Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

TrulyMadly

Emerald:eek::eek:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5fOVXndyjAo

TrulyMadly

bubbs wrote: »

Hello TM :wave:

Helloooooooooo:)

Sarahdol75

Thanks everyone for the kind wishes, it's blooming horrible, want to go out but just can't risk it. Friday better hurry up!!!!!!!

mhoc

I've been AWOL for most of the day, firstly the garden has started to look messy again so I started shuffling things about to clean up until it started deluging yet again.

Then I started on the under stairs cupboard, heaved everything out firstly. There was a little set of 4 plastic drawers which I dissembled and the contents went into the tall set of plastic drawers - two sets together so 8 drawers in all. I had a few hair styling things which I'd already got a drawer for and 2 drawers full of hand wash mostly from the time we were getting it free.
spo the 8 drawers now each have a purpose.

The now empty little set of 4 drawers has gone into the boys room very neatly and eventually someone will have a flat and need storage for a bathroom.

Then OH shredded down my jiffy bag and random cardboard box collection and the bubble wrap collection - very rarely ebay these days. I used to just ram boxes and bubble wrap into the back of the cupboard thinking it would get used but it never did.

The odds and ends for ebaying went onto a bookshelf in eldest childs bedroom so if I do start ebaying at least its all together.

All of the various versions of cat food is now accessible on 2 shelves and I've got room for more - I wish I'd got the 14p sachets from Sada on sunday now. Only one shelf of spare human food mostly Barilla but now I also have space for my basket with my herb and spice collection.

I've now got just 3 wine boxes left - sparkling, red and white, all posh stuff - I need to do an inventory on another wet day. And 3 more boxes of various ciders including a box of free cidres - so 6 boxes stacked neatly

we took 2 baskets of plastics to the recycling, a cloth bag for the Oxfam clothing bank and I parted with 2 coats - one was my long maxi brown next coat I was very much attached to and I would have worn again but sadly one pocket lining is torn as is the inside lining, I literally wore it to destruction so now was the time for it to go. Plus another bag of stuff for the charity shop - like an idiot I left that on the table when we went out so that will have to do for when we take the bric a brac box into the charity shop.
Also there was a basket of old random DVDs which was hidden away untouched so most of those have gone into the charity pile.

So I've not shifted much volume of stuff but I've got numerous bags for the charity shop and things have been redistributed into a more logical position and are more accessible now, you can get under the stairs and find the cat food, get in the plastic drawers for whatever toiletry item you need, know what box now to look at for wine or cider, can get to the pasta and the herbs easily ...

just have to tackle todays To Do list now

Savvybuyer

This

Kiltie Scampi Bites (220g)



[Strike]£3.00[/Strike] £1.00 45.5p / 100g Valid until 04/09/2016

• 
  ---
• 
  ---
• 
  ---
• 
  ---

has gone so often from £3 to £1 and back again that I notice that, whilst it's still at £3 slightly more than it is at £1, according to the msm price graph, the percentage difference from the average has been slowly decreasing on msm:rotfl:. Of course, it seems like you're saving £2, or paying only a third of the full price, however when it's regularly on £1 offer, the saving really isn't that much. Last time it was on offer, I noticed that msm said said something like the price is 60 or 70% below average, now I notice it says only 57%. It's been on offer too much that M is starting to undermine its average price value:rotfl:. Or just buy Ross Scampi Bites in Iceland at £1 whenever M is not on £1 price on Kiltie, as an alternative, as Ross in Iceland appear to be constantly at £1 price. So, it seems no need to rush and no need to worry about grabbing a £1 price as an alternative at the same price will be available elsewhere or it will soon enough come back around.

We can all certainly avoid buying when it goes back to £3 - I don't know anyone who would buy it at that price and it seems to me totally silly that anyone ever could do (why would you lose £2 cash?). I think this sort of thing, more seriously though, is what's happened on things like the 1Kg carrots price in M. They were of course 28p in M around Easter but, although they've come back to 60p since (and M has been much higher price on its veg. than A, Lidl or Aldi - M Broccoli for instance still at 60p nowadays:eek:), the carrots pack, at one brief point, went up to 87p. I think there was a plan there - I'm sure there was (as everything in a supermarket is at a specific price for some reason)! - namely that people who regularly shopped at M - and most people, in general, are creatures of habit who simply shop at the same place, their nearest store, every time - they are not ourselves, the Elite minority, would maybe feel good about getting the carrots at 28p at Easter. But then, later, they would run out of carrots and - making no planning once again, not like us, and just getting whatever they need when they've ran out - would simply pay whatever price carrots were in M whenever they needed them (and regardless of whether, unknown to them, they could have been cheaper elsewhere). So they would have paid 28p at Easter and 87p on one week some time later. In other words... 28p + 87p = £1.15, divided by 2 = 57.5p, so not much saving at all on the now regular price of 60p (and roughly the same as they were between Easter and 87p). So, the customer has simply undermined their own offer purchase earlier and paid M, in total for the two packs, roughly the same amount. So, they may as well not have been on offer in Easter and M has funded its Easter offer by charging much more for them ever since.

TrulyMadly

Sorry to hear you are under the weather Sarah

TrulyMadly

Anyone been to TK Maxx lately?

I paid a lunchtime visit and for once I was pleasantly surprised. It looked nothing like its usual jumble sale mess. Got a couple of Italian made pure silk tops and this nightshirt. Thought Di might like the pattern:)

TrulyMadly

Steak and home made chips for tea with peas out of the garden.

Off to do some podding:rotfl:

TrulyMadly

Forgot to say....following on from our successful call to Admiral last night and their very kind offer to more than halve our car insurance on the renewal of our second car at the end of the year, just had an email from npower to say that our bill is going down £10 a month from next month:T:T I love looking at the graphs they produce and how our energy consumption changes month by month compared to last year.

We were trying to figure out how and why our electricity consumption fell by nearly half in February this year compared to last and realised that Mr TM was away cycling for 2 weeks.....no TV.....I don't watch it much, no long hot showers etc, no charging up all his gadgets:rotfl::rotfl:

It proves that I'm very cheap to keep:rotfl:

mhoc

Anon wrote: »

N3ctar offer alert

Just to note the offer for 2x Vue tickets or 2x pizza from Pizza Exp vouchers for 1000 points promo ends today - you have until 30 September to use them once you order the vouchers.

Hth

Anon

Just got codes for two meals with both accounts so fingers crossed we go somewhere nice in September

I noticed a lot of offers finishing either today or tomorrow so maybe there will be new good nectar offers on Thursday