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PostPosted: 22:57 - 24 Oct 2022    Post subject: Unexpectedly whilst tidying up... Reply with quote

Arrow I found a biscuit tin containing some twigs of decarboxylated whatevs whatevs which I was apparently planning to grind down and make into tea Thinking
I can't quite remember when that was. But I know it was a very messy period of life.

Arrow I also found 14 jars of beyond-sell-by date cooking sauces (belonging to the Italian exhusb) as far back as 2014. So I threw them out. Oi, Nostalgia ... No!!

Exclamation I still haven't found my 600 fucking euros.
I'm going to have to give airtime to the fact that someone may have actually stolen it.
But that's a bit like having to give in and stop believing that men did really land on the moon.
And I'm not going to do that Folded arms

Arrow I also found a double egg-cup with Betty Boops on them which belonged also to the Eyetie. It looks quite old. So I am going to give it to my sister when I am down there next, cos she is Betty Boop mad Rolling Eyes
or just mad... it runs in the family, obvs.
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PostPosted: 23:29 - 24 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Talking of unexpected finds.
Not the most Earth shattering find, but it still made me smile.

Going through a box of ‘stuff’ ,I found £8 in pound coins yesterday Thumbs Up .
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PostPosted: 01:09 - 25 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

pepperami wrote:
Talking of unexpected finds.
Not the most Earth shattering find, but it still made me smile.

Going through a box of ‘stuff’ ,I found £8 in pound coins yesterday Thumbs Up .


But was it old pound coins?
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PostPosted: 09:42 - 25 Oct 2022    Post subject: Re: Unexpectedly whilst tidying up... Reply with quote

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Exclamation I still haven't found my 600 fucking euros.
I'm going to have to give airtime to the fact that someone may have actually stolen it.
But that's a bit like having to give in and stop believing that men did really land on the moon.
And I'm not going to do that Folded arms


The Streets did a whole album about this, pretty sure it's inside your telly. Either that or Mike Skinner lied to us all.
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PostPosted: 11:10 - 25 Oct 2022    Post subject: Re: Unexpectedly whilst tidying up... Reply with quote

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Arrow I also found 14 jars of beyond-sell-by date cooking sauces (belonging to the Italian exhusb) as far back as 2014. So I threw them out.


I would have given them a chance. Might be OK. I've got a tin of rice pudding (Tesco, not Ambrosia) in the pantry which went out of date in 2012. I keep convincing myself it'll be OK and put it back on the shelf. The tin is rusting a bit but otherwise it's sound. One day . . .

Speaking of out of date, I used to habitually raid supermarkets in January for Christmas puddings - they get better as they get older. I just ignored the BBD. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 13:07 - 25 Oct 2022    Post subject: Re: Unexpectedly whilst tidying up... Reply with quote

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I would have given them a chance. Might be OK. I've got a tin of rice pudding (Tesco, not Ambrosia) in the pantry which went out of date in 2012. I keep convincing myself it'll be OK and put it back on the shelf. The tin is rusting a bit but otherwise it's sound. One day . . .


Crack it open, don’t be a chicken…

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4693520.stm
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PostPosted: 21:00 - 25 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

i recently found a half used tub of Smash artificial mashed potato in one of my cupboards. pretty sure its from the last century.
still looks just the same as when i it was first opened. i might make some up one day just to try it.
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PostPosted: 22:24 - 25 Oct 2022    Post subject: Re: Unexpectedly whilst tidying up... Reply with quote

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I would have given them a chance. Might be OK. I've got a tin of rice pudding (Tesco, not Ambrosia) in the pantry which went out of date in 2012. I keep convincing myself it'll be OK and put it back on the shelf. The tin is rusting a bit but otherwise it's sound. One day . . .

Speaking of out of date, I used to habitually raid supermarkets in January for Christmas puddings - they get better as they get older. I just ignored the BBD. Thumbs Up


Well I was gonna.
Cos when I was married to him, we often ate quite weirdy things in the name of foody-ism. And there was plenty of things we ate that we should have chucked out. But we lived to tell the tale.

Even when I cleared his flat, they were mostly out of date by then: he pegged it in March 2020 and I threw out a LOAD of stuff that was way too manky to risk trying - but these were the more possible ones, at that point I might have been prepared to eat a jar of ChipShop Curry or Hunters Chicken sauce dated from 2018, but not now Laughing

Besides, there had also been a can of tomato soup that had exploded at the back of my kitchen cupboard ... out of the side of the tin. Not the top or bottom, very weird it was. Made a bit of a mess but not as much as you'd think.

They're probably perfectly alright, but I'd only keep them for another 2-3 years and still not eat them.

I can't even leave them for the Food Bank, cos everyone these days is so entitled, they'd turn their nose up at out of date food, "Ewww, dangerous, health & safety nazi alert!"

I'd definitely give that rice pudding a go, though.
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PostPosted: 23:13 - 25 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Polarbear wrote:
pepperami wrote:
Talking of unexpected finds.
Not the most Earth shattering find, but it still made me smile.

Going through a box of ‘stuff’ ,I found £8 in pound coins yesterday Thumbs Up .


But was it old pound coins?


Happily, no Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 08:26 - 26 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

to v or not to v wrote:
i recently found a half used tub of Smash artificial mashed potato in one of my cupboards. pretty sure its from the last century.
still looks just the same as when i it was first opened. i might make some up one day just to try it.

Wouldn't hurt to try a taste but various preservatives and anti-oxidants might have morphed into something rather toxic by now, especially when it had been exposed to air years ago.
I wouldn't have a proper serving of it anyway.
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PostPosted: 13:55 - 26 Oct 2022    Post subject: Re: Unexpectedly whilst tidying up... Reply with quote

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I can't even leave them for the Food Bank, cos everyone these days is so entitled, they'd turn their nose up at out of date food, "Ewww, dangerous, health & safety nazi alert!"


I think some places must take out of date food (noting I'm referring to stuff that has a "best before", rather than a "use by") because when I was in Co-op the other week, the loaf of bread I tried to buy apparently was out of date and the shop assistant said "oh I'm sorry, you can't have that", it was the last loaf. I did say I wasn't bothered but he stood firm. I then queried what will happen to it and he said it went to some charity or something, so presumably some places do take some food that's past the BBE. That said, even such places may furrow their brow at 3 years past.
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PostPosted: 13:33 - 27 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Taking through a cupboard in a spare room and found my Klein heated waistcoat.
Brilliant.
Problem: The power cable is still MIA. Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: 13:59 - 27 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

I seem to be on a roll with this ‘unexpected finds’ lark.
I knew I was going to need to buy some more very expensive paint for my boat.
However , going through all the stowage cupboards on the boat, I did find two unopened tins of the right paint Smile Thumbs Up .

The previous owner had left them there and I only just found them this morning.
Plus there were the correct thinners and a couple of unused brushes and half a dozen sheets of sandpaper.

That’s saved a good few pennies.
Happy Pepperami is happy Smile.

Blimey! If you think motorbikes are expensive, try boats Shocked Shocked , kin ell!!!
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PostPosted: 14:03 - 27 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

MCN wrote:
Taking through a cupboard in a spare room and found my Klein heated waistcoat.
Brilliant.
Problem: The power cable is still MIA. Crying or Very sad


Stop expecting to find it, and it'll turn up on the next tidying session?
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PostPosted: 16:00 - 27 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:
MCN wrote:
Problem: The power cable is still MIA
Stop expecting to find it, and it'll turn up on the next tidying session?

Tut Tut

Nope. He has to buy a new one - then he'll find it.
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PostPosted: 19:50 - 27 Oct 2022    Post subject: Re: Unexpectedly whilst tidying up... Reply with quote

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Exclamation I still haven't found my 600 fucking euros.
I'm going to have to give airtime to the fact that someone may have actually stolen it.


I still don't know where my battery tester, and battery charger went. Too big to lose in the house, to random to be the only thing stolen by a burgalar, and I am 99.9% certain I never leant them to anyone.
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PostPosted: 21:20 - 27 Oct 2022    Post subject: Re: Unexpectedly whilst tidying up... Reply with quote

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I still don't know where my battery tester, and battery charger went. Too big to lose in the house, to random to be the only thing stolen by a burgalar, and I am 99.9% certain I never leant them to anyone.


A whole new thread there!
‘Things We Have No Idea Where They Are’.

Your battery tester will be in the same place as my small (1/4”) socket set is?
Or the set of paint brushes I bought about a year ago and I still can’t find them Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: 21:29 - 27 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everything lost is down the back of the sofa. No matter how big it is. The back of the sofa is related to Dr. Who's pockets.
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PostPosted: 07:51 - 28 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Blimey! If you think motorbikes are expensive, try boats Shocked Shocked , kin ell!!!


The best way to describe boat ownership is they are a "hole in the water which you shovel all your money into".
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PostPosted: 19:50 - 28 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a Tesco (value label) black cherry yogurt in my fridge at work - unopened - BBE Nov 2006. When you hold it up to teh light it's almost all disappeared... very strange.
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PostPosted: 22:11 - 28 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

A100man wrote:
I have a Tesco (value label) black cherry yogurt in my fridge at work - unopened - BBE Nov 2006. When you hold it up to teh light it's almost all disappeared... very strange.


It now a 2mm layer of aged Parmegiano-Works-fridge-ano.
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PostPosted: 23:51 - 29 Oct 2022    Post subject: Re: Unexpectedly whilst tidying up... Reply with quote

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A whole new thread there!
‘Things We Have No Idea Where They Are’.

Yes.
My bottle of perfume (one of many ... Shifty )
When I picked my daughter up from the airport last time she was home, she admired my perfume - and now I seem to have "misplaced" it.
Shocked I've hunted everywhere!
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PostPosted: 09:39 - 04 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

doggone wrote:

Wouldn't hurt to try a taste but various preservatives and anti-oxidants might have morphed into something rather toxic by now, especially when it had been exposed to air years ago.
I wouldn't have a proper serving of it anyway.


I know someone this happened to when they ate some out of date mince pies and ended up in hospital. They had very bizarre symptoms which a specialist House stylee tracked down to being caused by the old mince pies.
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PostPosted: 21:40 - 04 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

guess its going in the bin then. i checked the use by date and its 2010. so probably not quite as old as i first thought.
shame to waste it though.
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