Happy Happy Birthday to my good dear friend across the pond. Have a great one, and I hope the party lasts longer than 5 hours and you have a "Roof Raiser."
Yes, Happy Birthday Mirelly!! Hope that every birthday of yours is fun-filled and that you enjoy the company of family and friends.
Thanks all. I had a great day and went on a spend-spree with my friend Lea ( who gets paid on the 15th of the month and was thus able to 'join in'). I came home with a new TV, microwave, lawn mower, some clothes and various other minor items for my new house ... thank goodness for Cash & Carry warehouses! The TV wasn't on my shopping list but my present little 14" Sony is 13 years old and the picture is getting foggier by the minute. So spotting a 21" widescreen for 99 quid was tempting. Lea and I were in hysterics as we helped me make the decision to buy it using the time honored method of adding up the savings I had made in recent weeks by thrifty purchases and bargain hunting. By such means I was able to "prove" that the 99# telly would in fact only be costing me a mere 30 which was too good an 'offer' to pass on.
Happy birthday a day late! Glad you had fun on your spending spree ... sometimes it feels good to cut loose!
Okay, I need an English translation for my poor hillbilly brain. You bought a 21 inch widescreen? And 99 quid is about how much in dollars? Reason I'm asking, I just bought a 27 inch TV for my son and paid $127 on sale. But I know that British mesurements are in metric and that the Pound is worth more than the dollar, so I'm tring to get a handle on what you bought. (note to self: One of these days, you need to get away from this computer and travel to the UK since you're so bloody interested in it!)
OK, after a few quick calculations.... 99 pound is about $US180, but you must remember that mirelly got a wide screen T.V, so I think she did good (they cost a small fortune over here). Any way, happy belated b'day, glad you had a good day, nothing like a bit of retail therapy!
LOL Kristal. Don't believe half what you read. In Britland we use "english" measures for everything though the law says that we "must" use metric. eg. It is illegal for a store a store to sell a pound of apples or to post the price of apples by the lb, prices and weights must be by the kilogram. I still ask my butcher for a couple of pounds of minced beef (hamburger). Petrol is sold in liters but we still convert it to gallons in our heads. All road distances and speed limits are still posted in miles and miles per hour cos the govt hasn't the courage to force us to change and in pubs beer is still sold by the pint. In short we cling to our old system like Kate Winslett to a bit of flotsam in the icy waters of the North Atlantic Re converting between currencies. This is dangerous as it mostly meaningless. Yes it is true that dollar is presently weak against the UK pound almost 2 for 1, but it has also been close to parity barely a decade ago. Such things are more useful for tourists and currency traders and speculators. The real value of a currency is it local purchasing power and I figure the dollar : pound exchange rate as being roughly 1.4:1 so 99 is US$140. And yeah my TV is in the widescreen (16:9) format which are increasingly being discounted in the stores with the average price for a basic 28" model starting at around 180. It is getting difficult to find the old 4:3 standard screen TV in British stores. TV is another area that is in a mess. We are supposed to be going digital but there are still very few TV's in the stores with built in digital decoders (including the one I bought). I have signed up with a local cable company - a 3 in 1 deal where I get free national weekend phone calls, cable digital TV and 512K broadband internet for 30/month.
Okay, I get it now, I think. Wow, girl, you did get a deal!! A typical widescreen HD TV here that size would be over $300, I'm thinking. LOL about y'all fighting the metric system. You know how we Americans feel about it. The only thing I buy in liters is Diet Pepsi. LOL And I can still think back to the days when the cars 1st started using metirc-measurments on their parts and hear my Dad cussing while trying to get his "standard" tools to work on metric car parts. Yes, he broke down and bought a new set of tools. LOL I've been doing our family history and finding out where my family is from. My Smiths came from Devonshire, and my Hubby's family had a castle near Carin, Wales. I have never, ever wanted to come to the UK as badly as I do right now! It's like our dream trip, the one that couples take as their second honeymoon when the kids are grown. (sigh) With my youngest being 16 months old, that means it will be another, what, 17 years or so before we get to make that trip?
Belated Happy Birthday Mirelly Glad you had such a lovely day Sounds like an excellent deal you had there Well done on the female logic too in it really only costing about 30 Kristalrose - Hope you manage to get your trip to the UK soon
