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zippydooda

fairclaire wrote: »

Oh dear we clearly need a loo roll glitch

haha i had to check as im always making errors like that.

night all

silvercar

Best place to buy train tickets? I'm guessing the train company's own website via quidco or tcb, but if anyone can improve on that let me know.

I have [STRIKE]bribed[/STRIKE] persuaded DS2 that he should take the train 200 miles rather than drive all that way on his own in a 1 litre Aygo.

I have an irrational fear when it comes to the kids driving on their own on the motorways.

zippydooda

silvercar wrote: »

Best place to buy train tickets? I'm guessing the train company's own website via quidco or tcb, but if anyone can improve on that let me know.

I have [STRIKE]bribed[/STRIKE] persuaded DS2 that he should take the train 200 miles rather than drive all that way on his own in a 1 litre Aygo.

I have an irrational fear when it comes to the kids driving on their own on the motorways.

have you tried the mse ticket splitter.

you stay on the same train but it can split it into separate journeys which sometimes works out cheaper. eaasy to check prices
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/split-cheap-train-tickets/

fairclaire

silvercar wrote: »

Best place to buy train tickets? I'm guessing the train company's own website via quidco or tcb, but if anyone can improve on that let me know.

I have [STRIKE]bribed[/STRIKE] persuaded DS2 that he should take the train 200 miles rather than drive all that way on his own in a 1 litre Aygo.

I have an irrational fear when it comes to the kids driving on their own on the motorways.

OMG I'm with you there!
Kids and cars are a whole new level of worry that we never knew existed.
Last week I took DS1 car to the garage to pump up the tyres. He's had a deflated tyres warning for over a week and in true teenager style did nowt about it.
I was supposed to be confined to barracks but it was bugging me as he was going down the Mway back to Liverpol that week and yes...I saw a chance to get out and releive my stir craziness.

Big mistake :eek: I paid 50p for air :eek: and when I put the air thing in the tyre the valve just sheared off :eek: the tyre hissed until it was out of air and died. there was a man in a white van behind me looking seriously !!!!ed off I had no choice but to start changing the wheel. I allowed a man who had just fuelled up to help me......to make his day at helping a damsel in distress of course White van man gave me evils all the way through this when he looked up from his phone. it was !!!!ing down, I was frazzled and I honestly could've cried.
so much for nipping out :rotfl::rotfl:

I was straightened by the time DS1 got home and he said 'thanks mum' I resisted the urge to put my foot up his arsicle

northerngeezer

silvercar wrote: »

Best place to buy train tickets? I'm guessing the train company's own website via quidco or tcb, but if anyone can improve on that let me know.

I have [STRIKE]bribed[/STRIKE] persuaded DS2 that he should take the train 200 miles rather than drive all that way on his own in a 1 litre Aygo.

I have an irrational fear when it comes to the kids driving on their own on the motorways.

Have you tried trainline.com or redspottedhanky.com

Savvybuyer

:hello:Of course with it being after midnight I am waking up:rotfl:. I would say sorry for not updating the M list except that it's done voluntarily and in my own leisure time so I've nothing to be sorry for:p:rotfl:. My heart's just not been into updating anything. I have now deleted, or otherwise crossed out, the expired items on the M list but there will be the new items to add!

I did also do a Lidl collection earlier - I'm not sure what happened as I thought I went into the store at about 3pm but emerged at 4.20pm:eek:. I've had shorter Morrisons collections - bigger stores:rotfl:. These small stores are no good:rotfl:. I've now put the main vegetable offers onto the list, along with some meat items (both 'fresh' and frozen) that look to me to be good. There is more to add later, but the main important ones are now on there I think.

If the vegetables/potatoes in Aldi are 39p rather than 29p, then it now seems:

That we no longer buy 600g Parsnips 39p in Aldi as the 500g Parsnips in Lidl, which are now 29p, work out somewhat cheaper.
The 1Kg carrots in Lidl are 29p.
We should also now move away from buying the 2Kg Maris Piper Potatoes in Aldi if they are 39p and onto the Mini Roasts, which are King Edward Potatoes, 1.5Kg bag in Lidl at 29p works out a fraction of a penny cheaper than 39p for 2Kg pricing. (As you realise, the actual variety of potatoes makes absolutely no odds to me - I just go for whichever is the cheapest!)

As regards what we now buy in Lidl rather than Aldi, this is assuming of course that all things are equal and that we have both an Aldi and a Lidl conveniently available to us.

There are some 500g Sprouts in Lidl on the 'end of aisle' vegetable 'offers' (or, maybe, what Lidl may want us to see as "offers") at 29p. However, they should be ignored and instead the 750g Sprouts in the general run of the vegetables aisle at 39p work out cheaper. So that, on Sprouts, it is buy either the 39p 750g bag in Aldi or the 39p 750g bag in Lidl (assuming the sprouts in each need equally peeling) - and avoid the 500g sprouts in Lidl at expensive 29p!:rotfl:

I'll do some updating later, and maybe as a bit of a project whenever I feel like it - an item here on the M list, an item there on Lidl:rotfl:, I have the information from both to do together. The lists are now 'as good as far as they go', at least the expired items have been removed/crossed out now but, in both cases, there are more items to add.

The Whyte & Mackay in M is now more clearly £15, so I've moved that to bold as, supposedly, a new item. Difficulty over pricing on that last week - half my prices in my M stores were £19!:eek:
And this, rather useless:rotfl::

Greenall's London Dry Gin (1L)


Today's best prices

£15.00 £1.50 / 100ml

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  [Strike]£17.50[/Strike]
  £15.00
• 
  £17.00

Maybe this would work in T if you are already buying it and if you have a cond.spend - £x off £20? - in which case could use it in your basket (vs A N/A or, hopefully, vs M - not Northern Ireland) and could then get M (or A) prices on the rest of your basket up to £5 A/M price. In effect you're buying the Greenall's Gin at £15 as part of your £20 shop (for the £x off cond.spend) and the other items at A (or M) prices - so if, say, the rest of your bill had you been shopping at M, for example, would have been a further £5 on M prices, can then use a T cond spend. I know I'm not explaining it well:rotfl: - hope you can understand it! With whatever coupons you use in T to buy M or A (one or other, not both;)) offer products that don't affect your ability to use cond spends (presumably you get your TBG bill, matching A's/M's prices (A does not stock Greenall's 1L), it's £20 or more (hopefully as little more as possible) to pay, you use your cond.spend, then you use your coupons off the specific items you have coupons for and then pay the outstanding balance).

Someone who understands what I am trying to explain will explain it, in more clear terms, as I can't do so at the moment!

mhoc

bubbs wrote: »

yellowstone Waterproof picnic blanket £1.50
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/yellowstone-waterproof-picnic-blanket-2354356

showing as £10.99 for me

mhoc

northerngeezer wrote: »

Have you tried trainline.com or redspottedhanky.com

trainline charge a booking fee but if you go via the train companies own website you don't get charged

mhoc

silvercar wrote: »

Best place to buy train tickets? I'm guessing the train company's own website via quidco or tcb, but if anyone can improve on that let me know.

I have [STRIKE]bribed[/STRIKE] persuaded DS2 that he should take the train 200 miles rather than drive all that way on his own in a 1 litre Aygo.

I have an irrational fear when it comes to the kids driving on their own on the motorways.

same here.

the eldest didn't do her test until she finished uni as it was a walkable/busable city and when she did drive she soon got used to city driving. I have been in the car with her a few times on short trips and it was not too bad, didn't have a panic attack.

The boys drive all over the place, up and down motorways and I live in fear and dread constantly, if I know they are working that's fine but outside of work and behind the wheel of their own cars its the the stuff of nightmares.

The rare times I have been in any of their cars I've had to sit in the back with my eyes closed and gripping seats

elainemn

Good morning. Last day for me today until 29th. Hope you all have a great day.