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Auntycaz

Tinyshoes - Sorry to hear the bad news about your mum.
Hope you can do something nice together for her birthday.

kadison

lovingtescoforever wrote: »

People go shopping on auto pilot, buying the same stuff week in week out without looking at the prices.

Last Easter at work we had coke on offer.
10pk - £4.05ish
15pk - £4 (limited edition pack size)
24pk - £8.85 (just looked online and it's £9.75 now:eek:)

I was filling up the 15pk as it was the best offer available at the time, I stopped countless people buying the 10pk and 24pk.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: My god, I have NEVER shopped like that! My family generally wasn't short of money but my mum instilled the bargain-hunter gene SO deeply into my DNA that I can't not look for the best prices on pretty much everything!

I have been buying up the 24 packs for a fiver on Pepsi Max because I did the maths before looking at the prices, somewhere generally has the 8 packs on offer at £2 at any given time, so it'd need to be about £5 for me to bother, when I saw it was a fiver, I actually whooped with joy! :rotfl: Imagine not getting that rush!!! :eek:

Dizzy_Ditzy

neosi wrote: »

Incase you don't know checkout the free sky map download at http://stellarium.org/ its like Google earth but for the night sky and can be customised to show planets, constellations etc. you can also go to Mars for example and look back at earth in real time...all you need to do to set it up is enter you coordinates as your location but you can find that out via Google...

Another good one which I use everyday is http://www.spaceweather.com/ does what it says on the tin but also tells ya stuff like Asteroids near misses and some amazing photos. The bit I use most is the 'Flybys' (link along the top left) that will show you when the Space Station (ISS) will fly over your house.. ive been lucky a few times now and have seen it fly over twice in one night, still get a buzz from seeing six blokes in a tin can flying over at 15,000 mph...:rotfl:Don't think its due for a few weeks now but always worth checking...

Thank you :j

I have also been lucky enough to see it twice in one night, and it was a fab experience, especially when you think they are going that fast!

Bookmarked

Dizzy_Ditzy

Auntycaz wrote: »

Tinyshoes - Sorry to hear the bad news about your mum.
Hope you can do something nice together for her birthday.

Same from me too, on both counts xx

lovingtescoforever

kadison wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: My god, I have NEVER shopped like that! My family generally wasn't short of money but my mum instilled the bargain-hunter gene SO deeply into my DNA that I can't not look for the best prices on pretty much everything!

I have been buying up the 24 packs for a fiver on Pepsi Max because I did the maths before looking at the prices, somewhere generally has the 8 packs on offer at £2 at any given time, so it'd need to be about £5 for me to bother, when I saw it was a fiver, I actually whooped with joy! :rotfl: Imagine not getting that rush!!! :eek:

I see lots of people do it countless times, some people want to get out of the store as quickly as possible which means not paying 100% attention which ends up costing them more.

I would easily spend as long as possible in there however I do a lot of price checking on mysupermarket.com now before I do my weekly shop. So much easier :T

DanielleNic87

purdita wrote: »

Hi all
Just logged on so not had a chance to catch up since last night yet.
Went to the big Extra at L££ Mill and the smaller one at Rob0rough Plym0uth after printing off all of the wines that had gone back to full price.....and left the list at home!!
So I don't know what they were but from having a quick scout around it looked as though the SEL's were up to date anyway.

I manged to find some of the Disney stockings for 1p, (plenty left at Roborough)
some more of the descalers for 1p,
a cuddle me money box 22p,
four me to you key rings 20p,
a solitary scotch brite easy eraser (so they are still around!)
Also got the Platinum band dinner service rtc at £4.20
And a pair of silentnight feather pillows rtc £8.20.....all the silentnight stuff has been further reduced now.
And at R0b0rough I got severely trouted but amazingly stood my ground on a DTD for a Breville Iron SEL £20. scanned £40.
She tried to tell me that DTD only applied on certain things, so I said OK that's fine. You just refund me the difference and I'll query your policy with Head Office....I'll just make a note of your name so they can contact you if necessary.
Never seen anyone backtrack so quickly!.
I was hoping for some of the RC cars but could only see them at L££ Mill and they were correctly priced.

Can one of the Plymouth ladies please tell me where Transit Way is....I got lost again!!!
I took the correct turning from Roborough across the A38 but ended up going through Mutley and ended up at Drakes Circus in the city centre. I then headed out of the city towards Exeter and after the Dunelm business park I took aleft at the big roundabout and ended up at Mutley again!!!

I then just went the way I came (heading towards Tavistock) and rejoined the A38 and went home to Totnes!!

Ok so i am going to explain this as if you were coming from T's at Roborough.......

Come back along Tavistock Road ( so the B&Q and KFC are on your right. Follow the road along and you will see a Farm Foods on the left. Take the next left after Farm Foods and you will drive through Crownhill shops. You will come straight onto another road. Carry on down the road for a couple of minutes and you will see the sign for a T's and Matalan.

Hope that makes sense.....

Dizzy_Ditzy

neosi wrote: »

I saw someone once, buying something that was BOGOF and told them that they could get another for free. They looked at me like i was a total fruit cake and walked off ... ya cant help some people... yet other times when paying i get coupon envy from the peeps behind me in the queue... different strokes....:p

i get told sometimes that i am quite OCD about checking prices for shopping; my argument is this

THAT is exactly why there is money in my bank account. I spend 5 mins checking prices, and it saves me a fortune!

vikki85

purdita wrote: »

Hi all
Just logged on so not had a chance to catch up since last night yet.
Went to the big Extra at L££ Mill and the smaller one at Rob0rough Plym0uth after printing off all of the wines that had gone back to full price.....and left the list at home!!
So I don't know what they were but from having a quick scout around it looked as though the SEL's were up to date anyway.

I manged to find some of the Disney stockings for 1p, (plenty left at Roborough)
some more of the descalers for 1p,
a cuddle me money box 22p,
four me to you key rings 20p,
a solitary scotch brite easy eraser (so they are still around!)
Also got the Platinum band dinner service rtc at £4.20
And a pair of silentnight feather pillows rtc £8.20.....all the silentnight stuff has been further reduced now.
And at R0b0rough I got severely trouted but amazingly stood my ground on a DTD for a Breville Iron SEL £20. scanned £40.
She tried to tell me that DTD only applied on certain things, so I said OK that's fine. You just refund me the difference and I'll query your policy with Head Office....I'll just make a note of your name so they can contact you if necessary.
Never seen anyone backtrack so quickly!.
I was hoping for some of the RC cars but could only see them at L££ Mill and they were correctly priced.

Can one of the Plymouth ladies please tell me where Transit Way is....I got lost again!!!
I took the correct turning from Roborough across the A38 but ended up going through Mutley and ended up at Drakes Circus in the city centre. I then headed out of the city towards Exeter and after the Dunelm business park I took aleft at the big roundabout and ended up at Mutley again!!!

I then just went the way I came (heading towards Tavistock) and rejoined the A38 and went home to Totnes!!

Transit way is awkward to find even if u live here!! when u come out of roborough u should pass the retail park with b&q ect. then u hit crownhill, which is where i get confused! best i can do is post this link....

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

meerkatsmimm

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh195/dawnandkatie/Meerkat/2012-02-01190004.jpg

hope it links ok

havent been on today...sleeping, eating, going to hospital, eating some more and cleaning up the house for all the visitors xx

hope ive not missed a glitch!

vikki85

DanielleNic87 wrote: »

Ok so i am going to explain this as if you were coming from T's at Roborough.......

Come back along Tavistock Road ( so the B&Q and KFC are on your right. Follow the road along and you will see a Farm Foods on the left. Take the next left after Farm Foods and you will drive through Crownhill shops. You will come straight onto another road. Carry on down the road for a couple of minutes and you will see the sign for a T's and Matalan.

Hope that makes sense.....

what Danielle said!! crownhill really confusses me!!