Remember you're a womble - 2016

Bobarella

sweetpea26 wrote: »

Morning everyone.

Have been up to my eyes

miss_empty_piggy wrote: »

I can't believe I've found this site. I totally love wombling. I started a page in my diary for "things I got for free" etc but didn't realise it was an actual 'named' thing. This is brilliant - is it wrong that I'm really excited??

Can I please join you and become a womble?

I got 3 free carrots yesterday - it's a start (30p)

Greetings
You are womble 43

Bob

Dexsmummy

Hi wombling friends, Today things have been looking up on the wombling front. Saved myself £1 by walking instead of paying for parking and got a £10 amazon voucher for surveys.Bob I've updated total savings in my signature.

Bobarella

FunBrum wrote: »

Thanks Bob, I've just added up my totals. £1,461.04:eek:

When I find roadkill, I've been popping it into a little red campervan money box. It's getting full so I will soon be graduating to a larger campervan money box! It will be interesting how much is in there at the end of the year!

Now my life is getting back to normal. I can start shopping for YS and hopefully points! Strangely, I like the little value wombles. I feel I have achieved more, if that makes sense?!

Thanks for reporting in. Have updated your total.

Bobarella

Dexsmummy wrote: »

Hi wombling friends, Today things have been looking up on the wombling front. Saved myself £1 by walking instead of paying for parking and got a £10 amazon voucher for surveys.Bob I've updated total savings in my signature.

Thank you DM.

Bobarella

The_Only_Girl wrote: »

DH and I wombled free Swedish massage from MIL. Would have been £6 (I know - cheap as chips right?) We also had moisturising foot spa, pedicure and manicure (DH, DS1 and me) and I paid only £21.

Sounds wonderful!!

Bobarella

greengoblin wrote: »

Roadkill total for March 34p, so a grand total of £4.04 for the year so far. Kicked of April with a 20p yesterday though

A good score for the roadkill there GG.

Azzzaa wrote: »

I was kayaking at work today (I'm a teacher) and found 2 fishing lures to attract pike caught in the trees on the opposite side of the bank where the fisherman fish, they cost about £6 each and both were very nice ones too so we're definitely worth nabbing I shall be using them once the open season for fishing comes around :beer:

A useful Wombling days work.

Bobarella

Dizzy_Imp wrote: »

OK - have found my receipts and pleased to report YS savings of £4.43, plus a Sainsbob Brand Match voucher, but I'll count that if and when used.

Updating signature.

I know nothing about fishing Azzzaa, but the lures sound like a great womble for you! Well done

TOG - hope your holiday in the Philippines is lovely and relaxing. Jealous of the massage!

FunBrum - I get what you mean about the little wombles being more satisfying. I especially love YS luxury food items. They taste even better then :rotfl:

Fab total Dizzy!

Bobarella

chirpycheap wrote: »

Welcome Miss Empty Piggy I’m sure with all the wombling you’ll soon be a ‘full piggy’. Welcome back FunBrum and hope you are feeling better SweetPea. Glad to hear the cobwebs have been cleared for you Bob!

I’ve not been active on here for a week or so. My DS has been home for the Easter Holidays and has had to use my laptop to work on. Anyway he's now gone home and I’m all caught up with the thread and still feeling inspired by everyone’s wombling reports.
It’s not been the most frugal of weeks as we have all been off work and at home. There is normally just myself and DH to cater for so with one extra at home our weekly bill for food and entertainment should have increased by one third. Unfortunately it seems to have increased by at least fifty percent. A combination of me spoiling everyone and DS having hollow legs plus some trips out is probably to blame. Hopefully some of the extra spends will be offset by some of the wombling that we have been doing.

DH found 2p, our first road kill. I think folks hold on to their change around here as there is rarely anything on the ground to find!
In Ikea we checked our receipt in the ‘Swipe a Surprise’ promotion and found that we had won a hot dog. I was going to throw it away as we’re all veggie but then we found out that they do a quorn hot dog (60p). DS who is always hungry was happy for five minutes.
I used two £1 vouchers in Tesco for Almond Milk and got £5 off our £50 shop. We were able to pick up some yellow stickered items too but I forgot to see how much I saved as we ate them! We then went for a meal and used some Tesco Points and saved £37.50 on our bill.

My sister has had to clear out her in laws home as her FIL recently died. Some people would be unhappy using stuff from the deceased but we knew them well and they were lovely people and we’re perfectly happy having things from their home in ours. Most of the stuff has gone to the charity shop as the MIL was a real hoarder but we have had a couple of boxes of household items. We now have a set of good quality saucepans, bedding and towels and lots of kitchenware. It has been a reminder that ‘stuff’ to excess can end up being a huge burden for those that you leave behind!

DH did some DIY jobs for a friend so she rewarded him with a beautiful teabread, some fancy butter and a jar of home made preserves. I reckon that’s a £2 womble at least. On the way home we popped into Poundworld and bought some half price mini bags of Easter Eggs for 50p to pop into a late Easter basket for my nephews.

I did an Approved Food shop and spent £40. According to my receipt I have £100 of shopping. I’m very pleased with what we’ve bought. I generally buy once or twice a year and although I don’t think it looked like £100 of what I’d pay for shopping I had some excellent (if out of date) bargains.

Finally we saved £5.88 on troughs and compost at B&Q using a combination of a seniors discount and multibuy offers.
Sorry for the long catch up post. I’m declaring my total at £225.45

Wow what a great update. Lots of impressive results there. :T

sugarbaby125

£1 Quidco Clicksnap Cashback

£15 Tesco code for free entry for myself for Race for Life 2016

£5.20 for 2 bottles of water, 1 from an admirer and 1 from my sister on a night out of dancing on Saturday in Birmingham

£10 from an admirer at Karaoke on Sunday to pay for my drinks

£2 paid by another admirer for a bottle of water for me at Karaoke



#33 current total = £1060.49

f0xh0les

Back on the RM spy survey team! I did it in Manchester, then when I moved to Yorkshire I got invited back on the panel the week before we moved to Leicester, so had to decline, then, got invited back on the day before we completed, but think I can still stay as the first bit of the postcode stays the same... so.......

Wombled a book of 4 large stamps and 12 first class stamps (per month), which will be sent to an elderly relative who is housebound and will be delighted at not having to buy her own anymore. Bit of a sideways womble, but it will cheer the old dear up and stop her worrying about running out.

She was complaining about how much she is spending on condolence cards for her friends since the start of the year.:A