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As a professionnal, I used to buy from local wholesalers and had good prices, but, as soon as I retired, I had a shock when I saw the new price lists !
Buying frrom local DIY shops was a nightmare.
For renovating 2 houses, I bought on line from these websites:

Thanks to them, I found easily everything. Both good prices - good delays - good...

Ordered a pair of Trainers yesterday at 5pm,they arrived this morning at 8.10am.....how's that for service. :D

I am wondering if anybody has had to pay VAT on any parcels that they have received from the US recently. For the last 10 years or so my wife has been using a company in America to purchase our vitamin supplements that we take. If the value of the parcel is kept below 60 dollars then there has been no duty to be paid when delivered. Unfortunately...

Several latts in the bed started dropping out and some of the clips that hold them were broken. Found a DIY solution online using velcro but this only worked short term. I read somewhere someone had the same problem and instead of replacing latts they used 2 pieces of plyboard cut to size, one each side. Has anyone tried this? Or do you know where...

Hi everybody !
I don't know about you, but I have to say that I had enough with supermarkets for meat. I couldn't eat anymore these horrible so-called pork chops made out of reclaimed old Wellington boots... But what else if you don't want to queue for hours at the butcher's and have your purse empty ?
Recently, a local farm shop opened 10 km...

I had a look on the local Limousin FB page they have an English food shop in dep23 Three pack of jaffa cakes 5 euros, not a fan of them, I think I over dosed years ago.
Anyway googled Tesco, the same pack is on special at £1.25p.
That a bit of a price difference if your doing a reasonable sized shop.
Apparently after brexit they are being renamed...

Lidl have a Parkside Défonceuse (router tool) on sale this week. My old Black & Decker is showing its age and I was wondering if anyone has the Parkside tool and can say how good/bad it is.

I don't use mine very often but want to make some cabinets soon and a new router would be handy.

To all the DIYers and the gardeners...
I buy a lot from Amazon, as the local offer is very poor (no choice, no stock, expensive, useless sellers)
But sometimes, you struggle to find what you want...
A good place to consider is MANOMANO.
It's a French company which pays taxes in France. They don't store and ship but transmit your order...

Living in the middle of nowhere, I have no choice but buying on line.
I needed 12 rolling motorized shutters and 6 curtains. Speaking refurbishing of an old house, no need to say that all the dimensions were funny and different.
The rolling shutters sold in Bricodépôt can be cut if you accept to struggle for hours...
I discoverd that:

It's a...

After 5 years, have decided to change our 140x190 mattress and I quite like the look of this one . I'm unsure about the roulé description, though - has anyone bought a rolled mattress and does it unroll and stay flat?

I have been told about an alternative to La Poste for sending a small parcel within France, where you complete the transaction on line and then drop off the parcel at a local collection point. Can anyone tell me who operates this service as a quick google didn't bring anything up?

Thanks.

Books 1.jpg I haven't had the best of luck with giving away stuff.

As we are selling up I had maybe 10 items or more of furniture to dispose of. Some of it quite good, but simply not worth paying to transport to UK and probably never use it again. I spoke with people at Emmaus 3 times on the phone, sent two emails with photos then sent chasing...

Over the years we've had many of the stick type things that you put into the soil, but they only last a few months.

We bought one from Lidl a couple of months ago that has the solar panel separate to the light itself. It's a motion sensor and when lit is very good. We have it situated to the area for the dog's, but there is nothing to light in...

:evil: I'm a tad annoyed. Have been waiting in all day, a delivery was meant to be arriving from UPS.

At 18h I got the usual message (get this from Amazon, Chronopost and others except DPD. Message says they were unable to deliver, no one at home (😢😠😠) so will try again tomorrow.

It's getting beyond ridiculous. Don't these delivery people have...

If I am still living in the UK but want to order stuff from amazon for delivery in France of French products like electrical stuff etc, how does one do it, do I just open a completely separate account with amazon.fr using my French address, or can I utilise my prime uk account to get stuff from amazon.fr?

JD

Anyone know if it easily available in France, or suggest a substitute?

I am reminded this morning of that old Country and Western song, Oh Lord it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way. To whom this may refer I let my readers decide.

Due to the continued hot weather we have decided to invest in one of those windscreen things that hopefully keep the car a bit cooler when parked. The only trouble is we...

Does anyone know where I can buy fat free or low fat Greek yoghurt?

Our Lidl catalogue for the coming week arrived with today’s publicite and in it there’s an ad for a SilverCrest Dyson-type cordless vac for just 79.99 euros. Does anyone have one of these or know if they’re any good? As it’s a fraction of the price of a Dyson I wonder if it’s worth a punt.
Syd

Afternoon all

Just looking at beds etc in Ikea uk and the same products in France Ikea are about 1/4 to 1/3 more expensive, do most people buy in the UK and transport over then? Or is that not cost viable?

JD

Had occasion to visit the BF website to check out some prices. They have revamped the UK site but left the French site alone. I think the new UK site is terrible, horrible colour combinations, slow & difficult to navigate. Why can't they leave well enough alone?

I would not be averse to using the French site but you cannot use your Club Voyage...

... don't miss visiting this cafe/shop. Perfect place to enjoy a choice to tea or milkshakes :P
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Well I'm amazed :o :o :o

According to a recent report, self-service checkouts are rising in popularity in France. Some context - I freely admit I only go into supermarkets for the odd items I prefer to select for myself - the bulk of my shopping is ordered online and simply popped into my boot! I find supermarkets a miserable human experience...

Yes that's exactly what it is! I wanted to send a gift to someone in the UK and found this website my friend has just rang to say what a wonderful idea. It did arrive through the letterbox. It's a plastic bottle that looks like it's been somewhat flattened (which it would have to be to fit thro' the letterbox) and she said friends are fascinated -...

We did a quick shop this morning, I liked the label picked the bottle up she said its non alcoholic so put it down and picked the one next to it that did not say non alcoholic.
Just opened she says it tastes likes Ribena.
Checked what's in it , its based on non alcoholic wine :lol:
That's the first and last time that will be bought.

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