What do I need from B&M?

[DumplingsAndStew]

Going to a big B&M this week with a friend. We don't have one and I've not been to one in over a year.

What are your must-haves? Christmas, non-Christmas, and everything in between...

Thanks.

@HeyListenNavi

Branningan's thick cut roast beef and mustard crisps, so good!

Yes!!

YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING

So far I have noted;
Dog treats
hot water bottles
Kinder selection box
Sweet and sour sauce
Flavoured straws
Rubber dustpan and brush (already have broom)

I went in one Christmas Eve at 7am and it was bedlam. I still bought a load of tat.

Mini tins of coconut milk!

You’ll need this OP. Good luck.

Wild bird food and outdoor Christmas lights!

Mine was all out of rubber brush and dustpan sets wails

I went for the first time last weekend. I bought two wooden nutcracker soldier Christmas figures. Will loo very good either side of my fire. Only cost £12 for the two. Would have paid much more in somewhere like M&S.

"Its a money draining shitheap of crap"

Ours - despite being reasonably new - is already completely feral.

Redtoothbrush I did actually set down my basket and quietly walk out empty-handed this week as the queue was about 30 people long with only 1-2 checkouts open. Their tills are always the slowest known to man at the best of times. Not the cashiers' fault, mainly things not scanning or customers quibbling the price of an item oblivious to the monster queue behind them 🙄

I only visit 4-6 times a year as it's in the next town over. I prefer Home Bargains but it's a HB and Lidl desert round here. HB would make a killing in town B&M moved into, they really ought to scope out a site.

OP how about a Christmas tree if yours has a garden centre

Oh and B&M fans, the app - which I tragically have on my phone - allows you to scan things on the shopfloor.

Very useful when half the stuff is missing a price

It's like a traditional toy shop for adults!

Mayflower curry sauce! Seriously yummy, make your own Chinese curry at home, love the stuff!

I have managed to buy nothing before in there but my DH loves the store and is always popping in for bits. Prefer evenings during the week avoid at weekends

Microwave Irish coffees although the most recent ones I got are in a black box I think. Fox's brandy snap. I always browse the beers - sometimes you find some craft beer gems, if that floats your boat. They do Bloom and Ophir ready mixed gin and tonic bottles which make nice wee gifts or stocking fillers. One time they had imported Mexican beers with a chilli in the bottle. They were fantastic! Tipple - I have been known to carry these about to gussy up a MacDonald's coffee more discrete than a bottle of Baileys in your handbag.

Hedgehog food! I forgot. Although you'd think our local porker ought to be asleep by now...

@dawnc27

no, you dont decide what to buy in BnM, it decides what youre buying

I came on to say this 😂

A candy grabber toy - literally the best present for any child. B&M always seem to have them.

@JamaicanJamboree

You’ll need this OP. Good luck.

Ha ha, yes I was thinking that 'a trolley to put all the stuff you end up buying so you don't struggle to carry it all' was the answer to the OPs question.

For me, it's more like Home Bargains instead of B&M because that's what we have more of here, but I'll go in with the intention of getting some wool wash, which they don't do any more but was about 70 pence and exactly the same as Woolite at nearly three quid as far as I could work out, so either pick up a basket or not even bother doing that 'as I'm only getting wool wash' and then see loads of stuff that either looks interesting or is very cheap and then I'm juggling loads of stuff that I can't carry.

A lot of our bags for life also come from there due to the number of times I've gone in for one thing, so not had a bag and then needed to buy one to carry the half dozen things I did end up buying.

We have some lovely jute and wicker baskets from there looks just like John Lewis ones I wanted which were nearly £30 - these were £8

Other recent stuff:
We get wood shavings and hay for the Guinea pigs
Cleaning and laundry stuff
DH always says there ales are really good
Dream catcher for DD bedroom
Set of ITNG plushies for baby Xmas stocking
Teen DD bought some Jimmy Choo perfume
They have quite a nice selection of gins
Slimline tonics
Bedside table for DS (8 mths later still standing which the 3 times the price one he did have did not because he's heavy handed)
We bought all the back to school stationary from there
Dog blankets - those quick dry things
Clothes pegs

I must go and get those kinder boxes for the stockings!!!

Ooh yes need to look at the Christmas lights- still on the hunt for a set of turquoise lights for DCs room.

Will deffo need a trolley 😆

The problem with B&M,s is you go In to buy a tin of dog food and come out having spent £50 on all kinds of crap ,🙄it's like Aldi and Lidl,s middle aisle but a whole shop full of random shite .

Whole Earth peanut butter, as its cheap! Tunnocks Tea Cakes, Cat treats, craft materials. Postal and packaging stuff.

And a partridge in a pear tree

And fat balls for the partridge, compost for the tree and a new watering can.

I have a lovely woven basket as well!

Ours is a bit chaotic and you really have to get there when the new home decor ranges are released for the best pick of everything. There's no telling when it'll be replenished - generally months later?!

I quite like the look of some of their side tables. A few aren't too dissimilar to La Redoute etc which is pleasing