All the small things - tell me what you have done to be MF today

ILoveSaving

HI everyone.

Did (half) a car boot on Sunday before we got rained out when the heavens opened! Broke a couple of things throwing everything back in the car as fast as we could and some items ended up water damaged, but never mind we didn't half laugh when we sat there dripping in the car, all steamed up and couldn't see a thing out of the window for stuff and torrential rain bouncing off the ground. But we made £30 after paying to get in.

Managed to persuade the hubby that if he bought a men's hair trimming set I could cut his hair properly (and I did). So for £9.99 I can now cut his hair whenever he wants it and it is saving £7 (every 4-6 weeks), wish he had let me try 20 years ago, could have saved a fortune!

Also we are booked in with the Halifax on Saturday to move our current account and click the £100 (to put towards the badly leaking garage roof which needs repairing). Then to get the £5 a month after that. Yeah!

That's all for now folks. x

usa1

ILoveSaving wrote: »

HI everyone.

Did (half) a car boot on Sunday before we got rained out when the heavens opened! Broke a couple of things throwing everything back in the car as fast as we could and some items ended up water damaged, but never mind we didn't half laugh when we sat there dripping in the car, all steamed up and couldn't see a thing out of the window for stuff and torrential rain bouncing off the ground. But we made £30 after paying to get in.

Managed to persuade the hubby that if he bought a men's hair trimming set I could cut his hair properly (and I did). So for £9.99 I can now cut his hair whenever he wants it and it is saving £7 (every 4-6 weeks), wish he had let me try 20 years ago, could have saved a fortune!

Also we are booked in with the Halifax on Saturday to move our current account and click the £100 (to put towards the badly leaking garage roof which needs repairing). Then to get the £5 a month after that. Yeah!

That's all for now folks. x

I have brought a trimmer for DH and DS have they refuse to use it, although DH doesn't have much hair left.. LOL It a good [STRIKE]investment[/STRIKE] idea.

usa1

Todays offering;

5.00 redeemed from Wonderbugs via BACS
1.00 Moc Coupons
Charged phone at work..
4p roadkill

cherylypop

Hi, ive been following this forum for a while and gathering everyones good ideas but only posted a couple of times. Now going on maternity leave in a few weeks so need to be as good with pennies as poss specially since ive recently had to reduce monthly mortgage op from approx £350 to £100 in preparation for living off maternity wages. Today and yesterday have:
* sent off gumf to get involved in interview for Tesco bank which will result in £50 voucher if I get chosen
*ordered new nectar card so I can redeem £20 or so saved points
*accepted offer of £15 from envirofone

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unhappy_shopper

Today, I have

• redeemed £4 from Crowd*****
• redeemed £5 GC from Coin**
• 10p roadkill

And it is FLW on fleabay this weekend. So, planning to list some of the treasures I unearthed during decluttering.

katsu

* donated some more goods to the charity shop, making space at home
* purchased a new looking book as a pressie - now need to decide whether to give now or save for christmas. Got some music CDs and 8 DVDs too - all in for around £15!!
* washing drying on the line - need to go put more on.
* got washing rained on, but will rehang out tomorrow
* checked SSM for coupons - nothing of interest
* got screened out on VO and IPSOS

usa1

Hi

Last couple of days;

3p road kill
1.00 MoC Coupons in Tescos
4.00 redeemed to Pay pal from Pin3cone

Washed all duvets in our washing machine and lined dried whilst the weather is windy and fine.

unhappy_shopper

Apart from the usual charging phone, packed lunch and other MSE things, over the last weekend I have

• batch-cooked for a full week ahead and packed them away (this time with proper labelling) in the freezer.
• made hay while the sun shone (washed and line-dried all the bedlinen).
• timed it right for the supermarket YS goodies and used a couple of vouchers and giftcards.
• listed my treasures on fleabay and there are bids totalling £15 now, though they are scheduled to end after 3 more days.
• Wombled a MrT receipt for 78 points and got them added to my kitty.
• Stocked up on the PGTips jubilee tin from MrS - will nicely go into some gifts for my relatives.
• Reminded DS1 of the now-forgotten hair trimmer and he sportingly trimmed his hair at home saving £7. However, DS2 refused to be reeled in.

cherylypop

Being motivated by the thread:

Expensive weekend as needed new glasses but on the plus side:

*bought towel rail and nans birthday present with nectar points so cost about £2
*today and yesterday=no spend days
*husband made a giant shepards pie last night which will do us for lunch and dinners til tomorrow (intend to get on board with batch cooking/freezing some time soon.....

Cherylypop x

unhappy_shopper

Over the past 3 days,

• eb@y pickings of £12
• Used MOCs to get free cherry bakewell tarts
• Today free lunch from Del1ce de Fr@nce, courtesy O2
• Claimed an additional discount of £10 for a hotel booking for the summer trip by calling their CS and pointing out a cheaper option