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The Betterware Catalogue
« on: May 20, 2009, 10:29:11 AM »
Some muppet has, yet again, posted one through the door. He will, it seems, call back to collect it in about a week.  Angry9:

Oh no. If he posts junk through my door he can't expect me to save it carefully and be here to hand it back to him when he tries to retrieve it  noooo:

Anyhoo, Mrs Nick is addicted to such shite and will doubtless buy more useless items.

Shite like this, for example




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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2009, 10:34:10 AM »
BM would never need on of those  whistle:

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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2009, 10:42:57 AM »
On average we get one of these a month. We also get plastic bags, sealed in smaller plastic bags from: The British Heart Foundation, The NSPCC, The RSPCSA. The PDSA, Age Concern, Save the Children and a variety of other charities. Apart from the obvious fact that nobody, not even Wenchy, has that much tat to give away even if I do unseal the small plastic bag, take out the larger one contained therein, proceed to fill the large bag with unwanted clothing and place it on my doorstep on MONDAY (as the instructions say on the small bag says) the b@st@rds never, ever collect them and on TUESDAY it is still sat there. I have left them there for a week and still no-one takes it.

If I put down a bag of shopping whilst I struggle to open the door and get the kids into the house some scrote will try to snatch the shopping but they never steal the charity bags I leave out.

As for the Bettaware catalogue people THEY never call on the day they threaten either and the fecking catalogues sit on the doorstep waiting to be picked up for days and days. If, however I throw it away, someone will turn up on the stated "order collection day" and ask what I want to order because "You've not left the book on the step so that means you want something"  Banghead
 NO! I just want to be left without all this crap on my doorstep.  cussing:
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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2009, 10:43:15 AM »
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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2009, 10:45:20 AM »
I bet you got one of these for her visit

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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2009, 10:46:44 AM »
I think the Betterware people sell those  noooo:
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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2009, 10:49:31 AM »
We had a team of charity collectors descend on the street yesterday... Oxfam or some such...

BM: (halfway through the girl's unintelligible spiel) No thank you we're not interested
Oxfam Girl: (disgusted) But it is for Sril lanka!
BM: No thank you we are not interested! (closes door)

This isn't collecting for charity it is extortion!  cussing:
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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2009, 10:51:35 AM »



WHo in their right mind would use one of these? Let alone buy one!!
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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2009, 10:56:46 AM »
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6324678.ece

Do not give to any charity claiming to be in aid of Sri Lanka ~ even the Red Cross have ceased operations there. Your money will not help starving, displaced persons but it will provide big cars for the politicians and ammo for the fighters.

I only support a limited number of charites and apart from the LifeBoats they are all Services based (Royal British Legion, RAF Association etc). The rest get told to feck off.
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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2009, 10:57:26 AM »



WHo in their right mind would use one of these? Let alone buy one!!



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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2009, 11:02:14 AM »



WHo in their right mind would use one of these? Let alone buy one!!

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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2009, 11:23:45 AM »



WHo in their right mind would use one of these? Let alone buy one!!

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I think the operative words used were "WHo in their right mind"

For taking delay time exposures etc these are better

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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2009, 11:24:11 AM »
Miss D can confirm my hairyness...  whistle:

Spent ages every morning getting it 'just so'  ;)





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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2009, 12:56:01 PM »
Whatever happened to the 'Inventions' ones - they used to be in newspapers if I remember rightly. They used to be fantastically entertaining   lol:
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Re: The Betterware Catalogue
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2009, 01:00:53 PM »
Innovations, I think. They had some truly bonkers stuff in them. Fortunately, we now have this


http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/new-arrivals/lightsabre-umbrella/index.html

and of course this

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/kitsch-daft/how-smart-is-your-dog-iq-test/index.html
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