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Sunshinemummy

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Just back from a whoopsie shop at T:o

No photos as the large rainbow coleslaw has ran out over everything in my bag:o

Wouldn't care. .........Don't even know what a rainbow coleslaw is:o

Has it got skittles in it?

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

Munqui

Mumto2monkeys wrote: »

Thank you... Not as good as last week.

I believe this is what they have matched on T's site Tesco Turkey Thigh Mince 7% Fat 500G £2.45 worth checking if a better offer appears :T

Munqui

cheer1eader wrote: »

got an APG for £9.46 for my shop at 3:16 today :j:j

12 items (9 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda morrisons
2x Cathedral City Mature Cheddar (350G) £6.00 £4.00
2x ASDA Butcher's Selection British Lean Turkey Mince (500G) £7.00 £4.00
2x Cathedral City Cheddar Extra Mature (350G) £6.00 £4.00
1x ASDA Smartprice Orange Juice Drink (3X200) £0.40 £0.40
1x Old El Paso Toasted Cheese Quesadilla Kit (505G) £3.00 £2.00
1x Giant Strawberry Stripes (1PK) £0.10 £0.10 1x Haribo Starmix (1PK) £0.10 £0.10
2x Diet Coke Cans (30X330) £14.00 N/A
1x ASDA Fresh Milk Semi Skimmed (4PT) £0.89 £1.00
1x Barratt Flumps (12G) £0.10 £0.10
Comparison total (compared products only) £23.59 £15.70
+£7.89 cheaper

_party_ great shop :T

cjj_2

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Evening paw sniffers and LEJC:D

I think taking people up on help is much under rated. It's a win win situation:) you get a bit of a break and they feel sooooooo good with being able to give you a hand.
What a great post......so for this week you are being positive....not looking too far ahead and taking baby steps......well done you:T:T

Why can't I think of stuff like this to say. Yours is a great post too TM. Wish I was as good with words xx

bubbs

Tinyshoes wrote: »

I have found an offer especially for PD and DM. :whistle:

https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/dr-roof?p=18&nlp=&CID=UK_CRM_1_0_0_32&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&sid=91fda2f5-db99-4ee9-8e2d-f1b8d31de3f8_0_20160201&division=bournemouth&eh=7143f5e75c04c309109b8d1a436dca7e6347acf6c5d6c5fac90124ce3f517e91&date=20160102&sender=rm&s=body&c=link&d=deal-page&utm_campaign=dr-roof-85281680

:T:T:T brill

marmitelovemehateme wrote: »

I was hoping it would be the Panto Horse...Now that would have been a story to be told of where you got it..and what you did with it:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I am not good at stories;)

Mrs_stinkface wrote: »

Bah, I'm seriously peed off :mad:
For over a week I've put up with 2 really rude, arrogant students who have given me nothing but grief. I had to ring up the school to make a second complaint this morning after they were smoking in the bedroom (both are 15) when I had asked them only yesterday to not do it. The students were pulled aside in class and given a proper telling off and told if they get another complaint they will be moved elsewhere and be forced to pay for the second lodgings as well as mine.
I got a phone call from the school just before 5pm informing me that one of them has suddenly developed a cat allergy and they have to be moved. As its a medical reason (my ar5e:mad:) for the move I'm now going to miss out the rest of the week's pay.
Lying gits :mad::mad:

Ps- hiya bubbs (mum:D) hope your settling in back home ok x

Hello
Thats a bit naughty of them, but to be smoking in someone else's home let alone bedroom is :eek::eek:
Yes nice to sit in recliner :T:T

Munqui

Tinyshoes wrote: »

First layer

Tinyshoes wrote: »

2nd Layer. :T

Tinyshoes wrote: »

And finally the bottom layer. :beer:



Two disappointing things. That tiny jar of pretzels that will be gone in one mouthful if Mr TS gets hold of them. :eek:

And the Prosecco is a screw top. :huh:

:T

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas :xmassmile

bubbs

Munqui , is dw ok now?

Savvybuyer

:hello:There's not as much change in M as I expected today. I've still got over a page of new information to check though. With me not originally going to bother, I forgot to take my sheets of paper with me:(. I had to write on my printed copy of my list, which is now a bit of a mess.

M have decided to have a "price crunch" and are now using yellow offer labels - just hope the price collectors can deal with yellow:rotfl:. It seems a bit of a strange choice to me - gone are the red background price tickets that people commonly associate with an offer but maybe they are trying to use some warm, comforting yellow as that's associated with M themselves and perhaps they're using yellow to suggest the "everyday low prices" thing (but which often sees people paying high prices). The new labelling has caused my main store to show some offers that they weren't showing before (that I only got from another M:(), so it looks like they've got more of them showing now. I wonder how long it will last:rotfl:. However, they still haven't got all of the mbuy offers up:(, as I found my second store showed some that the first was still missing.

Sadly quite a few of what might have been "good" items have not been comparing on the APG recently. 1Kg carrots 47p in M - have not been comparing to M for some time:(. I doubt they will pick this up and compare. 200g 'fresh' kippers, straight 93p, they didn't compare last time I saw them on the APG:(. The loose garlic, now 11p:D in M, not been comparing on the APG for quite some time:(. The 335g Broccoli is 38p though (that might be picked but we need to wait) and the Tenderheart Cabbage may become good (currently it will be 77p for M I suspect:().

So there are some price reductions in M, including several in the 'fresh' veg. area - however, there have been better prices elsewhere on a few of the items or are currently better prices elsewhere. Also, M has seemed rather pricey on fresh veg. for a while, so all that's about is bringing some of the prices back down - some of them, like the Sweetheart Cabbage, are better than they were before (now 43p rather than previous 49p) but some, such as the Plums that have been already 50p in A, have come down in M but would have quite a bit more to fall before they became any good! Also, don't of course think that all prices have come down - loose turnips, were 50p/kg, now £1.48/kg:eek:!:rotfl:

Whilst M would of course highlight the prices that have fallen, in order to try to have people buy them, I will probably mention prices that have increased.

As some prices come down (and some by not nearly enough), others of course go up. To some extent, it is also the "price crunch" where you could end up paying more than you would sometime before. I wasn't happy to see the Daz Regular 40 wash washing powder. It was £4 only a few weeks ago (which is the 'good' offer price). Then it shot up to £9:eek: - higher than I've ever seen before! There may have been a reason for that - now showing crossed out £9 and currently £8! Nothing like getting people to pay double the cost of any 'proper' offer (IMO) by thinking the price has been cut by a pound. In order to do that, it rose by £5! So, that's a net £4 loss in my book. £8 offer 'crunched' price is what would previously have been full price for this product. Maybe the clue is there though, as the 'crunch' logo, a pound sign on a yellow background which has quite a small piece missing maybe rather than half of it now being there! So, clearly, it's nothing like a half price offer. It was what was full price immediately before that £4 offer went on a bit ago.

We have the Typhoo Tea 240 bags that is now £3.43 with crossed out £4.87. No good I thought:rotfl: - my price is £2.49 or lower, so that £3.43 price would see you paying nearly a pound above what an alright offer should be!

I didn't go for the Mars Funsize bags either. Just a 14p deduction on them:(, from v.high price of £2.76 to still ridiculous (IMO) £2.62! Don't be thinking that's any good - were on £1 offer towards the end of last year!

I don't like the new price on the (frozen) BE Crispy Bites. They were £2, and then 2 for £4. Now they are crossed out £2.99 and £2.25:eek:! Another individual price cut (achieved by a rise from £2 to £2.99 in order to put no-saving 2 for £4 on before) that costs more than the individual price of the item did before all these changes!

They also have the McVities Milk Chocolate Digestives (jumbo 500g pack). They were £1 offer, then the individual price shot up and they went onto a 2 for £3 mbuy that cost more than the immediate previous price. Now, that £2.27 individual price has gone 'down' to a straight £2:eek:! Thus the 27p price 'crunch' would see people paying double the cost of the £1 of before! One of my stores has also swapped the packets around. The 500g were nearly on the floor when they were £1 offer before - to be fair, some packets were also out a bit more prominently with the offer on them. Then, however, on the biscuits shelving, it was the 300g at poor £1 at eye level (same price for them as 200g more!). Now, they've moved the 300g packs, which are on that very expensive £1 offer price that people like to go for (certainly in the light of 500g previously being available for same £1). They are now on the bottom shelf (fortunately at least they are on £1 in M - and not their higher price - given how often people like to buy these small packets at £1 on eye-level in A). Instead, it seems M now wants people to buy the 500g packets at £2! They are now eye-level where the 300g used to be:rotfl:. And, well M might like people to buy 500g at £2 (doubled price compared to £1 of some time ago) - at £2, they work out even more expensive than the 300g packs at £1! The ones on the very bottom shelf - you really do have to reach high and low - are now better value - but, even then, £1 for 300g is very high cost. I'm on SP Chocolate Digestives:rotfl:.

I'm also moving away from the M Fruit Shortcake (200g) - was 34p for a while on 'everyday low' price - surely that must have been too high if they could maintain that for as long as they did?:think: - and then :(joined a new 2 for 70p offer. I now prefer Hill's Biscuits Fruit Shortcakes (250g) on same 2 for 70p offer! That 50g more per packet really does, I suspect, make a lot of difference in the price by weight and is clearly better than the price by weight on the own label Fruit Shortcakes when it was that previous 34p price! In fact, the larger Hill's packet in M on the mbuy is better price by weight than A Fruit Shortcakes with 10% cheaper would be compared to the 200g M own brand item.

There will be more later - there are some changes in the frozen food area - the BM Dinosaurs and Turkey Drummers are off in M so last chance for now - the Sunshine and Farmhouse Mixes have gone from £1 to 2 for £3 of course and the older Linda McCartney and Aunt Bessie's desserts offers are off, but the ones that went onto offer more recently are still on, the frozen Quorns non-RTC offers (I mean the £1 prices and the like) have changed although the Steak Strips are apparently still 97p (APG had 96p quite a while ago) but completely OOS in M. I don't think they'll work, even if that errant SEL remains ceaselessly for me. I also think the AB Roast Potatoes (1.5Kg) is currently at its best - it may continue but it is also quite likely to go N/A at some point. I think the current data (Monday not yet updated) is best - I do think this now risks going N/A so I would not shop after a new update. I think the SP 300g 'fresh' Cottage Pies and the like are also going to start going N/A now, if they have not done so already. M is now 400g for 93p.

The frozen Casserole Veg. is now 87p in M. The Ironing Water has also gone down to a price that is worth me taking notice of. The Pure Sunflower Spread etc., has :(gone down to a further price better than the current £1 one on my list. Paying too much before again:(. Now 94p! Utterly Butterly 500g is now 73p in M however (has been 60p a while ago, but was quite some time ago).

The Holland's 'fresh' individual pies will be off soon I think. So too the Yazoo smoothies on Tvs M. However, the flavoured 1L own brand milks - but not the Vanilla - may move to straight £1 M price and the SP UHT Milk may start to pick up new 48p for M. M has been quite pricey on its equivalent for a while, but now 1p cheaper than T. This will need waiting for an update to happen first.

The Cathedral cheese, hopefully, will continue. They are now on 2 for £4 until 3rd February in M. One of my stores does not show the mbuy on the main shelf however (but this is just my store) but the other store I went to - there was no issue there. I hope that they will continue to pick up the M mbuy - although, even if they got individual price of £3 x2, that would still work out better than straight £2 price - although obviously not as good as they should (or shouldn't!) be. I am liking it if the offer is on on 3rd February, for that is the Wednesday price collection date and, if the offer is on then and is picked up, they will last for longer than a further week from now!

Turkey Mince Thigh (500g) is still 2 for £4 in M.

I am struggling with a few items this time, although "struggling" is probably putting it too highly - I'm not really struggling at all - however the NYCs are not clear to me if they are all versions or only some of them. I have only one showing an offer in one store and only two others (though an offer label refers to further ones) showing in another store. Many, in both stores, are showing full price SEL. The additional versions referred to on the label do not cover all the versions that the stores have. So, I don't know if they are all on offer or not. I will look at msm/m.com but, if I'm having 'problems' maybe it won't look good for the APG. However they might have stores that have completely changed all SELs to show £1 and absolutely no issue if only I had been in one of those Ms!

Also I didn't know whether the Muller Bliss Corners were still £1 or not. The first store, for me, had just the Lemon version now at £1 - all the rest at full price. Now, does that mean they are all still £1 or is it just Lemon or has the offer ended?:think: The other store has all of them showing full price. I assume the offer has ended (the Greek Corners that were on are still on) but will confirm with msm/m.com.

Of course, I could just go from one M to another to another to another to another all day and never be able to do 500 Ms in one day and still be getting new items from each! It's possible I would still not have a clue what price the items were at even after another store, with yet more contradictory information showing on the SELs, and then another store may (or may not) help. I will stop here as I am happy enough with what I have got: though two stores will miss a lot and I will make assumptions and good guesses! The 'fresh' fishcakes are now £1.50 SEL in both my stores, however they still have the price of £1 on the packs - if that is reflected generally in M, then they might continue to work.

The Tiger Baguette has gone from 50p to :(2 for £1 again, so, yet again, no saving. And the Tiger Rolls that didn't compare have gone up in price in M anyway (though whoopsies may be cheaper than the previous 50p offer price). The 4 pack Hot Cross Buns (should have been getting 6 pack in 2s vs T?) have gone from Any 2 for £1 to 50p each in M, so two packs still cost the same as before. The Bernard Matthews Wafer Thin Turkey Ham (250g) is £1 in M but I think I'm right in saying the product has not always been picked up for M by the APG.

The £1 Taste Inc. products are off in M - guess what, joining the rest now, on 2 for £3!

A bit more, on the list itself, later. Salad Onions now 44p. It goes on and on. The Masking Tape has gone down as well, to 87p from the £1 high price currently on my list:eek::(:rotfl:!

Sunshinemummy

I saw this and thought it was rather good!

Munqui

henlans wrote: »

You are on fire today!! And yes.. stupid me lost my card but then again.. I did get a golden in november and spent over £10k on it..

So quite happy you got a lot of stuff for free lol

I'll bet those Golden Tickets make the chocolate taste terrible. :rotfl: