S Oldfield

Bloodyhell, should be nice for those prices!!!!!!!!

Pollyana

Hate to tell you this Sandra but them's Aussie type prices!! My Bloke bought himself a new pillow last week, just an ordinary bed pillow, not the dirt cheap sort, but the sort that stays plump for a little while - in the UK I might have coughed up between £5 & £7 for it, he paid $40!!!! Stunned? I collapsed on it in shock!

teach

Hiya topcat,
nope not bringing frontloader, it's fitted in my kitchen and is part of the house sale. Thought about buying another to bring but will then have to pay tax on it.

Sarah

Pollyana

Argh!! get a new one and bring it!! We have a supposedly good top loader. A third of the washing has to be redone each time cos its still dirty or streaked with powder. The clothes get stretched and battered from being pummelled by the paddles. And you have that problem with adding conditioner. I hate the thing, oh for an efficient front-loader (very expensive here). The worst bit is taking something out and finding its as grubby as when it went in.

MarkMyWords

Well I wouldn't touch a crappy £5-7 pillow with a bargepole (or my head). A decent pillow costs more like £15 upwards, so $40 sounds about right. You spend maybe a third of your life with your head there so it makes no sense to skimp. (Don't tell me, that's what he said too!)

MarkMyWords

And just how is anyone supposed to assess the quality when it's all wrapped up in cellophane and it doesn't have the thread count on the label, eh? Pah.

Can't be bothered with a separate post, but... yes, Quilton is great stuff, better than the equivalent UK stuff IMHO, so don't assume all Aussie loo roll is (ha ha) crap. Of course it's not cheap, but loo roll is something I'm not prepared to skimp on (guess why).

JackTheLad

Mark my dear, you are obviously shopping at the wrong place! Any good quality bedding should have a label stating the thread count. If it says Cotton Sateen and it's 100 % cotton, the thread count is very often 250+.

And you can open or ask to open and feel it! Of course I'm talking about the good shops that don't mind you doing it!

Mrs JTL

Ceri

One for the bargain hunters.. or cheapskates . 100% cotton white and they have a beige sort of colour sheets in at the Warehouse ( a nice quality shop..lol) .. bought some of these too normally I'm a bit wary of buying things from there as their bed linen is really cr*p polyester thin sh*te... I usually just go in there to buy all my candles... much to hubby's dismay. ( he keeps chucking them out.. they seem to go mysteriously missing) , bloody philistine( mind you I seem to have tons of the things) .. anyway, the cotton sheets seem ok, not too thin and not too thick either, nice for the coming summer .. haven't put them on the bed , but I have opened them up. only $39 a set ( QB, one fitted, one flat and two cases) . Think they are new stock in, as I've never seen them sell 100% cotton sheets in there before... hurry bargain shoppers they may sell out, if not already.. bought them last sunday.should have bought some more.. re-packaged them with a brand name, set myself up a stall and sell them at triple the price to people wanting designer sheets
Just tell the "bloke" they are designer sheets, to go with his designer pillow.. he'll never know the diff.

P.s Or, why don't you test to see if he knows the difference between his $40 pillow and say a cheap pillow at $10 etc.. go buy a new cheap pillow which looks like his , take the little tag off his, sew it on to the new cheap one and pop it back to his side of the bed.. if he can't tell --- well , just goes to show some people think that a price tag always means quality .. Oh I'ma mean, sneaky person.. but that's what I would do..lol - it keeps them on their toes.. if he does notice the diff.. you just say, see that $40 pillow wasn't worth the money you spent.. my cheap pillow is still ( his ex pillow which you are happily using now ) is so lovely, plump and comfortable.. it's a win win situation for you

cheers

P.s this is also good for wine snobs too.. and it works, I've tried it on a few occasions . the mind is wonderfully deceived some times.. a bit like the placebo effect.

Always reminds me of that test someone did a couple of years back.. got a chimp to paint an abstract painting (London I think it was).. well when I say paint, I mean he splashed paints at a canvas .. hung it in a gallery saying it was so-so famous artist, and the people stood there and admired it, and came out with loads of b*llux about the meanings hidden in the abstract.lol. emperors clothing fable it always reminds me of.

joh117

Finally makes sense non of my aussie mates knew. They did get annoyed at me when I questioned why they called it that!!

joh117

They are expensive we paid $1300 for our front loader its an Asko. Decided we may as well get a good make. I think its Swedish and its the most environmentally friendlt 4 star energy efficient and 4 star water. We spent more on a good washer and didn't get a dryer as the spin would be enough to get a lot of the water out of the clothes.

Much better than the toploader we had in the rental place. It never got the clothes clean and had powder all over the clothes

Jo

soapy©

oh yes it is !!!!
im going to go out and buy a big pack of Dr Whites just to wipe my bum.

hope they are not as rough as the loo roll or all u ladies are in trouble

Ceri

you'll find it an expensive alternative to bog roll ..lol

My gawd .. I can not believe people are talking about bog roll. I knew someone once who used nothing but those jay cloths ( kitchen cloth things) instead of toilet paper ( it was actually when I was in hospital.. girl in the next bed was really ill about 6 stone if that ) .. apparently they were soft to use.. it didn't drag her skin.. everything hurt her if it was too rough

soapy©

A JAY CLOTH !!!!!!!!
:scared:
oh and u cant put a price on your bum
soft and skint, thats the new way to go for me

ABCDiamond

Myers have a BOSH 6kg front loader for $859. We got a 7kg LG one for a bit under $800. Much, much, much better than top loaders!

soapy©

and its really great at getting the dirt out of JAY CLOTHS