Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Arthien

Afternoon all!

Saw the Mail Turkey offer is back. Is there a way of getting cheap/free papers? I know some people get newspapers in Waitrose but I don't have a card yet and the whole thing confuses me to be honest I also only have access to Waitrose on weekdays from work, but would I need to get some weekend papers in order to have enough points? Any help gratefully received as both my parents and my in-laws are on extremely tight Christmas budgets this year, and I don't wish to pay for a turkey myself if I don't have to

curl_girl

Afternoon Peeps.

Hope all are well.
Wanted to wish Poppy a Happy Birthday, woof, woof xx
Hope tweets and Poppy enjoy their day.

off to catch up....

aau1

Arthien wrote: »

Afternoon all!

Saw the Mail Turkey offer is back. Is there a way of getting cheap/free papers? I know some people get newspapers in Waitrose but I don't have a card yet and the whole thing confuses me to be honest I also only have access to Waitrose on weekdays from work, but would I need to get some weekend papers in order to have enough points? Any help gratefully received as both my parents and my in-laws are on extremely tight Christmas budgets this year, and I don't wish to pay for a turkey myself if I don't have to

You need 16 papers from between 1st October and 4th December as well as 2000 points which you have to cash in by 8th December at the latest

If you bought every weekday paper from today to the 8th December you would have exactly 2,000 points. But that's 50 papers and you couldn't miss any at all

Unless you have points in a mail account already you're going to need codes from some weekend papers

edit: regarding free/cheap papers there are always coffee shops to scour, hipp MOC overage to take advantage of or you could answer the 1 in 3 multiple choice question every Sunday if you say your code is illegible. Some people even just take the codes from the papers on the newspaper stand without buying the paper at all

Sad_Dad

mhoc wrote: »

I did start a switch with HSBC about 3 weeks ago but it has dragged on so long now I think I am going to cancel.

Firstly they said I would get a call within 3 days which never happened and then finally a letter arrived with just standard info and then finally another to say id been accepted.

Then last week I had a letter asking for my signature which I sent off

Today I had a letter to say if I'd not sent off the documents required they would assume I was not interested and cancel - what documents? They only asked for a signature

so now I just give up and if anything else arrives I will ring them

Afternoon All,

Just popping in to mention that the same thing happened to me a few months ago when trying to switch an account to HSBC. They took ages with everything and my incentive was never paid.

Any dealings I had with them were always a pain. I applied for their credit card this week, got a message online to ring them, spent an hour on the phone passed from person to person and was then told to go into my local branch with my Santander bank statements as that is my main bank.

I've given up on them and got a new card with Lloyds, approved all online within a day.

Will be switching from HSBC to Nationwide FlexDirect to try and get the £200 recommend a friend for me and Sad_Mum.

Cheers,
Sad_Dad

ROCKINGHAM

Whizzing by to say Happy Birthday Poppy - hope you get everything you woof for! 🎂

Hope all is well with everyone x

tweets

Good Afternoon :wave:

Poppy says thanks for her birthday wishes woof woof

She celebrating now by chewing up a toy dog ring from Tesco cost £1 lasts about 35 minutes then its in little pieces on the floor :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

For her tea tonight she got chicken instead of her normal dog food

For afters will share a bag PomBears with her mum.

LEJC

So I am now ready for frugal October...

I admit that I have done a basics shop this morning spending £15 but that is more to do with needing to replace the entire contents of the fridge freezer,,,so I have really started with milk,bread,cheese,eggs,some reduced meat items,veg and a a few treats.....

managed the squidgy soreen bites in A as well as 2 more presidents and am now wondering if I can get away with sending the bottle of wine to DS's halls address.....not that it means I would ever see it....he would no doubt class it as a gift.

Getting into mode it's stir fry for tea tonight instead of the usual takeaway .....so onward to October!

LEJC

A try me free wine if you can find one with a promotional collar...

http://www.trymefree.promo/bluenun/

Little did I realise that last week when I got the bottle of blue stuff with my wine from Twine that it was about to become so popular again...

I vote we bring back the 70's

LEJC

and with the walkers funny flavours promotion I've won a prize...

a bag of crisps....

32.5g or 40g!

every little helps.

I shall be off now before Zippy moves me further up the chatting league table or i'm reported for spamming and 4 posts in row.

emerald21

Happy Birthday Poppy . tweets have you sung Happy Birthday to her