Sick of hearing about "bits"

[HelloDenise]

I'm fed up of reading about people going to B&M, Home Bargains, Next, M&S, the pound shop or wherever to get some autumn .... BITS!

Throws, pumpkins, candles, cushions, foliage, wreaths and garlands ARE NOT BLOODY BITS! They're whole, substantial items, not bits of items .

Where the hell did this come from? Or should I be on Pedants' corner?

i sometimes pick up a few bits from the supermarket

I don’t buy stuff for Halloween though.

Yes and I pop and nip as well

YANBU

Cheap plastic polluting tat.

And yes "picky bits" makes me nauseous!

Things. You’re buying the things. Not bits

I don’t either

Snap.

I remember years ago a thread in AIBU entitled "AIBU to pop to Marksies for some picky bits?" I nearly vomited over the keybard. "Marksies" and "picky bits"

I have 2 sets of bedding for autumn, 2 for Christmas and 2 for the rest of the year. I use the same bottom sheets and mattress protectors regardless of which duvet covers. So I store 4 sets of duvet covers and pillowcases in the vacuum storage bags, which are flat and go on a shelf in the airing cupboard. We also have 2 sets of Christmas bedding for the other two beds in the house. They’re also stored flat in vacuum bags. The reason I have 2 of each is because I like to have one in the wash and one on so I don’t have to rush to wash.

My autumn decor consists of some cushion covers, two ceramic pumpkins, a door wreath, a faux ‘flower/twig’ arrangement from Little Buds and some faux leaves (which I got given after someone’s autumn wedding). I put those. in the bottom of a couple lanterns I have with candles in.

All of the above we’ve had for a number of years and will continue to use until they’re no longer usable. Like I said, I’m housebound a lot so these things just bring me a bit of joy.

I feel that way about clothes referred to as ‘pieces’, usually on social media.

"Look at this gorgeous piece I picked up from H&M, it will go so well with the piece I ordered from New Look.” 😑

My granny would have said messages. Going to go to shops to get messages. Ive never thought it was odd before but it suddenly seems wrong

People like this usually say "a trouser" or even "a jean" as well

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/amibeingunreasonable/4130691-To-want-to-go-to-Markies-for-picky-bits?page=1

here it is. Dear God.

It was during Covid so it's also filled with lots of Covid mentalness as well. THINK OF THE STAFF!

Voted YABU as i cannot get worked up about such things. CBA😂

I like the Dave Clark five hit, Bits and Pieces

The worst is when people say they’re having picky bits for tea

It's probably a regional thing. I say bits when I'm getting a smaller shop. My grandparents said it and also my great grandparents according to my mum so it's at least a 150 year old expression. I'm in my 50s it's not new.

😂 we call them odds and sods, funny how everyone has there own saying

At least ‘I did a thing’ (when ‘thing’ actually refers to a huge achievement) is dying out.

Yes I imagine so

You sound in bits? R U OK Hun?

Ha! Someone went there before me ....

Yes, that's immediately what sprung to mind for me. I thought I'd be opening quite a different tone of thread! 😂

I saw (and viscerally reacted) to that one too!

Sounds like a very unpleasant disease.

Bits is irritating anyway but the way it's airily used to refer to soul-destroying, planet-ruining and pointless tut from Shein, Temu and similar, is nauseating.

Some mixed netball teams go by the name "Bits and Tits". I kid you not.