Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

In summary - to check my understanding & make this idiot proof:

Check and buy cheaper tesco items at sainsburys and they price match.

Complete puchase in basket A.

Buy cheaper Sainsbury items at sainsburys .

Complete purchase in Basket B.

Disaggregating the shopping makes the total less without having to go to two Supermarkets. Presumably this benefits is lost if you order the shopping on-line due to delivery costs?

correct baskets and on-line will incur delivery costs.

Micheal - I see it as a talent and expertise - resourceful, purposeful and motivated. That it is how you choose to use your discretionary energy/resources - I agree with Viva you need to be systematic and organised for this.

On to the application of this at in the Spirit household I think I could get benefits financially from this and know we are currently wasting money. It will be trade off with none money values

The challenge is that I like what we do in that we mostly shop in shops locally with only occassional online supermarket forays to waitrose - my shops are farmshop butchers, market garden, hardware/agricultural merchants/ the co-op/pharmacy - and M& S if I call in when passing. A combination of ethics, time poor, lovely village, familiarity and annoying health and absolutely deriving no pleasure whatsoever from queuing, filling trolleys, following a circuit of aisles, putting loads into the boot of the car

When my brain has worked this week I have concluded that it might be time a for rethink on life so I work less/ earn less and spend less and pick up some of your skills to make this doable without undermining the things in/ or way of life that I like.

The current Asda glitch exploits a programming error in their comparison tool, so Asda thinks that Tesco is doing some amazing offers and Asda then price matches. People are stocking up on shampoo for the next century. Except they are only doing little shops to stay below the radar, so seem to spend all day touring different Asdas and saving a tenner a time.

chewmylegoff

I am the least professional shopper going I think. The only way I save any money is by taking things out of the trolley at the end, but OH usually puts them back in. I always ignore the 3 for 2s on non perishables that we normally buy on principle as well, what principle I am not quite sure.

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

For future reference, use mysupermarket:

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/#/Shopping/FindProducts.aspx?Query=carte noire instant coffee

one click and it will tell you who is cheapest today. Just click on the product you want. Assuming you want the 100g (second picture) clicking on it tells you that it is reduced at Tesco at the moment.

You also get to see a little graph showing prices over the last year, so can see it has gone up by 7% in the last year.

According to my emails (October 2011) : "Tesco are doing 200g Carte Noire at £3.48 a jar (£2 less than ocado). If going there anyway can you please pick up 30 jars." I think we emptied the shelves at two Tescos in the end!

They are now charging £6.48 per jar, which is nearly double. The 7% figure does not seem to reflect special offers.

PasturesNew

My Lidl coffee's even cheaper

I am a professional under-shopper

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I am the least professional shopper going I think. The only way I save any money is by taking things out of the trolley at the end, but OH usually puts them back in. I always ignore the 3 for 2s on non perishables that we normally buy on principle as well, what principle I am not quite sure.

I use bucket loads of hair product. Three for two on frizz ease, for example, is the only time i buy it, it comes round often anough that paying full price is ridiculous. I also use 'curling cream' of various makes, and i am prepared to try different ones of those, so i try when on offer, then if ok, stock up.

Last shop included three four two frizzease and three for two 'glamourously curly (pft, its ok, but not glamourous).


I have seen some jumpers and t shirts i like at next. This is somewhere i have almost never, ever shopped and consider it not the sort of place i would get clothes for me. As such i was crippled by indecision. Lack of money made decision for me. As such today i am wearing cheap black t, black gardening shorts (poor builders) and a black cardican from the gap that thankfull seems to have grown with me.



Anyone here done cash for clothes? For those of you with children of the age that grow quite quickly it might be useful? michaels? Lydia?

PasturesNew

I bought a smallish bottle of shampoo and conditioner one December, redueced in the chemist, at 50p/bottle. It was good stuff - usually £2 or so apiece. It took me well over a year to get through those bottles. I think the shampoo lasted a year and the conditioner lasted 2 years.

I optimise how much I use - you don't need much unless you hair's down to your arris.... I'd say a chick pea of shampoo and a broad bean of conditioner. Same with toothpaste - the adverts that show people putting a whole line along a bit toothbrush uses double what's needed.

silvercar

For lir,

frizzease is on the Asda glitch, people are paying the equivalent of 17p a bottle!

Why is Next not your sort of place? What is cash for clothes?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Anyone here done cash for clothes? For those of you with children of the age that grow quite quickly it might be useful? michaels? Lydia?

I think the general feeling is that they're a rip off and (if you've the time) you're better off car booting it.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I bought a smallish bottle of shampoo and conditioner one December, redueced in the chemist, at 50p/bottle. It was good stuff - usually £2 or so apiece. It took me well over a year to get through those bottles. I think the shampoo lasted a year and the conditioner lasted 2 years.

I optimise how much I use - you don't need much unless you hair's down to your arris.... I'd say a chick pea of shampoo and a broad bean of conditioner. Same with toothpaste - the adverts that show people putting a whole line along a bit toothbrush uses double what's needed.

Depends how soft your water is. Use a chick pea of shampoo in a hard water area and your hair won't feel washed.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

What is cash for clothes?

A modern day "Steptoe and Son" equivalent pay per Kg for old clothes. So you load up a black sack and are paid by weight. This is also what charity shops do with their shabby/stained/torn/cr4p taste donations.