Remember you're a womble - 2016

Just found 1 very real cent in the office corridor

Hiya Chirpy :wave: lovely to have a new womble on the team!

I think everyone who posts here is proud to be a womble - why be ashamed of making use of freebies, discounts, coupons or YS food? Some of us are lucky roadkill finders, others get fabulous food perks from work or cash back from various sites and all of it adds up. We'd love to hear your wombling adventures Secondhand Rose is a name full of vintage chic

Dave - thank you for the kind offer of sending wombled receipts but usually there is a 7 day time scale for claiming points etc. which might mean by the time you've sent them on to someone, they would no longer be claimable. Why don't you keep them yourself and post your totals here - it would be good to see your progress!

Our lovely neighbour presented DH with a detachable trailer tow-hitch for our sit-on mower that he'd made specially for us (bless him). They're about a tenner to buy online, so we were delighted to accept his gift. I'll claim £5, if that's OK? Also four eggies from the girls today = 40p.

Siebrie - your workplace sounds wonderful - they seem to be very employee orientated, which is great! Won't take you long to save for your e-bike now!

I'm waiting to see how the budget affects us here, but I'm hoping we will avoid the sugar tax as I'm pretty strict on fizzy drinks in our house. I make fruit cordial from berries, rhubarb (delicious, even if I say so myself) and citrus fruits, along with the obligatory damson and sloe gins :rotfl:

F0xh0les - do you have a soup maker that does everything for you, or do you cook on a stove? My recent attempts at soup weren't great, so wondering if I should invest in a gadget?

I'm sure there's no problem with time limits, at these two stores anyway...

Morrisons: "If you do not have your Card with you during an eligible transaction, you may claim points via any in-store Customer Service desk within 30 days by providing your receipt. You may not add points from more than 2 receipts in any 14 day period."

Asda: "Your shop will be available for you to compare for 28 days after you made your purchases.
You have 28 days from the date you received a voucher after an in-store shop, or from the date your e-voucher reaches your account to use the voucher."

And I'd rather help other people than use them for myself, so I hope people take me up on the offer!
If no-one's interested here I'll post on my local Freecycle.

Thank you very much Dizzy Imp and Bobarella for a lovely warm welcome. I am reading through the thread from start to finish for some wonderful ideas and inspiration. I might even read the 2015 thread once I'm finished.

On my Womble list I plan to include:
1) Loose change picked up from the ground. I walk a lot and don't notice any most of the time but to be fair my head is in the clouds most of the time!
2) Found items (within reason). I found a very expensive watch earlier in the year but my conscience meant that I decided to hand it in to the police station.The owner was so happy to be reunited with her watch she gave me £50 of theatre vouchers and a huge bouquet. So perhaps honesty does pay!
Items dropped or left on the roadside and of lower value I'd feel comfortable with.
3) Any freebies obtained online
4) Any competition/quiz night/raffle prizes (I'm ever hopeful)
5) Any gifts that aren't part of a reciprocal cycle. So if I give someone a £10 gift and they give me one back then it isn't counted but the odd little gifts of jars of jam for feeding nextdoors cat and friends donations of unwanted stuff I will include.
6) Yellow sticker savings and vouchers used in shopping I'll count but not day to day stuff like my tomato ketchup being 20p cheaper etc!

I've probably missed lots of things but those are ideas I've picked up on here so far! Sometimes I sell stuff on ebay. Do people count that as a Womble? Sometimes I make a profit on what I paid on the item originally and other times it's to get an unwanted item out of the home and it's sold for less than cost price.
I'm probably over complicating this. it's a bad habit of mine!;)

I work for a wonderful company! We have a very thorough ethical programme, and our executive committee actually makes sure we stick to it. And this year we made a nice profit, so they are sharing it with the employees. In Belgium there is a freeze on salary increases at the mo, but the company is finding nice ways around it in secondary employee benefits. Which reminds me: our meal vouchers (we get one for every day worked fulltime) just went up from €6 to €7.50, and they are recalculating from June 2015! So for this year I will have wombled around...errrm... 180 working days x 1.50 = €270. Wow!