Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-01 Thread Agnes Boddington
Yes, Patricia, book shops I can deal with and decent chocolate shops. And as Sue already mentioned, I do like bead shops too. I'm with Agnes: all shopping is a bore but I would add bookshops to her list of non chore shopping/browsing. Patricia in Wales To unsubscribe send email to majord..

[lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-01 Thread Jean Nathan
Whoever came up with the phrase "retail therapy" didn't do the weekly shop, neither are they any larger than a size zero for clothes! of dog food in one carrier bag and just a tube of toothpaste in another! It never ceases to amaze me why they can't even up the distribution between the plasti

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-01 Thread Sue
I have decided I must be a changling, my Mother, 3 sisters and daughter were all born to shop, I shop out of necessity:-) Dislike clothes shopping. Was close to abandoning our normal supermarket when they refurbished it, but several of them were doing the same thing at the same time, but unlik

[lace-chat] Re: Green Thing

2012-02-01 Thread Susan Reishus
"In this country we can no longer pay by cheque as our bank cards no longer serve as cheque guarantee cards.  At one point the banks wanted to phase cheques out altogether but there was so much opposition they had to abandon the idea v- for the present, at least." *** I wrote a check for a item i

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-01 Thread Janice Blair
Maybe it is an age thing. I used to like to shop for clothes, shoes, etc., but now I dislike doing it except for the occasional good sales that we have. The only time I go to an indoor shopping mall these days is when I go to get my haircut and I get there early so I can have lunch in the food

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-01 Thread The Lace Bee
I had to give up on on-line shopping.  I have ongoing rows with the different on-line supermarkets for the following reasons that I hate and they don't think are an issue or worse, contravene food hygiene.  What they also don't understand is that when they deliver something broken or substituted th

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-01 Thread lacelady
I try to remember my cloth bags but take the plastic if I forget or don't have enough bags with me. There are so many uses for the plastic bags that they are not thrown out. The local free meal programs use them for the 'take out' meals. My church uses them in the summer at the produce table