£18 for a fucking stick?

[MycatsaPirate]

www.standard.co.uk/news/london/stoke-newington-florist-sells-sticks-for-up-to-18-despite-being-minutes-from-park-a3498961.html

Basically a florists in Stoke Newington is selling sticks for between £12 and £18.

And people buy them.

I am currently eyeing up the log pile in our garden and wondering how much we can get for them.

Does anyone actually pay out for this stuff? Are people really that bloody gullible?

Come on. Own up, someone must be buying these sticks!

[DJBaggySmalls]

People are buying collections of them to display

[MycatsaPirate]

Wouldn't that just be called a tree?

[TiggyD]

But they're artisan!

[GnomeDePlume]

Probably better than people hacking at the trees in the park to get their sticks for free.

But yes, people are that gullible.

[Astro55]

SAW them coming!

[IvyLeagueUnderTheSea]

It reminds me of the Harry Enfield sketch 'saw you coming'
I've had a couple of trees cut back in the garden. I'm a millionaire!

[PurpleMinionMummy]

If people are daft enough to pay, good luck to them.

[MycatsaPirate]

Why would you want to have sticks in the house anyway? What would you do with them?

As decorations go, they are about as exciting as well... a stick.

So much glittery shit on fb .. hang on. I have a plan. I can get sticks and glitter those babies up and sell them as 'glittery artisan sticks' for £30 a pop on facebook.

[chastenedButStillSmiling]

My dog would pay good money for a decent stick. She's been looking for the perfect one for 8 years. The hunt goes on.....

[MycatsaPirate]

Ivy I've got Dorset covered, don't even think of encroaching on my stick-selling territory!

[plominoagain]

If that's what they're paying for the twigs , I've got half a tonne of two inch and under stone that I could make a fortune out of , flogging as organic artisanal hand gathered pebbly shit .

[ComputerUserNumptyTwit]

Nice work, Astro

[SaucyJack]

Far be it from me to lower the tone.... but that row of clothes hook is rather suggestive of the male member in all its (morning) glory.

[RhinestoneCowgirl]

DD has a glittery stick! She found a stick in the park and went at it with the glitter glue. Could it be worth something..?

[TheProblemOfSusan]

God inflation has gone mad. When I lived there, sticks were only £8 a pop.

misses the point entirely

[SilverdaleGlen]

I thought twigs and pebbly shit were right up MN alley?

These aren't just twigs they are M&S artisanal twigs.

[IvyLeagueUnderTheSea]

Where in Dorset MyCat? Go to Sandbanks. They've got all the money.

I'll cover the East. I've already contacted my friend who owns a shop. I was going to use all the wood in my garden to make 'mark making' sticks for my school's reception class. But fuck that. I'm off to make my fortune.

[Bottlesoflove]

A middle class version of twigs and shit...

[HappyAxolotl]

"quite reasonably priced for Stokey"

Oh Stoke Newington. Never change.

[RiverdaleJughead]

Mans needs to make money - if people are buying them let them be fools

[BaronessBomburst]

I have sticks!
They're all around the house, there's a pile in the garden, and several more in the boot of the car.
I also have a 7 year old DS.😂

[MackerelOfFact]

I knew straight away which shop this was going to be. Fucking love Church Street. It's almost a parody of itself.

[StorminaBcup]

They are decorative sticks though! They make these painted logs look a bargain at a tenner!

[LadyLapsang]

chastened, maybe we could send your dog to Stokey as a mystery shopper....

[sobeyondthehills]

Everytime I take DS out with the dog, he brings home a pile of sticks. Maybe he is actually an entrepreneur in the making