Remember you're a womble - 2016

f0xh0les

Thanks Dizz! Welcome home TOG

I was chatting to DH last week about V1rg1n and their price hike - we had to get Tiv0 in the rented house because the owner, who claimed to be a builder, had plastered the BT line connection into the wall, and without paying to have the drive dug up and the walls excavated we could not get anyone else. So, we were stuck with them, and as DH signed up to an 18 month contract, when we moved, it was going to cost us £200 to leave them. Now, they have changed the terms of our contract we can leave, and we will be, for nowt!
So we are looking at changing the £42 a month for a £20 a month broadband and landline deal and going back to the wonderful world of free freeview and all its magical channels.

I once rang up V!rgin and said -
Oi, where did my CBS Action channel disappear to? (I love Deep Space 9)
Ahh, that is a chargeable channel, they said
Don't be so silly I said, I have had it for the last 4 months .
Oh, that was a free trial, they said, if you want to keep it you will need to upgrade and pay an extra £10 a month........................

Or I could unplug my box and attach the tv aerial and pay myself a tenner a month for a channel on freeview.

...........Silence ................ cue some Tumbleweed rolling past ..............

Well it's a premium channel with us - they said - would you like to upgrade?

Erm, no.

We have 5 months left before we were planning on bailing, so that is a saving of £20 a month I will be claiming. Martin :money:told me about it in his weekly email about 3 weeks ago, so when we got the email last night, we knew exactly what we were going to do. - Next job is to find out how much cashback we can get for signing up - (depending on which one of us was on the bill, with which company, last time:cool:)

£100 staying in the bank account!

miss_empty_piggy

Thanks everyone - I'm walking on air at the moment xxx

Got a bottle of prosecco and 6 eggs as an engagement present - prosecco omlette maybe? Can I count these as wombled? Is that even allowed? x

sugarbaby125

Thanks Bob, my total amazes me as well :rotfl: You can only believe you are a true money saver, when you are keeping a running total

MEP Huge Congratulations on your Engagement No wonder you are walking on air :happyhear

2 X Bodyform products from Superdrug which were on promotion for 2 for £2 saving me £1.40 and I also used my 2 X 50p off coupons from Supersavvyme saving me a further £1

#33 current total = £4236.19

System

Congrats Miss Empty Piggy :beer:

A modest £1.16 from Qmee today for me. I joined Receipt Hog last night after hearing about it on the £10 a day challenge. Uploaded my first receipt but a long way to go!!

Edited: Just checked the post and Maximiles have sent me 2 cinema tickets, so another £20.40 to the total

Bobarella

miss_empty_piggy wrote: »

Thanks everyone - I'm walking on air at the moment xxx

Got a bottle of prosecco and 6 eggs as an engagement present - prosecco omlette maybe? Can I count these as wombled? Is that even allowed? x

That was quite a specific gift Yes of course why not they were a present after all:D

The_Only_Girl

Hello all! Thanks for the warm welcome! It is nice to be back. Congratulations and best wishes MEP.

I did another training session on smart shopping with DS1 in preparation for his moving to uni. We picked up a few groceries, toiletries etc. I'm planning to give him a list of things we normally buy and where he could get them cheaper. I am a proud momma today because when we were shopping I could see his how he's making intentional decision on what to get or what not to get, categorising things into needs or wants, immediate or something to think about first and get later. A lot of times he turned to me and said that on Sunday afternoon they would be given a change to avail of items left by former students who have left uni. He's also planned his meal for the first 3 days at least and asked me how certain dishes are cooked, etc etc. Lots of things to go through with him with so little time so there's been excitement and anxiety in equal measures. It's also nice to see him put into practice what we've been teaching him, for example the use of cash system versus mindless autopilot way of spending. We got a few good low-spend purchases with ds1 eg an opened/out of the bag of fitted sheet (2.50 from £6). Would you go for a lemon scented branded toilet bowl cleaner or a supermarket own brand made of thick bleach that promises to kill 99.9% just like any other branded item. We bought The good old fashioned thick bleach for only 39 p.

I nearly got tempted to buy lunch at the staff canteen despite having a sandwich in my lunch bag. I actually went to the serving hatch to see what I could get but changed my mind at the last minute and stuck it out with my boring tuna mayonnaise sandwich. I would say that was at least £4 saved by saying no to bought lunch.

Tomorrow/this evening, we will have the last evening meal with DS1. Not looking forward to Friday at all, what with my separation anxiety all kicking in.

So good night to all for now. See you later!

f0xh0les

Sneaking in through the window to let you know I managed to get my knickers 3 for 2, so a saving of £3.50 (I know some of you will have been worried for me:rotfl:)

Also, a mini 5 point receipt from Mr T's and hopped on over to Her0n f00ds - I really miss Fult0n F00ds but we are too far south for that now. What was in there ?? Jus-roll croissants in a tin and Jus-roll pain au chocolate - 59p each! they are £2.00 each or 2 for £3.00 in Mr T's (which is why I only buy them in HF - but usually 3 for £1) so I bought 6 and they are sitting in my fridge right now (exp Sept 16) so the kids can have the pain au chocolate in their lunchboxes and we can pretend to be french for breakfast this weekend (nice coffee, rubbish accents). Ooh la la!

I baked for the lunchboxes on our carp wombled gas cooker last night, and somehow, on GM4 I managed to cremate 2 sponge cakes:mad:. Totally charcoal them in less than 20 minutes while watching the GBBO, who were also having a total mare of it. (twilight zone?????)
So I will have to start a savings tin for a new cooker, cos I can't be faffing about with this nonsense, and I refuse to stand next to the bloody thing while it decides if it is going burn stuff or not.

Then, DS4 was getting out of the car at school, dropped his funky new multi-flap lunchbox and propelled the resurected bit of cake I had carefully carved and iced into respectability, straight between the holes in the storm drain:rotfl: If I offered him £50 he wouldn't have been able to do it again. We all fell about the place laughing and I told him he could have 2 pieces of Lazarus cake when he got home from school instead. :beer:

Oh to be 6 and the worst thing to happen in your day is to have to wait until hometime for cake.

A bientot
Keep smiling Wombleers

Bobarella

And a penny for me today courtesy of madam pavement

Dizzy_Imp

Tuppence for me - washkill :T

Oh, and 5 kilos of plums (£5), 5 eggs (50p) and a kilo of red apples (50p) :j making today's total £6.02, which I am rather pleased about.

We are choosing which hedgerow to plant in the autumn and fancy a forager's delight (mixture of fruiting and or edible food-type varieties, such as hazel, wild damson, crab apple, juneberry, Elder, cherry plum and Sloe trees). I think in a few years, I'll actually only have to buy citrus fruits! Very excited...

Bobarella

Snort at Tuppence. You just dont hear that nowadays do you. In fact I now have the 'feed the birds' song from Mary Poppins going round my head.
Tonight at work the chef let me have some steak. As I was peeling 20kg of potatoes by hand! I was rather glad of the distraction...not really big enough to claim for though...