Live on £4000 for a Year, 2009 Challenge, part 1

savingfortravel

fizzel81-If your coupons start with 99 they are non-store specific. Tesco will take 1 coupon for an item you didn't buy so you could use them up that way.

Or if they have a long date you could build up your stock on each visit. Finish up stardrops and then use cif.

SFT

I am not a frugal expert however but I'm willing to learn from the masters/mistresses..oo er..

eilo1007

Kittikins wrote: »

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Hi Kittikins
Try www.smooch.com as it is free both to mail people and to reply. If nothing else, it'll give you a laugh.

Eilo

fizzel81

savingfortravel wrote: »

fizzel81-If your coupons start with 99 they are non-store specific. Tesco will take 1 coupon for an item you didn't buy so you could use them up that way.

Or if they have a long date you could build up your stock on each visit. Finish up stardrops and then use cif.

SFT

I am not a frugal expert however but I'm willing to learn from the masters/mistresses..oo er..

yep they start with 99 there coupons for cif themselves, sadly dont live near a tesco to do that and i know that asda will only take coupons if the item has been brought, ive got nearly 2 full bottles of stardrops , i wouldnt use these vouchers if the item was full price but its now under half what it should be and then using these on top iykwim

wow the things i now debate about :rotfl: with myself i guess if i go ahead £20 spent will cover over the next years cleaning and more, i already have loo roll, tolitries, washing up stuff and washing liquid for the majority of this challenge if not into 2010

savingfortravel

Fizzel81-£20 spent sounds very good and how much would you save.. that's what i'd be interested in. I am obsessive about stockpilling however. SFT

mumzyof2

Fallen - Im good thanks how about you??

Annie021063

Sadly not a NSD for me as I took the opportunity of going into town (something I dont get chance to do very often) my total haul is such:

• Slippers for hubby £4.99
• bread rolls 74p (half price)
• Pedometer £14.99
• new handbag 70% off £9.00
• x2 sealed savings tins £3.00 (half price)
• cash £50 (for various budgeted bits over the week ahead)
• Thankyou cards £2.69
• Thankyou cards (half price) £1.79 (only had one pack!)
• Echinacia drops £8.49
• traditional style pink money box pig (half price) £4.00

Total £99.69 (sounds scary but actually £64.22 of that is budgeted for) rest comes out of the food budget which I underspent on this week so I am pretty even.

scrooge2008

Hi fizzel81. You could sell them on ebay. Manufacturer coupons with long dates are popular!

fizzel81

savingfortravel wrote: »

Fizzel81-£20 spent sounds very good and how much would you save.. that's what i'd be interested in. I am obsessive about stockpilling however. SFT

its normally £2.19 a bottle according to te asda rollback sign thing and id be getting for £0.50p a bottle so a potential saving of £1.69 if my maths is correct per bottle, id have 40 x 750ml bottes and then the 40x100ml sample bottles i already have

im better at stockpilling non food than food items my cupboard/house is not great for storing food items due to the damp food stuffs are stored in the plastic boxs with lids so the damp cannot get to them but i can only fit 5 in the cupboard each box holds different types of items ie baking, bread making, packets (ie noodles, sauces), one for lentils, rice etc, and the crisps.

jars and can/tins sit on the shelf as cannot get ruined and cartons are also oin shelfs, open pasta rice etc is in jars (have 5 large ones) like cereal

my storecupboard is very boring i imagine compare to some, i have around a month worth of store foods and no more than a month in the freezer

fizzel81

scrooge2008 wrote: »

Hi fizzel81. You could sell them on ebay. Manufacturer coupons with long dates are popular!

there valid untill april 2009 so not mega long dated, i did have 40 for the velvet toilet rolls as well but binned them as had more than enough loo roll so wouldnt use before they expired (now i want to get them out the bin for ebay:rotfl: )

fallen_angel_shelley

mumzyof2 wrote: »

Fallen - Im good thanks how about you??

think i'm starting with the cold that DS has had, just hope he looks after me the way i looked after him!!! but other than that everything is going well, for a change.

shelley x