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jamanda
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 13 10:37 pm    Post subject: Interesting blog Reply with quote
    

https://britishfamily.co.uk/british-suppliers/wpbdm-category/british_food/

A family trying to buy only British products for a year.
They don't seem to have many suppliers yet.....

Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion
PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 13 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It makes me realise that we are actually an odd lot on downsizer and what we understand about food and lots of other aspects of life is far more than a quite a lot of other (normal?) people. It's a pity, I want us to be the norm.

jamanda
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 13 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Indeed. I hope they make a go of it. I'm sure it will be a learning curve and maybe if it's publicised will help others.

NorthernMonkeyGirl



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 13 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Interesting...but not the mindset I would have (do have?) about it? We'll see

jamanda
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 13 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:
Interesting...but not the mindset I would have (do have?) about it? We'll see


I think that's what makes it interesting.

john of wessex



Joined: 18 Jun 2007
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

What if they want to buy a new car...................

My ex & I had an old shape Vauxhall Agila, it was like the UN under the bonnet!

cir3ngirl



Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: Cirencester
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

On news yesterday morning husband was trying to make a radio just incase their current one breaks then he might try making a mobile phone.

Went



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Great publicity for their new book - probably (old cynic that I am)

Bodrighy



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Location: Near Devizes
PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Not a good time to try it either. We are surrounded by market gardens but in the farmers market where they sell half their produce is imported as the crops have failed due to flooding.

Pete

marigold



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Gawber wrote:
Great publicity for their new book - probably (old cynic that I am)


That's what I thought. There's another woman earning her living dribbling on about not buying stuff for her child for a year.

I'm wondering if there's a market for my fascinating experience of not buying things because I haven't got any money to spare?

sean
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Don't see why not actually. I'd be more likely to buy it than stuff written by people who have a comfortable fall-back position. Of course if you sold enough copies you'd have money and I'm not sure that a sequel about how you spent it would work.

NorthernMonkeyGirl



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

A news report last night gave me a similar feeling - it was about lack of mortgages (or rather, high deposits) affecting buyers, builders etc etc.
The potential first time buyer they spoke to "wanted to live a life, y'know, holidays and days out and stuff" instead of making sacrifices to save up.
Call me an old fart, but saving up is hard for a reason??

marigold



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 13 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sean wrote:
Don't see why not actually. I'd be more likely to buy it than stuff written by people who have a comfortable fall-back position. Of course if you sold enough copies you'd have money and I'm not sure that a sequel about how you spent it would work.


Somebody once told me that I'd managed to make Milton Keynes sound interesting, so maybe I do have the potential to make not buying things sound interesting too .

Annemieke



Joined: 26 Feb 2013
Posts: 131
Location: Somerset UK
PostPosted: Fri Mar 15, 13 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

All we own and wear comes from charity shops but I'm afraid I can't do without my 'naturally sweetened' Billy's biscuits from Holland ....

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