Bargain boast.

[Gramaisc]

Husband absolutely refused to buy wine for €1 said it would be like vinegar.

Some years ago, I bought a bottle of the cheapest red wine in Lidl - South African, screw top and £2:99 - it would do me, whatever it was like.

It turned out to be the nicest wine that I've ever had. I went back the next day and bought all they had of it...

 

[arthur]

In Spain.
Best Bargain Boast, possibly ever, in a hyper market, they were selling off several aisles worth of stuff for €1, …. all sorts of stuff, incl wine, all €1

Husband absolutely refused to buy wine for €1 said it would be like vinegar.

I slipped a few bottles into the trolley, was absolutely lovely so we went back the next day to clear the shelf


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love this - well done

 

[Gramaisc]

I have ventured into the Big City for the first time in well over a year. One of my treats for going in there is to visit a shop which sells 'my sort of stuff', they will always have something for me and always at a good price.

This time, on my circuit round, I spotted that they had a Pick'n'Mix for nuts and bolts. Amongst the items available were these Tee Nuts, which the observant amongst you may have noticed being used on many projects in the Shed.

My stock has dwindled over the last few years and getting a few more seemed a good idea. They had them in M6, my preferred size, but also in M8, which may be useful at some point, so I grabbed a handful of each and weighed them in. Interestingly, the two handfuls weighed the same, to the gram.

But, more interesting was the resulting cost. At the current Screwfix prices, what I got today would be £27:10, but my entire haul cost just €1:90.

They're very handy things, strong and neat. they won't strip or pull through and it's an easy matter to sink them flush, where necessary.

 

[tek-monkey]

Think you'd like it here

 

[Gramaisc]

Think you'd like it here

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I'm still using things I bought in a shop in Prague in 2010. A shop where the only language available to me that was any use was my kindergarten Czech.

Today's purchase involved no labels or anything, just the weight on the scales at the till and hand over the money.

 

[tek-monkey]

Aldi are selling off all the xmas cheese, I think I now have enough cheese. Just about.

Also bought nice pate for dogs cos it's cheaper than jars of paste we often treat them with!

 

[Gramaisc]

The three aluminium cans at the front have been on my Wants List since 1970 - 55 years.

The black item on the left is a 4 litre vacuum flask, which I obtained in 1970, but without the three bespoke food cans that fit neatly inside it. The blue item on the right was on eBay - a flask casing, where the (now irreplaceable) vacuum liner was gone, but with the three cans.

I was in Ireland when they appeared, located in England, so the whole Brexit fiasco made delivery to the outside world unacceptably chaotic. So, I had them sent to @Alan B'Stard, now living in exile in Stoke. I collected them last night, with an extended catch-up session.

Some members may even remember going to @wmrcomputers Christmas lights display and imbibing mulled wine from my flask, supplied courtesy of @Pie & Ale.

The flask came from a crew member of a Shackleton.

It will be used to supply post-hike parties with soup, stew and mulled wine...

 

[Mudgie]

The three aluminium cans at the front have been on my Wants List since 1970 - 55 years.

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The black item on the left is a 4 litre vacuum flask, which I obtained in 1970, but without the three bespoke food cans that fit neatly inside it. The blue item on the right was on eBay - a flask casing, where the (now irreplaceable) vacuum liner was gone, but with the three cans.

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I was in Ireland when they appeared, located in England, so the whole Brexit fiasco made delivery to the outside world unacceptably chaotic. So, I had them sent to @Alan B'Stard, now living in exile in Stoke. I collected them last night, with an extended catch-up session.

Some members may even remember going to @wmrcomputers Christmas lights display and imbibing mulled wine from my flask, supplied courtesy of @Pie & Ale.

The flask came from a crew member of a Shackleton.

It will be used to supply post-hike parties with soup, stew and mulled wine...

I remember soup in the four litre ones, over forty years ago.