Buy a years worth

akrot1

do you put everything on a spreadseet that you buy - that must tale you ages to work if you record everything on it you buy??

tryingtobethrifty

I've put the master list so far on the original first post, in red.

mardatha

When you live somewhere remote and going to the shops means taking the car out then it makes sense. Plus we can't trawl the shops at all hours looking for a whoopsies so we miss out there. I store a lot but I want more !

Linda32

This isn't quite a years worth, more like a couple of weeks/ 1 month worth, 'baby steps'.

I bought the big jar of Tesco Classic Coffee that we drink. Worked out at 95p/100g rather than £1.20/100g this should last a good month.

A double box of Paxo at 78p rather than 2 at 40p. Might not do that again, its hardly worth it.

A bigger box of cerial, Tesco's Fruit and Fibre at £1.59 (750g) rather than £1.24 (500g) for the smaller box.

I would normally have bought another box next week, so now won't have to. :T

rachbc

i bought 5 years worth of furniture polish when I moved into this house - a single can has lasted me all that time :rotfl::rotfl:

[Deleted User]

I looked in my cupboard the other day and realised I had 15 tins of chopped tomatoes bought when on offer at 26p God knows how much they are now it was only August when I bought them.My friend got me 18 loo rolls for £4.00 last week from her local shop.In exchange I get her what ever veggies are on the offer at Aldi's as her local one has closed down in Bexleyheath.She is my DDs ma-in-law so when DD goes to see her at weekends she carries my stuff up to her and brings the stuff she gets for me back down to Kent so there is no delivery costs:) no doubt about it us old ladies can still work out a bargain or two :)

theesel1994

akrot1 wrote: »

do you put everything on a spreadseet that you buy - that must tale you ages to work if you record everything on it you buy??

I go to Farmfoods every week but only usually buy a few items. Milk is ridiculously cheap in there (compared to the other options). That takes less than a minute to update the spreadsheet.

Morrisons I go every fortnight now. Probably takes 10 to 15 minutes to update spreadsheet.

I might be taking things a bit too far with my analysing. I now know I spent £14.58 buying 64 rolls of toilet tissue in 2011. This works out at 20,800 sheets (un-separated) covering an area of 260.7 sq metres. There are different sizes depending on shop. Once a spreadsheet is set up it takes only a few seconds to update.

EDIT : The shopping spreadsheet only contains the following headings - it's not too detailed.
Shop | Date | Quantity | Description | Price | Amount
After 10 years of using Excel I have found out about Tables so filtering things is a piece of cake now.

EDIT 2 : Just gone and distorted the figures a bit by buying 18 rolls (£4) from Farmfoods. I used to buy 4 rolls at a time costing £2. Maybe I'll need to do a stock-take at 31st December if I want to compare years. The updated figures for (purchased in) 2011 are
82 rolls
28,000 sheets
357.32 square metres
Cost £18.58

Aarons_mummy

I bought a good couple of years worth of baby wipes when they were just 18p in Sainsbury but then 50% off so 9p per pack. Excellent for cleaning along with mucky faces etc, that saved me a lot of money.

Pasta I buy when it's 9p per bag, I have about a years worth of that too. Keeping an eye out for glitches, serious reductions and coupons, I have saved a huge amount of money by using coupons simply by emailing a company and telling them how pleased I am with their product!

Buying sweets and biscuits when they are seasonal and past i.e festive faces a pack of 18 are currently 25p per pack. I bought 5 packs and my mum bought 2 for my little one, that's biscuits stocked up for months. Same with small gingerbread men etc.

I never buy anything full price, especially branded. Everything I buy is smartprice except when branded because equivalent or cheaper to purchase.

I could talk about stockpiles all day!

Penelope_Penguin

As this is more about shopping than Old Style, I'll move this to the Groceries Board

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djl

I have stocked up on
Washing Liquid
Washing Tablets
Toothpaste
Tissues
Loo roll
Soup
Razor blades

all with coupons and with £xxx off wys £xxx