People managed to buy fruit and veg perfectly well for thousands of years before some marketing guy came up with the idea of 'best before' dates.
Of course they did. They picked their own, they baked their bread. They grew their own food. They maybe had a pig and a cow.
Then, before SMs and post industrialisation and the move to towns and consumerism, the local green grocer used to go to the local market to select the stuff they wanted for the day - and the customer used to select stuff by touch and smell from his stock.
Now, SMs get their stock when? Today from the local market? Maybe not? Maybe they get their stock in bulk and store it and ship from around the globe. How old is their stock when it hits their shelves?
@wild edges Martin Lewis was on TV last night. He now refers to Grey Friday as it's impossible to work out which is actually Black Friday. He also said that one day has now extended to around a month. The main point he made though was that if you were planning to purchase something, and it is now genuinely half price, you have saved 50%. However, if you purchase something you only bought because it was half price, you have wasted 100%.
Grrr. Just wondering what the extra crunchy bit in my lunch was. Piece of enamel off the side of an upper molar. The tooth was 90% amalgam, now it’s 95%. That’ll need a crown. How annoying, but not surprising, it’s lasted for many years.
Not curmudgeonly about this but we miserablebarstewards have a lot of ancient wisdom. I need new sofas and new mattresses. I can't work out what to enter into Google so that I get a few companies that take away your old stuff like companies that do it for white goods ( most of mine aren't white anymore but you get the drift) when they deliver your new stuff. If there's an option to exclude companies I've never heard of that will go out of business days after they've trousered my money, that would be a bonus.
When we last got new mattresses, we got the council to come and take away the old ones. They do a bulky item collection, a fixed price for up to a certain number of items. I just checked and it's quite a bit more expensive now for bulky waste items (£23 for 1 to 4 items), but they'll now collect reusable items (not damaged/stained, and with the labels on in the case of upholstered furniture) for free. Worth checking whether your council has a similar service, if you don't find a seller that will take away the old ones when they bring your new ones.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Fair point. We had the old mattresses propped up in the hall for a week or so and put them out on the collection day. That wouldn't really work for sofas.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
When we bought our latest mattress, the company took our old one away on the day of the delivery of the new mattress. Think we paid £10 for the privilege with the knowledge it was to be recycled.
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I need new sofas and new mattresses. I can't work out what to enter into Google so that I get a few companies that take away your old stuff like companies that do it for white goods ( most of mine aren't white anymore but you get the drift) when they deliver your new stuff. If there's an option to exclude companies I've never heard of that will go out of business days after they've trousered my money, that would be a bonus.