Experimental Little Invention Takes Existence

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Hi there and at last my reply - I know you can perhaps be a little bit harsh on me sometimes, though I'm a big lad now and can cope with it! I do fall constantly out of touch with everything and have to catch up again, as I know many people on here struggle to do so. This time of the week (the time when you were posting - Tuesday) is usually the time I fall a little behind and then catch up later in the week. That's mainly due to T's offer prices taking a day or more to reach msm (where they can then be easily compared to others).

As my original post sort of indicated, I was left, due to many items being unavailable in my store, scrabbling around for fillers and hadn't envisaged having to go down the Tangfastics, White Mice, Flump route to that extent (I'd only envisaged one of those items being needed to reach the 8, not having to use all 3 and then find one of them missing, as well as another item only available in one version, thus cutting my number down even more).

For someone who pays attention to technicalities of schemes, I have to admit, on this one, it's likely that I have ended up with only seven items and fallen foul of the technicality of items having to be on a.com and msm.co.uk. It's most likely cost me quite a bit - I'd hoped to get my money back after paying for the shop with APGs and a little bit of cash - but it looks like I've ended up just paying that cash. And wasting the £2 refund I got on a GC by buying a shop that cost me about a couple of quid more than that GC.

As the flump has been such a common item, and consistently comparing on the APG as one item, I simply put one on without fully and completely in every respect having the full information on the items in my shop before I went and bought these unplanned 10p sweet items. Many of us I am sure have done it - putting on the SP Batter Mix when competitors had risen significantly in price or were now out of stock.

I had vaguely remembered there being a post about a 10p sweet not appearing, when I got home and discovered the flump was showing out of stock on msm (in and out) and wasn't on a.com. It wasn't at the forefront of my mind when doing the shopping. If I look back now to when that post was posted, there was also a discussion going on about my Asperger's and other similar issues at around the same time, so I was looking more at those posts and wasn't concentrating as much on SB's post.

You may say 'taking your eye off the ball', but I'm sure all of us often skim through posts as well as reading others of them in more depth and, at the time, it is not always clear how significant a post we've read but just skimmed might become.

I wouldn't have searched thread for 'flump' as I didn't envisage getting one in the first place. I'm afraid that, despite the suggestion perhaps that my spare time is solely on this thread, msm and the supermarket's websites, I have other things in my spare time - not just RL but also the time taken to prepare a shopping list and checking every single item, right down to the flumps, every time would have added several more minutes onto just sitting there and preparing the list (and I was already late for closing time at the nearest store). It's probably as much 'slacking' as it is working too hard! Sometimes, in compiling lists, you have to make compromises with your time - I could get an absolutely perfect list but it may take an hour or more, sometimes you have to be satisfied with the slight imperfection you have got (and, for example, rush out of the door twenty minutes before closing with a list of a few items comparable to the competitor you were hoping to compare against that you needed but not to have all the details on lots more to cater for so many out of stocks as there were that night on my shop - of course I do know more than the shopping I'm getting, to cater for this, also the irony is I could have just stuck a packet of Polos (at £1.98, which are back at £1 at Sains., and I knew that when I shopped) and got the 8 items but didn't do so as that no longer had TCB off the price, so was more expensive (at 90p net!) and I didn't want to buy unnecessarily in effect 90p items when I could buy 3x 10p ones and have 3 fillers. Or so I thought.

(I see I've now written a very very long paragraph and I'm trying to shorten it down but I can see no natural break at which point to do so.)

Regarding delay of 2 days in replying, some of this seems a little worse than it is, because it is counting from late night on Tuesday - and it's been hardly 24 hours since I promised a reply yesterday but also said I wouldn't have any time tonight as I was doing my own shopping tonight (and also there was no chance of me reaching my M carryovers list for tonight). In the event I have finished my shopping and got home earlier than I expected.

As regards the time, in effect it was already as I was leaving on Tuesday night that you posted your post (to which I am replying), I was then effectively asleep, at work and then at the Morries collection, so had merely about an hour on Wednesday night (and after all that, my priorities rightly were elsewhere - would you expect to have no Morries info. on here and instead for me to be addressing your post about a flump?). I was then asleep, at work and shopping till around 8pm tonight (then getting and having something to eat in between posting on here). Leaving me only a few hours again to get to a reply. In the meantime, I've been searching around for you all and putting items from a Tvs S list, which otherwise I wouldn't have managed to do if I'd concentrated first on this reply. For practicality, therefore, it has had to have its place in my queue of 'things to do'. And remember it is all in my spare time!:)

I think Zippy will agree that this answer was worth waiting for :D:)

davemorton

Love this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GkVhgIeGJQ

fairclaire

davemorton wrote: »

Ooops, just looked, its a side helping of FC too.

You can't get too much of a good thing :rotfl:

hornetgirl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6c5ntJ6Kw0

davemorton

fairclaire wrote: »

You can't get too much of a good thing :rotfl:

In the same way that TM has pieces of furniture, I could have food items.

FC, you would be my condiments, that perfect item to enhance a meal

davemorton

hornetgirl wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6c5ntJ6Kw0

At last, someone else with 20p!!!

fairclaire

hornetgirl wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6c5ntJ6Kw0

like this alot :T:T

davemorton

And with one of my last 20p pieces, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM1rSTOs7Zs

davemorton

Savvy, you can be my potato, you bulk out a meal, but are always one of the best bits!

Savvybuyer

aaarrrggghhh wrote: »

Does anyone know if Morrisons stock this and how much it is there?

Cathedral City Mature Grated Cheddar (180g)

Cathedral City Mature Grated Cheddar
(180g)
£2.38

Savvy?

Hi there - Morries do stock a similar, small Cathedral City Mature Grated Cheddar, but I'm afraid it'll now have to wait nearly another week for me to get the details:(:o:o. The reason is this is not on a particularly good offer price in M, that it's the 350g sizes, not the smaller ones, that with A's usual 2 for £5 on them, have had potential for glitchability and to work out way better in price (or lack thereof!:D). For what you get, £2.38 (or even 10% off it if that could be possible) for just 180g is very poor in my view. Therefore I've been walking past such a poor price every time. I did think, yesterday, about writing down the price of some Grated cheese - not this one - because I thought I haven't got any Grated ones on my list and perhaps it would be useful to add one on (if it compared best vs Morries) but in the event I felt the prices weren't that good.

I'll look more at the grated cheeses next time.:o:o:)

[Edit: just seen it's looks like A is down to £2 now on the 350g Cath Cities:(:(:( - possibly because M's offer of £2.14 has caused A to bring its price down - and continues now to be marked as a 'savvy buy':( of course.] Avoid! It's way too expensive at this supposed-to-be 'savvy' buy price.