIGHTEYES is a recipe in motion

3. When your lip curls at shop bought bread

4. When the only time you rlaundry smells of Woodland Meadow is when you're in a woodland meadow

5. When your kidz see Sunny Delight in the supermarket and ask "What's that?"

6. When you move out the chimea to make room for another veg patch

7. When the set of Chicken Run looks like your back garden

8. Your Dustman contacts the police thinking you've died cos you've put no waste out for 2 weeks

Lyndsay_21

when u go into saisburys and see the fresh pizza's reduced to 40p and u buy some for you and other members of family and u get to the till and they go through as 40p plus there on a multibuy offer and end up paying ...............1p for them oh the joy

Ticklemouse

When you practically empty your cupboards but still haven't enough in your online Tesco's shop to use the online discount voucher and therefore effectively get free delivery.

You see nothing wrong in buying 5 litres of vinegar and still wonder if you can get it in industrial quantities.

You actually USE those 'gadgets' for making HM food that everyone else in the street bought on a whim and used once. - slow cookers, bread makers etc

You are proud to own THREE slow cookers

You start coveting decent breadmakers

When family ask what you want for birthdays/Xmas, you don't want anything and what they will get you will be so full of chemicals (bath smellies etc) you wouldn't use them anyway.

exlibris

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You see nothing wrong in buying 5 litres of vinegar and still wonder if you can get it in industrial quantities.

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Where do you get 5 ltrs of WHITE vinegar from please?

Ticklemouse

Well, there aren't any chinese cash and carry places near me - they are one of the cheapest places, so I have to pay the exhorbitant price of £3.50ish from Makro

foreverskint

When you send the children to the shops for you and they come back with the item you asked for, but are proud to tell you it's reduced/bogof

VickyA_2

When you start shouting the virtues of white vinegar as a clothes softener to your rich friends - and they start using it too!

When you're in the supermarket and you start analysing the contents of all trollies you pass. ("Did you see the amount of processed food in that?")

When the first thing that you look at in the local paper is the "deals" bit at the local Netto for that week, just in case you missed something.

When you shudder at the thought of buying sandwiches - such a waste and your own taste so much nicer. Do you know how much it is to buy a sandwich at the shops now? Don't know what they put in them these days...................

Chipps

When you wonder why other people seem to have their "non-recyclables" wheelie bin full before the 2 weeks collection time, while yours is less than half way - even after a bank holiday.