Second Purse Challenge 2012

jakes-mum

just had to buy some ketchup from SOS as ours was on its last dregs and I wanted to sort it before I put all my change in my sealed pot :eek: plus have sorted out paying for my tin of beans sooo £1.34 back into purse 2 and 78p into purse 3

kerri_dfw

Well done jakes-mum, I was trying to work out what SOS was then haha took me 30 seconds to realise it was your shop

eddi

kerri_dfw wrote: »

Oooh I just ordered some shelves for my shop I found them on Rgoose and they were about £50, and I thought flip me I'm not paying that much!!! So I fleabayed and have just bought them including p+p for £19.89 they take 20kg each and are 172cm (h) x 60cm(w) x 30cm (d). Now to make some signage

Lol at signage. Are you making price tickets too? I bet you could get one of those old supermarket pricing guns with the little labels on Fleabay :rotfl:

I've just got a couple of metal shelves for the understairs cupboard from the big blue & yellow Swedish shop. They're only 8.99 each (HYLLIS is the item name) Height: 140 cm, Width: 60 cm, Depth: 27 cm, 25kg load per shelf. They just fit diagonally across the back seats of the car too so they're easy to get home. I might go and get one for the shop next time I'm passing.

HelenPie

eddi wrote: »

Lol at signage. Are you making price tickets too? I bet you could get one of those old supermarket pricing guns with the little labels on Fleabay :rotfl:

Oh - I really want one of those now!!! :rotfl: Wouldn't be very MSE of me to go spending money on one though, would it now?!

kerri_dfw

eddi wrote: »

Lol at signage. Are you making price tickets too? I bet you could get one of those old supermarket pricing guns with the little labels on Fleabay :rotfl:

I've just got a couple of metal shelves for the understairs cupboard from the big blue & yellow Swedish shop. They're only 8.99 each (HYLLIS is the item name) Height: 140 cm, Width: 60 cm, Depth: 27 cm, 25kg load per shelf. They just fit diagonally across the back seats of the car too so they're easy to get home. I might go and get one for the shop next time I'm passing.

Ooh I wish I'd seen this first, although I think I prefer 5 shelves to 4 so I can have more stuff

HelenPie wrote: »

Oh - I really want one of those now!!! :rotfl: Wouldn't be very MSE of me to go spending money on one though, would it now?!

3rd purse spend
I've done a stocktake and made another spreadsheet and told my sister she can buy the stuff off me if she gives me notice in advance. She can have it at cost price, but I'll put the saving in my 3rd purse from my pocket. Her and my parents can't afford to buy in bulk as they haven't had their LBMs yet.

Coxy11

Just checking in to say that I finally found a loo roll offer in a shop close to home! MrT have their own brand soft roll, 9pk for £3.00, so I got 2 packs for my shop. Good job too as the loo roll situation was reaching critical proportions :j

debtfreewannabe321

Evening all :j

Today I popped to b**ts as kids needed some medicine, and had a look at the offers there - cos i have loadsa money. not!

Picked up:

palmolive shower gel 0.79p reduced from £1.59 x2
Sure Roll On for Men- 0.87p reduced from £1.75 x3
Soft & Gentle deoderant 0.94p reduced from £1.89 x3
lynx shower gels ( different fragrances) £1 reduced from £2.99 x4.

minus the medicine i spent around £11 & saved £14.90 on offers, which will be my profit eventually :j

Have put into my shop. But as it's out of grocery budget already, what i will do, when i buy it back i will just put the difference from what I paid and what current prices are into second purse :T otherwise i will be totally broke and raiding the second purse way too soon :rotfl:

I've transferred across the money from my grocery budget to my second purse :j now have £13.42 in there! and we're off....:rotfl:

Took from stock today:

1 pack of sunflower seeds 100g. Paid £0.10 originally, put across into second purse £0.72.
Also took some cous cous from stock. Paid about 40p for 200g and paid across £1.75 after checking price online

debtfreewannabe321

Coxy11 wrote: »

Just checking in to say that I finally found a loo roll offer in a shop close to home! MrT have their own brand soft roll, 9pk for £3.00, so I got 2 packs for my shop. Good job too as the loo roll situation was reaching critical proportions :j

:rotfl::rotfl: I have also been searching for offers on loo roll it's quite sad really I think i probably know the price of them from all the shops round my way :rotfl:

debtfreewannabe321

kerri_dfw wrote: »

Is your OH a sheep dog? Only joking
That rice is a good price, just goggled for better and couldn't find one. If buying rice in quantity don't forget to decant into sealed boxes and to use the double freeze method to kill off pesties to prevent spoilage. Oh and brown rice/pasta only lasts 6 months, white pasta however is pretty longlife.

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:rotfl:@ OH being a sheepdog...he'd have been better off if he was!

So do you freeze rice when uncooked :think: or cooked? Never thought you could freeze rice until i read your thread on here?!

dreamerbea wrote: »

Just thought I would let you know I have added another column to my spreadsheet for my stock - title of column is "location" as I have bits here there and everywhere - it will help me locate them

:TOhh fab idea! Think I may do this as currently they are in 2 places and i've run out of room in both so need to find somewhere else

cw18

Coxy11 wrote: »

Good job too as the loo roll situation was reaching critical proportions :j

I was in that position in October of 2010, as I was about to get in some Mr T ones when I spotted an upcoming offer (at Nett0) of the label I really like..... by the day the offer started I had less than half a roll left, which meant I had to take it upstairs to the en-suite at night and bring it down to the cloakroom in the morning :rotfl: Guess I'm lucky I live on my own

Did a big stock-up then (3 bags of 24 rolls), of which I have 2 full rolls and 2 in use left....

Last October Mr M had an offer on the same label (worked out cheaper than the Nett0 offer a year earlier even before my staff discount, so a real bargain), so I picked up 6 bags of 18 rolls :eek:

Those should last me until Feb 2014, giving me plenty of time to find another good offer on them before I come close to running out :rotfl: