To ask for a roundup of all the 'non-essentials'?

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I've seen some beautiful examples of things some commenters think are 'non-essential' and therefore people shouldn't be leaving their houses for... trawling through each thread to find them is so tiresome, will some kind MNers please share what they've seen that made them laugh?

I'll start... Newspaper, Bread, Milk

Not looking to name and shame anybody, I just want some insight into the state of things right now.

I'm just waiting for somebody to start listing off 'essential' medications. Maybe that will stop selfish people flocking off to the pharmacies to buy Germoloids finally! (That was a joke please don't kill me )

Definitely seen people suggest milk, bread, fresh fruit and veg, Easter eggs are all not essential, but the problem is these people are confusing not essential with not allowed to buy!! Honestly this pandemic has really opened my eyes to how judgy people are in their heads, as they now feel they can say it out loud! I really want some skinny whip bars from B and M But I’ll survive without (just ) but if I was going there for other things I would fill my trolley up with all the things I want while I’m there - surely that’s just common sense?!

I bought a sandwich toaster when I went to Tesco the other day. Probably not essential, but my old one had finally died a couple of days before and I hadn't been to Tesco for a fortnight. Plus I'm WFH right now and only get 30 mins meal break, that's not enough time to cook very much, so toasties it is!

Any cleaning and personal care product except bar soap.
Anything nice (chocolate etc)
any clothes, including children’s socks and underwear (apparently kids don’t need them - mine disagree!)

Playdough. There’s a whole thread berating people who use flour to make playdough with their kids when apparently a shortage of flour means we’re all going to starve.

I saw the thread where someone was complaining about a lady walking out with cucumbers only.
What if she's pregnant and really needed cucumbers at that precise moment?!?!?!
I speak from recent experience

non essential: popping to the shop too many times for a few items that could perfectly wait until you do a proper shop.

Grab an easter egg whilst doing a full shop has never been an issue.
Going to the shop exclusively to buy an easter egg is ridiculous.

Going to the shop exclusively to buy urgent medicine: perfectly acceptable too.

Some posters only insist on confusing non-essential TRIPS with non-essentials ITEMS - they need an excuse to explain why rules don't apply to them. This pandemic really has brought the worst in some people.

I do have some sympathy with the play doh hate, I've seen no flour at all in the shops for nearly a month now.
If I was a keen baker I’d be finding it really aggravating to see people playing with it instead of eating it.

Although TBF there’s loads of loaves of bread, and other bread products in the shops, so clearly people making play doh out of flour aren’t going to cause starvation.

I saw the cheese for milk thing but I'm 99% sure that it was the nutritional value. Rather than going out everyday to buy milk.
However I was tutted at for getting sanitary towels 🤷🏼‍♀️

Any cheese other than very mild
Games for garden (well, anything for garden)
Petrol

If you have the internet a newspaper isn't an essential. I read all newspapers and magazines through Press Reader.

Yes, I already acknowledged that on the first page.

I'm going to need some guidance on how to use cheese on my weetabix...

😂😂😂

I'm sure somewhere that a person's head is exploding because so far during our shelter in place order I've had to buy two HVAC systems, 2 vehicles one for me and another for my 17 yo and by the end of the day I probably will have bought a boat

@ShirleyPhallus fair enough but none of the commenters on what is essential or not in the other threads have any context about what circumstances the person bought the item in.

None of them? Not true. I haven't read many of these threads, but the one I did read about the woman buying 2 cucumbers made it clear that 2 cucumbers was literally all she was buying.

@twinkle2306 - you're only allowed to use rags these days dontcha know?

I've been doing my shopping online so far as I'm vulnerable. Happily including treat foods in that like biscuits and crisps. Also buying other snack foods like fruit and cereal bars. I'm also hoping Morrisons brings me the flour, dried fruit and eggs I've asked for so I can make bara brith and egg and chips (bara brith and egg and chips will be consumed separately).

I'd we're not supposed to include chocolate, for example, in our weekly shop then the supermarkets should stop selling it.

Any cheese other than very mild

Surely that should be the other way round? If the cheese has a stronger flavour, you can eat less of it in your meal and still get the same cheesy hit 🤷‍♀️

Who the actual fuck would see pet food as 'non essential'? I think my cat would see it as pretty essential. What's it meant to eat when I run out, garabaldis?

My babies nappies. I can just hold her while she squits shit into the bath on cue with her strain worthy grunts.

Im sure im about to make a starring role on my local Facebook community page..

I had to pick a parcel up today, after finishing an 8 hour shift.. Parked in the car park near lidl, and the shop was empty. No queue outside... So i dashed in and got a bottle of gin.. 😂.. In the space of the five minutes i was in there.. I walked out and there was a queue of about 20 people waiting to go in..

I could feel the heat from their glares as I legged it to the car clutching my hortus pink... 😂.. Knew I should have got a carrier bag..

In my defence I have just done 10 days 5am til 3pm shifts and having a gin tonight is essential to me!

Also forgot to buy bread 🙄

I bought Gin and pansies from Morrisons and I'm not sorry, (I didn't go in for them, I was food shopping)

Surely that should be the other way round? If the cheese has a stronger flavour, you can eat less of it in your meal and still get the same cheesy hit

No, because we're not meant to enjoy ourselves remember?

B&M do really good packet veggie curry, as an aside.

But I’m killing everyone as I bought mascara with my shop

MOUS, garibaldis 😂😂. Different people have different things they consider essential. This lock down, the fear of corona virus etc is bad enough without having a treat.

I feel that if I’m in the shop already on an essential trip I am allowed to buy whatever it sells.
There will always be some “leakage” ie the odd person going out just to buy a packet of sweets
I’m due on and I SO WANTED TO BUY A MAGNUM from the corner shop 😭

The non-essential activities are equally bizarre.

Washing your car on your drive = not essential. How dare you selfishly wash the virus into the sewers/water treatment system? but you can wash your hands as many times as you like - presumably the water from that is specially segregated

Mowing your lawn = you are literally murdering people - how dare you selfishly cut the grass to enable your children to use the garden?

Playing music outside. At lunchtime on a weekend. Absolutely unacceptable. You must erect soundproofing around your garden immediately. Ditto children playing - this is only allowed if they are utterly silent.

@HainaultViaNewburyPark have people said these?! 😂😂