I went out to buy....

A new coat from Lidl - do they do clothes as well? I'm impressed though!

Teetime - they do (sell clothes, that is). I saw some coats in there today. I went in for some breakfast cereals and came out with two pairs of opaque thermal tights for £5 - probably the same as yours, Phoenix. What a bargain.

Sort of going out for one thing and ending up with another - 26 years ago I went out with a friend to book a holiday. Thought we'd go for a drink to look over the brochures before making a final decision. We never did go on that holiday - I met my husband in the bar and instead of 2 weeks in the sun I have had 26 years of fun, laughter, the odd tear and a wonderful son.

I asked the OH to bring back a mango. He bought a butternut squash....

I went out to buy a washing machine and came home with an ipad.

Cacao, that sounds like a poem. Lovely.

Snap Not ! Yes, 2 for £5. I got one footless pair and 1 ordinary.

Blinko I feel for you.

Blinko is there any hope for him?

Not long ago I sent hubby out to get some milk with GS, he rang to check wether I wanted blue or green top, decided to have a coffee (he was in waitrose) and came back without buying any milk!
He did once go to the pub and come home with a van!
Our most recent unintentional purchase.....went out to buy a new music system for the lounge and came home with two! (The other for the kitchen)

Along the same lines my Dad went out to buy a newspaper and came back... without me!
As a new dad he'd taken me to the paper shop and arrived home without me. Of course, that was in the days when prams and pushchairs were left outside shops.

Prams lined up outside shops... It was a different world.

I remember the days too when we could leave our little ones outside the shop

My husband went out for a lawn mower and came back with an antique
wall clock.

My OH went out to buy socks and underpants from M&S, and came back with a piano and a racehorse (don't ask!)

My hubby,s uncle went for a newspaper got a woman and never came back.
Most of our cars were bought when we weren't really looking for one.

Oh, Trish, Hula those are both infuriating posts! So many stories which really need enlarging on, my mind is boggling!

I can give you one. I have a friend whose wife sent him to Thailand to buy furniture for her shop, and he came back with a Thai bride-to be!

My friends who seemed so well-suited, so happy, I thought they would be together for ever with their beautiful family of three white-haired children. The children grew up and were at college, she felt a bit redundant, he had a plumbing business, she wanted to open a furniture and interior design shop. They started one up but soon realised that she would need a cheap source of furniture, at least to begin with, to be able to make enough to cover her rent. They couldn't both afford to leave the shop and go on a trip as the shop was eating up so much money, so off he went on his own. He loved it there.

He is very happy, lives in northern Thailand, is 60 and has a five year old daughter, and teaches English for engineers at a college.

I think the moral of the story is, if you send your OH off to Sainsbury's, he may well come back engaged to a checkout girl. Or something like that.

I once went out for a coffee as I was feeling fed up with my job, my boss rang me and said 'go out and treat yourself, buy something nice'. I did, I bought a new sofa and chairs. I think she meant buy a bar of chocolate or sometning.

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