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What can I buy from Argos for £4ish to win a bet?

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Shocksandboooos · 23/10/2018 10:40

I have £4 worth of Argos vouchers that run out on Friday.
Dh tried to throw them in the bin this morning, saying that I wouldn’t be able to get anything worth having with them without adding a lot on.
I need to win this bet as I lost the last one and haven’t lived it down.

I thought I’d cracked it when I found a pair of slippers but you have to pay online for TU clothes and the vouchers can’t be used online.
We have a 2 year old so stocking filers are a possibility. Please hit me with your best suggestions so that I can wipe the smug look off dh’s face.

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Crownandheelshigh · 29/10/2018 21:38

@Shocksandboooos this made me laugh so hard I've woken my 1 year old up 😂

youarenotkiddingme · 29/10/2018 21:16

Brilliant 😂😂

Roast Raven and spuds!

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Shocksandboooos · 29/10/2018 21:08

Technically I did. The twit hadn’t thought that I would preheat the oven.

Enid did say that she enjoyed watching him jump when he arrived home and was very amused at him trying to get the cello tape off to take the raven inside.

Sorry for so many typos btw.

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SoupDragon · 29/10/2018 20:55

Technically, the OP cooked her

GargoyleBattyness · 29/10/2018 20:50

He cooked it?!

EspressoButler · 29/10/2018 20:47

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

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Shocksandboooos · 29/10/2018 20:44

Sorry that was a very long way of explaining why I had hot updated all weekend. I didn’t mean to go into quite so much detail.

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Shocksandboooos · 29/10/2018 20:42

So, when I got home and the security light came on I stood in the garden singing a medley of ‘simply the best’ and ‘we are the champions’ complete with accompanying dances. However when I got inside Minerva was nowhere to be seen and dh said that he didn’t know what I was on about when I asked for my raven.

He said that he would put Dd to bed while I cooked pizza for tea but came downstairs looking flustered and asked if I had put the pizzas in about 5 minutes later.
I said that the over was hearing up and dh legged it into the kitchen.

It turned out that he had arranged Minerva on a baking tray with some paxo and potatoes and left her in the (now quite hot) oven for me to find.
She is a little singed but ok.

Its is game in now. I hid her in the bed last night with her beak poking between the pillows so that he would t see until he was in bed but she has disappeared since. I have a feeling that I will come across her at some point.

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WeeSausage · 29/10/2018 20:34

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Shocksandboooos · 29/10/2018 20:33

We had a lovely weekend and I picked up a phone lead in a service station ine the way home. This is what met me when my phone powered up.

What can I buy from Argos for £4ish to win a bet?

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Shocksandboooos · 29/10/2018 20:21

It turned out that my flipping cable was broken and by this point we were in the middle of nowhere and my friend couldn’t pick up our location on her phone or a signal.
Two bemused farmers, many chocolate buttons to bribe toddlers, about 15000 wrong turns and 1.5 hours later than planned we arrived at friend 2’s beautiful holiday cottage which was indead in the back of beyond.

Df2 sent dh a Facebook message to let him know that we had arrived but he didn’t mention the light or Minerva in his response. No one else had an iPhone charger and there was nowhere to buy one so I couldn’t tell whether ETSN had text to say that he was home.
As he’d not mentioned it I thought that maybe something had gone wrong so didn’t want to look like an idiot by sending my ‘in your face’ dance video.

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Shocksandboooos · 29/10/2018 20:12

Evening raven fans! Did you know that we are collectively called an unkindness or conspiracy of ravens? Fun fact!

The plan went well. Not quite to plan but not far off. I will explain in bits. Not because I am that bloody annoying poster but because I wrote a long post last night and it bloody well disappeared when I hit preview.

So my friend picked us up. DH waved us off happily and we set off for the wilds of Scotland. I knew where I was going to start with but put my phone on as satnav for the end part of the journey so that it was ready when needed.
About 40 minutes later Enid the super neighbour text to say that the raven was out of the nest and she was going in. Another 15 minutes later she text to say that it was all set up and that she had made her ‘gentleman friend’ test the set up.

So we get to the part of the journey where I need the satnav and I look at my phone to find that there is only 1% battery and it is not charging.

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soupforbrains · 29/10/2018 14:43

I have Mortimer at work with me still.

We are considering putting him on top of our desk partitions so that he is giving The Stare to anyone who enters our office.

Argos are obviously not playing along with the questions anymore :(

AintNobodyHereButUsRavens · 29/10/2018 14:16

Bloody thing keeps making me jump

Eliza9917 · 29/10/2018 11:23

@ZigZagIntoTheBlue I was just going to post that!

AintNobodyHereButUsRavens · 29/10/2018 11:08

Had a bit of a namechange

I don't think argos want to answer our questions anymore

ZigZagIntoTheBlue · 29/10/2018 10:57

Are we double sure all these raven pictures are actually ravens....?!

AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 29/10/2018 09:22

BlueBug45 · 28/10/2018 23:12

Garlic keeps spiders away apparently.

KatyaZamolodchikova · 28/10/2018 22:57

Quoth was collected today (also from a Sainsbury Argos). I popped in with my mum, who did not question my purchase but did ask what DP thought of it. I told her I was hopeful I’d convinced him it would work like the stone owls in shopping centres it instead of pigeons he might keep the spiders away if they think there’s a predictor. Do ravens eat spiders? I think they probably do.

RussellTheRaven · 28/10/2018 18:37

My husband has found Russell and moved him.

He was last seen guarding the goldfish, Sergio Duex, from the cat. Now poor Sergio is unguarded and the Raven is MIA.

heresHalloweenagain18 · 28/10/2018 11:11

Another one does state 5+
Only need to add 49p
Looks fun and cute for her age

www.argos.co.uk/product/8525518

heresHalloweenagain18 · 28/10/2018 11:06

Hi Op

Found this . Dead on £4.
Not sure it will be suitable as says 3+ you know her best if she will be ok with it (hope so)
Looks fun and takes up minimal space

www.argos.co.uk/product/8622507

greathat · 28/10/2018 10:41

How can we get this into classics?

ipswichwitch · 28/10/2018 10:34

Collecting my raven on my way home today. Been looking for one for Halloween that’s decent and not megabucks, never thought of looking in Argos!

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