Tesco Discussion chat & grabbits eleven PLUS

wirehair

Good Morning everyone , fine cold sunny day here in the South .

lookinforabargain

Morning all

Well I got the snow that I was dreaming of! There's a nice snowy layer on the ground, not deep or anything like that, but it is coming down pretty fast at the moment :j Gonna get organised and head out for a wee walk in it, my DD is currently sat at the window wondering what it is!

Don't know what the roads are like though, so might be giving Mr T's a miss today, will assess them when I'm out and see if I fancy driving in it!

czerniacha

morning everyone!

already caught up on all the pages since last night yes that's right, I was up early!

the last three days of my unemployment and I intend to make the most of them!
today's plan is sort out the flat, go through my T stash, wrap some of the gifts and then go on my bike and visit local Ts

nice and sunny in London at the moment and I hope it stays like that... I don't even want to think we might get snow anytime soon!

hope everyone has a lovely day!

micabenson

morning all..
this has been posted on here and hukd in the last month or so but I never seen them in my store until yesterday..
Karcher K3.575 Jubilee pressure washer set.. It was on the shelf with no label so got it price checked ..£75!
They are still selling on tesco direct for £299..
So just a heads up to keep your eyes open for them..
hth

jumblejack

moonshine wrote: »

ok, I have clearly upset some people. I made an obviously terrible error, mea culpa, off with her head, but I can do no more than apologise and write in blood that I will never, ever do it again.

There are some lovely people on this thread (you know who you are) but there are also some less tolerant and helpful people. So I'll probably stay away because I got less admonishment at school over worse things than I've been given over this 'crime'.

Don't come down on posters so hard over inadvertent mistakes, it's really not a nice or friendly thing to do. With that I shall leave you to your thread so you can come down like a ton of bricks on the next poor person who dares to make a mistake in your presence.

Hiya Moneysaver :wave:

Don't worry. Lots of us haven't had the coupon, myself included. I read the earlier posts so didn't dare ask :eek:

To be perfectly honest, I don't think my locals would let me use them anyway. I think our locals have been victims of coupon abuse in the past as they are EXTREMELY strict with coupon use. They HAVE to have the 'safe coupon tick' or you will be in trouble for trying.

I don't really use softener anyway. As long as my laundry is clean, I'm happy.

I haven't tried the lamb DTD either (I don't like to consume meat from young animals), nor have I purchased ANY cadburys dairy milk (I am sick of chocolate! There I've said it. Feels good to get that off my chest, lol) and I haven't bought any of the 11 for a quid sweeties (plenty of Halloween sweets to keep my tuck shop going for a wee while).

I do think that the coupons are more trouble than they are worth and only really give em a whirl if I'm in pastures new. Anonymity increases confidence.

Don't be put off by any responses you may have had. A few might be a little over zealous but I think everyone means well.

Hope to see you posting again soon!

JJ

hugh_jass_2

Don't think this one has been mentioned before, but yesterday I got T's finest Wiltshire gammon joints.

SEL said half price £4.99 per KG but charged £9.99 per KG.

2 gammon joints free of charge thanks to DTD, thank you very much!

cosmic-dust

lookinforabargain wrote: »

Morning all

Well I got the snow that I was dreaming of! There's a nice snowy layer on the ground, not deep or anything like that, but it is coming down pretty fast at the moment :j Gonna get organised and head out for a wee walk in it, my DD is currently sat at the window wondering what it is!

Don't know what the roads are like though, so might be giving Mr T's a miss today, will assess them when I'm out and see if I fancy driving in it!

Roads bad!
Did the school run just now and was spinning like hell. Got stuck trying to go up a hill at one point :rotfl:Stay calm concentrate, hand brake on, handb.rake off, spin spin spin. Jesus I now remember why I hate the snow

smellyhubby

Issyc wrote: »

Did anyone else see a post about ten minutes ago, allegedly from the son of that woman on the that programme last night, telling people "!!!!!!" (took me a little while to work out what this meant) and threatening that people could be in trouble?

I am James father/Judiths husband we have just discovered that James has posted some messages on this forum. I SINCERELY APOLOGISE for his posts, having seen some remarks bordering on offensive towards his mum on other MSE forums he reacted. His motives were well intentional and admirable for trying to defend his mum but his posts were ill conceived and unacceptable. I am at pains to write as his father but he deserved the responses he got, I have read though the responses and even though some were a little harsh I don't have a problem with them, I found the post telling him to go to bed mildly amusing and ironic as we have to do this most nights. He though having sent his initial post that would be the end of the matter but he was unaware of the consequences of which he now has learnt a valuable lesson.

When Judith agreed to participate for the film we were aware she was at risk of being criticised it comes with the territory of being on TV however it was not her intention to upset fellow coupon users. The film was meant to be a quirky light hearted somewhat surreal look at the extremes of frugal living not to be taken seriously. Reading through this thread it appears she is as popular with some MSE users as Clarkson was with Unison and it strikers last week. :rotfl:
Being a midwife, Judith has had to work with and overcome traumatic situations in the delivery suite, therefore putting everything into perspective she can cope with the criticisms aimed at her. Unfortunately there has been some offensive remarks on other threads but reading posts in this thread from angry and aggrieved users I appreciate that your remarks have been measured, constructive and civil.

For what is worth I would like to comment on 3 areas of the film that has attracted the most criticism the shop, the showers , the Fairtrade Lunch.

Permission from Tesco was required prior to filming and filming was carried with strict conditions and under supervision from Tesco management. Filming would have stopped had Tesco felt there was a gross misuse of vouchers and the film was further scrutinised by C4 lawyers regarding any potential perceived fraudulent/illegal activity.

We have solar panels with hot water supplied by solar energy living in Gravesend (hottest/sunniest place in UK - FACT) we normally have sufficient hot water for daily showers however on cloudy days there may be sufficient hot water - it makes perfect economic sense to wait an extra day rather then turn the heater on. I see no issue with this as a growing lad in the 70's/80's we had 2 baths a week as did most people I cannot see what the problem is. You can see that I have taken this matter really seriously with my user name.:rotfl:

Finally the Fairtrade Lunch this is Judiths event that she has ran every 6 weeks for 3 years. She works extremely hard on a completely voluntary basis from publishing, printing and distributing flyers, emails, letters: buying all the food/drink: ensuring all environment health regs are met: setting up displays: baking cakes and hosting the event. She is not paid a penny however she is fully entitled to cover the cost of the food/drinks. This is no different from every charity who operate from high street shops, offices, etc who cover their costs from income generated. The point of the lunch is its completely free people pay by donation only, in this instance alone Judith is entitled to a free lunch even if we had a set price Judith and the other volunteers would still be entitled to a free lunch. Again most charities allow their volunteers to have free drinks, biscuits, cakes, sandwiches, etc nothing unusual here. At the end of the film she had to demonstrate the £15 cost (amazing really to cover a lunch for over 60 people) and Nathan counted the profit to £232.92. After filming we increased the donation to £250, giving £125 to Tearfund & £125 to Fairtrade Foundation - this was not mentioned.

The overwhelming response to the programme from family, friends, colleagues, local people, local media, facebook, twitter and lots of MSE forum users has been very positive.

I will not be posting again but had to apologise for James and make the points above. Please respect my decision not to post again there is nothing more that I can add, those users who remain unconvinced by the film and angry at Judith will not have their opinions (which they are entitled) changed.

Kind Regards
Smellyhubby

Miss_Laid

Forgot to mention I found one of these on a clip strip in the pet food aisle didn't buy it as I dont have a dog no b/c sorry but same as pic without the red writing 50p



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toni_

good morning all, does anyone know if the glitch is still working today on the 3 for £12 wine and 25% off? many thanks