What frugal find came your way today?

OrkneyStar

A lovely duvet cover for DS from freegle (it turned out to be someone I knew offering it!), two red single valance bases (not sheets, the kind that covers the pink/grey bed pattern on base lol) for £2 each from Red Cross, two cars for DS from another charity shop for 20p total and 5 books from 2 other shops for 25p total. Also bought two fitted sheets as DS needed them (and the charity shop ones were all pink or peach)- one in white and one in blue and was quite happy as they were reduced from £10 to £7.50 each in our local M and Co .
Also gave a bin bag of old tops away on freecycle- some were quite good nick- so hope recipient likes at least some of them!

knithryn

Last weekend - B&Q
6 Michaelmas daisy plants, reduced from £5.95 to 10p for my elderly neighbour's garden.
The plants are showing good signs of spring growth but had naturally blackened from the frost. Nothing unusual, just didn't look so good because they hadn't been cut back in autumn.
Neighbour has limited mobility and sight, so I'm trying to give her garden colour on a shoestring budget.

Caterina

I am on a free DVD trial from Lidl and today got Sex and the City.

A free book with the Daily Telegraph.

Carolyntia

OrkneyStar - whats that on your avatar? It looks lovely and colourful. Is it a rag rug?

smileyt_2

Grebe I love your word - 'shoutycrackers' - do you mind if I steal it and use it too???

Frugal 'find' today - my neighbour works at a supermarket and has got the all-clear from his boss to bring me cabbage leaves for my hens. He brought home a big bagful tonight. So tomorrow I will have ecstatic hens .... and on Monday I will have cabbagey-smelling hen poo to clean up :rotfl:

The leaves would only be going into landfill (shocking) and whatever my girls can't eat I will compost. Along with the poop.

Every little helps ......

katieclampet

I did a cs sweep today and got; a set of disney dvds (as new), a night garden interactive book, a lovely dress with matching cardigan (as new) a skirt, and a bag of dolls with clothes and accessories for my 4yr old gd, all for £7.00. A bargain! She we be thrilled when she comes to visit and my dd will be pleased.

katiex

creased-leach

Great thread!

We popped into B&Q the other day as OH needed to fill a gap in his workshop worktop after having had a change around. It was only a small gap, so he was looking for an offcut.

Right behind where he was standing, I saw some boxes of kitchen cupboard doors reduced. Most of them were down to £10, but I did a double take when I saw the price of a pack of larder doors- very sturdy, big enough to do the job...and all for the princely sum of 10p!

We then popped into Halfords, where they had a basket by the till of things reduced to £1, one of which happened to be none other than a catalytic exhaust pipe for a car- which one of our neighbours owns.

Not a bad day!

Stephen_Leak

I found a pack of budget, and rather fatty, diced pork in ASDA. for just £1.82. I needed something to replenish the meat curry in the freezer. It was 500g and the recipe only calls for 375g, so I reckoned that gave me more than enough leeway to trim off the worst of the fat. There actually wasn't that much.

I've just finished cooking it, and I now have 2 x 390g portions of nice, hot curry ready for the freezer. Not bad for £1.82, even if you add in the cost of the 2 onions, garlic clove, little bit of ginger (2p!) and spices.

Alison_Funnell

42 ties and some patchwork material.

My mum was helping to run a jumble sale and she knew I was on the look out for ties for wither trying to make a skirt with or for patchwork. Best bit was she bought them for me and loads were silk!

katholicos

Alison_Funnell wrote: »

42 ties and some patchwork material.

My mum was helping to run a jumble sale and she knew I was on the look out for ties for wither trying to make a skirt with or for patchwork. Best bit was she bought them for me and loads were silk!

What a fabulous idea, i would never have thought of putting ties to such imaginative use.