My SIL is coming over tomorrow...

[DefinitelyNotRuth]

And I've just bought a stunt pineapple!

The washing up area was a thing of beauty! There are pictures...

Thank you! I have gone back to look and now hang my head in shame. I have no fancy bottles out and the washing up liquid isn't even branded. Must try harder

Its perfectly acceptable to decant cheap liquid into a posher bottle!

Ah!! Thanks, Hesterton 🙂 It's still going on now that Tesco sell them for little more than a quid, though?! Anyone got pictures of the washing up doodahs? That sounds a little more interesting...

I feel very superior now as I buy pineapples to actually eat rather than stunt and then forget about them and they go mouldy

The trick with pineapple is just to get it home and cut it straight away. If you let it linger for too long it's a job that you just keep putting off until you bin it 🙊

We always have a pineapple in the fruit bowl because they are cheap in Aldi and we like them. Worse still, our fruit bowl lives on the kitchen window sill so it must look like we are proudly displaying our pineapple all the time as an unwitting signal of how posh we are!

Oh wow. This thread make m feel like a totally slob.

I don't really do anything before guests come over....
well, they usually get tea/coffee cups and not the huge mugs (more like little bowls...) I like to use. But that's it :0

Don't forget your stunt tea towels and guest towels in the loo.
my mil has these, and stunt matching teacups in the glass cupboard. she's batshit

But... why?!
I must be a horrible hostess... have to ask DH if his mother does anything like this. Because mine definitely doesn't. (Different cups etc... but that's it)

I have posh cutlery for Christmas 💁

Weirdly.

I work in a hospital where we have a wildly overpriced Spar.

Every now and again, there are special promotions where the items on special offer are piled on special cardboard units, on the ends of the aisles and around the tills.

The shop isn't renowned for its healthy options, the specials have been four packs of muffins, multipacks of crisps and fizzy drinks.

I went into the shop today and found pineapples all over the place.

Everywhere one would expect to see multipacks of Walkers crisps, triple chocolate muffins or 1.5l bottles of cola there were pineapples.

They're on special amd have been shipped in specially.

As soon as I saw them, crammed around the tills and randomly peeking out of the shelves around the shop, I thought of this thread.

I visited my sil on Friday. I thought she'd developed a twitch but I realised she was trying to get me to look at the pineapple in the fruit bowl. 😂

Gingernaut I'd have thought pineapple was the least helpful fruit to give to someone in hospital!

MaximumVolume!

Yes! What use is a pineapple to someone lying sick in bed?

Like I said, it's a weird sight.