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  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 6,041 Forumite
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    Personally can't stand the stuff & use the natural equivalent!  OH on the other hand, it's the first thing he reaches for.
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
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  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,426 Forumite
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    Hope you feel better soon!
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 17,564 Forumite
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    Our spare beds are pretty comfy too, I very often volunteer to sleep in one if one of us is ill/snoring (and have in fact been doing so for the last couple of weeks 😂)

    I also hate lemsip- would MUCH rather take the tablets! 

    Hope you get over the worst of it soon x
  • Moorviews
    Moorviews Posts: 602 Forumite
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    Bad luck on getting Covid although it is one in the eye for Madam Boss! I hope you feel better soon. 
    Another hater of Lemsip - I can barely get the stuff down but Mr MV is a fan and buys it. I get the Vick vapour rub and the Actifed. Most annoyingly he then uses up all the Actifed and so I have to stagger out to persuade the pharmacist to sell me some more. Which reminds me that I must check supplies!

  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,219 Forumite
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    Bad luck on getting the dreaded covid.  Took me 3 weeks to get over the recent bout and I must have been ill as I actually had a lem-sip on maybe 5 days (also hate them).
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
  • foxgloves
    foxgloves Posts: 12,808 Forumite
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    Oh lemsips are vile. My Mum swore by them. Mind you, a friend's mother once gave me a Beecham's powder (unflavoured) & I couldn't even gag it down! I take cold & flu capsules from the cheapo shop which rhymes with 'ravers' along with a mug of hot honey & lemon. I still find fresh air, even 10 mins sitting out on a garden bench in my coat, is one of the best things for relieving lergyfied sinuses.
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    2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
    2) To read 100 books (36/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 8.1kg/30kg

    "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 6,041 Forumite
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    I remember Beechum's liquid & tablets, but not the powder!  Wonder if we had different products (same brand) across the pond?
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 14 YEARS 7 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 17 mths)
  • Baileys_Babe
    Baileys_Babe Posts: 6,341 Forumite
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    In the past I have tried both (not together) lemsip and beechams powder, both were vile but the lemsip was worse as it also made me feel nauseous.
    I now use a combination of echinacea drops, lemon, honey, ginger, coffee (caffine enhances analgesic effect), paracetamol, ibuprofen, decogestant spray or tablets plus pleant of fluids and rest.
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