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

[SuckingDownDarjeeling]

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 )

@NZlife I'd like to speak to anybody who has an opinion on what's essential or not whilst pregnant. When I was pregnant with my twins I was eating pickled chillies straight out of the jar I can't imagine what I would have done if I 'wasn't allowed' to go to the shop to get them x

Well, I guess I can imagine. I would have cried

I'm sure I recall a thread in which (for example) hot cross buns were deemed non-essential, even as part of a larger shop when you were grabbing a loaf of bread anyway, because you would linger for extra microseconds longer in that aisle and if everyone lingered for extra microseconds then that would be millions of extra hours of possible contamination.

I'm desperate for some new clothes. I wonder how many people I will literally kill if I order online?

I would be hung out to dry, i bought a BBQ yesterday, totally non essential. To be fair i ordered it about 4 weeks ago and it only got in store yesterday.

I've bought so much 'non essentials', and the other day my trolley was just filled with that.

Mine are - easter eggs, colouring book, praline chocolate, prosecco, coke, soured cream, dips, ice cream, ice, fresh baguette (have pitta at home but prefer baguette), crisps, biscuits. Am going to the shop later. Primarily for the new Ben and jerrys though I will grab some loo roll and milk to make my shop look acceptable

I tried to buy electric fencing and an electrifier from our local agricultural/country store a little while ago but they wouldn’t let me buy it as it’s non-essential.

We have horses and I’m a bit concerned that if the restrictions get any tighter we may have to turn them out 24/7. One of them is a tubby retiree so I wanted to build a track to restrict her grazing a bit

I ordered it online from the same company’s website 🤷‍♀️

One poor sod in our village was berated by another bloke for daring to buy yoghurt along with his list of essentials he posted that he had bought in a trip to the village shop when the other bloke was bemoaning about people going in - he was putting it on his cereal to save milk but it was deemed a luxury item by the Covid Copper.......

My essential when I was pregnant with my first was chip shop pie and gravy. It would have been a loo oolong isolation for me and DH.

Annoyingly I have to go to the supermarket as they yesterday the computwr broke and they couldn't dispense the twins medicine. Are yogurts for DH's mid morning break or two or killers?

A poster whose baby is due in a few weeks and they were anticipating lockdown lasting till then and was it okay to pick up a load of baby stuff from her Mums doorstep? As she has very little ready.

Most people said yes (especially when OP later said it included a car seat) but a fair few people said it was a 'non-essential trip' and said it was surprising how little you really need with a newborn and gave examples of years gone by when you just made a bed for baby in a drawer or in a cardboard box

@TheElementsOfMedical The hot cross bun murderer thread was deleted at OPs request as she'd had so much abuse for buying them with her regular essential shop.

Yep. Selfish, stupid, risking lives, a cunt, practically a murderer etc

@SuckingDownDarjeeling As far as I understand it everything is non-essential, if it is not something that the poster likes or uses. Also, we are not allowed to exercise in the way the poster might not and we may not entertain ourselves or/and our children in a manner that the poster does not enjoy or does not see value in. As the poster is a new one from thread to thread, what is essential, allowed or advisable will change every minute. See wasn't this helpfull? Now you know exactly what to do ...or not.

@ShirleyPhallus - so his daily exercise (he's working at home, self-employed) is to the Corner Shop for his daily newspaper which keeps his mind alert - sudoku - among other things. I find the concept that wine is essential much more ridiculous frankly, but each to his own. And the newspaper industry is on the brink of collapse, so we need to buy newspapers.

A boat is the kind of mad shit I will probably have bought by the end of this lockdown too, @Leaannb - I just presume you aren’t living in central London like I am.

@Ilikebooksandplants. It is mad shit and no I don't live anywhere close to Central London. I'm stll in shock I agreed to that lunacy but hey Husband and sons are extremely happy right now so whatever,right?

Today I bought sandals, books, Lego, easter egg, beer, wine, charcoal ... And food. Including nice food like hot cross buns, ice cream and fancy cheese.

It was all on sale. I went to one shop. I tried to stay in the 2m zones (although people then wandered in to zones I was already in).

My son works in a large store where food accounts for 20% of the stock and sold three hot tubs in one day!

@TomHardysCBBC Thank you for corroborating the hot cross buns flaming! I knew I'd seen a discussion along those lines. So, to those posters who say "ah, we're just talking about naughtily popping out for individual bits, thus making non-essential trips and nobody has been berated for buying particular items"... nope, that is definitely not what I saw.

No it wasn't @TheElementsOfMedical. The posters on that thread (and many others) were disgusting.

To maintain my sanity i've been 'light heartedly' naming the threads. Hotcross bun murderer...brownie bastard...😂

I was told I was an awful person for ordering a new fridge because now people would have to deliver it... ours was literally broken 😂

There was a thread with an OP having had to order a new washer/dryer. She was just saying it would be hard for her to drag it into the house and plumb it in herself (had paid for it to be done but COVID meant they know would just deliver to the door) and someone said it was the 'cuntiest post they'd ever seen on MN'

Washing machines are really, really heavy.

Anyone criticising an OP for saying it would be hard for her to drag it into the house and plumb it in herself has clearly never tried to do this themselves.

YouDo

A fridge is essential, you'd be ill if you couldn't keep food cool.
Besides, my dsis works at ao warehouse and they are essential workers for fridges as some people need them to store medicines.
I'm sure she'd tell me to thank you for keeping her in work.

Oh, they all said there were plenty of YouTube videos and the OP was just being a whiny little bitch!

I needed a new washer dryer in my rented flat in Jan. It took my landlord and his son 2 hours to remove the old one (one retired electrician and one plumber) because it had been there for 20 years and bits had rusted.

When the new one arrived it took my landlord over an hour to plumb in correctly (he is retired and a slow worker but still..).

I'd have probably fucked up royally following a YT vid. Plus i'm in a 2nd floor flat. If they'd have left it downstairs due to whatevet their instructions are now, i'd have had no chance.

So that no one buys them non essentially - Aldi rhubarb and custard hot cross buns aren't that nice.

One of the staff on our local Tesco gave someone a gobful at the start of the lockdown for daring to buy a small child's toy along with a trolley of essential groceries. Thankfully I'd gone out before it all kicked off into lockdown and bought colouring books and stuff at least!