Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

GDB2222

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I appear to have overslept by 2 hours......

OH has just brought me a coffee before going into work, and I'm going to head into the town for breakfast at 7 before going in, because I'm in a particularly lazy mood this morning

It is usually the other way around, I promise, but I obviously needed it.....

Do you go to sleep very early? Or can you manage without much sleep?

GDB2222

50 MPH winds forecast for this evening, here in London. I can't complain, as I guess people living near the coast can look forward to quite a bit more.

bugslet

I hate wind for obvious reasons, always worry about a truck tipping over.:(

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Over the weekend I finally got Mr S to allow me to use my Nectar points to part-pay for my shopping ... and used £2.50 of them. About a years' worth of collecting them!

If I have understood correctly, you can get loads of points just by applying for an Amex card. So many points, in fact, that it would fund a large part of your shopping for the year.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Over the weekend I finally got Mr S to allow me to use my Nectar points to part-pay for my shopping ... and used £2.50 of them. About a years' worth of collecting them!

Nice, 3 days before one of the few occasions a year when you could have doubled their value on Sainsburys shopping

Edit: have you registered your card online. There are frequent ofers like buy anything at BP and get 500 points etc

silvercar

bugslet wrote: »

I hate wind for obvious reasons, always worry about a truck tipping over.:(

A tipper truck?

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Over the weekend I finally got Mr S to allow me to use my Nectar points to part-pay for my shopping ... and used £2.50 of them. About a years' worth of collecting them!

You are one step ahead of me. The one time I tried to do that, the machine told me it wasn't my "home" store. That surprised me as I didn't know I had chosen a store to be my home store. I still don't know where that may be, or if those rules still apply. In fact, I don't know where you can spend nectar points other than in Argos or Sainsburys, which I suspect aren't the best use of nectar points. So much so that I supposedly have points worth over £50, but I don't know if it is £50 of goods or money or what!

CKhalvashi

GDB2222 wrote: »

Do you go to sleep very early? Or can you manage without much sleep?

About 9pm....not overly early, but not overly late, too

I'm putting it down to needing it over anything else.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

LOL/doubled. But it'll have chewed up my life knowing that and reading/waiting for when that happens. I didn't know they did stuff like that though.

As for stuff like "buy ... at ...." those things aren't in my lifestyle, so most offers are simply unusable. e.g. BP. No idea where one of those is. I just googled it, there's a "BP connect" close by - which is probably "not a listed store" .... and their petrol is more expensive than up the road at Mr S. I also only fill up 4-5x a year. I now don't expect to refill until January when I have a big round trip to do (that takes 3/4 of a tank each time).

I would put in 1 litre or whatever the minimum is knowing I was getting £250 in points back.

I get those Tesco vouchers, each week I go and spend about a tenner of stuff liek milk and bread I can get anywhere and something else from the non-food that can be returned but makes the total up to the voucher spend amount. Make the purchase, use the voucher and then the next week the first thing I do is return the unwanted item straight back onto my credit card and repeat. I can't really stand Tesco but we do go the weeks we have such vouchers. (Oh and time it right and they do some good bakery reductions - 6 croissant we would never buy at £2.20 - really! - are often reduced to 25p - yummy!)

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

So you buy stuff, just to return it? Blimey.

I rarely go to Mr T's. It's a trek. My food bill/week is about £10 for everything, including sweeties/treats. I think today's food spend is about 50p. I did a quick mac cheese, squirt of brown sauce ... and later I'll be having a banana. Pasta was about 15p, cheese about 15p, banana 12p ... squirt of brown sauce probably 2p. Then round it up.

I only get the vouchers 1-2x a year max.

I don't buy bakery items; I'm grossed out by the fact they've sat out for hours, with people pawing them and coughing over them.

Wouldn't go to Mr Ts except for getting 6 quid of £40 (which is actually of £10ish with the returns method.

Only buy the bakery items that come in sealed plastic wrappers, certainly wouldn't buy the lose stuff.