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tessietwo

fairclaire wrote: »

Just had a bizarre conversation with DS2. He had to read a chapter of his English book for homework earlier. He is reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. He informed me earlier that he'd read a chapter of the wrong book......so off he went with the correct book and read it.

He's just told me that his teaching asst. wrote in his homework diary 'read chapter of book' so taking things literally as he does, he picked a random book from the shelf ( The falls....by Ian Rankin?) and just read a chapter of it

Bit like my son the first time he got a bus back from secondary school - driver asked where he was going and he said home

Savvybuyer

sparklyfee wrote: »

Mental note - must not buy baby moisturising bath!!!! Otherwise happy with this - APG for 7.67...

12 items (8 different) on your bill qualify for comparison Morrisons

+£6.16
0.08 x ASDA Mushrooms by Weight per kg£0.20£0.21 1 x ASDA Smartprice Instant Noodles Curry (65g)£0.20£0.20 1 x ASDA Chosen by You Italian Breadsticks (125g)£0.50N/A 1 x Johnson's Baby Moisturising Bath (500ml)£1.50£2.76 1 x Johnson's Baby 2 in 1 Bubble Bath & Wash (500ml)£1.50£1.60 4 x Napolina Rigatoni (500g)£5.52£2.76 1 x Clover Lighter (500g)£1.00£1.00 2 x Walkers Classic Variety Crisps (20x25g)£9.38£6.00 1 x Bisto Stock Melts Vegetable (120g)£1.87£0.48 1 x ASDA Smartprice New Potatoes in Water (550g)£0.14N/A 1 x ASDA Smartprice Spaghetti in Tomato Sauce (395g)£0.15N/A Comparison total (compared products only)£21.17£15.01

Quite right in my view - lost non-insignificant amount off the APG by making the Moisturising Bath in effect £2.76 x 0.9*, rather than even buying it separately at £1.50 (doubtless either someone else would be cheaper on APG vs them or otherwise should have waited until they, or Morries, were and then bought in A on the approp. comp. - would then work out undoubtedly less than £1.50, leave alone the £2.48 (10% lower than M) price you 'opted into' by buying it on the M shop).

But...you gained a lot more by buying the pasta and crisps (but then again, could have had more still if the Moisturising bath hadn't been bought!). Also gained by APG failing to pick up M's price on the Tinned Spaghetti! (Or have M gone OOS?:think:) Both the New Potatoes and the 'value' Spaghetti would seem to be cheaper on a Tvs A shop as T's weights of both are slightly higher and PP (if it compares to A correctly) works out at giving you slightly more gs. for same A pricing.

* ("We'll be 90% of the cost of the competitor" - doesn't have the same attraction does it to being "10% chpr"!)

rose28454

In between taking Mum to doctors this morning ( ears syringed) and hospital this afternoon ( face specialist) I visited Lidl, Asda, Waitrose and 2 different Tesco. Got 18 free Coke Zero and 12 Finish products amongst other things.
All shopped out quiet day tommorow I think.

TrulyMadly

josie wrote: »

1 x ASDA Chosen by You Bombay Potato (400g)£0.95 £0.05
1 x Cadbury Fairtrade Dairy Milk Buttons (14.4g)£0.20 N/A
1 x Swizzels Matlow Strawberry Refresher Bar£0.10 N/A
1 x Candyland Flumps Mallow Twists£0.10 £0.10
4 x Finish Dishwasher Freshener Lemon & Lime£8.00 £4.50
1 x Haribo Tangfastics£0.10 £0.10
1 x Cadbury Freddo (18g)£0.20 £0.20
3 x Magners Irish Cider Berry (568ml)£6.75 £4.50

Didn't pick up Freddo was priced at 17p on shelf and charged 20p!

No... Pick it up and get your £2 gift card:)

fairclaire

tessietwo wrote: »

Bit like my son the first time he got a bus back from secondary school - driver asked where he was going and he said home

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Love it!! I have what I call 'the literal list'.......things that I say without thinking and his literal interpretation of it. Very funny

Savvybuyer

locarr wrote: »

Agreed, I've never bought a filler on APG/PP....I buy stuff I need/will use!:D

I don't even know what a flump is!!:eek:;)
[...]

Yea, as you all know I usually buy items I need rather than using 'fillers' - legendary how close I get to having a 'too few items' failure because of my refusal to add just a 10p sweet (because, of course, that then loses my 10% saving on the 4pt milk or whatever!:rotfl:).

However I can see this - no use adding an item, you may or may not need, that costs £1 or a bit more than 10p onto the shopping, when you could just have paid the least amount you possibly could to get the 8 items whilst minimising your risk of exposure to a 'not enough items' return!

:rotfl::rotfl:I've worded that last sentence in a very formalistic way! Sounded good as I was writing it - had something a lot more friendly and informal in mind, but why not keep it now as I 'wrote' (have written) it?:D:rotfl::rotfl:

In short
[*], you could well be spending too much, if, like me:o:o (sometimes), you add a more expensive than 10p sweet or 1p ginger onto your shop just because the 10% off the competitor's price on the extra item tempts you and makes it too attractive to resist!:D Savvy: do not buy more 4 pack multipack chocolates!;)


[*][Edit: "In short"... now seen the '[i]n short...' paragraph is longer than any of the others in this post:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.]

fuzzgun19

fairclaire wrote: »

.....blinkin heck! I'd forgotten about Safeway

Remember Safeway, and before that one of ours was a Presto.

tessietwo

Re wombles
30 years ago, on a bitter snowy winters day - toddler and baby in pushchair I found a five pound note in the bottom of a phone box :j. I was very hard up and it felt like a lot of money then.......compared to what was in my purse.

izzy65

Hi well caught up, don't know why though as I don't seem to retain any of the information you lot post, might try the beans as at least I know sada sell them, went for pasta today and they don't stock it at my branch and they had none of the fresh chicken I wanted so ended up buying another 120 tins of pepsi:D, that makes it about 360 tins in the last 2 weeks:o, think we have a pepsi problem in our house:rotfl:, night all:)

Busylizzie

Busylizzie wrote: »

48 sets of cutlery!! :eek::eek:

Whoops, sorry had to sign off before explaining!

We found all these sets of cutlery in a hedge opposite our house a few years ago wrapped up in a tablecloth. Looked like they had been nicked from a hotel. Anyway took them to the police but they were never claimed so we got to keep them. Gave loads of sets away but still using ours now. Quite a nice design and strong too :beer: