things we are now buying ... the RPI

joggerjayne | 13:48 Wed 17th Mar 2010 | ChatterBank

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The ONI has made some interesting changes to the list of items monitored to compile the RPI and the CPI.

Bars of soap and canned drinks have been dropped (are we really consuming less of those?).

Fishfingers are IN for the first time EVER (do we eat more fishfingers now than 20 years ago???)

Lip gloss is in, lipstick is out.

Hair straighteners are in, hairdryers are out.

What would YOU include in the list of "MUST BUY" items if you were compiling the RPI ?

Oh God, in todays paper, two 16 yr olds who are named, say they had to get into bed with Take That's Mark Owen as they felt obliged to please him !

How Sad

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B00

Errr ONI? RPI? CPI?

What??

mccfluff

apple catcher knickers

McMouse

Wine, beer, bacon, oh.......and some wine and beer.

joggerjayne

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Sorry.

The Office for National Statistics ... which compiles the ...

... Retail Price Index, and the ...

... Consumer Prices Index.

LoftyLottie

I haven't bought a bar of soap in years. Have been given them at Christmas, etc. when they have been put in drawers and donated to raffles. I don't ever buy canned drinks. There again I don't buy fish fingers either

Must buy items:

Moisturiser
Shower Gel
Dark Chocolate

joggerjayne

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Soap for Christmas?

Was it soap on a rope?

Now there was a daft creation. Nobody ever used them ... presumably saving them for a "special occasion" ... like a REALLY important shower, LOL.

So ... they just got dusty, and gross, until they were replaced the following year ... by MORE soap on a rope.

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Mousey ... wine, beer and bacon are all in already, so you're okay !

mccfluff

vibrators

funnygirl

chocolate
vodka

joggerjayne

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Curiously, Fluffy, vibrators haven't made it on to the list.

=0/

However, irrespective of the RPI, we have locally 3 of the best buzzy shops in the country ... Lust, Tickled, and Taboo.

Worth a browse, if you ever come this way (so to speak).

mccfluff

i wil certainly bear that in mind!

joggerjayne

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All very "girl friendly" Fluffy ... especially Tickled.

Not full of pervy blokes, like the ones in London.

(except Harmony, in London ... it's nice there)

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