Life after bankruptcy?

Aesop

ani, register with freecycle. You don't have to have something to offer to email people offering items. There might be someone in your area offering an old tower as they have upgraded, probably nothing wrong with it.

Someone on ours was offering a flat screen TV :eek: because she had upgraded to a bigger screen:eek:

miggy, dman, wish you had read this thread, free vouchers for Finish dishwashing tablets.....

kerri_gt

Aesop wrote: »

miggy, dman, wish you had read this thread, free vouchers for Finish dishwashing tablets.....

I'm intriegued, had a click on the link but couldn't find the bit about the tabs would you mind pointing me to the correct page/post please...I'm prob just being dim.... x

Aesop

kerri_gt wrote: »

I'm intriegued, had a click on the link but couldn't find the bit about the tabs would you mind pointing me to the correct page/post please...I'm prob just being dim.... x

you're not being dim. When I first found the thread a couple of years ago, or last year, can't remember now, I struggled to understand how to read it, etc, so I just used to read the chat.

This post shows you the Finish Tablets vouchers are now expired.

BUT when they were valid, they were for £5 off Finish starter packs. Now Tesco were selling them for £10, but you only paid £5 for them, AND with the Double the Difference price checker, as they were more expensive than ASDA, you were getting your money back :T, so in theory the tablets were free.

And if you went to various supermarkets, savers, etc, they were actually on promotion, for £5 or less. So you were getting them for free.

Basically the idea is to print the coupons off, and if they have a long shelf life, ie do not expire until nov 11, you wait until the item the coupon is for is on special, reduced, etc and use your coupon to get it cheap.

Or you shop around to find the cheapest place to buy it.

Aesop

another example was from supersavvyme website, they had a coupon for £1 off original fairy of a particular size. Sainsburys was selling this product for £1!... so free.... :j Tesco was selling for £1.25, so 25p paid :j

kerri_gt

Aesop wrote: »

another example was from supersavvyme website, they had a coupon for £1 off original fairy of a particular size. Sainsburys was selling this product for £1!... so free.... :j Tesco was selling for £1.25, so 25p paid :j

Ahhh, thanks Aesop - I do use coupons sometimes, but deff not as much as I could. I must get better organised (and that's coming from a Virgo :rotfl:) and save a few more pennies.

Am I right in thinking there was a programme on the other night about 'couponing' ??

Ani - hope you're ok today - sorry, didn't mean to hijack your thread with my natter.... it was lovely to see you pop up on Lucy's thread earlier x

ani_26

Lovely to see you full stop, kerri, and a surprise to see Lucy.

Sometimes you are dammed if you don't, and sometimes you are dammed if you do. Sometimes there are some who will damm you whether or not. Why? I don't know. Maybe because they can? So yes, because i'm an ex bankrupt, on a low income, is there a law which states this type of person is'nt allowed to try and save £2 coins, even though it is quite frankly, a bit of a joke, as i have to keep spending them. Not that i get many in the first place, as i don't spend money frequently enough to receive any, in change. But at least i'm trying, so who is anyone, to judge? Does'nt mse say, please don't be judgemental? I personally, thought this was a major step forward in positivity. So i will continue to ( laughingly ), save any £2 coins, which come my way. Then, it is, is it not, my decision what happens to them?


Spent the week trying to organise the desperately needed, financial assistance. After all, i don't receive any housing benefit. I'm still not going to receive it. What does a singleton have to do, to receive a two bedroomed flat, paid for by all you loverley consumers. I don't know. I can't even get a room,from the housing association. I'm failing somewhere. Because as i suspected, theres no help for me, on a minor technicality. So its back to stage one on that score. The never ending worry of finding £550 a month for the rent, before i even go out the door. I may receive a small of wtc, which still brings my income to less than the minimum average. So how can that be? Apparently you are not entitled to help with prescritions etc, if you receive wtc. What ? Well theres a shame. But you can get a form from the jobcentre, if you are on a low income, apparently. Its now all so tiresome, i'm fed up of worrying about it, thinking about it, talking about it. Theres a real world out there, and some people have no idea, what its like.

Wordsmith

ani_26 wrote: »

on a minor technicality.QUOTE]

Can you tell us what that technicality is?

Aesop

kerri_gt wrote: »

Ahhh, thanks Aesop - I do use coupons sometimes, but deff not as much as I could. I must get better organised (and that's coming from a Virgo :rotfl:) and save a few more pennies.

Am I right in thinking there was a programme on the other night about 'couponing' ??

Ani - hope you're ok today - sorry, didn't mean to hijack your thread with my natter.... it was lovely to see you pop up on Lucy's thread earlier x

gets the whip out and says kerri must use coupons more often and properly to save on her shopping! Get yourself over to the printable coupon thread and save ££££ on your shopping!

yes, it is about Americans, called Extreme Couponing. There is a thread about it somewhere. BUT some of them do take it to the extreme. One woman has a lifetime's supply of mustard! I mean what shelf life does it have?

toilet rolls, canned foods, bleach, shower gels, shampoos, etc. I can understand - but a life supply of mustard?

whoops, is it wrong that I don't feel guilty for hijacking Ani's thread?

Aesop

((((((((((((ani))))))))))))) and will reply later.

miggy

Ani, that's awful about the HB - I don't suppose you can move the goal posts in some way, can you? As a loverly consumer (thanks! ) I'm quite happy to pay my share. After all you've worked your socks off, paid taxes etc - you've paid the money into the system so you ought to be entitled to your share.

And as Wordsmith says, it's worth asking different people because even the chaps behind the desk at the benefit office may have different interpretations of the rules or not see the significance of something... is there a process of appeal? Sorry, I know you must be utterly fed up with it all and you have probably pushed all the doors to see if they open - anyone got a crowbar they could lend?!

Aesop, thanks for the link, and also the explanation as these things tend to get a bit much for me. I'll mosey over (No idea how to spell that) and have an explore.