Oldstyle 'witnessing'

SusanCarter

rlm wrote:

I have no idea if it works the same at Sainsburys but have wondered the same myself. I've never heard anyone mention it on OS but you never know!

I think it probably would work as my husband got a load of points put on recently from receipts he had got while his nectar card was lost.

irchy_mum

Littlemiss-lotsofdebt wrote:

TBH I really don't care these days what other people think, I'm far better off than I used to be and I'm enjoying cooking more and really thinking about things I spend my money on. :money:

Couldn't have said it better myself.
My Mum always says things like "as long as you're not going without....." which basically means I'm starving the kids:rolleyes: -drives me mad.

Jo x:A

rlm_3

SusanCarter wrote:

I think it probably would work as my husband got a load of points put on recently from receipts he had got while his nectar card was lost.

Ooh, thank you. That's good to know. Cheers

SusanCarter

It can be a pain when people assume you do particular things because you can't afford to do it another way. We walked to church (about four miles each way) one day in January as my husband had been off work for a week and we had been going on long walks every day and just felt like it. For the next month we had people asking us if we had enough money to live on and offering us petrol money. They just couldn't believe that we genuinely had just felt like walking.

lynzpower

I think im past telling people now. We have a good life here, the bills get paid on time by direct debit, something that would have never happened 6 months ago :eek:

I have saved an absolute fortune since finding this place, and i can eulogise about it, but people arnt interested. they say " i could never do that" "I could never make that" which I used to do while justifying another ridiculous uninformed purchase. I told one freind with a spending problem I paid off 3 grand in 4 months, and she was like wow thats amazing, I said yeah, its just effort and a bit of sacrifice, and its really quite enjoyable, Ive leanred blah blah, but if it involves effort people dont want to know.

PLus there is a very horrible attitude of "if I stop spending people will think im skint, so Ill carry on buying my prepacked sandwiches /lattes/waitrose pie etc" instead of making do (or usually vastly superceding the bought quality) with home made.

OH was pretty impressed with a lot of stuff OS and MSE, he cleans the windows with stardrops and loves charity shopping, hes the coolest

Austin_Allegro

SusanCarter wrote:

It can be a pain when people assume you do particular things because you can't afford to do it another way. We walked to church (about four miles each way) one day in January as my husband had been off work for a week and we had been going on long walks every day and just felt like it. For the next month we had people asking us if we had enough money to live on and offering us petrol money. They just couldn't believe that we genuinely had just felt like walking.

LOL! Maybe they thought you were inspired by the Bible verse that goes 'And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain' except you were doing four miles, not two!

**purpleprincess**

So funny, just had a moment now!! Lunch was HM veggie lasagne left over from last night's dinner and everyone was saying "mmmm, that smells nice, where did you buy it from" I told them I didn't and it was HM, people weren't interested after that!!! They don't want to make it, they want to buy it!!! :think: I could earn some extra cash here :rotfl:

sali_mali

Before I'd found this site I was very impressed by someone's money saving! I used to work on a Tesco's checkout and this one customer used to come in most weeks at about 8-9pm to get all the reduced stuff. I'm pretty sure she researched it all beforehand because she'd also get lots of BOGOF things and she'd bring coupons etc, so that her shopping, worth about £50 normally, would come up to less than a fiver!

Her crowning moment however, was the night when she managed to combine all the coupons and deals to come up to a total of -28p. I was confused and called the manager and we had to give her 28p out of the till! :T :rotfl:

Edit: It would've come up to around £65 without the deals!

taplady

sali_mali wrote:

Before I'd found this site I was very impressed by someone's money saving! I used to work on a Tesco's checkout and this one customer used to come in most weeks at about 8-9pm to get all the reduced stuff. I'm pretty sure she researched it all beforehand because she'd also get lots of BOGOF things and she'd bring coupons etc, so that her shopping, worth about £50 normally, would come up to less than a fiver!

Her crowning moment however, was the night when she managed to combine all the coupons and deals to come up to a total of -28p. I was confused and called the manager and we had to give her 28p out of the till! :T :rotfl:

Edit: It would've come up to around £65 without the deals!

Had to laugh at that one:rotfl: bet she was one of us!!!:D

I'm aways trying to convert people but nobody wants to know:rolleyes: still its their loss!;) I must sound quite an anorak sometimes going on about this site!:D

Sarahsaver

I wanted to rave on to a dear friend about how it was actually easy to cook your own food all the time when she was saying that she 'didn't have the time or all that' She told her kids they had to choose between her working full time and having the things they wanted or her stopping at home all day cooking :rolleyes: But something made me hold back

I have asked people for their sains/tesco school vouchers when they didnt want them in the shop;)