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RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Vinny - 31-12-2025
My tree stayed in the attic this year!
I have a string of lights over the window, that's all.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - JJB - 31-12-2025
(31-12-2025, 11:46 AM)Veggie Wrote: Well done, JJB. Its not easy giving away an old "friend" who shows up every Christmas. I gave away all our Christmas decorations a few years ago and there were some that had been in the family for a similarly long time. Can't remember what they were now - time is a great healer/thief of memory.
I can't throw any decs out though, some small tree decorations are from my baby hood others are mum's. My DiL still has a few of the glass baubles from the Xmas tree present mentioned previously. The salt dough glittery shapes that the lad and I made many years ago finally bit the dust this year, they got damp
Salt dough doesn't like damp, who knew? 
NSS.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Bren - 31-12-2025
After reading about beans here, I wanted some today.
Opened the tin of Aldi beans, they didn’t tip out like usual it was almost solid with beans and only a small amount of sauce. It was the best tin ever.
Has anyone else ever come across that?
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - JJB - 31-12-2025
(31-12-2025, 01:43 PM)Bren Wrote: After reading about beans here, I wanted some today.
Opened the tin of Aldi beans, they didn’t tip out like usual it was almost solid with beans and only a small amount of sauce. It was the best tin ever.
Has anyone else ever come across that?
Don't often eat baked beans but always buy Aldi's
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Small chilli - 31-12-2025
I find most supermarkets own (any of them ) are more flavourful than Heinz baked beans .
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Veggie - 31-12-2025
(31-12-2025, 01:43 PM)Bren Wrote: After reading about beans here, I wanted some today.I do the "shake test" when I buy them. If it sounds liquidy, I put them back on the shelf. After all, we want beans, not slop.
Opened the tin of Aldi beans, they didn’t tip out like usual it was almost solid with beans and only a small amount of sauce. It was the best tin ever.
Has anyone else ever come across that?
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Veggie - 31-12-2025
IN today - a Desk fan for those hot summer days in a few months time.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Mark_Riga - 31-12-2025
(31-12-2025, 08:08 PM)Veggie Wrote: IN today - a Desk fan for those hot summer days in a few months time.
Do you have a desk to use it on? And if so, what do you do at your desk?
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Veggie - 31-12-2025
Are you insinuating that I am so disorganised that I either do not have a desk or, if I do, its covered in clutter. If so, you're about 95% correct.
I plan to use it in the kitchen.
For the record I have 2 desks. One will have seedling plants on it in the spring. The other has the printer and stationery stuff in the drawers..I never sit at either of them.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Vinny - 31-12-2025
(31-12-2025, 05:19 PM)Veggie Wrote:I bought a tin of tinned steak which was advertised on television as having 'No lumps of fat or gristle'. After opening the tin I found it was half full of meat products and half full of gravy. I contacted the manufacturers and told them there WAS lumps of fat and gristle and only half a tin of meat products and half a tin of gravy!(31-12-2025, 01:43 PM)Bren Wrote: After reading about beans here, I wanted some today.I do the "shake test" when I buy them. If it sounds liquidy, I put them back on the shelf. After all, we want beans, not slop.
Opened the tin of Aldi beans, they didn’t tip out like usual it was almost solid with beans and only a small amount of sauce. It was the best tin ever.
Has anyone else ever come across that?
They sent me six tins of the same brands as recompence which once opened were exactly the same!
I didn't have the heart to take it any further so just stayed away from that brand at the time, and have never bought tinned steak since!