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Cue

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No limit, just don't shove them all in at once or it will jam. Best way to get rid of small change...

Whenever I try that I just get loads of small change back. It seems that the machines don't like carrying change either as it fills them up.

Banks (good ones anyway...) generally have a machine that can take them in quite considerable amounts
 

PeterD

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Off to have my hearing aids adjusted this morning, had to have them turned up a little a few months back, but they were too loud so I didnt wear them, but now a new guy has started at work that talks in a whisper and I literally cant hear him, so hearing aids turned down so I can understand what this guy is saying.
 

Carole

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Getting EVIL :teef: wrapping the first xmas pressies I've just bought. Glad I haven't got anyone posh to buy for, no matter how much I try , as usual looks like a 2 year old has bundled the paper on, using miles of twisted sellotape covered with bits of carpet it kept getting stuck to :roll:
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This is for you @staffordjas , a parcel wrapping workshop.
First off go to Ryman’s and get a cellotape dispenser, stops it getting everywhere and you can get the cellotape off with one hand.

I’m going to put lots of pics up so it might have to be divided into several posts.

If something is a funny shape put it in a box. Gift boxes of all sizes available in The Card Factory.
Put your present on the paper and cut the paper to size. This is a birthday present I’ve wrapped this morning.
Fold over the long end first.
Then fold the paper down tightly at either end, making creases so that it folds neatly.

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Carole

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To finish off the wrapping, place a piece of curling ribbon over the top of the gift.
Turn it over and cross the ribbon over then bring it back up to the front.
Tie a knot.
You can then cut the end and put a bow on top OR get a pair of scissors and your first finger.. place the ribbon between your finger and Pull the scissors along the length of the ribbon to curl.


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staffordjas

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Thanks @Carole . Your presents look so lovely ! I do the straightforward boxes like your first picture .Well......same method.....end result not so much like the picture :roll: . Tried the curly thing before with the ribbon and didn't have much success.(Watched my neighbour once a few years ago and she made it look so easy.... ). My art teachers used to go mad at me for messing around , but I really was doing my best !

Wrapped the presents I've got so far last night , as I thought son was coming home for a few days so needed to get them out of his bedroom and hidden away (but now hubby got really bad chest infection so had to advise him not to come afterall ...but at least they are done now ).
I was aided by the carriage clock and other ornaments to hold the paper down , and the coffee table to stick the sellotape to so that I could find the end again. End result a big pile of presents looking nothing as nice as yours , but I did put some ornamental plants into a box to keep them safe, and bunged a ribbon bow I found on top so that I knew which way up to keep it :D . Should have put the clock present into a box as well , but at least from the weird wrapping you'd never guess what it is :lol: .

After seeing how good yours look with the ribbons, planning to wrap some ribbon around the presents I've already wrapped for hubbys work mate ... listen for the swearing tomorrow :lol:
 

staffordjas

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Solved the cause of my washing machine making a metal grating noise as the drum turned , with it sounding like a coin was inside the works . After a few days of expecting it to conk out sometime if it was the bearings, opened the door today to find one of those supermarket trolley coins had worked itself out and sitting in the door seal . Must have been in hubbys trouser pocket when he actually put the washing in to help me for a change the other day. Haven't told him off too much , as I was so relieved it's worked it's way out !
 

staffordjas

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Opened the bag of spuds that I bought last night to find a massive slug crawling around inside . Hoping no more have escaped through the air holes in the plastic bag and lurking in the pantry . Don't think it was so happy being evicted , it was much more active crawling around the warm bag of spuds than when it found itself suddenly on a frosty lawn.
 

Carole

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Not been watching The Apprentice this year but husband got a text telling him to watch last nights episode.

His cousin Sophie was on it, not as an apprentice, she works for Boots at Head Office in Nottingham.
She was being pitched to by the teams, they were trying to sell perfume.
 
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