Second Purse Challenge 2012

kerri_dfw

Mothership wrote: »

I was behind a woman in S********S when I was buying my whoopsied Cream, I was shocked to see what she was buying and how little she got for her money, she paid £7.50 for soap powder that was on offer a few weeks ago for £2.50 in M@rris@ns, and a few other bits and bobs , £40 she spent and had two carrier bags. and nearly walked aaway without her soap powder. There are so amny folk doing that, just grabbing stuff and not noticing whats going on around them.

I'm still trying to break away from this, I find myself doing it every now and then though. I must get better at it. Hopefully when the lottie has lots of lovely veg in then I won't have to spend £20 a week on veg

Mothership

It took me 6 months to 'break' that habit, the GC helped, and opening the ISA. I'm still in shock that I've not only managed to do it , but feel sick that I let my shopping addiction go unchecked for so long. I squandered away all the money I saved with the 2nd Purse.
I 'nearly' bought another Le Creuset Pot yesterday, Even though it was half price , I managed to resist. I just thought of all of you and I managed to walk away. So thank you, all of you.

Sorry about the posts i'm having to type a short message and post it quick or it disapears LOL, then edit it.

fozziebeartoo

I needed milk and frozen chips and thought I would go to the local little shop to save being tempted to buy more than I needed at a proper supermarket.......

But ended up spending nearly £5 :eek: on just those 2 items and a packet of jelly tots for toddler grandson :mad:

So back to staggering to the big shops for me!

HelenPie

Mothership wrote: »

I was behind a woman in S********S when I was buying my whoopsied Cream, I was shocked to see what she was buying and how little she got for her money, she paid £7.50 for soap powder that was on offer a few weeks ago for £2.50 in M@rris@ns, and a few other bits and bobs , £40 she spent and had two carrier bags. and nearly walked away without her soap powder. There are so many folk doing that, just grabbing stuff and not noticing whats going on around them.

I have to confess to [STRIKE]being[/STRIKE] previously being one of those people I still am to an extent, but certainly better since SPing. xx

SueP19

Mothership wrote: »

I was behind a woman in S********S when I was buying my whoopsied Cream, I was shocked to see what she was buying and how little she got for her money, she paid £7.50 for soap powder that was on offer a few weeks ago for £2.50 in M@rris@ns, and a few other bits and bobs , £40 she spent and had two carrier bags. and nearly walked away without her soap powder. There are so many folk doing that, just grabbing stuff and not noticing whats going on around them.

Yep little bit of me too, I can remember times that I have tried to be good in the SM's and NOT bought it even if it has been on offer because I have spent too much already, only to run out 4 days later and buy it at full price :eek: How stupid is that :rotfl:

kerri_dfw

Oooh Onken big pots of yoghurt are 2 for £2.30 in mr W, I'm going to toddle down there and see if I can find some in my fave flavour, not had any brekkie in ages as I won't eat it without yoghurt and I've not found any deals *sniggers*

Need to find cheese as well...hmmm

aau1

I may not be a 2nd purser but I have often seen your thread pop up and I thought this might be of interest to any parents of young babies

Asda seem to have decided to put a whole load of baby food on "Reduced to Clear". This is not near the end of its shelf life. Far from it, most of it is good til into next year. This is a perfect opportunity to stock up even if your baby is only just starting on solids.

It was mainly Organix Jars (seemed to be every single jar in the range) but there are other products as well such as Ellas Kitchen/Little Angels/Goodies

I've listed below everything that I got on my trip today. Its worth going to your local Asda to look for the below and also for the countless other things that were also reduced (although most other things were reduced to 60p or so which is still good value, but not GREAT value)

I decided to leave the more expensive items as I still have a lot of Organix stocks that I got from Tesco for 20p ish (see my other thread here for details about Tesco baby food reductions)

Todays finds in Asda include:

Organix Vegetable & Chicken Sunday Lunch
120g jar BBE 28/2/13
From 4 months
10p

Organix Butternut Squash & Root Veg
120g jar BBE 27/9/13
From 4 months
14p

Organix Cottage Pie and Butternut Squash
120g jar BBE 23/8/13
From 4 months
14p

Organix Wholegrain Rice, Chicken & Apple
120g jar BBE 8/8/13
From 4 months
22p

Organix Apple & Mango with Oaty Yoghurt
190g jar BBE 14/9/12
From 7 months
11p

Ellas Kitchen Nice Rice Just For Me
Box of 4x25g boil in he bag rice BBE Jan 2013
stage 2 (7 months)
29p (that's 7.5p per bag!!)

Little Angels Organic Fruit Medley with Rice
190g pouch BBE 30/6/12
stage 3 (10-12 months)
40p

I hope that helps someone out. Finding all this certainly made my day

Mothership

Mmmm! sounds nice yoghurt Kerri.

Got a DR delivery today no gifts, then a letter arrived a few min later thanking me for the refferral and saying the will send me mince and streak with my next order . I asked for aprons, no matter , my DD2 Bought me and my little granddaughter matching ones lol. She runs around shouting 'Same nanny.'

SueP19

aau98113 wrote: »

I may not be a 2nd purser but I have often seen your thread pop up

Thank you for the baby info :T

We can't tempt you to give 2nd pursing a go

debtfreewannabe321

hello all

Love the link mothership and as for the lady in s-bury that was me up to my LBM last January!!! Pleased to say that i've only had the odd blip since then lol! I wish i had started saving everything back then i'd be loaded now and could probably pay off half my debt *doh* we live and learn eh!

I've bought no more stock for my shop yet! i'm awaiting the home bargains to open I just know if i was to spend all my money on offers in a sm the shop would then have it's grand opening and i'd miss it !! So saving it all for then

Sorry i'm not in here much, the thread moves so quickly it takes me half hour to catch up then i only have time for a quick catch up (or not at all ) lol