What frugal find came your way today?

valk_scot

Three pairs of girl's school trousers, age 10, plus a pair of jeans the same size. Not exactly a freebie as I had bought them in a M&S sale three years ago for £1 per pair...I remember buying several pairs of bigger sized ones for her at the time but had thought I'd used them all up. So that was a nice surprise and a useful money saver.

pukkamum

My sister brought me a huge bag of apples she had bought despite already having loads and a huge catering size tin of dowe and egberts coffee left from a job she did for Makro!!!!!!

lucylema

I love this thread and here are my gives and receiveds.....

* Have 4 bags of shredded garden waste which my brother is having
* Gave 3 individual cereal boxes to my Dad, they were given to me at the supermarket and I will never eat them.

* Prima, Good Food and Olive magazines from my parents. Once they have read them, they always pass them onto me
* Found 5p near the wheel of my car (it came in handy later that day!)
* Have been offered a large houseplant on freecycle.
* I have rubbish for the tip and whilst there fished out a couple of wooden planters. I did ask if I could have them but haven't done anything with one of them and am half way through paining the other

hotwelsh11

Well I have had a frugal day. I found a load of halloween outfits and bits and bobs in our fancy dress bag for our schools halloween disco tonight. Will save our pta a load of pennies.

And after the disco we had some tinned hotdogs, rolls and ketchup left over and we could take what we want, so I had a tin of hot dogs, pack of 6 rolls and a quarter full large bottle of tomato ketchup. There was loads there, but none of us were greedy and we all got some each.

Also got some muffins and sweets off my mum for the DS's (she went to our local costa and they were giving away the muffins as they had a use by of today!)

Shysarah

Lovely cauliflower and a quarter of a bag of spuds courtesy of mum and dad. One of the farmer bonus's they often get given x

katholicos

Knickers!

At an M & S outlet store, saw some multipacks of ladies undies reduced to 99p.....one of the packs only had 4 in rather than the 5 it clearly stated on the label...i got to the till and rather cheekily (parden the pun) asked why there were only 4 in the pack instead of 5 (i also purchased 4 x packs at 99p and a £6 thermal long sleeved top, all M & S)...the lady at the till said "how about i reduce the pack with 4 in and charge you 49p for that pack?"

I couldn't say 'yes please' quick enough :rotfl:

Ma_Boswell

Took a friend to the auction viewing last night and saw a beautiful pair of sky blue velvet curtains with some other bits. Put in a bid of up to £10.00 and got them, a pretty crochet bedspread and about 6 metres of pink cotton velvet for £9.41! The blue curtains fit my ( un-doubleglazed) bedroom window perfectly, the pink velvet will make front room curtains. So with the door curtain i got at the September jumble for 50p and the velvet curtains my friend gave me for the back windows and door i shall be snug this winter and save on heating as well!

OneStepATaTime_3

Ive been after some more chickens for ages now but couldnt justify £8 to £15 a POL hen, checked freecycle just out of habit and someone was giving away 8 POL hens!! Off to collect them tomorrow afternoon!

parsonswife8

Received a leaflet from Starbucks through the letter box, with a free sample of Starbucks Via coffee and a coupon for 50p off the same coffee, when bought at Starbucks or in the supermarket.

Drinking the coffee now, quite strong and yummy.
:j:j

valentina

John L*wis & N*xt lined curtains from ebay, total for the lot under £20 (inc postage), that's 2 rooms sorted for winter.
Also tomatoes, leeks, kale, Jerusalem artichokes from the garden.