It is tough NOW. So how are we coping

ginnyknit

Bad news Greenqueen, Im so sorry that has happened to you both. There seems to be a lot of bad news on here, may not ease the blow but we are all here for you to rant to anytime, don't bottle it up - I assure you, from experience, that is not a good thing to do. Have a trawl through the posts on MSE between job hunting and see how much spirit of survival and humour is on here to keep you going.

cbsexec

So sorry for all those receiving bad news - hope things get better soon

charlies-aunt

...and a little bit of good news...

On my shopping expedition today to Sainsbury's,,,I spotted them at a distance, stalked them carefully and then - fast as lightning - scooped them into my trolley without a moments hesitation!

Sainsburys Basics are back! :j

Teabags 32p
Curry Sauce 13p
Milk choc digestives 30p
Noodles 11p
Custard sachets 9p
100 nappy sacks 9p ...etc...etc ...etc

and I even got some lovely individually wrapped bars of Aloe Vera & Cucmber Soap for 10p which will come in handy to fill some Xmas hampers :T

Another small victory at the Post Office - they were selling boxes of last years Xmas cards off (they are already selling 2011 diaries!) 14 big, good quality cards & envelops for 50p! :j

Plus Farm Foods are doing a deal on Hovis bread - any two large loaves for £1 - were on offer in Sainburys last week at 2 for £1.80-2.00 so another saving there.

On the way home, called at a newly opened 'food warehouse' 10lb of Boston Grown new potatoes for £2 and found that the place is packed with "approved foods" and relabbelled stuff - 2 York$hire Tea fruit loaves for a £1, 25kg bag of Complete Dog Food £6.99

Came home ladened down and £7 under budget !

sb44

charlies-aunt wrote: »

...and a little bit of good news...

On my shopping expedition today to Sainsbury's,,,I spotted them at a distance, stalked them carefully and then - fast as lightning - scooped them into my trolley without a moments hesitation!

Sainsburys Basics are back! :j

Teabags 32p

They are 28p online, are you sure they didn't overcharge you.

mardatha

Yaaaay successful hunt then ! ...maybe a safari-type pith helmet would do as a change from the black balaclava. After all, we don't want to draw attention to ourselves do we ?

elizabunny

charlies-aunt wrote: »

...and a little bit of good news...

On my shopping expedition today to Sainsbury's,,,I spotted them at a distance, stalked them carefully and then - fast as lightning - scooped them into my trolley without a moments hesitation!

Sainsburys Basics are back! :j

Teabags 32p
Curry Sauce 13p
Milk choc digestives 30p
Noodles 11p
Custard sachets 9p
100 nappy sacks 9p ...etc...etc ...etc

and I even got some lovely individually wrapped bars of Aloe Vera & Cucmber Soap for 10p which will come in handy to fill some Xmas hampers :T

Another small victory at the Post Office - they were selling boxes of last years Xmas cards off (they are already selling 2011 diaries!) 14 big, good quality cards & envelops for 50p! :j

Plus Farm Foods are doing a deal on Hovis bread - any two large loaves for £1 - were on offer in Sainburys last week at 2 for £1.80-2.00 so another saving there.

On the way home, called at a newly opened 'food warehouse' 10lb of Boston Grown new potatoes for £2 and found that the place is packed with "approved foods" and relabbelled stuff - 2 York$hire Tea fruit loaves for a £1, 25kg bag of Complete Dog Food £6.99

Came home ladened down and £7 under budget !

Wow!! Well done, maybe Messers C & C could take a leaf out of your book and cut costs by buying Basics Tea bags for the ministerial offices. Think I just made a joke:think:.

downshifter

charlies-aunt wrote: »

...and a little bit of good news...

On my shopping expedition today to Sainsbury's,,,I spotted them at a distance, stalked them carefully and then - fast as lightning - scooped them into my trolley without a moments hesitation!

Sainsburys Basics are back! :j

Came home ladened down and £7 under budget !

Well done Charlies-Aunt! Isn't it great when something like that happens? I had the opposite experience, I had £20 Tesco's vouchers and decided I would stockup on a few things like dog/cat food, frozen veg etc. And a little treatie for me maybe. Well I spent over £20, with no treatie, and don't feel I got much for it really. The dogfood and cat food was expensive so even with free vouchers I couldn't bring myself to buy it, the same with coffee - far dearer than I would normally spend. Is this the sign of a true graduate from the mse university?

I'm going to Wilkos and Nettos tomorrow for petfood then will spend nothing for as long as I can, this lot will last me a week anyway, but I'm going to see how much longer it will go.

I really love those Sainsbury's basics chocolate digestives, thank goodness there's no Sainsbury's near me!

DS

ginnyknit

Oh well done Charliesaunt, nice to hear a success, needless to say I think I will pop in when Im down near Mr S and get some of that soap - might try it in the dry gloop for handwashing,its worth a try!

I would love a pith helmet, I know its not my usual black but be good to scare the locals. So its now a hunt instead of an assault, hmmm sounds better.

ive just had something really nice happen. A good friend was giving me her old bread maker to try and fix as she had been bought a new one as a pressie - and lo and behold Dh and Ds have just been to do her a little job (Ds is is muscle now but Dh is the brains) and she sent me a brand new bread maker for my birthday, I actually had tears in my eyes.

mardatha

Awhhh NICE FRIEND ginny !! xxx

pagangirl

If anyone has Nett0 near them, UTTerly BuTTerly will be 55p for 500g tub from Monday 19th July (Usually £1.50 each). HTH

Good haul charlies-aunt (and £7 under budget) :beer: