Expert League In Thrifty Everyday (Situations)

Bananababe

What a week, been busy with wallpapering and scraping the next room. Not to mention working:(

Im pretty shattered. Mortgage application is in. We had to till ours sold. Fingers crossed. We decided not to market it till we move out. Risky I know but Agent says it will be fine. Houses selling well around here.

Move mid July so its all hands on deck.

Kitchen to paper over the weekend. It was a wrench to pull down my lovely black and white flower wallpaper. But apparently not everyone would like it. The house is becoming a sea of beige and magnolia, oatmeal and winter cream and any other carpy name for neutral.

DS spent the day scraping yesterday. Today I bought a new steam stripper cause it just wasnt coming off. My In laws sent mine back broken. :mad:

Anyway the only money saving I have done this week is donating some un stampied frankys to DS for his EBay stuff. Donating Tesco odeon to DS for him and his lass to go. And donating RSH voucher for train tickets for DS resit theory test.

He is better off to the tune of £46 ! Its his 21st on Monday so I guess I will let him off

Anyway love to all so so so nice to see a few old faces here, old as in previous not old as in ancient !!:rotfl:

Anon

When I was in S earlier I scanned Walkers 18 packs as they are on offer (£2.34 for 18) using MSM app - it picked them up as 14 packs? No use for now but may help in future?

I thought 18 packs had been replaced with 16s? Or have 18s now replaced 20s (which used to be 24s)?

My target price for Walkers is 10p a pack but not having much luck recently.

Many thanks

Anon

logie

madmuppet5 wrote: »

Drink please Logie :beer: You too SpirallingDown if ya lurking :A

Sir yes Sir :rotfl:

Now I'm on amitriptyline have to be careful with alcohol so might just have a spritzer

David.

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Not using it - I can assure you I have better things to do than work through methodically thanking posts, and I don't do it!

Regarding not understanding posts, I'm not sure if I understand that "scavvy" one but I'm none too bothered with what it means or doesn't!:cool:

Regarding 'moving around', I suspect you think I'm off here, off there, but I'm very lucky in this area to have so much choice around. I don't make many 'special journeys' but fit it in whith where I happened to be. I have a Morries near work, another one near my house when I am off work, a nearby A, another near a relative when visiting etc. You're right with the stock up and I do that sometimes too!

Indeed, don't travel out of the way if that's more costly than the few pence saved on something cheaper. However with an A nearby, I'd have thought you could do the "10%" thing - and only need one store, one trip, to compare, in the same one store, against diff. competitors on split shops etc. Rather removes the need to travel round when you can do S and T shopping in A!

I think I'm going to specialise. And I think the key is various people, different people on here doing different things and all, put together, helping. So, without intending anything against those of you in Northern Ireland - and I've already been mainly on this topic - I'm going to deal more with the Morries things than other things. I don't want it thought that I'm only dealing with one thing and going on and on about it, I'll still do the Tvs A, Tvs S, Avs T and S etc. if I get it to, even though I'm concentrating more on the M area. I think it's essential or useful if different people deal more with different things - and I think it's already how this forum happens, quite naturally, to work.

It's not - I hope - me going on and on about Morries - to the bugbear of N.I. people - but simply that 'that's more my area'. I feel, myself, like a bit of a broken record popping up with Morries info. (although that may be very useful to people having M to compare to, or shop in) and constantly saying, again and again, this excludes Northern Ireland - I'd like to dispense with it more often, although I never know that there may be new readers, who may be in N.I., who would not necessarily be aware.

David. - as for yourself, and others who have an A a few minutes away from them, I'd have thought you could use the shopping style of vs T glitch items (herbs, potatoes etc.) for example or do Avs M and buy from the M list when in A. For those (outside Northern Ireland - there I go again:rotfl:), for those who do not have an M nearby (wanting to repeat the NI bit again, just consider that exclusion implied in what I say next) - for those of you without an M nearby, but who have an A, you can of course use the Morries items shopping in A. You do not need a store near you to compare to it (unless you're in Northern Ireland and it's M or W). So, if you're in GB, your nearest M may be hundreds of miles away - but you can still use the nearby A if you have one! (And you can rely on my price-taking from M stores nearby me, that you do not have available:T:T:rotfl::D):j

But bear in mind the N/A situation too:(.

Well you didn't understand that one :rotfl: I meant don't let thanks or no thanks come into it just do what you do, you know people appreciate it from what people post.
So you want thanks but you are not going to give thanks :eek:

:rotfl::rotfl:

Nannylala

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Nanny just been back to look at your lovely garden. It's obvious that you give it lots of your time.

Here's a photo of one of my hanging baskets. Trailing pansies. Planted in October last year. Should be finished now really but they are still so pretty:)

A beautiful basket and so nice when they keep on flowering way and beyond when they should,do you cut them back to get another flourish of flowers?I cut my bleeding heart back and the aqueliga and they are blooming again .This is something my DH always did:A

Shortfatscotsbloke

Goodness me Savvy, you have been on a mega major wafflathon this evening!!

(wafflathon is a new word I have invented to describe the process of going the extra mile to ensure that everyone is fully informed of all the facts.;))

I have a rule when it comes to your posts Savvy. If they have three paragraphs or less I will read them and normally thank them, if more than three I will generally skim and move on asap. It is not that I don't appreciate what you are saying, I just have a very short attention span and can't take in so much information at one time.

At the end of the day big guy, we all love you, and regardless of thanking you or not, that will not change, EVER..:p

Stop analysing things so much, stop making assumptions and carry on waffling as much as you like, after all, that is what you do best..:rotfl:

nikkilala_2

Bananababe wrote: »

Hello Girlie

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Tinyshoes wrote: »

DD1 left around 6pm tonight and yes without me.

Bit of mixed emotions, happy for her to start new life, sad for her to be leaving but happy for the extra space but sad that I will fill it all without there being anymore glitches but happy that I will be able to see the floor again my side of the bedroom. :rotfl:

Evening everyone,

Not got time to catch up, hope all is well.

:wave: Lala, with you and Jumblejack posting it's like the Big Reunion.

Just off to visit some relatives so I may pop on later but very tired after busy day. Behave Night Shift.

Ah big hugs:(Uni's hard but when they properly fly the nest it must be even harder, but more "me time" for you now, you deserve it xx

savvy_sal

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Nanny just been back to look at your lovely garden. It's obvious that you give it lots of your time.

Here's a photo of one of my hanging baskets. Trailing pansies. Planted in October last year. Should be finished now really but they are still so pretty:)

Lovely .Love the gardening pictures.

TrulyMadly

Nannylala wrote: »

A beautiful basket and so nice when they keep on flowering way and beyond when they should,do you cut them back to get another flourish of flowers?I cut my bleeding heart back and the aqueliga and they are blooming again .This is something my DH always did:A

No I just deadhead:)

I can definitely recommend trailing pansies. Most pansies start to get a bit leggy near the end but these just continue to trail:)

pk04

AvT

2 x ASDA Mushrooms (250g) £1.58 £1.74
1 x ASDA Recycled Tie Handle Refuse Sacks (10) £1.00 N/A
1 x Pork Farms Original Individual Pork Pie £0.85 £0.90
2 x Muller Kids Corner Footballs (4x135g) £4.00 £2.38
2 x Muller Kids Corner Hearts Yoghurt (4x135g) £4.00 £2.38
1 x Young's Scampi (220g) £2.00 £2.00
2 x Walkers Crinkles Simply Sea Salted Crisps (6x28g) £3.00 £2.00
2 x Hartley's Sugar Free Blackcurrant Jelly (23g) £1.38 £1.00
2 x Hartley's Sugar Free Raspberry Jelly (23g) £1.38 £1.00
2 x Hartley's Sugar Free Strawberry Jelly (23g) £1.38 £1.00
1 x Mr. Porky Pork Crackles (6x18g) £1.50 £1.69
2 x Dr. Oetker Panebello Mozzarella Pomodoro (410g) £4.00 £2.98
1 x Andrex Eco Toilet Tissue - 180 Sheets per Roll (4) £1.98 £1.99
3 x ASDA Chinese Takeaway Prawn Crackers (40g) £1.50 £0.45
1 x ASDA Breaded King Prawns (250g) £2.00 N/A
1 x Cushelle Toilet Tissue White - 180 Sheets per Roll... £1.80 £1.78
2 x Philadelphia Lightest Mini Tubs (4x35g) £3.00 £2.00
1 x Colgate Max White One Toothpaste (75ml) £2.00 £1.95

I paid £1 each for the walkers but they're on msm as 2 for 3