Mariagti's Bargin hunting, Save for a deposit & start a family diary!

sunshine6650

Im impressed!!! how did you find out about all the pigsback clicks etc, from this site? Ive never looked at the Boots Forum before but am going to this afternoon, im in my money saving ways at the mo, the whole cooking, shopping thing!! Do you use vouchers in ASDA? even if your not buying the product?

Thanks for your help!

Ness

mariagti

Hi sunshine6650

When i first joined the site i spent hours looking through everything!! And found the pigsback info on the freebie board in pigsback thread. Here is thread check out the first page which will tell you how to use the site http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1134459 If you would like me to refer you i can if you PM me your email address

Boots lovely people on the boots thread on grabbit board normally find a new glicth every month. Here is thread http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=14536405&posted=1#post14536405

Yes i use money off coupons in Asda even if i havent brought the product.....and never have brought the product! As long as its in date they will scan it!

sunshine6650

really!! i do use Pigs back (from here when i wanted to buy something & when i remember do the 5 point click, but the things you were looking at at really good, never come accross them really!

I really want to try the voucher thing, is it just the ones you get in mags/paper etc (like 50p off Uncle Bens etc?)

Just had a read through the boots forum, i dont often use boot but am going to start now!!

mariagti

Yeah any money off coupon from papers, mags, leaflets etc. Also if you check out the vouchers board theres a sticky for printable coupons like couponnet.co.uk have different coupons to print off every month but these must be used on the products they state on coupon. Some people even buy money off coupons off ebay!

Pigsback isnt that great at the moment, i find the cashback sites are much better Quidco and cashbackkings.

Be warned the boots thread moves fast! lol. Check out the first page also on the boots thread they will list deals, glitch's etc there aswell as through the thread.:)

sunshine6650

thank you! ivm meant to be doing loads of jobs today but im back on here! ive already said im starting to use the food in the cupboards rather than big shop each month so meant to be making the contents list! feel bad as boyfriend running round doing DIY & im on here!!!

Sorry for being a bit thick!! BUT!! In ASDA do you just print & collect random vouchers & as long as they stock the item you use them? is there a limit? this could be a major saving way for me, im already quite good at the food shopping, down graded brands & that,

So your saving for house & then baby1 its exciting isnt it, do you have many out goings at the monet? how did you get your delf debt free? was it hard?

mariagti

Yes as long as they stock the item you can get the money off your shopping without buying product. You are allowed 20% off your shopping bill with coupons if your not buying the product. Some SA's will take as many as you give them. There's a thread on coupon policies here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1103933

Well done so far on cutting your food bills down!

It was hard getting out of debt but well worth it! I dont have many outgoings at the moment no about £80 a month bills. As i paid my car insurance in full for a year so all i have outgoing at present a month is £40 petrol, £35 mobile, £5 internet. ( i live with parents and they dont charge me rent as they want me to save as much as poss to get out of there hair faster! lol )

And yep the aim is to get our own place and start a family!

lilmissmup

Maria either yukki or CL on the i want it now thread recommended an internet tool called property bee, you install it and when you go on rightmove etc it shows you all changes to property listings, some of the houses near me have dropped £40k in 6 months which is amazing and its a great tool for me and you looking to buy!

http://www.property-bee.com/

mariagti

Thanks dawn, I did see that posted a while back but forgot to look. I will have a little look in a bit. Im often on rightmove every week checking out the prices so this will make it much easier!

mariagti

Afternoon all,

I forgot to post in my diary last week about something awful happening at work...to cut a long story short, a bloke about my age 25 stayed in one of the rooms at the hotel (my set of rooms i do) His friend had called the police that night and told them he was suicidal but they came to the room and told the friend to leave!!! Anyway i went to clean the room later when it was checkout time, walked in and there was sick everywhere!! , and a ripped up letter down the toilet which we're sure was a suicide note incase he died. 2 massive empty cans of furniture polish that he had sniffed!

Anyway, that was the reason why last week i decided to start enjoying a bit of my money and start having a social life again coz lifes too short to be stressing all the time.

Now again something esle has happened to make me think life is much too short to be stressing about saving,saving,saving.
Today my cousin's husband got up this moring and asked my cousin to call the doctor out as he didnt feel well. Straight after he said it he dropped down and died!! Nobody knows what of yet. i hadnt met him before but he was only 31! Now my cousin has 5 children to bring up with no dad.

mariagti

Right on a lighter note...

I took my mobile to 02 shop, who have sent it off to be repaired and should be free she told me. They phoned somewhere and got all my purchase details which proven the phone was mine. As i had an 18 month contract they should repair it for me. Yay! So thats a huge relief i dont have to pay out for a new phone!

As i was in a good mood again, i went shopping as was to moody yesterday! lol

So today i spent

£6 on 2 vest tops- New Look
£17.50 top in sale - used vouchers to buy so free!-Debenhams
£7.58 Fcuk deodrant, FCUK bodywash for men plus a free FCUK washbag worth £12- Boots
£1.50 car park

So total spent £15.08

The FCUK stuff will be a birthday or Xmas present for my brother.

I still need a new pair of boots, i saw some in New Look gorgeous with a huge heel on them, but the toes was strange looking its about an inch tall and pointed! All the boots and shoes in there were the same so it must be the new fashion, Im waiting to see other people wearing so i can see what they look like on. There were too many girls getting in my way for me to try them on.