What frugal find came your way today?

fairylittle

Freebie in post - sample of tinted moisturiser

2 BRILLIANT CS finds - The Cookery Year recipe book Ive been after for ages for £1 :j

and 2 years ago we bought DD a gift set of a glass, frosted and with a cute cow on it filled with chocs, which she loved, but a week later my DH smashed the glass while washing up!!! Have been searching for a replacement ever since and today I found it complete with 2 other frosted glasses, one with pigs on and one with horses, all 3 for £1.65 :j DD is VERY happy with her mom :beer:

also got 2 other cookery books for £1 and £1.95 - DH thinks Im becoming obsessed with reading them :rotfl:

luxor4t

The last 7 days I got:
- tinted moisturiser sample
- Bold sample/voucher
- 2 free choc eggs from Thorntons
- a lemon drizzle cake

I gave:
- bag of lengths of fabric to CS
- 2 skirts & a top to my mum
- a top to DD
- 8 mugs to work staffroom

Mrs_Thrify

I got a letter today - You've visited the Alps, where the mountain streams run fast with pure water, the air is fresh, the grass is rich and the cows graze on luscious Alpine pastures. Sounds good:).
Then it goes on...So unwrap your free 100g bar of Milka chocolate and try. They have enclosed a voucher.:j

cbsexec

I would love the chocolate!!!

sassypie

Excellent thread, so inspiring! Everything counts, and little surprises give such a boost to the day!

Yesterday I was mooching in a large DIY store (collecting lots of lovely need paint charts, I'm so sad), and at the very back of the store I found a bathroom cabinet lurking on a stock trolley with a red tape saying 'Destroy' stuck round it.

What a ridiculous waste, I thought. So I went to Customer Services and asked if i could buy if for a few quid 'as seen', they said, just put something in the charity box and its yours! So i put in the money I had, and got a v nice cabinet (normal price about £50???) with just a few imperfections. Looks lovely.

So never be afraid to ask.

A few years back I found a lovely cast iron bedroom fireplace in a skip, took it on and left a note with my tel. no. to check the owner didn't mind. He phoned to say he WANTED someone else to have it, and would I like him to fit it, cos he was a builder? So my friend had a lovelyfireplace fitted v cheaply!

Always always ask, and always put back where you can, so the cycle keeps going!!!!

zarazara

sort of frugal find. I've been baking,made a sausage pie potato cakes [used up spuds which had started to sprout]twinks hobnobs and scones. OH chopped some fire wood from the hedge.

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sassypie wrote: »

Excellent thread, so inspiring! Everything counts, and little surprises give such a boost to the day!

Yesterday I was mooching in a large DIY store (collecting lots of lovely need paint charts, I'm so sad), and at the very back of the store I found a bathroom cabinet lurking on a stock trolley with a red tape saying 'Destroy' stuck round it.

What a ridiculous waste, I thought. So I went to Customer Services and asked if i could buy if for a few quid 'as seen', they said, just put something in the charity box and its yours! So i put in the money I had, and got a v nice cabinet (normal price about £50???) with just a few imperfections. Looks lovely.

So never be afraid to ask.

A few years back I found a lovely cast iron bedroom fireplace in a skip, took it on and left a note with my tel. no. to check the owner didn't mind. He phoned to say he WANTED someone else to have it, and would I like him to fit it, cos he was a builder? So my friend had a lovelyfireplace fitted v cheaply!

Always always ask, and always put back where you can, so the cycle keeps going!!!!

Lovely find and lovely story:beer:

Aril

Today I have rehomed an East blouse which, although lovely, was just too big [I bought it from a jumble sale] to the lady who gave me the gorgeous cardy last week. That's the second time we've swapped clothes now and are both happy bunnies with our "new" things!
Aril

meg72

Today a neightbour came round with a carrier bag full of veg. Carrots, Parsnips, Leeks and potatoes and a head of celery. She explained that she had been unexpectedly called away from home last week and didnt get to use them. As they were sprouting she thought I might like them for my compost bin.

I told her they would be fine peeled and that she could freeze them. She didnt fancy that at all and told me she only ever eats fresh veg So I thanked her kindly, peeled and froze them myself. Six very nice paclks of stew veg for me.

Baked her a cake as a thank you So two very pleased people today.

shandyclover

Have been looking for a smart coat for DD1 for a few months now. She is a size 6 so not always easy to find in charity shops, and even normal shops seems only very expensive ones stock her size. Yesterday while waiting for hubby running errands I popped into local charity shop to get out of the hail and found in the very back of the shop a lovely brown and purple houndstooth coat with a fur collar on the sale rail for E3!!! It was a size 8 but at that price I bought it reasoning if it doesn't fit one of the 4 DD's at some point in the future it will. Thankfully it was a very small 8, fit daughter perfectly and she's very pleased with it as it's so unusual and a modern take on the 40's which she is suddenly mad about!