Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

hornetgirl

Evening all
Safely home, Jasmine retrieved and had a long sleep but still exhausted lol. Very grey and wet here but at least it isn't cold.
Just about caught up on all the elite goings on and having checked football results I will also have to stay up for Match of the Day :j Also need to catch up on GBBO but can't do that yet as DH is watching The Blind Side. Thanks to the elite we have Pizza Express in the freezer, so that will feed us for tonight and I'll think about shopping tomorrow.
Love all the cross stitch pictures. The best I ever managed was those binca things (is that what they're called?) in infants school.

Sunshinemummy

HILLBERN wrote: »

that's good...might try and use some when i venture out tomorrow

Remember they are 3 for the price of 2.... so £1 off your shopping!

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Sharwood's Takeaway Pilau Rice (300g)£1.00:( [Strike]77p I now have at 93p RTC?!?:huh: Seems to be going the wrong way to me and now to be more dear:rotfl::(.[/Strike] 58p No, it's gone even cheaper:rotfl:. However, this is after a long period of no trace myself and now eventually finding it in one M - it seems it's now already long at its least likely to work on the APG as it's probably gone from the collection stores.
Sharwood's Takeaway Egg Fried Rice (300g)£1.00:( 97p I think these Sharwood's RTCs are risky now - I'm sure they'll still be in some stores out of 500, however I am having no luck for now and just depends which stores they visit (likely to have gone from most of them). I suspect this Sharwood's is now also cheaper than 97p. Unfortunately I have yet to find it again - the APG could have this and not the Pilau Rice:rotfl:; however I think it very unlikely to have either. I have only Pilau Rice, after many stores of no trace, and I think they are in very few places now.

After all my faffing around with the Sharwood's products, at one stage getting a higher priced SEL that suggested one had gone back up, and me losing the products for such a long time that I almost moved them to the 'lost list', it now turns out that at least one of these has gone down further in price. (I suspect I may well have moved completely unrelated products to the 'lost list' that have actually gone down much further simply because I haven't visited a store that didn't clear them so, keep looking on the lost list for items in your store that may have gone down even more.) I apologise for probably my delay: these Sharwood's products could well have gone down some time ago, after I lost them completely (and I'm still missing the Egg Fried Rice - it's going to be somewhere that didn't clear it or hasn't changed its SEL or has changed it very late).

Unfortunately, whilst the products were around a lot more before and the APG might have picked up the higher RTC price at the outset, as usual they go cheaper in the fewer places that still have them left. They probably lost them at around the same time as me. It means the best prices on RTCs in M are the least likely to be picked up by the APG. I've lost the items and had no trace of them from lots of stores before and it seems they are likely to have gone from the collection stores by now. It's taken me months to find one of them again, finally visiting one store that has any indication of it (to make me aware it's gone even lower) - the number of stores I've visited of nothing in between (after they cleared out of most and then all of them for me), and just the one hit now, is probably about as many as the Princes Red Salmon, that took me 24 stores to find - and the difference was I was then actively going out trying to find it - by then of course it was no trace on the APG as, although it was in some people's stores, it wasn't in many of them by that stage (of the best price) at all - sadly the higher RTC prices were enough to clear them out of most stores.

Tbh, I'd stopped looking for the Sharwood's items in my stores. I just left them unchanged on the list week after week, assuming that they would still be around somewhere else each time and at unchanged price. However, as you can see, I never forget about them if I do see them again! I wasn't looking specifically for them but they came in front of me and I've now got an even lower SEL but, by now, in one store only and nothing everywhere else (only having more and more stores has finally found it).

It does now seem like the APG lost the Princes Red Salmon, that months ago, at the same time as I did - I then had to go out to further stores in order to find it again (whilst people here were saying it was in their store but I had nothing from over a dozen places, probably twice as many as the APG is probably confined to - the APG I imagine can't go out to pick it up once again from somewhere else! Indeed, if they have no stock in their stores, they are supposed to go N/A after 7 days - yet the SEL and no stock usually means it is continuing in stock somewhere else (I often have stock later in other stores that was pointed to by a SEL and OOS from an earlier store and find that stock elsewhere far beyond 7 days later) and M in total never truly goes OOS).

bargainqueen8

emerald21 wrote: »

They need to be on show not hidden away after all the effort that goes into them.

thankyou emerald hope your mouth is feeling better.thanks to MKS,bubbs,logie and anyone else who commented on my basic needlework skills..
ssm now is the time to ask your oh for anything you may want.:D:rotfl:

Sunshinemummy

bargainqueen8 wrote: »

thankyou emerald hope your mouth is feeling better.thanks to MKS,bubbs,logie and anyone else who commented on my basic needlework skills..
ssm now is the time to ask your oh for anything you may want.:D:rotfl:

Not sure he can fulfil what I want whilst watching TV!

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

bargainqueen8

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

Not sure he can fulfil what I want whilst watching TV!

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

you seem like the type of woman who likes a challange and the window of opportunity is getting smaller.:rotfl::rotfl:

bubbs

Welcome home HG

Sunshinemummy

bargainqueen8 wrote: »

you seem like the type of woman who likes a challange and the window of opportunity is getting smaller.:rotfl::rotfl:

I am thinking very similar............ I am going to sneak out of the house and go to Waities.... I wonder if he will notice me missing!

bargainqueen8

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

I am thinking very similar............ I am going to sneak out of the house and go to Waities.... I wonder if he will notice me missing!

its half time so maybe.

Anon

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Anon