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Janebo12

Well, everybody is doing really well on the saving money front.

Rufus - hope you have had a nice rest now.

Ddraig - hope you're feeling better, the sickness is awful, I used to drink hot chocolate alot as it was the only thing that didn't taste to bad when it came back up!!:rotfl:

I managed to make some savings today - went in Wilkinsons to get some Ariel washing liquid - they had the Ariel gel at £3.97 reduced from £5.98 - I bought 2, so have saved £4.02 which went straight into my savings tin - have now saved £5.82 / £20 :j - can't believe I've never thought of doing this before now!

sarahf191979

Afternoon all
Finaly got my laptop back so will catch up later and post jans totals, hope everyone is ok and looking forward to the weekend.

Catch you all later

Sarah
x

nickynoo08

Afternoon everyone,
quick update from me as i've been mia for the last week or so

Jan i managed -
Nectar - 1067 = £5.33
Lightspeed - £5
Shop and scan £10 (cheated a tad as this does include my xmas bonus:p)
Total = £20.33

Spends so far
Birthdays and everything else = £26.10 spent, saved well over £100:T
Xmas = £25.15 spent, saved over £80:T
Rough budget for the year -
birthdays etc... - £200
xmas (exc food) - £300

For feb i'm not quite sure what i'm gonna be able to achieve, hoping for another 1000 nectar points and as many tesco points as possible. I've decided i'm using my tesco points for an experience day for my OH for his birthday only need another 3000 by the next mailing:eek:

welshkaz

just used a £10 off £50 spend voucher in asda so im taking off delivery which was a fiver and adding other £5.00 into this months challenge money =£10.30/£20.00 i had to do shopping anyway so bargain all round.

welshkaz

just applied for my first payment of amazon vouchers from dooyoo what happens next girls x

Ddraig

Yay finally cleared enough points for my second dooyoo voucher ever.Fingers crossed.Wish surveys would stop screening me out,i will be poor forever at this rate,lol.
Still feeling sick,as a few have said ,starting to think what I dont mind coming back up lol.Wish the dizzy spell would bog off,they are worse than the sickness.
Soon be out of the first trimester.
Hoping daily clicks come back fighting,most are dying on their butt and as such I havent been concentrating on them very much,but should when I can.Something is better than nothing x

elysia2003

I bought today, the Dove deoderant off the grabbit board yesterday.

You basically get a voucher for buy one get one free. If you take it to Tesco's they are on special offer for £1.00 instead of RRP £2.79. My printer finally decided to work again and printed off two of these vouchers so I used both. Picked up four of them. Gave SA vouchers. Till takes off £2.79 twice, but they only cost £2.00 for two (with the BOGOF voucher). So Tesco paid me £3.58 to take away four deoderants. It's not too bad either! I'll see if I can find the link for you.

elysia2003

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2243449

Here it is, if you use it at boots, you get back about 68p for using the one voucher. I recommend that you buy something else at the same time so the cashier doesn't notice.

At Tesco's if you use the one voucher (to get two Deo's) they will take £1.79 off the rest of your shopping.

If you don't have a printer, there is a little form to fill in and they will post you a voucher.

HTH

sophisoph

Well I got my freepost envelope this morning to send off my ink cartridges to boots. only 2 small ones but better than nothing. No phones unfortunately, we havent been here long and any phones we had have already been shipped off to mazuma heaven.

However, i still have more items ready on ebay to start selling through feb and a few more to put on AND am 5 reviews (or alot of rates ) away from my £50

nicki_2

I remember being pregnant and unable to stand the smell of cooking meat or fish. It was horrible with living near so many take-aways lol I had awful morning sickness & developed quite bad travel sickness as well! My now ex lived in a town that was 2 hours away by train and I clearly remember for the duration of my pregnancy getting on the train (or getting a lift in a car or even when it was really bad jumping the bus into town 3 miles away!) with a carrier bag of food so I could eat non-stop almost the entire journey. The best thing I found was prawn mayo sandwiches from boots, cheesey crisps (usually wotsits multi-packs!), ginger biscuits & midget gems Why the hell I didn't end up the size of a hot-air balloon I don't know. I was so glad when we moved in together and started walking everywhere :rotfl::rotfl:

Anyways, back to topic. I've managed to get DD her hamster cage so in theory we're off to look at the cost of other things for it tomorrow while I'm out looking at washing machine & some plumbing bits I need. DD is not going to be happy when I ask her to help me pull the washing machine out tomorrow before we go! I'm also going to have to move the tumble drier I've just realised otherwise that washing machine is not coming out of my kitchen :eek::o

I wonder if I can make any savings while out tomorrow? :rotfl: