What frugal find came your way today?

jaxx46

An internal door from a fellow freecycler, fits a treat & we can now shut off our (unheated) kitchen.

rubytuesday

I went to a church fete for the first time in years on Saturday. I got a lovely teapot, a bowl and a dish and a colored glass bowl and six serving dishes all for a few pounds and a pair of Levis for 50p that fit OH a treat and a pair of black cords for me for 30p.

kitschkitty

On Saturday I got so many bargains! Our little church at the end of my road has a great Xmas fete, and the prices are so cheap compared to everywhere else these days.

I got lots of things for Christmas prezzies:
2 as new books 10p & 20p
Tots wooden puzzles (like junior jigsaws) 10p each
travel downfall game 10p
small xmas pudding 50p
xmas "hamper" with sweets, book, badge, mini picture frame & tea towel £1
set with a lovely big gardening book, gloves, kneeler, plant stake/decorative label £1
6 home made cakes/biscuits 80p
toy guitar, with buttons that play tunes £1
box of bath roses (soap kinda things) 10p

and the best bargain a brand new & sealed Sanctuary gift set with small lotion and body wash only 20p!!!!

All that for just over a fiver.

Then my mum and I popped to the shops & I got trousers and jumper in a CS £5.30
In boots she bought me 2 of these lipsticks reduced to just £1 each! Can't believe they're normally £11! I never buy make up though.
Mum bought us lunch too.
Finished off in the supermarket and got some great bargains, the best of which was 4 muffins 35p. OH loves muffins so I got him choc chip, and a pack of blueberry too!

jaxx46

My OH is intrigued by those globe type jigsaws but they are expensive & in the 7yrs we've been together I've never known him to do a jigsaw so I was a bit reluctant to buy him one. Then in a CS I found one in mint condition for the princely sum of £1.75 so that's going in his xmas box.

angeltreats

Gorgeous set of three painted wooden Christmas trees in different sizes: £4.50 from the charity shop. Just what I've been looking for as a table centrepiece.

Madhur Jaffrey curry cookbook: £1.50

Jamie Oliver cookbook: £2.50

Lovely vintage baking book, complete with tacky, garish photos: 50p from the library

Oh and a tin Christmas tray EXACTLY the same as the one my mum had during my childhood that came out every year for the mince pies and turkey sandwiches. Brand new condition, 95p. I will be having my tea off it tonight and feeling nostalgic

Oh and also, not a recent frugal find but my little £650 car that I bought a year ago, despite sitting in snow and ice for the best part of a week while I was off visiting the inlaws, started first go and sailed smugly past several neighbours who were trying to jump start their own (newer and posher) cars.

triticale

Ooh not today but at the weekend, I was helping a friend clear their garage by driving to the tip, couldn't believe all the good stuff being thrown away! (He calls me a womble but I don't care.) Anyway I now have a really good padded laptop rucksack, perfect condition. Apparently he 'has a better one' now and 'the zips broken'. The zip is actually fine, it's just the puller bit on one zip thats fallen off!

I was going to have to buy one so it's saved me a good few quid . Also got an old pine toybox that I'm going to keep all my paperwork out of sight in. It might need a bit of a sand and seal on the lid, but fine otherwise.

pollys

Got 8 free teabags at M&S, one of the SA's was giving them out along with taster chocolate biscuits.

Pollys xxx

hotwelsh11

Yesterday, my mum came round with half a melon, a box of muffins and a pack of pancakes. My boys loved them.

Patchwork_Quilt

Bought a whole pork pie today at the deli in our local supermarket. The woman at the till could not seem to put in the code for pork pies and so she charged me per kg for quiche, which is much cheaper.

£5.35 by the way, and it is enormous. I'm going to get another one at Christmas.

hotwelsh11

I popped in my neighbours last monday for a cuppa and got two big huge bags of clothes for my two boys, some hadn't even been worn and some had tags on. What was even better she highlighted and cut my hair for £10. I think I shall have to pop a bottle of vino over to her later to say thankyou.