to wonder if cucumbers are an essential purchase?

[MadameMeursault]

Woman walked out of Tesco in front of me carrying 2 cucumbers only! Wtf?

I usually buy 3 cucumbers a week for my Guinea pigs, more in the Summer because we eat them too then. This week they sent half a one on my shopping so when we went to Aldi today I bought 3. My Guineas would wheek the house down if they didn't get their morning cucumber

Perhaps she has an individual in her house who will only eat cucumber, no other vegetables. In that case, you'd be going out looking for cucumber.

I listened to the complaints abut people only buying 1 or 2 things so spent £50 buying stuff to make it worth it, but not everyone can afford to do a full shop when they only need a few bits.

If enough people twitch their arses about "what is essential" to buy the supermarkets may listen and start reducing the amount of lines they carry. So think about the non essential things you like to buy and how you'd feel if they got zapped in favour of more UHT milk and pasta...

ODFOD I went out yesterday to collect glasses (the eye kind) after having to put up with broken ones that gave me major headaches for the last two weeks. While at the optometrist, which is inside the same building as my local ASDA I grabbed a couple of things I needed. No doubt had you had seen me you would have judged away but would have been so wrong.

"These are exceptional times and circumstances. Many difficult decisions have/will be made. Work on acceptance."

I saw this a while back and think that we all could do with sticking to this IMO

Meat's not essential.

I'm waiting to be named and shamed on fb for buying cider and cakes with my shopping. Some of our local supermarket employees are taking regularly to the town fb group.to complain about shoppers.

I bought loads of shopping the other day and loads of it wasn’t essential. I bought crisps and cake and peanuts and wine(amongst other stuff that MN weirdos would consider not essential, like bread and milk). I bought it because I wanted it, I could afford it, there was plenty of it on the shelves and the shop was selling it.

Some of you are so fucking weird at the moment. Is it because you’re not mixing with other people so you’re losing perspective of what crazy looks like?

Maybe it was essential to her mental health to get the fuck out of her flat before she killed her husband and/or kids and thought I might as well get cucumbers as that’s what we need

I bought it because I wanted it, I could afford it, there was plenty of it on the shelves and the shop was selling it

Three cheers for common sense!

fuck off.
HTH.

Went for my main shop end of last week, while reaching for some vodka a woman standing 2m away waiting for me to finish agreed with me it was all part of the essential shop

Jesus! Cucumber! Does the woman have no shame?

How many Hail Mary's will expunge that crime?

Hope the 'grip' aisle hadn't sold out 😉

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Water AND dust? The extravagence.

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My Guineas would wheek the house down if they didn't get their morning cucumber

Is "I only buy the bare essentials because I'm a good person" going to be the new "We had our wedding in a ditch and served worms to our guests and people say it's the best wedding they've ever been to!"??

Food is essential.

Reminded me of this m.youtube.com/watch?v=rC5nXEKdGxg 😅🤣🤣

I only buy the bare essentials because I'm a good person" going to be the new "We had our wedding in a ditch...…...

The virtue signalling is obvious (until there's other virtue signalling to be done) and the competitive making it last/haven't been out or food shopping for a month replaces the competitive under-eating.....for now.

Is it lock down one upmanship ? Such as: I'm allowed out for exercise one a day but I don't because I stay at home. Or/and I'm allowed to shop for essentials but I don't because I stay at home. I've made a small tin of baked beans last a week now. Cue the competitive under eaters who are never far from these threads.

The number of these threads today alone, I'm starting to wonder if the key symptom of C19 is 'turns patient into a self-righteous, pain in the arse, busybody'.

Oh how I miss the good old days of parking threads.

dildos are not essential items 😂

He’s so earnest about it. I’m not sure tbh. People are spending a LOT of time at home. Bored. Frustrated.

Since these moany judgy people cannot even respond back to say what is essentail food then I take it that they feel that no food is going to be essential. Therefore close the supermarkets and deliveries right.

Your body can survive on water alone for a certain number of days before you need food. That's what they want you to do, stay at home and starve - fecking idiots. Love to see them do that.

None of your bluddy business.

Govt has declared off-licences an essential business FGS
G&T with cucumber is very good.

I've actually seen several posts on MN today saying "if it isn't worth dying for then don't go out for it"

No glummy

Seriously?

Yep Rufus

One example

To think be worried people think I'm not shopping for essentials http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/3872179-To-think-be-worried-people-think-Im-not-shopping-for-essentials

Oh god i was hoping it was a sarcastic comment...but after reading it in context...!

Someone left 5 of them on a wall up the road