Do you share shopping deals with friends/family

Middy

To save money?

For example, you buy BOGOFs, 3 for £5 etc?

Once my freezer and stock cupboards are almost empty as see my challenge on this board, I will be doing this with a friend and her dh. I will not be using my employer's stores for this as we can get questioned/disciplinary if our shopping habits change a lot, unless there is a valid reason, such as moving back with parents after splitting up with partner etc. As our shopping habits are traced. I will be using Mysupermarket and Morrisons website to pick out the deals and go to one of the stores based on the best offers that we need. As there are the other big 3 within 5 miles from here.

My friend will be retiring in Sept and I live alone. With doing this, we can save money. Also at Christmas with the beer offers, I don't have room in the flat for 3 cases of beer, so I have one case and she and DH have the other two and I will pay them £6.66 for the case if its on 3 for £20.

m0nkeymrs01

This sounds like a great idea. Well done for the forward planning.

blackandwhitebunny

I do this all the time. I'm always in the shops for work so keep my eye out for sale items and bargains and then buy for some friends and family. Well worth doing:D

jenniewb

I'd love to do this...but my family (who don't live with me) don't eat what I eat, what I do eat I get the cheapest of and its mainly things like fresh fruit, frozen veg and tin cans of soup or tomatos. I freeze what I don't eat, I store what I don't eat and everything gets eaten eventually. It would be nice to share with my family for the main reason that I'd just like to see my father eat a vegetable- he refuses to eat anything that is not fried, made from some form of refined flour, without added refined sugar or without lard (yes, lard) please don't ask how he has managed to survive like this it still baffles me! He also looks down at Tesco, refuses to shop elsewhere other then M&S or Waitrose, then complains he has no money! I think there is something seriously wrong there but him refusing to listen to anything I have to say means unless the rest of my family stop pandering to it, he wont change.
My sister never needs to share, her family eat everything without any problem! My mum lives of single serving and take-outs with her own cooking being bought to order. She again complains she has no money but again is happy to purchase her breakfast each day at Starbucks...

I wish they'd join me money saving but I guess unless you really feel you need to, you don't do so. What irritates me though is the way people complain about not having enough money yet spend as if tomorrow will never come. It gets to me in ways I can't begin to describe...!