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Remember you're a womble - 2016

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  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
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    Bought £100 of Pizza Express gift cards from Tesco gift card store for £80 as they had 20% off saving myself £20. I will be using them in conjunction with my £180 of Tesco Clubcard Boost Tokens for Pizza Express to celebrate my son's 16th Birthday.

    2 x bottles of water bought for me at Karaoke by my friends Antoinette and Sam saving me £4 :)

    2 X free tickets to Autism Rocks, the concert to pay tribute to Prince saving me £82. Me and my daughter are going on Saturday. :j

    #33 current total = £2935.99
  • DigForVictory
    DigForVictory Posts: 12,078 Forumite
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    Mindful of The Last DoubleUp, I logged into Tesco & found £27 of vouchers!
    Son will be blinking hard as I drag him to the opticians...
    (I would have saved all the boys nervous spasms & bought school uniform online, but it all has to be instore. Dash.)
  • Siebrie
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    Not a personal womble, but for work:
    our Department has not had a teambuilding retreat for 3 years, and with a new boss and 4 new colleagues (of a team of 8 in 3 different countries), is was time. So, I bought plane tickets with the air miles collected by the company, had free hotel rooms through a business relation, and a good discount on meeting rooms through another. Three speakers on interesting work-related subjects came free, because we buy services off of them regularly (they had to fly in from a different country, which they did not charge us for, nor for their time). The thank-you gifts for the speakers were discounted posh chocolate :) .We had a lovely dinner in a restaurant's garden, and a segw.ay tour on the second afternoon. And we had lovely weather!
    Are you wombling, too, in '22? € 58,96 = £ 52.09Wombling in Restrictive Times (2021) € 2.138,82 = £ 1,813.15Wombabeluba 2020! € 453,22 = £ 403.842019's wi-wa-wombles € 2.244,20 = £ 1,909.46Wombling to wealth 2018 € 972,97 = £ 879.54Still a womble 2017 #25 € 7.116,68 = £ 6,309.50Wombling Free 2016 #2 € 3.484,31 = £ 3,104.59
  • sugarbaby125
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    £15 E-vouchers off my Sainsbury's online shop :T

    Return train tickets to the TV studios paid for by the quiz show £13.70 :)

    I found 7p roadkill on my way to work

    I found 7p on classroom floors

    4 x Groupon restaurant vouchers for £79.60 instead of the usual price of £133.60 saving me £54 ( It is for a Brazilian Rodizio eat as much as you like dinner with the 1st cocktail, glass of wine or soft drink. We are going to take my grandson for his 17th birthday) :)

    #33 current total = £3018.83
  • DigForVictory
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    Husband (& son) happy with glasses, so went on rampage through school uniform. Very satisfying seeing the rows of shirts lined up & son (just made Head Boy!) had first dibs on new trousers so he's all nattily turned out!

    So £25 of vouchers converted into £50 worth of uniform trous & shirts, hurrah!
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
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    Bought £100 of Pizza Express gift cards from Tesco gift card store for £80 as they had 20% off saving myself £20. I will be using them in conjunction with my £180 of Tesco Clubcard Boost Tokens for Pizza Express to celebrate my son's 16th Birthday.

    2 x bottles of water bought for me at Karaoke by my friends Antoinette and Sam saving me £4 :)

    2 X free tickets to Autism Rocks, the concert to pay tribute to Prince saving me £82. Me and my daughter are going on Saturday. :j

    #33 current total = £2935.99

    Hope your son has a great birthday. Great work on the Tesco points.
    " Your vibe attracts your tribe":D

    Debt neutral :) 27/03/17 from £40k:eek: in the hole 2012.
    Roadkill 17 £56.58 2016-£62.28 2015- £84.20)
    RYSAW17 £1900 2016 £2,535.16 2015 £1027.20
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Husband (& son) happy with glasses, so went on rampage through school uniform. Very satisfying seeing the rows of shirts lined up & son (just made Head Boy!) had first dibs on new trousers so he's all nattily turned out!

    So £25 of vouchers converted into £50 worth of uniform trous & shirts, hurrah!

    Wow head boy is something to be proud of!
    " Your vibe attracts your tribe":D

    Debt neutral :) 27/03/17 from £40k:eek: in the hole 2012.
    Roadkill 17 £56.58 2016-£62.28 2015- £84.20)
    RYSAW17 £1900 2016 £2,535.16 2015 £1027.20
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Siebrie wrote: »
    Not a personal womble, but for work:
    our Department has not had a teambuilding retreat for 3 years, and with a new boss and 4 new colleagues (of a team of 8 in 3 different countries), is was time. So, I bought plane tickets with the air miles collected by the company, had free hotel rooms through a business relation, and a good discount on meeting rooms through another. Three speakers on interesting work-related subjects came free, because we buy services off of them regularly (they had to fly in from a different country, which they did not charge us for, nor for their time). The thank-you gifts for the speakers were discounted posh chocolate :) .We had a lovely dinner in a restaurant's garden, and a segw.ay tour on the second afternoon. And we had lovely weather!

    How lovely Siebre, you have done well.
    " Your vibe attracts your tribe":D

    Debt neutral :) 27/03/17 from £40k:eek: in the hole 2012.
    Roadkill 17 £56.58 2016-£62.28 2015- £84.20)
    RYSAW17 £1900 2016 £2,535.16 2015 £1027.20
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Claiming £1 for a coupon given to me in Mr S for that off my next shop
    50p for a packet of Delicious kiddie snacks that I was sent a voucher for
    £18 for my old phone handset that had a cracked screen and had been free to me under contract.
    " Your vibe attracts your tribe":D

    Debt neutral :) 27/03/17 from £40k:eek: in the hole 2012.
    Roadkill 17 £56.58 2016-£62.28 2015- £84.20)
    RYSAW17 £1900 2016 £2,535.16 2015 £1027.20
  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
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    Dig For Victory you did really well on the school uniform with your Tesco Clubcard vouchers and well done to your son on becoming Head Boy.

    Siebrie you did your employers proud with your MSE ways and your organisational skills, I hope they appreciate your value as one of their employees

    Thanks Bob, we are all looking forward to Tuesday when my son will be 16. We are going for the birthday meal on the Saturday so that his older brother and 2 older sisters could be there.
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