The "Every Penny's a Prisoner" Thread

Swans1912

laura2481 wrote: »

hi :hello: I'd like to join in, if I may! Today I bought 6x bottles of sparkling water for £1.46 instead of 2 bottles of diet coke for £1.80 thereby keeping 34 pennies prisoner, and potentially more pennies when I don't need to buy any more diet coke.. (I have a bit of a diet coke habit I'm trying to break!)
Laura
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Thats just like us laura2481! We have a terrible Coke Zero habit and just started to buy Sainsbury's flavoured water (current deal is three 1 litre bottles for £1.10) rather than a trolly full of expensive coke zero. Not a huge saving but as they say :j Every penny's a prisoner :T

HelenPie

This sounds like fun!

I'm planning a couple of ways of getting those pennies together:
-Rounding up my grocery shopping each week to the next £1 and transferring the difference to my credit card (that's up to 99 pennies each week )
-Any savings made on items I would have bought anyway transferred to credit card (e.g. if I usually buy something for £2 but it's half price, transferring £1, or 100 pennies, to my credit card)

That's of course on top of the usual found pennies, etc.

1,547,088 pennies to go. Wow that's a scary number.....

H x

miggy

I had a successful day shopping (by which I mean I came back with stuff but broke neither the bank nor my health) but I think my savings were probably cancelled out by some indulgences i.e. nearly £25 spent on things for me to wear!

Savings: took a bottle of water and DD gave me a sandwich - saving 208p minimum.
Advent calendars at 99p - avoiding next shop with same one at 199 - saving 198p.
Gifts bought at discount saving 900p.
choc bars in poundworld saving 59p
skirt for me bought in sale saving 900p
and one I've just noticed, a gift that went through the till at £5 less than I thought it said on the shelf, saving 500p.
I also got the mince for dinner as multipacks which saved 200p.

Total pence corralled and living to fight another day: 2965!!

I feel as though I ought to be very wealthy. Shame the actual spending came to more than I've saved.

freebyfifty

Good Morning penny pinchers

I spent a fair bit of money finishing off Christmas and getting the weekly shop yesterday

I did manage to save some pennies though.

My SIL asked me to get my niece a Disney Princess dressing up outfit for her Christmas but when I looked in the shop they were £35 each. :eek:
Now, I love my 3 year old niece very much but the thought of her running around in her back garden with whatever she's clutching transferring it's sticky mess to what was the most beautiful and expensive dress made me want to cry!!!!
So yesterday I bought her two (yes, two) Disney dressing up outfits for £20 in Mr A.
So I have saved myself £15 or 1500 pennies and I won't have a meltdown everytime she wears them



Can I just say, £35 for a dress????, for a 3 year old?????, to play in???? That's just shocking. I'd expect her to put it in a glass cabinet and charge people to look at it for that price

miggy

I think you pay for the name WRT Disney... yes, it's crazy especially as she might outgrow it in a few months.

I made a 'princess' outfit for DD once although I'm no needlewoman. An elasticated skirt with layers of net, a stretchy pink velvet tee shirt and probably a few sparkles thrown in - all specially designed to fit her for several years! She still has it in the loft... it's probably over 10 years old.

Helen - I'm taken with your idea of rounding up the shopping totals at the end of the week. We get our food money as a lump sum at the beginning of the week and any remaining change just gets carries over instead of counting for something.

I found some bagged up pennies in a drawer yesterday - I put them there ages ago meaning to bank them and only got part way through. Definitely prisoners, but not working for me.

Chrisblue1962

zepsgal wrote: »

Im in for this one!!

I gained approx 800 pennies at the weekend! Found my sisters old penny jar at the back of a cupboard, counted it all and managed to make 8 bags up :j

DH thinks I should have given it back to her, but seeing how she moved out about 7 years ago, I have claimed it as mine! Is that wrong???

I'm in

Lol. I'd class this as "adverse posession" as the item has effectively been abandoned by it's owner . Hope you're starting to re-use the penny jar - if your sister asks, you can say "Well actually, they're not your pennies they're different ones!" :rotfl:

I got my Shell points voucher today...250 pennies

I'm usually out and about in the course of my job and must find about 50p per week on average in change on the street. I have four money boxes - a red metal phone box, a red metal post box and two small piggy banks for 1p and 2p's, 5ps , 10ps and 20ps respectively.

I am going to open them at the end of January as they'll go towards OH's birthday

January20

I think this thread is just what I needed this morning. So far, I have paid a little over the minimum on my cc. I don't think I will be able to pay anymore until the end of the month, if at all and I find I put so much pressure on myself and stress about it. So I've subscribed to this thread, because what is important is that I pay it off, and that I have a life at the same time. If it takes a few more weeks well that doesn't matter really, does it?

Thanks

The_Dragon

Another hundred pennies transferred to the diet fund (yep I was down another pound in weight today :j) and the nice bank had added 2 pennies in interest so I now have 3,509 pennies stashed away there

mummybearx

Well, thank you all for the advise, the 800p has been claimed by myself and added to the 'take to the bank' pile :-D

Just back from MrT and saved loads! 600g block of Cathedral City for £6.49, free for me with the voucher they sent me! 2 packs of garlic for 10p each instead of 69p each, so 118p saved for me :-) Plus 300p saved on 3 jars of Patak's sauces, £1 each and I had 3x£1 vouchers that Patak sent me :-)

So I'm up 1067 pennies today :-) plus other offers at T but I can't remember what :-)

Lemon_Tree

Helen - i saved the ''you have saved bits' on my receipts for a year two years ago and i saved over £300! it's amazing how it mounts up.

i put 1175 pennies into bed in my bank account yesterday, used the HSBC coin deposit machine and had SO much fun. How sad does that make me?