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  • Made a few more savings today with my Tesco shop - all on stuff that we normally buy too so managed to stock up a bit more!!

    Got Ragu sauces BOGOF - saved £1.13
    Lynx bodyspray for OH - 2 for £3.40 - saved £0.88
    Tesco Italiano pizza (These are gorgeous!!!) BOGOF - Saved £2.98
    Golden drummers BOGOF - Saved £1.66
    Colgate whitening toothpaste BOGOF - Saved £2.28

    Total saved = £8.93:D

    Also saved on lunch again today as OH met me and bought my lunch for me!!!! :j

    Total saving today approx £11.93:D

    With everything that I've managed to stock up lately I shouldn't have to buy many groceries next couple of weeks. Yayyyy!!!:T
    Official DFW Nerd - Member 408 - Proud to be dealing with my debts!
  • Hi Cheletastic
    If you have a home bargains or quality save near you the colgate whitening toothpaste (large size) are in there for 99p all time.I used to buy from asda £1,98 or tescos £2.28? before i found it in there.I now have 10 in stock.
    sophiesmum
    Reduce,re-use, recycle.






  • Bambywamby wrote:
    EagerLearner "Hmmmm - don't know if that one counts as it isn't a saving as such if you'd already spent £10 on them then got them back...? "

    He paid for them in the first place...I call that saving. :D

    He he - definately is a saving then :rotfl:
    MFW #185
    Mortgage slowly being offset! £86,987 /58,742 virtual balance
    Original mortgage free date 2037/ Now Nov 2034 and counting :T
    YNAB lover :D
  • Made own lunch so saved £2 today... not much but it helps!
    MFW #185
    Mortgage slowly being offset! £86,987 /58,742 virtual balance
    Original mortgage free date 2037/ Now Nov 2034 and counting :T
    YNAB lover :D
  • bobbadog
    bobbadog Posts: 1,606 Forumite
    I just - after near on a year of deliberating - wrote a letter to Capital One asking for fees back on my defaulted old card. Technically about £200 there.

    Money saved 2p. I spent £4.98 on my Gran's present and not the planned fiver :D:D Though with paypal, so old hair straighteners paid for it! I brought lunch from home - a 31p tin of Sainsburys BGTY Spicy Parsnip soup (delicious) and some of my OH's french frie crisps ;)
  • £200 back re bank charges is fantastic - well done!

    Have added your £200 + £0.02 to the September savings log!

    Must try that soup - sounds lovely and healthy.

    x
    MFW #185
    Mortgage slowly being offset! £86,987 /58,742 virtual balance
    Original mortgage free date 2037/ Now Nov 2034 and counting :T
    YNAB lover :D
  • bobbadog
    bobbadog Posts: 1,606 Forumite
    £200 back re bank charges is fantastic - well done!

    Have added your £200 + £0.02 to the September savings log!

    Must try that soup - sounds lovely and healthy.

    x

    Ooh, hang on - they haven't gave me it yet! (though they will, i'm sure - save it for next months log perhaps!).

    I swear by the soup. Spicy lentil and tomato is lovely too. It's sometimes 31p and sometims 35p, no idea why as they never advertise it as a special offer ;)
  • I've edited the main September log - remember to come back next month and tell us about the savings re Capital One.

    Have PM'd you re landlord problems!
    MFW #185
    Mortgage slowly being offset! £86,987 /58,742 virtual balance
    Original mortgage free date 2037/ Now Nov 2034 and counting :T
    YNAB lover :D
  • newlywed
    newlywed Posts: 8,255 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Been changing my phone contract from Orange to Vodafone.

    Got my first Vodafone bill - £25 cheaper than Orange!!
    Plus every month will be cheaper than before too!!

    Made lunch and brought it to work today - saving me £3.
    Ordered my printer cartridge and paper I need via quidco - saving £3 on the price of PC World and gaining £1.69 to my Quidco account!
    working on clearing the clutterDo I want the stuff or the space?
  • Bambywamby
    Bambywamby Posts: 1,608 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Photogenic Combo Breaker
    I bought a birthday prezzie (brand new) from a charity shop (half hangs head in shame) and saved around £5.
    I bought a bogoff radox bubble bath set for xmas prezzie saving £2.99
    Reduced mans body spray from £4.95 to 99 pence so saved £3.94 (thats a christmas prezzie also.
    So today I have saved £11.93 :D
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