What have you bought today?

[Harry Bloomfield]

For months, I've had my eye on FB market, looking for a Bisley style, set of shallow document drawer, for storing some of my drill bits, lathe bits, cutters and etc.. I spotted what I was seeking, at the right price range, local, and made an offer 1/3rd below the asking, yesterday. Accepted, and I have just been to collect it.

 

[crystal ball]

A dry robe thingy from Mountain Warehouse, reduced to £40 with another 20% off with a voucher, just the job for walking to and from the shower block on campsites

A leg of lamb from Sainsbury, half price, in the oven now

 

[Mottie]

A giant poppy for the lamppost outside my house.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Local town, to do a bit of a restock. Plan was, to have ham, egg, and chips for dinner, but the only ham we could find, was that horrible processed and pressed ham, apart from a large tray of ham offcuts. Looked like the pukka stuff, so we bought that. Smaller offcuts made it into a sandwich for lunch, larger slices, for dinner, which is on now..

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Aye those ham offcuts can be hit or miss, sometimes they're great other times you need to steer clear, just the luck of the draw.

 

[ajohn]

Service and MOT. £200 inc new rear wiper blade.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Service and MOT. £200 inc new rear wiper blade.

DIY service, from my stock, free. MOT at the weekend, and dreading it this year - back box needs replacing, not easy to source, and £200 each.

 

[Mottie]

More vet time! Not for us though, for my mums 'rat'. Listless, off her food, hasn’t eaten for 3 days but drinking. £84 last night for a checkover and anti-sickness injection. Seemed worse today so I took her back. Another checkover, bloods taken (done already - no real concerns) plus an appetite stimulator pill. £204. 2 hours later eating like a horse and has perked right up. Might be back to normal when the drug wears off though, then it’s urine test, scans etc etc. These vets charge nearly as much as some of the plumbers on here…..

She was okay two weeks ago …..

 

[Mottie]

Took a walk with Susie up to our local department store to look for a couple of saucepans for the induction hob. The ones we got 'free' with the Neff hob are bloody useless - two little ring handles, one on either side requiring you to use both hands when tipping the hot water out. No good when draining spuds or rice as the contents come out with the water. Anyway, they had a pretty decent sale on - 30% off. I bought a couple of them and that should have come to just under £74. With the discount they came to just under £52. Plus, when I scanned my loyalty card they had loaded £7.50 on it as an upcoming birthday treat so in all, they cost me just £44.23. Not bad.

 

[Mottie]

Full fibre broadband. Upgraded with the same provider - Vodafone. Slightly cheaper than what I am currently paying but nearly 5 times as fast.

 

[Brigadier]

...... but nearly 5 times as fast

So you'll be pouring shoite out here quicker than a privatised water company does into a river

 

[Mottie]

So you'll be pouring shoite out here quicker than a privatised water company does into a river

..and I’ll be getting through your sniping remarks 5 times quicker too.

 

[Brigadier]

A slow cooker, at long last.

 

[ajohn]

Dog food. Looked on Amazon and found ~£52. Looked on the web ~£43. No prime offers so probably paying £52 for what the seller will sell directly for £43 including delivery.

 

[securespark]

Yeah. You have to be very careful with Amazon. Some product prices are genuinely low, some fair to middling and a few are grossly inflated. Watch for the prime prices inflated to cover the "free" delivery.