Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

LEJC

mhoc wrote: »

I am nearly as bad - shall we start a list of people with their daily spends on excel charts?

I started doing a daily spends excel chart to make me concentrate on the drip drip effect of spending small amounts most days and also to give some explanation as to why the credit card bill which should in theory be no more than about £400 a month including petrol is usually over £600 - always something extra like vets, cattery, OHs boots, coal bill or meals out of something needing mending, fixing or replacing ....
I also find it quite calming to see the rows of figures - this is quite mad, my guilty pleasure :rotfl:

See I'm the other way...I dont list expenditure I list income...

I have a lovely document that lists all my freebies,vouchers in,trials and free cinema tickets....I aim for a collective value of £200 per month...some months are better than others and some years have been better than others .....
I used to love to list penny items at T but that column has been blank now for over a year....
The credit card bill is a chore ...and maybe this frugal stuff will change me to take more time to investigate the contents with the same enthusiasm I have for what comes in.

Nannylala

bubbs wrote: »

Hello Nanny
Well done:T
How is you brothers DGS?
Well done thos that managed to get BI:T:T

Good afternoon Bubbs..little one has had his cast put on and obviously had to go to theatre and is still sedated so nice to know it has been done...thankyou for asking x

mhoc

OH says we are nearing a loo paper crisis :eek:

Yes I do let him be in charge of areas of household management that he is capable of being in charge of

I cant remember how much the Nicky loo paper is from Farm Foods or Home bargains - does anyone know pretty please?

Otherwise I was thinking of doing a Wilko order where its 18 for £3 (16p a roll roughly) but that involves going into town and parking up or collecting from the next nearest town - not that its likely that I am going to get a better offer between now and Saturday anyway

http://www.wilko.com/toilet-paper+tissues/wilko-embossed-toilet-tissue-18pk/invt/0351809

Serendipitious

Nannylala wrote: »

Good afternoon Bubbs..little one has had his cast put on and obviously had to go to theatre and is still sedated so nice to know it has been done...thankyou for asking x

Oh bless him. What a nasty shock for one so young.

Mind you, I bet in a week or so he will be doing more in that cast than anyone could ever imagine...

Serendipitious

Nicky loo roll is £2 for 9 at HB and FF, or 18 for £3.99.

And it is the best loo roll imaginable. I came across it whilst visiting someone and have bought it ever since, and DD also only has that now and nothing else.

I tried some Andrex at a friend's and was appalled at how flimsy it was in comparison, so have made another convert.

mhoc

LEJC wrote: »

See I'm the other way...I dont list expenditure I list income...

I have a lovely document that lists all my freebies,vouchers in,trials and free cinema tickets....I aim for a collective value of £200 per month...some months are better than others and some years have been better than others .....
I used to love to list penny items at T but that column has been blank now for over a year....
The credit card bill is a chore ...and maybe this frugal stuff will change me to take more time to investigate the contents with the same enthusiasm I have for what comes in.

Sadly the volume of freebies and MOCs and various offers has dwindled of late, it used to figure on my charts but not now.

We used to get film preview tickets about half a dozen times a year but now its not even once a year. Our nearest Vue is either Cheshire oaks or Newcastle, both a long drive. Odd times Odeon Hanley appears on the preview lists - the last time we had tickets was for A Royal Night out :eek:

I do the occasional Try Me free offers and quite a bit of cashbacks and that's about it now.

mhoc

Serendipitious wrote: »

This is very true - I find wombles fascinating, mostly because of the sheer amount of carp on some of them, I've often read through wombles posted on here and wondered 'but where is the real food?'

It seems especially true of the high-spend wombles.

The current trend seems to be putting things in individual packs and pots, eg jelly pots, sachets of porage, snackpots etc, and then charging well over quadruple for the item it contains. The manufacturers must be having a real laugh - sell them less and charge them more...

aldi receipts are really interesting - sometimes if you looked at the list of items you would swear it was a list for someone shopping in Waitrose by the number of high quality aspirational food items on it.
Mind you I have a selection of Aldi stores - one in a higher income sector, one middling and one rough and ready so examining the receipts is really interesting.
some peoples choices are mind boggling - why buy bananas individually rather than a big bunch?

LEJC

mhoc wrote: »

some peoples choices are mind boggling - why buy bananas individually rather than a big bunch?

A question I can answer....simply because I posed it to DS the other week during one of our phone calls...

Apparently he buys a banana to eat on the way to uni each morning from the fruit stall down the road...why....that was the point he went a bit coy....I think he fancies the girl running the stall...

Costs him 20p a day...but at least its one of his 5 a day!

lookinforabargain

3 free bottles of Blind Pig cider on Shopmium

mhoc

Serendipitious wrote: »

To me grocery includes household (loo roll/laundry/cleaning) and all forms of toiletries.

My other categories would only be
a) petrol and
b) discretionary spends like holidays/gifts/clothing/leisure and entertainment.

I think a 'Discretionary December' account would be fun to read, not to be frugal but just to see what actually gets spent on the higher-end range of things. (Well, it would be fun for me to read, as I don't have the funds to do that much discretionary spending, so it would be interesting to see what I'm missing!)

Is anyone else checking emails at 2 minute intervals for Bella? :rotfl:

I've got
human food
cat food (and wildbird food as well)
drinks (alcoholic)
toiletry/beauty
meds
house/garden (that's things like bleach, loo paper but also garden bulbs)
parking
stamps
misc ( this is actually the chocolate and crisp illicit spends

meds is usually just the odd pain killer and mostly I am using up toiletries/beauty/cleaners/laundry from the stockpiles so its only the odd good sale/reduced/glitch item that I buy.

Petrol I don't include in the general day to day spends as mostly the cars just get filled up once a month unless we are on a long drive or I've got a petrol till spit to use so not a lot of variation in the petrol bill each month