2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff

My tree stayed in the attic this year!  I have a string of lights over the window, that's all.

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.

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?

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

I find most supermarkets own (any of them ) are more flavourful than Heinz baked beans .

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?

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.

IN today - a Desk fan for those hot summer days in a few months time.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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! 
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!