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    bunnings kept nagging me to get a trade card so i did..bought 300 bucks worth of garden products....1.20 discount WTF anyway masters is opening across the road next month so be interesting to see what there trade will be.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by geoff View Post
    bunnings kept nagging me to get a trade card so i did..bought 300 bucks worth of garden products....1.20 discount WTF anyway masters is opening across the road next month so be interesting to see what there trade will be.....
    Get $1.20 discount and get on their database thats a fair deal!

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    The trade card discounts at Bunnings are a joke, even the check-out staff joke about them.

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    Not being able to find my keys...

    Put them on the kitchen bench last night along with $15 and a biro. Biro still there - keys and money gone. Boys had a friend over this morning playing games, dress-ups etc. Bet you they're hiding somewhere in the house but no-one seems to know where...

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    gout - still......am working but its not a barrel of fun, probably time l found a doctor - haven't been to one since '07




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    Business's who because we are called contractors forget that we are actually their clients.

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    Quote Originally Posted by m287j View Post
    The trade card discounts at Bunnings are a joke, even the check-out staff joke about them.
    Threw mine away, better off with the points on my Amex card

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    Quote Originally Posted by geoff View Post
    bunnings kept nagging me to get a trade card so i did..bought 300 bucks worth of garden products....1.20 discount WTF anyway masters is opening across the road next month so be interesting to see what there trade will be.....
    Yep,I've found that this industry has no real trade discount,be it Bunning's,landscape supplies or mower shops. That just means I have no real discount system either :-)
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    even the wholesale plant joints are getting tight.the only advantage with these places is volume but little on discount,,,,often the price difference between bunnings and the trade plant places is none...volume is the difference .

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    Ratsak in garden beds and lawn, getting sick of edging and hitting a clump of it, can't be healthy to breathe in.

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    Ratsak in garden beds? Likely this is snail pellets?
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    Quote Originally Posted by cadase View Post
    Ratsak in garden beds and lawn, getting sick of edging and hitting a clump of it, can't be healthy to breathe in.
    Did you know they use warfarin (rat poisin) to thin your blood as medication?
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    Correct, fyi, ratsak is not the best to use these days, rodents become bait shy and unless thier starving usually dont like it very much, many other 1 shot/meal baits from bunnings, but ratsak is one I never use..just sayin here but its a blood thinning formulation in medicine for blocked arteries or something along those lines.
    Quote Originally Posted by AJD Mowing View Post
    Did you know they use warfarin (rat poisin) to thin your blood as medication?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfarin

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    Quote Originally Posted by BSD View Post
    Correct, fyi, ratsak is not the best to use these days, rodents become bait shy and unless thier starving usually dont like it very much, many other 1 shot/meal baits from bunnings, but ratsak is one I never use..just sayin here but its a blood thinning formulation in medicine for blocked arteries or something along those lines.
    that's right, but given a good dose, id reckon we'd end up haemorrhaging like the rodents its intended for :| yay for the things we use to kill other living things be it herbicide or pesticides ...its all gonna get us eventually lol sorry, I am a bit freaked out after 4 corners the other week, seeing what herbicides (fair enough, not applied correctly etc) had done to those poor blokes ...made me open my eyes after years as a cabinetmaker (MDF, melamine FORMALDEHYDE, two pack laquers etc) and now years as a horticulturalist (simazine ...mmmmm) ...makes me wonder how much damage ive done to myself in plain stupidity ...
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    Yep i understand, i used Chlordane, Heptachlor, Dieldrin in the years gone by, but used correct PPE, so i have no adverse effects or high blood count etc, my and others concern was/is chemicles used without proper information supplied to the end users, my mate was a sparky for a major printing company and had his prostrate removed at the ripe old age of 50, its been diagnosed as a possible leader to this disease, getting off track here, but you/we/everyone MUST follow the lable instructions on any chem application you deem necessary for a job, weed spraying included...just saying here without getting into some debate etc...
    Quote Originally Posted by Mow And Go View Post
    that's right, but given a good dose, id reckon we'd end up haemorrhaging like the rodents its intended for :| yay for the things we use to kill other living things be it herbicide or pesticides ...its all gonna get us eventually lol sorry, I am a bit freaked out after 4 corners the other week, seeing what herbicides (fair enough, not applied correctly etc) had done to those poor blokes ...made me open my eyes after years as a cabinetmaker (MDF, melamine FORMALDEHYDE, two pack laquers etc) and now years as a horticulturalist (simazine ...mmmmm) ...makes me wonder how much damage ive done to myself in plain stupidity ...

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