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pans, 17 December, 2008 at 10:41 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 73

Do you have display "products"?

I was really laughing at people having display towels a while ago, even more so when people DARED to use them. And then today i was tidying up before the cleaners came and I realised I have display products.

My mother bought me a ridiculous amount of Moulton Brown products (they were on sale) because she remembered i used them about 7 years ago. Sadly, i dont like them anymore so just displayed them all nicely in the bathroom whilst she was here.

8 months later they are still there happily showing themselves off to guests who i am sure would never dare to use them as none have been opened (i wish they would and i have encouraged their use).

Is this as sad as display towels? Am i turning into my mum? Should I buy some speical towels now and go the whole hog?

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Latest activity by RomanticRedCars37253, 14 November, 2018 at 01:38
  • jelly baby
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    I do have display products but then I also have display towels so not that surprising.

    If we have people coming to stay I always have to put out shampoo, conditioner, bubble bath & shower gel which colour co-ordinate with the bathroom. Yes, I know, I am sad.

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  • Iris
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    You could send them to me, I'd use them!

    I don't have display products, funtional stuff only in my bathroom.

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  • jaz hear those sleigh...
    Beginner January 2007
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    No no not at all ?

    I do use some of these though the shelf looks very much like it's about to fall off the wall did in this pic which I took in September ?

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  • chids
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    I have two bottles of bubble bath which at the moment are for display purposes only. Mainly because they match the bathroom colours but also because i have tons of non colour co-ordinated bubble bath which i'm using first.

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  • Clairy
    Beginner October 2003
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    I used to, on a little picture rail height shelf around two walls. Since moving I don't bother.

    However, we do have a display bathroom that none of us are allowed to use ?

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  • AnnaBanana
    Beginner July 2007
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    I have a nice bit of coral from the maldives and a horrid smelling bottle of "" body spray which I just remembered was given to me by secret santa last year, and H sometimes uses as bathroom freshner ? In fact I will throw it away when I get home tonight, its hideous.

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  • LouM
    Beginner August 2007
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    I think this is in a pretty similar vein to display towel tbh. Sorry. ?

    I don't have DTs or DPs, but only because I don;t have the time or inclination to faff about. Having said that, if I know I have guests coming I'll try to make sure that the hair dye stained towels aren't on offer, and that I haven't got a sink full of exfoliant residue etc etc.

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  • pans
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    ? at display bathroom. brilliant. are guests allowed to use it of just look?

    We have a "poo loo" that only H uses and i use the "posh bathroom" for all functions. he is not allowed in there, only for a shower ?

    jaz, that is ridiculous. I love it. please tell me at least some of those are useD?

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  • Clairy
    Beginner October 2003
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    Lou - you mean leg hairs, don't you? ?

    Guests may use the display bathroom, but we are not allowed to. Mainly because we have a perfectly good ensuite and I don't want to fanny about cleaning two bathrooms ? Lazy, moi? ?

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  • The Grouch That Stole Christmas
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    I don't have a display anything ?

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  • jaz hear those sleigh...
    Beginner January 2007
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    Here's a shot of my display towels too, the grey ones still have ribbon on them. I used to hate that bathroom but when I did it up it felt much cosier. I will even poo in it and everything (only in the toilet though of course ?)

    I have used the Dove cream and the Clarins body lotion. I also use the Fekkai hair stuff on special occasions. Most of the little things haven't been opened yet, though I'm trying to use them - to stop the shelves from falling if for nothing else ?

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  • legless
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    Er no. although i will confess to display towels when selling house, my bathroom suited white towels but i couldn't afford nice big fluffy ones like i like to use so display towels were smaller fluffy towels that were never used so didn't need washing and didn't lose their fluffiness.

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  • decibelle
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    My mum has display towels - her favourite one was pure white linen with lovely lacy bits. We never dared touch it! Then one day, one of my brother's friends 'washed' his hands and dried them on it - it was never the same again. She was gutted! ?

    I'd love to have a display bathroom. We've got some 'ornaments' in ours (not frilly ladies or china dogs, just pretty stones from the beach and stuff!) but they can be a right faff to dust. Oh, we do have some Neal's Yard blue bottles on display actually. But they're empty and only there as they're bootiful.

    H annihilates our toilet every morning. In fact, I'm seriously considering putting in a downstairs loo so he can do it there and I don't have to fumigate the top of the house afterwards.

    I have to admit I do have some display kitchen appliances - the slow cooker and the smoothie blender. I pretend I use them all the time. ? I haven't cleaned out the slow cooker since the last time I used it [lazy moo] and I dread to open the lid and see what's growing inside!

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  • legless
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    you have display rotten food? ? that's awesome. I bet Jaz doesn't have that ?

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  • pans
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    ? jaz stop it. i cant beleive that is on display. im sorry, my products are insignificant compared to your bathroom. I am weeping with the ribbon still around and the two little face towels on top. You twee tw@t. ?

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  • princess layabout
    Beginner October 2007
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    Er... no. Just no. ? I'm sorry, but keeping brand new towels tied up with a pretty ribbon? WTF? My mum has just had their downstairs loo redone, from a horrid unheated hole with a 1950s loo seat to a magnificent palace of ease - I'll get her some display products for Christmas, I think ? they're clearly de rigeur if you're not a skanky ho like me.

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  • pans
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    Just make sure they have a ribbon around Princess. Otherwise there is no way they will be good enough for the Palace of Poo.

    ? at jaz not having display mouldy food. Shame on her.

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  • Wordsworth
    Beginner September 2005
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    My mum has display towels for the bathroom at Christmas - she was most upset when my half brother used them one year. ?

    I don't have display products, although there are some things like fancy bubble bath that I only use occasionally. Like LouM, it's as much as I can do to hide the mucky towel I wrap my dyed hair in.

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    Beginner March 2004
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    I sort of did. I had a lovely bottle of bubble bath, in a dark glass bottle with a hand-written label and a raffia ribbon around the neck. It smelled lovely, and was only kept for special occasions as it was quite expensive.

    Then one day it disappeared - I searched everywhere for it.

    After turning the bathroom upside-down, I asked my husband where he'd put it.

    "Oh, I used it up and threw the bottle away" he replied.

    Gutted.

    It turned out when I told him "You can use the cheaper bubble bath, but keep the nice one", he thought that Radox was the nice bubble bath. He assumed that anything in a glass bottle with a handwritten label was obviously cheap, home-made tat from a craft fair.

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  • decibelle
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    It's not a whole pot of mouldy stew or anything! Just the 'residue' round the pot. Not that that makes it any better. I really should clean it out. Or maybe just put a ribbon round it! ?

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  • LouM
    Beginner August 2007
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    Waaaaaah Clairy, you know me too too well. ? I typed, deleted, re-typed and re-deleted many times the word 'pubes'. ?

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  • jaz hear those sleigh...
    Beginner January 2007
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    They came witht he ribbon on thanks to L'argos.

    You should see the inside of my george forman grill ? Is it wrong that I couldn't be bothered cleaning our deep fat fryer so bought a new one? And now that our new one needs cleaned, mr jaz asked if I would buy the exact same one this time? Hmm.

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  • jaz hear those sleigh...
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    They came witht he ribbon on thanks to L'argos.

    You should see the inside of my george forman grill ? Is it wrong that I couldn't be bothered cleaning our deep fat fryer so bought a new one? And now that our new one needs cleaned, mr jaz asked if I would buy the exact same one this time? Hmm.

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  • Clairy
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    ? excellent. Not just me then ?

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  • princess layabout
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    Oh dear... do you get a new car every time the ashtray gets full as well? ?

    Pans, I will make sure that there is a ribbon around the display towels/products, yes.

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  • decibelle
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    We moved house because our cooker needed cleaning! ? Well, there were other reasons too, but that was near the top of the list for me.

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  • sparkly-jules
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    I can beat that - my mother has display Christmas toilet paper in her display loo ?. It has snowmen and Christmas trees and reindeers etc on it, my friend tore a few sheets off one year to keep as a souvenir ?. She keeps the plain white Andrex tucked away in December!

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  • maxiemax
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    As guests only use our downstairs loo I do have special Christmas hand towels for in there ? family can use them whilst guests are there but as soon as they go the Christmas towels are replaced with the normal Ikea ones...

    But having read this thread I am seriously considering a little shelf in there with some display products! Would a box or Tampax not be a good idea? ?

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    Beginner May 2005
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    My Aunt has a display cooker. honestly a cooker in her kitchen that she doesn't use (she uses the one in the outhouse)

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  • (Mrs) Magic of Christmas
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    I sort of do. All my nice stuff goes on the shelf (although it is all used) and the cheaper stuff goes in the drawer.

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  • jaz hear those sleigh...
    Beginner January 2007
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    I know someone (no, not me or a member of my family) with a display kitchen. They built their "for use" kitchen in the garage ?

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  • KB3
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    Jaz you are hilarious! I'm peeing my pants here ?

    The only things on display in our bathroom are things that we use. I'm even such a minger, after I've done a fake tan I just throw the used gloves on the side.

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