May: Pin Money Savings Challenge

Queenie

catznine - wow, you found a goodly amount of change on the floor and in your sofa! Excellent (note to self: check sofa's) How's your yogurt?

moggins - Good to see that preplanning paid off for your dd's birthday!

nicki - :T Congrats to your dd for getting her 20mtr certificate Hope that charm brings you much luck. I'm very impressed with your Charity Shop finds, very well done!

angela110660 - re: Coupons. I don't scout out many, so my answer won't be comprehensive (you'll need someone who is a coupon queen for a full answer) but, basically, I clip out any coupons that come in the freebie newspaper and the leaflets that are stuffed in them. Likewise with magazines. I get coupons sent from Tesco's (clubcard) plus when I've signed up for freebies, I often get coupons too. Once you have it in your mind to look for coupons, you seem to find them! Bit like when you're pregnant and walk down the High St .. suddenly you notice lots of other pregnant women LOL

pavlov's_dog - Good for you making the complaint! The GV is a nice bonus!!! (I lurve goodwill gestures like that! )

Mrs Thrift - :T It really does pay to check all those receipts - and to be given the £2 GV as well as the difference .. you must have been soooo thrilled! Good for you!

omega - you must be delighted to see those totals creeping up, every little bit soon adds up doesn't it

I shall be back later with a full update of my own PMS (now that we've had the dentists bill I can be more accurate)

Keep it up - I am sooo inspired by how well you are all doing and I know quite a number of people read this thread but don't post, I'm sure they are picking up tips from how we're all doing. :T

catznine

Hi Queenie!

Thanks for all your encouragement! It really does help. The yogurt worked!!!!
and we are using your idea for getting through some of the blackberry preserve and making fruit corners! I reckon as it makes about 1pint (in one of those wide necked thermos flasks) that the saving must be about 50p as I used organic milk. It really is easy to do and I could now have an endless supply (I have a book somewhere with lots of recipe ideas for using yogurt!) Apparently I have to refresh the starter every few weeks by buying only a small pot of fresh live yogurt.

Just been given a free freshly baked loaf of bread! :drool: worth about £1 locally

PMS saving so far this month - £27.41

Queenie

:j DeeeeLIGHTED that your yogurt worked!! :T Oooh, yummy, HM Fruit Corners sounds the dogs knee's Wow, you know some kind people if they give their fresh baked bread away - I'm like Dawn French on the choccy advert with my HM bread IT's MINE!! LOL

Curry_Queen

Queenie wrote:

I'm like Dawn French on the choccy advert with my HM bread IT's MINE!! LOL

:rotfl:

You sound like me (even though I'm supposed to be cutting out carbs from my diet ) but don't do what I did last night, after baking a honey and sunflower loaf, and cut into it 5 minutes after turning out of the pan cos it goes all squishy and stays like that

tru

Saved £5.40 in Tesco today.


May total so far - £14.27
Total total - £61.83

Queenie

:j WTG troo!!!! :T (I like that .. Total total )


Hey, CQ ... you're supposed to be a bit more patient!! Let it rest a while before cutting it! :doh:

jaybee

Somehow I'm not doing so well this month but that's probably got something to do with getting a bread maker - thanks to all the peeps on here singing their praises!

Only £34.00 so far this month (not taking into account the bread maker) BUT in times past I would never have realised I'd 'saved' that much so it's got to be an improvement;)

Queenie

jaybee - sometimes, you have to "speculate to accumilate" - you've *invested* in the breadmaker and you will recoup the outlay over time

I think £34 is excellent so definately an "improvement" if that wasn't attainable before. Good work!

Curry_Queen

Queenie wrote:

Hey, CQ ... you're supposed to be a bit more patient!! Let it rest a while before cutting it! :doh:

I know :doh: ... but when you've not tasted bread all week and are teased by the smells while it's cooking, it's hard not to resist

Queenie

Curry_Queen wrote:

I know :doh: ... but when you've not tasted bread all week and are teased by the smells while it's cooking, it's hard not to resist

:rotfl: I know that feeling!! :rotfl: