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Originally Posted by frithar

I found this section on couponing around the world and thought"Wouldn't it be fun to look up Tesco's" and check out what that's like over there (I'm in Pennsylvania, but I have --and have had-- a deep obsession with all things English since childhood).

So I went online and registered for Tesco and saw some of their prices.

Oh, my Anglo-sisters! I 'm sobbing (ok, not literally) for the prices you folks have to pay.

$5 for toothpaste??? $13 for a 30 pack of dishwasher tabs?? $6 for a few measly pieces of chicken??

I guess it cuts down on extreme-consumerism.

no wonder America is overweight, I'm thinking. Look at how cheap evrything is here!

Well, I certainly learned something today. You folks are rather amazing over there to be able to hold up the way you do. And maybe I learned something about me, too, and where all my money might be going...

I hope this isn't taken as any kind of "dis" (if you will) of England. I adore it and shall be there as soon as I can.

But first, I have to learn to be more thrifty! :D

Laura, Chaucer scholar and eternal Anglophile

LOL! you're not the only one who's obsessed with all things English and I've peeked at the Tesco prices too....gotta save lots, if we want to hang out "across the pond" for a bit