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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2023
    my wife hates shopping almost as much as me
    But how much does she hate you @punkdoc ?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Obelixx said:

    @wild edges your wife is clearly out of practice too.  Maybe you should take her shopping more often....
    Oh god no. Apart from breaking things she's also horrible company while shopping. She's got a two shop tolerance limit and even then she'll be getting annoyed by the second one. Garden centres and bakeries seem to be the only exceptions.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I know how she feesl @wild edges as I have a similar low tolerance.   I need to know what I'm looking for and have a fair idea of where to find it and need the staff to know what they're about or I'm out if there.  Unless I'm after a particular item for gardening or sewing my limit is 3 shops then home, regardless.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited March 2023
    I like my really basic iron with nothing fancy about it at all. If I need a steam function I use a £1.50 sprayer from Wilko. I can’t say I love ironing but I also iron almost everything - underwear, flannels, cleaning cloths etc.

    I also like shopping and enjoy rootling around antique shops, IKEA, John Lewis, art galleries, charity shops etc. A slow wander round a new supermarket pleases me and an expedition to a foreign hypermarket is bliss.
    Rutland, England
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @BenCotto, I just don't understand why anybody would want/need to iron underwear (unless it's cotton boxers), flannels or cleaning cloths!!!

    Life's far too short to bother with those.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Obelixx said:

    @wild edges your wife is clearly out of practice too.  Maybe you should take her shopping more often....
    Oh god no. Apart from breaking things she's also horrible company while shopping. She's got a two shop tolerance limit and even then she'll be getting annoyed by the second one. Garden centres and bakeries seem to be the only exceptions.


    @wild edges can you create an extract of your missus that I can put into the tea of my missus please.  Despite the fact that there are only about 3 shops still open in our town centre, she can spend 2 hours there every time we go in.  She would go in every day given the opportunity.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited March 2023
    Lizzie27 said:
    @BenCotto, I just don't understand why anybody would want/need to iron underwear (unless it's cotton boxers), flannels or cleaning cloths!!!

    If you don’t iron microfibre cloths they curl at the edges and then where would you be?? It’s a slippery slope. Steady the Buffs. 😉
    Rutland, England
  • Supposed to have hospital appointment tomorrow a.m. but got a call today - staff shortages (my heart sank) but do you mind next Tues? Whew. Actually I don't mind too much cos it's MOT day and the logistics of delivering car, getting courtesy car and reaching the hospital in time was a worry esp. since I've never been to this dept before.  Next week will be a straight run.
    Southampton 
  • Lizzie27 said:
    @BenCotto, I just don't understand why anybody would want/need to iron underwear (unless it's cotton boxers), flannels or cleaning cloths!!!

    Life's far too short to bother with those.
    I agree - except I don't iron the boxers, but DO iron dusters/cleaning cloths.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    But you have to scrunch up dusters and cloths to use them🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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