BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
is this minidom 
Honest Thank you letter...
- Thread starter badkitty
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Campfire
Über Member
- Location
- near Risley Moss, Warrington
My M-i-L gave me some garden vouchers. I thought 'how nice' then looked at the back of them and saw the stamp was Bents Garden Centre dated a couple of years ago, where she couldn't possibly have gone, as it's near where I live. I'd sent them to her. She lives on the IOM. Haha!
I don't like this voucher business. Why not just send a card, and buy yourself something, then you can get what you want?
Thankfully none of my inlaws cycle so aren't going to see this forum.
I don't like this voucher business. Why not just send a card, and buy yourself something, then you can get what you want?
Thankfully none of my inlaws cycle so aren't going to see this forum.
Joe24
More serious cyclist than Bonj
- Location
- Nottingham
Vouches piss me off aswell, never in the right shop, or even if it is, you dont need anything from there, but you look around anyway, and either find something thats over the voucher amount and have to put money to anyway, or is under the voucher amount, and look around for something to make the voucher amount.
I get given a Victoria Centre voucher, which is a voucher for shoot loads of shops in the Victoria centre.
I got one last year from school for something or other i think, i used it just before it ran out of date, to buy some cookies for me and my GF.
Its what i normally end up doing before they run out, going and buying cookies or some other food so its not wasted, except it is!
Just give me money for ****s sake instead of vouchers, i can go wherever and spend money, or even save it with the rest of the money.
I do have a grudge against vouchers, unless, they are in a shop that i will actually go to. Which never seems to happen.
I got a Zavvi one for xmas from next door, just past the date that they would give you your money back, so i have/had a pointless Zavvi card.
Thanks
I get given a Victoria Centre voucher, which is a voucher for shoot loads of shops in the Victoria centre.
I got one last year from school for something or other i think, i used it just before it ran out of date, to buy some cookies for me and my GF.
Its what i normally end up doing before they run out, going and buying cookies or some other food so its not wasted, except it is!
Just give me money for ****s sake instead of vouchers, i can go wherever and spend money, or even save it with the rest of the money.
I do have a grudge against vouchers, unless, they are in a shop that i will actually go to. Which never seems to happen.
I got a Zavvi one for xmas from next door, just past the date that they would give you your money back, so i have/had a pointless Zavvi card.
Thanks
XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
Rigid Raider said:
Ah! My Mother has a set of six mugs that were give-aways at some petrol station chain from about 1982.
Apparently nowadays they're becoming collectible, especially if you have the whole set!
See? Your Sister and BIL were thinking of your future!
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
We were once at a scouts presentation night, and won a prize in the raffle. All that was left on the table was a shoebox covered in crepe paper containing half a dozen wine glasses which where half clear and half amber, the sort of thing you see in old folks' display cabinets. A bit of digging revealed that one of the scout leader's mums had died recently, so the glasses were, we guessed from her house-clearance. My mate Paul laughed himself hoarse when I told him that I'd managed to trace their origin. He got them for Christmas.
A week later and my birthday present arrived from Paul. It looked suspiciously like a shoebox, but when I opened it it was a fondue set in its original box, with a price tag on from Timothy Whites (guess that dates it to the 70s.) He told me that he had got it for the Christmas before from his next door neighbour.
I guess my point is that swapping crap presents can be fun, but 6 year olds don't see it that way.
A week later and my birthday present arrived from Paul. It looked suspiciously like a shoebox, but when I opened it it was a fondue set in its original box, with a price tag on from Timothy Whites (guess that dates it to the 70s.) He told me that he had got it for the Christmas before from his next door neighbour.
I guess my point is that swapping crap presents can be fun, but 6 year olds don't see it that way.
