Always the same or loving a change?

Carole

Carole

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Are you a creature of habit or do you like to ring the changes?

I was speaking to a couple I know who, in their 70's told me that for the last 35 years they have gone to the same hotel in Austria in Spring and the same place in Cornwall in Autumn.
They only ever go to Sainsburys Stafford for food and Handforth Dean Manchester for clothes or other items.

I know another couple that pick the same 2 weeks in July and go to Jersey.

Another friend had the same sofa for 30 years and when it conked out, tried to find one exactly the same!

I, on the other hand need new experiences.

For me, there is a whole world out there and I want to see it and experience it. (Thats why I worked for BA long haul for 22 years) . There is still so much to see and do.

I am not even loyal to a supermarket ....I go to Sainsburys in Cannock, Tesco in Stafford , Lidl, Aldi in Stone , Morrisons.

I cant bear to do the same thing all the time.

So are you a creature of habit or like to ring the changes?
 
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proactive

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Enjoying a drop of red.
As long as the people are happy and don't do any harm to others, what does it matter?

Different strokes and all that...
 
Carole

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proactive said:
As long as the people are happy and don't do any harm to others, what does it matter?

Different strokes and all that...
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@proactive
No of course it doesn't matter ...I was just opening a debate thats all.

I find it interesting to see how others think and why some people do one thing and others do another.

Funny how on the politics thread which has gone on for 27 pages you didnt say ."as long as people are happy and dont do any harm to others what does it matter?"...so why say it to me?

I was simply exploring other opinions, which on a discussion forum should be expected, not discouraged or put down I would have thought.

For the record, what I do is right for me, what others do is right for them, but why dismiss my posting for wanting to open up a simple conversation?
 
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Floss

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I know what you mean about the supermarket thing I tend to swap and change too. Regarding holidays there are only certain times of the year I can go but I tend to go to different places, if we go uk and to Cornwall we tend to hotel hop two nights here two nights there so we get to experience different areas.
I also know people who will eat the same things each week for tea on certain days. I guess some people are set in their ways and routine is the way for them, whereas I do like some structure to my days off otherwise I never end up achieving half of what I want to do.
 
Trumpet

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Don't do the same holiday's thing but by and large reckon we are pretty 'samey' about a lot of things. I'm terrible for saying in restaurants that we use a lot "I'll have something different tonight" and then having my usual, but when cooking at home we love trying lots of different things and flavours. When we go to the cabin in Wales we'll eat at one particular place at least once, usually on the Saturday night. One of the waitresses there knows us well now and often 'forgets' to put our wine on the bill! Also when in North Wales we'll always try to visit the Italian ice cream place in Bedgellert.
 
Lucy

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I like to have one 'samey' holiday a year and one somewhere new. If you find somewhere you love then return, but absolutely explore what else is out there. And don't forget how beautiful Britain is, my 'samey' holidays have always been in this country, whether it 27 years straight in Scotland, or in Yorkshire or Scilly.
 
McGyver

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Carole said:
Thats why I worked for BA long haul for 22 years
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You must have million interesting stories to tell.

Sometimes sticking to a routine, like picking same stuff from a particular supermarket its time efficient, rather than resetting the process all the time. Take that to extremes and we are killing human nature
 
Apricot

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When I was little we always went to St Ives Holiday Village on holiday. I was completely happy with it. My picture on the left is St Ives Harbour.

I've had a couple of holidays at St Ives Holiday Village with my husband and the children, but then he said he wanted to go somewhere else!!! And sometimes he wants to go somewhere other than St Ives. In fact he has even expressed a wish to go abroad - why????? I don't like abroad, it smells.

We can't afford a holiday atm, but once I've sorted that situation out, I can foresee problems ahead.
 
Withnail

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I know someone who has been going to the same place in Cornwall every summer for what must be plus of 30 years.

Likewise i thought this madness of the first order until relatively recently. The same recent, relatively, i too have found somewhere - turns out it's just up the road from your gaff.

Not been every year but have more often than not - Benalmadena Costa - and what's good about the whole going-to-the-same-place thing is that the holiday starts @ the very moment you get there. There is no 'day or two' to acclimatise, find out where everything is, what's the score? that kind of thing - Day One, Holiday Starts.

If you only have seven days, which are really only five days, what with the getting there and then the getting back getting annoyingly in the way, that makes a HUGE difference.

I do a 'reverse Lucy' in this respect, in that where possible i see as much of this country as can be reached. TBF you could spend a fairly contented lifetime seeing what's proverbially 'on the doorstep' - go to the Lakes then the Broads for example. Then there is the 'Celtic Fringe' and all that kind of caper.
 
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Frontal

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Holidays, always somewhere different. Often I don't even plan them, I just book time off, pack my bags, and see where the wind (or trains/planes) take me.

Supermarkets, pretty much switch between all of them, largely dependant on who has the best deals on vegetarian products at the time.
 
Floss

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On the plus side of going to the same holiday destination you don't need to go out to explore the area like somewhere knew, so you are more inclined to sit back and relax rather than galavant everywhere.
 
United57

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Why do people who are retired go to Sainsbury every Saturday morning? They have had all week !
 
Withnail

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I just turned off all the lights chez mois then realised i still needed to go outside.

I put my right foot forward to where my right foot 'outdoor shoe' should be - Bingo! - right foot shod. Left foot? Bam!

Eyes down for a full house - Beckett would be proud/extremely dismayed.
 
Gadget

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Holiday? If only :( Shopping I stick to Asda usually but will pop into Lidl or Aldi if we pass it. Sainsbury's is only used if we are in the area and actually need something, it's too expensive else.
I do change what we eat but it's still roughly the same kind of thing due to cost and diet.
My OH loves London, I quite like it but would like to go to some other places too. Usually though if it's a day trip we end up down there. Sadly we are wasting our Merlin passes right now as we are too broke to go into Wolverhampton itself unless we walk, never mind anywhere more exotic that our passes get us into :( Luckily we are getting a lift to the cinema tomorrow else we'd have to waste the tickets we've already paid for. The rent however was paid in full :) We've not been to a triple bill together before, so that's new. I went when I was fairly young to see all 3 Star Wars films while on holiday at a Pontins or Butlins.
 
Carole

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Apricot said:
In fact he has even expressed a wish to go abroad - why????? I don't like abroad, it smells.
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@Apricot

This has got to be a joke...right?

If its not a joke then it's very narrow minded

I fee sorry for your husband that wants to explore.

You seriously think "abroad" smells?

Actually you are right...ABROAD does smell

...of Bouganvillea in Spain, of Olives and Thyme in Italy, of exotic spices in Morrocco, of the wind and the sea of the Caribbean, the smell of earth and animals in Africa, the smell of money in New York , the smell of poverty in India, the smell of sex in parts of Thailland, the smell of fresh air and foliage in New England, the smell of new people, new experiences.

So why exactly dont you want to go?
 
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Noah

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@Noah

I dont remember them, but everytime we checked in for a flight we were with different crew....where were they based?
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Quite often on flights Heathrow to New York or elsewhere in USA. Les known at one time for taking a Party Seven or similar to drink in the States as he didn't like American beer, and declaring it to US Customs as a can of beer. US Customs Officers very impressed with UK drinkers. Both lived in the Cambridge area. Les & his wife ran a homebrew shop.
 
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