Every Laugh Is The Energy

aau1

Boooooo. I had 2 Disney DVDs delivered today thanks to the Disney Rewards Club :money: but neither of them contained codes for me to enter online and put towards my next title

I hope these were just blips and that they are still going to send out codes with the freebies in future

Tinyshoes

fairclaire wrote: »

I'm not sure I'm ready to be let lose on a frying pan just yet. I have a vague memory of a fire in one caused by me some years ago.

I'm not pushing it.....we're having (not Dr O) pizza tomorrow Im really not ready to be chained to the cooker just yet. I do strictly what's necessary. And no, I'm not enjoying it all I always think......well that's an hour of my life I won't get back.

I've been spoiled and I'm paying the price now :eek: :rotfl:

I have been so hungry by the evening I have had to fend for myself. :mad:

No waiting for dinner cooked by Mr TS, been having tea cooked by moi.

I don't enjoy cooking either, I just see it as a chore. Not sure what will be on the menu tomorrow as out at the caravan to get this roof rail sorted and we don't even know if it is definitely the cause of the soft spots, could be the awning rail but that is far harder to take off and reseal. :eek:

fairclaire

purpledonkey wrote: »

:rotfl: I'd love to see you on Come Dine With Me

I don't watch it but have seen the odd snippet. I bet they'd be really b itchy about my welly room :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: (why are they looking at people's houses when they just came for dinner?)

It's getting silly now. As feet are growing we keep getting new wellies but never throw any away 'just in case' we have a visitor who needs to borrow some. Because we're inundated with visitors here :think:

I could get them to fan the smoke alarms with tea towels :rotfl::rotfl: it's got so predictable there's a permanent tea towel left on the hall sideboard just for that purpose

sweetdreamer

Tinyshoes wrote: »

FC I think me and you need to take cooking tips from this caravan guy. :rotfl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNgPrp0Zczs


Have had tears streaming down my face over one particular bit of the video when I noticed, see if anyone else does.

Love it! I think he dressed in a hurry!!:rotfl::rotfl:

purpledonkey

fairclaire wrote: »

I don't watch it but have seen the odd snippet. I bet they'd be really b itchy about my welly room :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: (why are they looking at people's houses when they just came for dinner?)

It's getting silly now. As feet are growing we keep getting new wellies but never throw any away 'just in case' we have a visitor who needs to borrow some. Because we're inundated with visitors here :think:

I could get them to fan the smoke alarms with tea towels :rotfl::rotfl: it's got so predictable there's a permanent tea towel left on the hall sideboard just for that purpose

:rotfl: Not saying a word.

I quite like cooking and knowing what goes into a meal. I think I'm too inquisitive for my own good. When I was 17 I wanted to know how car engines worked, so I stripped and rebuilt one. Made a right mess

Tinyshoes

fairclaire wrote: »

I don't watch it but have seen the odd snippet. I bet they'd be really b itchy about my welly room :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: (why are they looking at people's houses when they just came for dinner?)

It's getting silly now. As feet are growing we keep getting new wellies but never throw any away 'just in case' we have a visitor who needs to borrow some. Because we're inundated with visitors here :think:

I could get them to fan the smoke alarms with tea towels :rotfl::rotfl: it's got so predictable there's a permanent tea towel left on the hall sideboard just for that purpose

Used to be the same here loads of wellies, ooh that didn't autocorrect to something else. :rotfl:

Anyways when we had to take the old garage down last year we got rid of quite a few pairs. Seems we still have 2 pairs each though, either green or colourful. :cool:

lookinforabargain

TS cooking... FC cooking :eek:

I've wandered into a parallel universe again...

:rotfl: :rotfl:

Tinyshoes

sweetdreamer wrote: »

Love it! I think he dressed in a hurry!!:rotfl::rotfl:

I watched another from his channel, same jumper. :eek: But right way. :T

altojack

Done my catchup and now going to bed, need to be up early :eek: Mind you I have been waking early anyway, 3.15am the other morning :eek:

So, I bid ye all good night from me (another don't cook ) spoilt thoroughly

See you when I either:

a) Get tethered

or

b) Get home

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Night night all and thanks again x

p.s. Isn't it time you should be getting to bed FC ? Too many late nights blah blah blah :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Savvybuyer

I shouldn't be rudely interrupting with posts repeatedly, in effect informing people that they probably ought to have had more on their comparisons:o:o. I know - I've lost to what seems to be the same thing - although there are also occasions where I've done well out of it (e.g. the Tikka).

I suppose people want to see my shop from earlier - my useless essentials shop that I was eventually forced to do!

Well, here it is. 58p back off a £4.50 shop:(. I don't normally claim such small APGs these days, as hardly worth it - I reckon the printer paper cost is probably 2 or 3p per voucher plus the energy in turning the printer off and running it - but I think on this occasion I will claim the APG out of principle:

5 items (4 different) on your bill qualify for comparison Sainsbury's

+£0.41
1 x ASDA Smartprice Cheese Slices (10 per pack - 170g)£0.50N/A
1 x Trebor Softmints Peppermint (43g)£0.60£0.40
1 x Trebor Extra Strong Mints Roll£0.60£0.40
0.07 x ASDA Carrots by Weight per kg£0.05£0.04
1 x ASDA Smartprice Apples (500g)£0.79N/A
1 x ASDA Chosen by Kids Apples (550g)£0.96N/A
2 x ASDA Smartprice Medium Sliced White Bread (800g)£0.80£0.80
1 x ASDA Smartprice Medium Sliced Brown Bread (800g)£0.40N/A
Comparison total (compared products only)£2.05£1.64

Buying only what we need, or maybe not - maybe I got caught by the glitch on the Trebor mints? Really struggling to get 8 items vs Sains as everything way too expensive - and way too expensive on A's prices too, such as the apples:(. I know Golden Delicious packs slightly cheaper per kg but we've already got Golden Delicious apples so no use:( - that said, still quite expensive - used to be about £1.33/kg, now £1.57/kg is more in the order.

I could have bought another pack of Power Scourers - but then would have been paying (after APG) 90p more than I needed. No Cornflakes:eek:.

I doubt it's money-saving at all - I bought two White Breads as they get through that much:eek: and wanting to make the most of the 10% whilst I could. So difficult ever to manage a Sains. shop where can't see any glitch for one day. Problem is now that, if there is any glitch, that's one item fewer available to me on a future shop - the beggars refuse to eat defrosted bread:wall:! However, A's SP is probably 10% fewer slices than the S equivalent, so they simply get through it quicker (by eating bigger slices but keeping with the same number each time) and it doesn't save anything. Pointless putting any 10p sweets onto the shop to reach the number, as 10% on the bread then immediately lost. However, I put a 5p carrot onto the shop - Mr A has me snookered either way!:(

There was no Wml Bread (it appears as "Brown") in the first store I went to. So I even had to decamp to another store. Hardly then saving any money as probably lost all the voucher in the travel cost. However, I did manage to get a 5 pack of the SP apples in the second store - first store had only the 4 pack:(. Same weight - just bigger apples in the pack.

In fact I think, for me, it's not necessarily the weight that is the most important thing but instead the number of apples in the pack. With a 5 pack it's better as I get a further apple out of it, so the pack lasts slightly longer and then saves money (it's the same cost for 5 as for 4) as delays the next needed purchase very slightly.

I needed the Cheese Slices. Really didn't need to do beyond that - anything else on this shop would have been unnecessary and all of it would have cost more money, so I didn't bother with any of it.

I need a glitch on essentials - milk, bread and potatoes. It is just so expensive, and for so little return if any, doing these essential, necessary, unavoidable shops. I did need some milk as well, which I bought separately. I've bought milk separately ever since Mr A became more than 10% cheaper than everywhere!

However, :doh: perhaps I should have put a milk onto the shop, even if it lost about a penny, as it would have counted as an item and then I wouldn't have spent 5p on the carrot. (:rotfl:It's pence at this stage.) So, maybe, that would have made more sense. But then it's losing and don't get 10% off the other items - in effect as something is subtracted on the overall shop. Either way they've caught me:(!

I could have done a lot worse. Sometimes the SP apples return more expensively vs T, but for now they are returning:

1 x ASDA Smartprice Apples (500g)£0.79N/A

The bread vs Morries:
2 x ASDA Smartprice Medium Sliced White Bread (800g)£0.80£0.88
1 x ASDA Smartprice Medium Sliced Brown Bread (800g)£0.40£0.50:(

They have the Wholemeal returning against much higher price in M again. The Brown there is 40p but for 720g so should be 44p for 800g but they seem to have adjusted it upwards too much again.

So, at least it was better on the Sains. shop., even though, unfortunately, it gives no 10% as the product, although actually Wholemeal and Sains have Wholemeal at 40p, is described online as "Brown" and therefore thinks it is Brown and returns N/A. I could not have done any better from it on a comparison though.

I believe that every purchase of 3 for £1 sweets should have one pack of Wine Gums in the mix and match. There should not, in my view, be any 3 for £1 bought any other way.

I could have saved far more than the voucher by getting the bread as whoopsies. So, again, not money-saving. However, I think I treat this as items that I would have bought anyway except that, this time, I have put them onto one shop and managed (just) to get eight items and a 10% voucher. Otherwise, normally I end up buying essentials separately, by themselves, and paying full price.

However, if this had been against the real cost in Sains (NB following comparison is made-up):

6 items (5 different) on your bill qualify for comparison Sainsbury's

+£0.59
1 x ASDA Smartprice Cheese Slices (10 per pack - 170g)£0.50N/A
1 x Trebor Softmints Peppermint (43g)£0.33£0.40
1 x Trebor Extra Strong Mints Roll£0.33£0.40
1 x Maynard's Wine Gums (52g)£0.34£0.60
[Strike]0.07 x ASDA Carrots by Weight per kg£0.05£0.04[/Strike]
1 x ASDA Smartprice Apples (500g)£0.79N/A
1 x ASDA Chosen by Kids Apples (550g)£0.96N/A
2 x ASDA Smartprice Medium Sliced White Bread (800g)£0.80£0.80
1 x ASDA Smartprice Medium Sliced Brown Bread (800g)£0.40N/A
Comparison total (compared products only)£1.85£2.44

No voucher at all! S actually would have been much more expensive:eek:! It would not have been great news!:rotfl::rotfl:
Although then I wouldn't have bought the carrot. Or done the shop at all as a comparison vs S:rotfl::D.

However, I could, instead of claiming this voucher, simply pick up a womble that gives more back - about a couple of quid or something - not too difficult to find - and then treat that as the return from this shop. So, maybe that's the route to money-saving rather than doing these useless essentials shops vs elsewhere. If it's paid by a womble in the first place? Maybe better to stick with buying separately, one or two items as needed (unfortunately), paying full prices and not getting any 10% off from them but paid for by womble anyway.