Ecstatic Laughter In The Evenings

boo_2112

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1 x ASDA Shades Softest Ever White Bathroom Tissue - 2... £1.75 £1.00
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Pasta Bake Sauce - Spicy Tomato... £0.84 £0.85
1 x Sure Women Antiperspirant Deodorant Fragrance Coll... £1.67 £1.50
1 x Schwarzkopf Color Mask - 400 Dark Brown £3.97 £3.99
1 x ASDA Smartprice Spaghetti Bolognese (395g) £0.19 £0.19
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Spicy Tomato Pasta Sauce (500g) £0.84 N/A
1 x ASDA Smartprice Jaffa Cakes (12 per pack - 135g) £0.40 N/A
2 x Bold 2in1 Lavender & Camomile Liquitabs - 33 Washe... £22.00 £10.00
1 x Sure Women Antiperspirant Deodorant Fragrance Coll...£1.66 £1.50
1 x Sanex Men Dermo Antiperspirant Deodorant - Double ... £1.67 £1.59

oops do we have a trig for the 3 for £5 pls??

boo_2112

underperky wrote: »

can some one enlighten me with the deal on the sketchers

Brantano had 40% off everything at the weekend..I'm sure they'll do it again

I ordered 3 diff prs so may have a couple size 8's going spare

Raven

Tinyshoes . . .


Really really pleased for you :T looks fantastic, like a five star hotel. :j


But must say that your pleasure and happiness is so uplifting, so thank you for sharing that with us.



Raven.

Savvybuyer

Loose carrots are good vs Sains. (Not as good as price on packs of carrots vs elsewhere as you get something like 760g of loose carrots for about the same price as a 1Kg pack, so each loose carrot is costing more - although it is helping maybe as an essential filler.)

I used one each on my shops earlier. Bought one at 4p and it compared vs S at 4p. One at 5p still compared vs S at 4p:D. Should have put a 5p carrot on both shops:rotfl:. 5p one is comparing vs everywhere else at 5p currently, so is best vs Sains.

I have noticed that the 1Kg carrots packs are comparing against M, but sadly against M at a bit more expensive now that M have put their price up:(.

Meanwhile, someone bought me some good carrots and some other good items here (and the Sains. comp was the best overall:T - so that I actually benefit from the 10% off the cucumber and broccoli rather than a cheeky switch to another comp. that, while the "best" overall, does not deliver the full 10% vs the cheapest competitor on every item - but what do I expect?!?):

0.63 x ASDA Carrots by Weight per kg£0.47£0.44
1 x ASDA Red Pepper£0.67£0.60
2 x Nestle Munch Bunch Mega Double Up Layered Fromage ...£2.00£2.00
1 x ASDA Whole Cucumber£0.49£0.45
1 x ASDA Broccoli (335g)£0.49£0.45

The Red Pepper is best vs Morries (59p M), but not my price. It's a single red pepper I believe, so really expensive, as usual, compared to larger quantities in packs (even they are too dear for me:eek:).

The Munch Bunch, fwiw, compares - as I expect - vs 82p each for M. Multi, as they say, "processed correctly"(:() on the comp.
:rotfl:

zippydooda

get 6 of these in the 6 for £25 deal. assuming its started. http://groceries.asda.com/asda-webstore/landing/home.shtml?cmpid=ahc-_-ghs-d1-_-asdacom-dsk-_-hp#/promotion/ls85157

and as you can see its not in any offer yet on msm. should be good until 6am

my local don't open till 7

should get back £15.45 making it less than a tenner for 6

note this is not tested

shop done at 8am :eek: offer on msl/msm at 8.45am. so I recon ive only a 25% chance of it working.

it was just toooooooooo late a shop. oh well wine rack needed a top up.

Savvybuyer

So, I am now at the magic maximum 80% charge (beyond which it does not charge), without things blowing up yet, so I now unplug and just now back on its way to discharging and then we'll see what happens after that. I'll try and add the items from Monday to the M list and a couple from yesterday and then see if I can come back for a summary.

Savvybuyer

zippydooda wrote: »

get 6 of these in the 6 for £25 deal. assuming its started. http://groceries.asda.com/asda-webstore/landing/home.shtml?cmpid=ahc-_-ghs-d1-_-asdacom-dsk-_-hp#/promotion/ls85157

and as you can see its not in any offer yet on msm. should be good until 6am

my local don't open till 7

should get back £15.45 making it less than a tenner for 6

note this is not tested

Mix and match though. Just wondering whether that is the best difference. And it looks like it is (most others non-comp. or a few not very favourable pricing vs T). I did have my own suggestion, but looks like the item is not in the 6 for £25 (if indeed that's on at all) so I have deleted.

My local is open all night. However, I don't drink wine:o:o:(, so cost of £0.00 for none for me. I am so smugly right:eek::o:o:o!

zippydooda

Savvybuyer wrote: »

So, I am now at the magic maximum 80% charge (beyond which it does not charge), without things blowing up yet, so I now unplug and just now back on its way to discharging and then we'll see what happens after that. I'll try and add the items from Monday to the M list and a couple from yesterday and then see if I can come back for a summary.

I think someone else said this earlier, but I now leave mine plugged in all the time its in use

WishI'dReadSooner

Tinyshoes - beautiful bathroom, I bet you're pleased! I too have been looking at bathroom catalogues in last few days. We were thinking of just a wet room BUT if we want to sell this place later on we probably should have a bath. I must say that I REALLY like yours

Have to have a new boiler first - I'm annoyed as everyone wants to sell us one with radiators - we have gas warm air - which we love as it's so quick to warm the house up nice and cosy warm. Seems like no-one around here puts in replacement warm air units & I don't want radiators. I have no room for radiators as furniture is placed where we want it now.

Today I phoned Johnson Starley (the manufacturers) and found out now they do warm air units that can easily be vented to outside and also they do combi units so no need to heat up a huge tank anymore. They are going to arrange for someone to come and see us. It has to be cheaper than a boiler with radiators and all the attendant pipework (probably around the walls - YUCK!) - doesn't it?

I bought this house new 30yrs ago & desperately need a new bathroom and kitchen as well as windows and doors blocked up/moved. Wondering whether to do it bit by bit or bite the bullet and get it all done at once?
Haven't started getting quotes yet as still have stashes everywhere - hence trying not to go shop too often. Sometimes glitching is a curse!

If you've had all the above done - kitchen, bathroom & windows/doors approx how long did it all take & did you move out while it was being done? What would you advise?

I'd also really like a solid beech shaker style kitchen with black star granite tops. Years ago you could get solid beech doors no problem BUT I can't find any anywhere now. Has anyone seen anywhere that does one? All I can find is "beech effect" which I defo do not want. Maybe I'm out of touch with what's in nowadays but I like beech.

Savvybuyer

boo_2112 wrote: »

Brantano had 40% off everything at the weekend..I'm sure they'll do it again

I ordered 3 diff prs so may have a couple size 8's going spare

Yes we're supposed to be happy about this as clothing and footwear supposed to offset the seemingly continual increase in fuel prices. Another rise in the last couple of days - now about six price rises, all of a cynical penny per litre each time, so right back to where it was before:(:(.

I don't accept that it is zero percent. I don't buy clothes and a lot of footwear - it might be gathered that I am not in tune with any of the latest fashion - so, for me, I reckon my personal rate of inflation is a positive number:( - a price increase year on year, as I'm paying more in petrol each time (though I did fill right up a couple of days before the latest rise as I suspected it was about to go up and up again). That said, I did buy a pair of trainers at £16 (which I think is quite good though I bet the Elite somewhere would find something better-priced than that and put me to shame). So that 'saving' there is supposed to offset the tens and hundreds of pounds of fuel costs for the last few months. It does not feel like it compensates much at all in my view. (It was a one-off purchase that I'm unlikely to pay again for several more years. The pair I was replacing were over ten years old (:eek: - but that's my :money: approach I know! Never buy anything: Institute of Non-Buying:money::rotfl:.)) Last time I bought trainers, of any kind at all, was over ten years before.

Moreover, someone else in my household, now, also needed a pair of trainers and insisted on having ones at full price as they did not like the design on the very nice half-price ones that fitted them perfectly well:wall:. I'd have had those - they were absolutely fine. I knew full well and kept explaining to them that the ones they wanted would soon be on half price themselves as the offers rotate around. So, I suggested, if they really wanted those exact ones, they wait - and keep saying there was absolutely nothing wrong with the ones they refused to have.

They said no:( - they bought the ones they wanted there and then and paid full price for them:eek:. In a sense, yes, it's their own money but also it all comes out of the same pot, for the household, so that we do lose as a whole from it:wall:. Keeping them happy again - and giving way to other's purchases that cost us full price:eek::(. So, no, it does not seem like the petrol rise is being covered by cheaper footwear at all, especially when they include a pair of trainers at ridiculous price in the cost! I do not know where the statisticians get their figures from - I don't believe them anyway and I note the "inflation" figure (or whatever we call it when it isn't apparently inflating at all) was referred to as an "estimate" on BBC News (not that I believe that either:rotfl:) earlier on. I bet they happen to have the offer shoes in their basket and the figure therefore skewed by that. That's my contention anyway. I guess I'm not buying enough clothes to offset the fuel cost rises:(.

But when products are going from offer to offer and up to full price and back to offers again, what is the real price of anything anyway? The supermarkets will be there to have things bought at full cost to offset the losses on the offers elsewhere in the store. If the "inflation" basket happens to include items that are on special offer in the major stores, then surely it will give a different result to if it happened to contain items that happen to be on full price in more stores? You can pay really expensive costs on products in supermarkets as we know. If you pick everything on full price this week your basket will cost you a lot more than it did on just buying the offers last week. Far more than the rate of "inflation"! Items still, after offer, more than double in price (that pack of pork in Morries one week at £1, was at £3.99 the next week) - so how does the rate of inflation at 0% reflect any of this? Even if the figure is an "overall", it's still going to depend on precisely what is in the inflation basket. That's my take anyway (probably wrong and has more of a "man in the street" feel to it than anything of any educated knowledge).

It's based on what people generally buy though isn't it? Which is precisely (part of) my point - that I am not buying clothes, or footwear generally, so that my personal inflation rate is much higher than that stated. Really being hit by petrol costs for which I can never find any mitigation. If you are buying expensive designer clothes, then maybe you are making a killing. But I am not - and I'm saving constantly by avoiding designer clothes ever. Which means that, when clothing costs generally go down, they do not offset anything for me as they are not something I generally buy.