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LMAO, following on from the 'class' threads I actualy went to Waitrose today....

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Blandmum · 08/05/2006 17:49

.....Because it is the shop nearest to dd's piano teacher. I seldom if ever go to Waitrose. They have an Aisle called 'Aspirational Toiletries'

LM Big Fat Welsh Arse off.

The other shoppers must have thought I was insane. So it is aspirational of have Kumquat and brown rice soap is it???? I wouldn't know if I should wash in some of that stuff or eat it

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Wordsmith · 08/05/2006 18:23

I shop at Waitrose regularly, but have never seen anything called aspirational toiletries! What a hoot.

What sort of stuff was in the aisle, as a matter of interest?

iota · 08/05/2006 18:24

did it have coloured toilet roll in that aisle?

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Blandmum · 08/05/2006 18:26

Oh all sorts of fancy stuff, like coconut and lime foaming bath oil.

lavender sented soap on 'twine' that lookd as if it had been made by some old French woman dressed all in black in Provance.

that sort of shit.

Soap with bits of bark in it .

LMAO.

This is getting funnier the more I think of it

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iota · 08/05/2006 18:28

"Soap with bits of bark in it " - is that for masochists?

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Blandmum · 08/05/2006 18:29

I think it must be aspirational to exfoliate

The plebs will just rub themselves down with a bit of IZAL bog roll.

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Miaou · 08/05/2006 18:44

thanks guys - I have tears rolling down my cheeks

I haven't been in a Waitrose since I lived in London (over 10 years ago) - makes me wish we had one up here just to go and cheer myself up!!

tamum · 08/05/2006 18:46

Well Miaou, when you finally get round to your trip to Edinburgh you can come and visit our newly opened Waitroses :)

cod · 08/05/2006 18:50

lol at bark

fullmoonfish · 08/05/2006 19:01

God that's fabulous, aspirational toiletries...
Waitrose is just round the corner from dh's office so we sometimes pop in for milk, bread etc. Last time I was in there, a yummymummy from our kids's school beamed at me and said ''ew hellew, Ay didn't know you shopped heyah, ay thought you'd go to asdah, as you live so near it.''

I was speechless! Was that a genuine attempt at making conversation with the scruffy mummy who doesn't go to the PTA ball (£40 a head or was it a dig about the plebs daring to come out of the cheap housing ghetto near Asda???

cod · 08/05/2006 19:02

lol at speech

fullmoonfish · 08/05/2006 19:08

I live in a very posh town, but I am very poor and my kids' school is where people who are too tight to send them to private school send them cos the uniform looks vaguely private schooley! There is a cap (hat for girls) which hasn't been compulsory since 1920, but a certain type of parent will buy it and The teachers laugh their asses off!

Miaou · 08/05/2006 22:15

Tamum, I'm determined to get there one day!! (Edinburgh that is, I can probably live another day without being accosted by yummy mummies buying aspirational toiletries)

Ledodgyherring · 08/05/2006 22:17

The wine I have a glass of tonight is from netto and it was only 2.99 and it's lovely so there!

Twiglett · 08/05/2006 22:17

they are patently toiletries that have self-actualised

Tortington · 08/05/2006 23:27

thats absolutley Brilliant MB! pmsl

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