do you buy vaseline?

[angel-cake]

This is more a piece of advice rather than a question!

In a certain well known supermarket (beginning with T), you can buy a 100g pot of vasline for 72p. If you buy a pot from the skincare section, it is 89p for 50g!! half the amount for more money!

Exactly the same stuff but you get ripped off for buying from skincare.

[Jules001]

if you go to Poundland you can buy a whopping great tub of 500g although it is just called Petroleum jelly and not branded Vaseline. I only buy the cheap stuff as I grease my bird feeder poles to stop the squirrels from climbing up and eating all the food, so no need for branded stuff.

[angel-cake]

Sorry,meant to say that the larger, cheaper pot is in the baby section.

[cazzz1975]

lol jules, I bet those squirrels look funny trying to shimmy up!

[angel-cake]

Sorry DIZ, I assume the sarcasm was lost on you....

[THECORBYLOON]

It could've been The Co-Op.

[weeal]

lol @ the squirrels with the really nice soft feet now

[angel-cake]

Exactly Corby!!

Diz - Never said it was meant to be funny, I said sarcastic. Look in a dictionary if you don't understand the meanings.

[angel-cake]

Oh dear, some people do get upset easily.

[tiggerblue10]

Poor squirrels! Lol

[Caribeing]

multifunctional. great as a barrier protection
on lips and soles of feet, also I use it on
the rim of my outdoor plant pots keeps the slugs
away

[angel-cake]

For those of you who think this is some old "granny" tip, my point was actually that retailers actually charge more for something that is in the Skincare section because it is seen as a beauty product, when the same product is cheaper in the Baby section because it is seen as a practical item.

I've always known that we are ripped off with creams and make-up etc but this is the actual proof that it happens.

[angel-cake]

(slap my wrist for overuse of the word actually!)

[weeal]

it was actually a very good tip angel-cake

[weeal]

hey DIZ if youre putting it on the soles of yer feet do it at night and put cotton socks on top and they'll be lovely n soft in the morn

oh and dont step on tiled floors
or laminate
lol
now THIS is a granny tip