On-line Purchase Surprises

[Daisy]

Being in the mood to treat myself I recently ordered some new dusters (I know, spoiling myself again!).

What I thought I'd ordered were a pack of 4 nice large yellow ones with neat red hemming round them. What I got was 4 PACKETS of 4 dusters - 16 in all. And they were huge. There's no possibility of me ever doing enough dusting to warrant having that many, so I took a packet over to DS2 and DIL. DS2's comment was "Are you trying to tell us something, Mum?" Oh dear. So now what do I do with some of the remaining 12? It seems I can't give them away without causing offence.

Am I only one to have online 'surprises' like that?

[Gemini]

That would have been a better purchase for Oma Daisy!!

When I was setting up my reflexology business, called The Lavender Room I ordered, online a beautiful print of lavender for my wall. It arrived and was about 3 inches square!!
I remember thinking bottles of Tropicana juice were great bargains on a Sainsbury or Tesco order once . I ordered two and when they arrived they were the lunch box sizes .

[Mimi]

Being in the mood to treat myself I recently ordered some new dusters (I know, spoiling myself again!).

What I thought I'd ordered were a pack of 4 nice large yellow ones with neat red hemming round them. What I got was 4 PACKETS of 4 dusters - 16 in all. And they were huge. There's no possibility of me ever doing enough dusting to warrant having that many, so I took a packet over to DS2 and DIL. DS2's comment was "Are you trying to tell us something, Mum?" Oh dear. So now what do I do with some of the remaining 12? It seems I can't give them away without causing offence.

Am I only one to have online 'surprises' like that?

Daisy you could pop by and use your new dusters here if you would like 😄

[Oma]

You could use them on Eva’s dirty paws before getting in the car when all her towels are in the wash 😁

[Plantaholic]

Nothing like a lovely new yellow duster with red stitching.

[Lizzie48]

I have been thinking this over, the one purchase I can think of was a suitcase, my friend had one and it looked so handy so I ordered one, one arrived, the wrong size, this happened 3 times so in the end I made a complaint, I got a very nice voucher from them, cash returned, I got the suitcase from another place, the right size this time and from the voucher I got a new printer! It is a very handy case so I am pleased I did get the right size.

[Nanto2girls]

Daisy, we will all be having yellow duster envy.

[Daisy]

Daisy you could pop by and use your new dusters here if you would like 😄

Mimi, I can do better than that - I could send you some, so you have your very own big yellow dusters with red hemming.

Nanto, I'm so sorry, I didn't intend to generate envy - and I could always send you the link to where I got them.

Oma, the dusters are nearly as big as Eva's small towels, but she's got a 'dry bag' to deal with her dirty paws. She IS a lady after all and wouldn't want to be seen slumming it with yellow dusters, no matter how large they are. A girl has her pride, you know.

Lizzie, that turned out to be a bargain. Well done.

Plant, I did wonder (fleetingly) why are yellow dusters yellow in the first place, and why to they have clashing red stitching. Very odd, isn't it!

Gem, I confess my first thought when I opened the packet was "Oh, Oma would be delighted with these". . What a disappointment about the lavender picture. I hope it smelled nice to make up for its lack of size! I've done the opposite with juice and ended up with 2 litres of apple juice which would last me about 6 months (Oh prefers orange). The annoying thing was the amount of space it gobbled up in the fridge door.

[Oma]

Daisy
B said between buying new dusters dish cloths and tea towels , I must be keeping the industry in business 😁
I must admit I like new duster days 🤣🤣🤣

[Plantaholic]

Reminds me of that poem “Dust if you must”

[Daisy]

Plant, I try not to reach "must dust" - my tolerance of dust is very high.