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AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 10 Sep 2013 17:47

one of my Dad's favourite verses that Jonesy!!!

I always ignore the best before dates and the use by dates - I go by smell and the look!!

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

Jonesey

Jonesey Report 10 Sep 2013 17:21

Island,

In days of olde when knights were bold
And toilet paper hadn't been invented
People wiped their ass with a clump of grass
And walked away contented.

There is no use by date on grass. :-D

Researching:
Don't put off until tomorrow doing what you can do today. If you like doing it today you can do it again tomorrow. Be kind to your children for it is they who will decide which care home you end up in.

Kuros

Kuros Report 10 Sep 2013 17:05

My mother asked me to get her the tube of Savlon out of her bathroom cabinet the other day. The expiry date on it was 1998. I threw it out - thought it may have lost its healing properties by now.

Annie

Sally

Sally Report 10 Sep 2013 15:35

why a date on cheese
just cut off the mold and its good to use :-)

sally w <3

Researching:
stephen taafe*muriel denley1917 he died 3 weeks later

jax

jax Report 10 Sep 2013 15:06

:-D @ Tenerife Sun

I would much rather have the boxes of the cherry liqueur chocolates that lidl do....thats my only alcohol fix I have these days :-D

Researching:
Nothing much

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 10 Sep 2013 14:58

Island - would you put those poor puppies out of work?

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

Tenerife Sun

Tenerife Sun Report 10 Sep 2013 14:55

Jax ..can I send you my address and possibly the money for the postage :-D

Researching:
Matthew and Jane Elwood who had my great great grandfather Francis Edward Elwood baptised in 1807 at Horsham Sussex. There is no sign of Matthew or Jane from this date and my great great grandfather was brought up as Francis Edward Elwood MITCHELL

Island

Island Report 10 Sep 2013 14:21

Why does loo roll need to be advertised on TV? Who exactly isn't using the stuff already? :-S

Researching:
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday

jax

jax Report 10 Sep 2013 14:11

I have approx. 50 bars of out of date chocolate.

My mum being a bit of a hoarder got a liking for this choc/nut bar from lidl...when I visited recently she told me she couldn't eat it anymore as the nuts got stuck in her teeth...so did I want it? I said yes and she gave me 8 bars (in date)

She then said I have some out of date ones so will throw those away....no I will have them they will be ok....I expected half a dozen not 50 :-D

Anyway they taste alright

Researching:
Nothing much

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 10 Sep 2013 14:04

Chocolate - a week

Hah

A day :-D :-D :-D

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

GlasgowLass

GlasgowLass Report 10 Sep 2013 13:58

"Use By:" I chuck it out if it's after this date
"Best Before" means just that.

EDiT:
Couldn't resist it.... just looked inside the loo roll tube.
Asda's own brand doesn't have a date.
It has:
13195 1 01

Researching:
Brannan/ McGrath/ Kerr/ Jordan/ Finnigan NI and Free State. Devlin/ Lamont / Lamond/ Fyfe/ Pollock/ Johnston/Struthers/ Smith. Scotland. Avi: Hand Fasting or Tying The Knot. Daughters wedding 2016

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 10 Sep 2013 13:51

Why do people adhere to the actual use by date on stuff?

some of it is made with a 5 year use period..........what difference is a couple of weeks going to make?

some of my inhalers have fairly long useage periods.......
Bob

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

Barry_

Barry_ Report 10 Sep 2013 13:19

John, you do note the most curious things.
What on earth are you doing sculling around inside toilet rolls?
Did you have a poor night's sleep?

I just had to check mine since you said it and lo and behold the date in my 'spare' roll - ready and waiting to jump onto the holder - is Nov 1960. Unbelievable!

I just hope it holds up when needed and doesn't leave me in the ....!

BTW - the use by date on a newspaper is always on the front page - mostly near the very top.
Jus' so ya know!

Allan

Allan Report 10 Sep 2013 13:17

The use by date on toilet rolls are just a tissue of lies.

The use by date on dates are jus a Fig ment of your imagination

JustJohn

JustJohn Report 10 Sep 2013 11:50

:-D :-D

And why is the use by date on toilet rolls always on the cardboard inner :-S

And why is there a use by date on dates :-S

Researching:
Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 10 Sep 2013 11:41

is there...........

a "use by" date on chocolate? :-D

It doesn't last more than a week in our house ;-)

:-D