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Dec 2022
10:21am, 1 Dec 2022
141,007 posts
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GregP
I can't be doing with unsalted butter.
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Dec 2022
10:22am, 1 Dec 2022
911 posts
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Shades
Decaffeinated coffee
I'm with you on the unsalted butter too
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Dec 2022
10:30am, 1 Dec 2022
141,010 posts
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GregP
'Lo Salt' salt is the pinnacle of this nonsense. Reduced-salt salt? Good grief.
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Dec 2022
10:34am, 1 Dec 2022
11,689 posts
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lammo
Yes Greg.
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Dec 2022
10:36am, 1 Dec 2022
10,431 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Buying Christmas presents for adult relatives. Can’t they all just buy the stuff they want for themselves instead of me buying it and effectively swapping it for stuff I don’t really want from them?
I’m happy to buy the kids presents but I’d rather just leave it at that.
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Dec 2022
10:40am, 1 Dec 2022
141,012 posts
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GregP
~nods in agreement~
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Dec 2022
10:56am, 1 Dec 2022
10,432 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
The most annoying thing is having to buy for my brother’s wife’s father and sister - they aren’t even my relatives and I don’t see them at Christmas. But I’ve been forced into it because they buy us chocolates, fancy biscuits and wine every year - so I’ve got to buy chocolates, fancy biscuits and wine for them. So I’m effectively buying myself food and drink I don’t really need, that’s made more expensive by the Christmas packaging and wrapping paper, and costs me time in wrapping it up and delivering it to my SIL to pass onwards.
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Dec 2022
11:05am, 1 Dec 2022
22,262 posts
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DeeGee
Buying Christmas presents for adult relatives. Can’t they all just buy the stuff they want for themselves instead of me buying it and effectively swapping it for stuff I don’t really want from them? I’m happy to buy the kids presents but I’d rather just leave it at that.
I have to make an Amazon list for my birthday and Christmas so my Mother in Law can go down it, add everything to the basket and pay.
As my birthday and Christmas are three weeks apart, I need to think of two festivals' worth of goods to add. However, as my birthday and Christmas are three weeks apart, if there's something I really need at any point in the year other than, say, late November, I buy it myself with the money I earn from my job that I do all year round.
So, every December, I end up with a whole bunch of items that I don't need and didn't even really want anyway, just so I can have "something to open".
I don't need "something to open". I'm 46.
[Actually, what I do want this year is the cash value of those gifts to put towards a flight to New York next year. I won't get it, because it can't be put in a big gaudy box to be "opened".]
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Dec 2022
11:25am, 1 Dec 2022
35,504 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
This buying stuff for other relatives children, can't their parents just do that, they had them in the first place, they knew the score at Christmas.
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Dec 2022
11:30am, 1 Dec 2022
9,251 posts
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Eynsham Red
'Lo Salt' salt is the pinnacle of this nonsense. Reduced-salt salt? Good grief.
But it’s very nice for people like me who have to have a reduced sodium diet but like the flavour of salt.
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