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Picasso7

G'night all.

hampydoodums

Quick last post before I hop into bed, one for you DM. Nice cheap Crimbo themed t-shirts, thanks to Hukd. All sizes seem to be in stock for £5. Others in post in link

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/simpsons-doh-ho-ho-xmas-tshirt-s-xxxl-was-8-5-tesco-direct-2574213

vanilla_twist

matty17r wrote: »

Free calenders on In the Nightgarden website live - sorry dont know how to post links. Lovely freebie.

I take it they don't want nearly £5 in postage like last year then. If so I will go and have a look:T

V x

altojack

Westvleteren wrote: »

No, m'lord! :eek:

Still intact.......



Stunning photo shoot Westie, fabulous. I wish I'd seen this earlier I would have opened it and had a sip or two:eek: sorry, meant a glass or two. Doesn't go well with this extra tablet I have to take though . Tipsy after 2 :rotfl: :rotfl:

Far from perfect, but it'll do me as it drove me absolutely batty doing it. If you ever watch youtube tutorials on lighting bottles they usually have 6 to 8 lights, all levels of diffusion and honeycombs etc.....I had two speed lights :rotfl::rotfl: Currently "floating" but i'll ground it tomorrow.

Up to no good no doubt ;):D

Oooops, I've posted inside your post Snap

HZA

juju17 wrote: »

HZA...ooo I wonder if you are near to me...as Kent is quite a big county. My nearest JL would be Bluewater, and that is a 20 minute drive away.
I was hoping that someone was going to reply about the babybels, as I was intending to buy them today as well.....if I get to A I might just buy them anyway, and pay with APG's....they are £1.38 in W according to msm

Juju, I'm also about 20 minute drive from Bluewater although hubby insists it's a 15 minute drive!:o

cloz wrote: »

Another person from Kent here :j
I hope i get one of these through from JL this week, taking the children to London to see the lights at the weekend so these would be an added bonus :T

Hello!:wave:

Anon

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Is it worth emailing McDonald's?

Are you the only one waiting Braveheart?

No, I am still waiting too.

Anon

Savvybuyer

I'm back! I have been back for a while, via various household tasks first, and - as an edit - I now notice it's taken me nearly two hours to write this post:eek: (I wonder whether it takes you two hours to read it:rotfl:).

You'll be pleased to know that I have got some items back in M (that they had constantly and were never gone), due to me visiting some different stores. Only half were different this time as I don't have the resources to go elsewhere, although I did visit one store that is completely new to me:D. I did actually get more from a store I have visited before but a while ago, including some offers that probably started last week. I'm sorry, it's impossible for me to get everything in M on a single price collection - I would have to visit about 20 stores in one day, which is clearly impossible especially as going to one set, in one part of the country, doesn't allow me to go to others stores needed for the missing items over a hundred miles away. I have still got technically got one item plus one range (different flavours of same brand) that I don't know whether they are on offer again this week - however I got more of what was outstanding from the stores I've visited than I would from the other store many miles away.

The large selection boxes mbuy is off in M - so this is really a race against time now I think if anyone is trying the APG. Just to reassure everyone, you'd have been no good with my stores last week if you bought the Galaxy selection:rotfl:. I had no stores that ever displayed the mbuy for me - one was missing a SEL and another just showed straight price on that one - they were on offer though as I checked. I have checked again now, just in case no mbuys were showing on the shelves and they now scan at straight £3 each:(. I wouldn't worry about Galaxy selection - that was just my stores and who knows what the APG stores had.

The Little Dish are off - or, rather, they are now on an unfavourable offer in M. They were £1.50 but are now 3 for £5. So, now requiring triple purchasing and wanting just over 16p more for each one (in total 50p):wall:. The New Covent Gardens look like they are now £2.

The Christmas tubes are now on 2 for £1.50 in M. As for the chances of that being picked up or not on the APG, I don't know. I had two stores that were just showing straight price. However, they'll probably have like me - more stores showing the offer and there doesn't seem any issue regarding time of day of the price collection as one of my stores fairly early doors had the offer up.

I have noticed a further three frozen food 'Savers' items that have now had price increases - this is in addition to the Savers Fish Fingers that, sadly, I now have more stores showing 65p so I think they are the increased price now in M for the moment. Savers Chicken Livers appear to have gone up to 54p:( (I have to rely on SELs) and Savers Sweetcorn is now showing £1.08:eek:. I think Cheese & Tomato Pizza has gone from 60p to 65p as well. Raspberry Ripple Screwballs are another frozen item that have gone up.

The Bird's Eye Inspirations products have gone up:( as have the Young's Gastro fish:(:( so that may have put paid to a glitch if prices change this week if nowhere other than M was on offer.

I think they have switched around the Johnson & Johnson baby products that are on £1.50 offer, just to try to confuse me. Once again, it didn't work as I simply took down details of what is now showing £1.50 offers for me. The Huggies wipes mbuy has been extended to now be due to expire in January, however some stores had taken the offer off display and were now just showing straight price.

I think Mr T going onto £1 on the standard Pringles has kept M on £1. I now have SELs showing that - my first store was unchanged and still showing the price with OOD expiry date, but I have most other stores with clear new labels. However, supposed price collection store at Wrexham is the only one showing me full price:eek::rotfl:. (It also has the Cadbury's twinpack Fingers showing £1 - elsewhere had them showing £2.48, the £1 offer having expired last week - however, they are not, they are now £1.50 if I go by the new label I have seen elsewhere.)

The Unwashed Potatoes (12.5Kg) are still at their highest £5! However, they may still be on a pretty good deal if you manage to have some on their last day of BB and in effect 'whoopsied' price - even though that price is now likely to be a little higher than before. After we have just had our meals in the last few hours, I now notice we have precisely three potatoes left in that bag I managed to get at £2 (on its last date) a while ago (they last for ages!). I did very well therefore and, yet again, Wrexham coming up trumps with a reduced price for me:rotfl:. I shall have to fit Wrexham in next time we are near the end of our potatoes. I was running about an hour later than I would have liked all day, and it would have worked out better had I been earlier, except that it would not: the potatoes were marked down to £4 but they marked them further down - to £2.50 - whilst I was in the store. I would not have been there had I been on time and may have ended up paying £4:o. However, I did well at £2.50, even though it's now 50p more - it's quite obvious though - pay £2.24 for Aldi's 5Kg potatoes these days or, for 26p more, I get 7.5Kg more:money:. It does make sense - and they now go into the fridge and last for ages.

So, I've now been able to see some items again, including the bigger pack of Matzo Crackers that are now on offer until 1st January. I forgot about the frozen Tuvali vegetables whatever they are called - they are in no other store I've been visiting recently and are they on an offer but the price generally no good for me:eek: and there's also some very specialist Gluten Free Fish Fingers whose details I also didn't take as the price wasn't any good! I've got the Fox's Vinnie Biscuits back, together with a dodgy SEL of £1.50 with no expiry date that I just have to take as read:rotfl:. They probably are still on £1.50 'half price' - it's just when SELs have no expiry I don't know if they have not changed them when they should have done and if the price has gone up. However, I found some other Fox's biscuits tin of a higher weight (not Vinnies) at £1 in Poundstretcher some weeks ago.

The eye-opener, from the 'new' store, was the Savers Air Freshener - and the revelation that M have (at least) two different flavours of Savers Air Freshener, two completely different products (different shape), each at 38p. This would not be news to some people - however the additional version is another product that I have seen - only come across it now - I've never seen it before despite visiting through over 100 different stores before:rotfl:. To be fair, things have settled down a bit - and I don't usually get completely new items that I haven't seen before (unless they are actual new products) from visiting stores now - I usually have seen them somewhere before. I had one though a couple of months back in one faraway store - never knew of it before - and then it turned up the next time I visited my nearest M:rotfl::o:rotfl::rotfl:. (I think it was probably a new item they are stocking - it hadn't been there before.)

The Santa Maria Guacamole Dip/Salsa Squeezy/Soured Cream is no longer on and has flipped onto the OEP Squeezy Guacamole/Chunky Salsa/Cool Soured Cream that are now on offer.

The M Hot Dog Sauce that has long been 50p (it was cheaper than that before and, at one stage, I think was on 26p) has gone up to 65p:(, along with the Garlic Sauce, BBQ Sauce and Burger Sauce. The Chilli Cheese Sauce and the Chipotle BBQ Sauce are apparently still 50p. I have that on the SELs still showing 50p and checked a second store and had the same two showing 50p. Tbh, I was satisfied with that and didn't check beyond that - I already had enough to check in subsequent stores and can't check for literally every item in every store - so I've just checked the two and as both are showing the same ones as being 50p, I assume that's the case.

The Quorn fresh products (Lasagne, Peppered Steaks, Picnic Sausages, Cocktail Sausages) are not on offer any more:( and I think the Quorn frozen products are also back at full price along with the Linda McCartney items. The Bumper Salad Tomatoes, on £1 for a while, that went up to £1.20 last week have now gone up again - to £1.37:eek:. The White Potatoes have also gone up - from £1.25 to £1.76! That's quite a price for White Potatoes and it does seem to me that, after some of these offers end, the offers are in effect being paid for by the prices on them going up quite a bit more! Spring Greens, another gone up, (68p!) as has Broccoli 335g (47p!) (although that was best vs T). However, I think the Apricots punnet, that was ridiculous price last week in my opinion, is now £1.

Also this:

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Morrisons Little Big Baby Delicate Bottoms Nappy Cream (200g)£1.44 and 15p More points until 11/12.

The points appear to have gone but this is now £1.18:rotfl:.

:(If anyone rushed out to beat the ending of the points as it is now cheaper to buy outright straight and without paying more to get 15p of points that are unusable until you have enough points to get a voucher. This should now be the A equivalent vs M. I just hope they do compare RTCs:rotfl:.

I have tried to find an 18 pack version of Magners Cider but, again, had no luck - maybe it just need a few further stores to turn it up if indeed M have it at all. I also can't find R White's Lemonade Lollies anywhere (I will keep looking from now on to see if I get any clue as to what happened to them), although the Oreo, Terry's and Diam Lollies now appear to be off £1 and at full price.

Anyway, there's several other changes, both onto offers and off of them, and I'll update the list whenever I can. I asked, tongue in cheek, for anyone to tell me about the mistakes on my list. Well, I think have found some and there were some mistakes on the list:o:rotfl:. I have the Domestos Turbo blocks on £1 but they have gone up to £2.20. (I think they may well have done so last week but I missed those ones off.) The other one is the Mini Pork Ribs - of course these aren't £2 anymore but have now gone up - and to 2 for £4:wall:. I think I will take them off the list:rotfl:. So, those mistakes that they were probably off last week but, to be fair, with the amount of changes I got last week, I have done very well (and of course I have identified these items as having changed now).

This time I have - I thought it was 6 sides of paper (3 pages) but I see it's 8 sides:eek::eek: - I don't know how I manage to collect so much information:rotfl:. It's not just the (not that many, compared to last week) changes that have happened but also the additional ranges of items (nowadays I am already aware of them!:D) that I didn't have in the other stores before.

The Spooks Ale 500ml is supposedly still 97p. So I think this means that the Wychwood Pumpkin Ale and Witches Brew or whatever it was called - actually I am now doing well - I thought earlier that I've deleted these items straight off the list a couple of weeks ago, after having trouble with them and not finding them again and thinking they were no longer available - of course that's never the case:rotfl: - so I just deleted them off in my struggles and didn't even record them on the lost list:eek:. I thought I would never now know what the other two (which of course I don't have now) were - however, just now, suddenly, my memory:eek::eek: comes to the rescue - it's Pendle's Witches Brew (500ml) isn't it? So, fortunately, I have them retrieved from Savvy's memory, and all three can now go back onto the list. I am thinking my having the Spooks Ale, and showing 97p, means that Wychwood Pumpkin Ale and Pendle's Witches Brew (:idea:that's what it is called!) are each available somewhere at 97p. An incorrect removal - however, I was right to keep some items on the list that I knew would be in the store I visited months ago and have only revisited now:D.

The 400g Chestnuts are £1.78 in M - however I have seen no store displaying this price. Instead, I have one store at (presumed) old offer price of £2 and three stores have gone to £2.97 full price! (The remaining two are no trace as far as I can see.) I think the APG will probably get full price as well, as they'll probably have a similar situation to me. It could always just be my stores but, sometimes, my stores do seem to indicate something more general, that is probably found elsewhere, and I think this situation will probably exist elsewhere. I think stores print off new labels when prices change but sometimes they print them off as full price and not the offer prices. I was going to scan the Chestnuts to check their price at one store but :(forgot to do so and went onto the next store. Only fortunately the next store did have them (this is fortunate as sometimes I have had just one or two stores from six even having anything) and I scanned them at SS in the store, expecting them now to be full price and, surprisingly, they scanned at £1.78:huh: but as I say, none of the stores I saw ever had this price displayed. That's what price they are in M as at yesterday however.

Finally, another reassurance that the price collectors will never miss anything:rotfl:. I had the Tahira frozen Frankfurters last week only on Monday and in a store that I now believe may have had an incorrect full price SEL. (My set of stores on Wednesday managed to be only stores that do not have any of them.) I noticed that they had gone to 75p offer on msm so I think it's either possible that my Monday store, with the £1.13 price, was showing an incorrect full price or I think it's likely that they only went onto offer on Wednesday, when I didn't have a store with them. So I already did add them to the list, even though I never had them instore, as I reckon they would have been on offer on Wednesday. I have them now though. Or, more accurately, I just have the Spicy Frankfurters - that's close enough:rotfl::rotfl::p. Those are, I believe, the version that A doesn't have (it does have the regular version) so, if you are going from my stores this time, you don't get a comparison from me as I've not got the right product. However, I do have the Spicy Frankfurters and they are showing 75p so I've no doubt that the regular Frankfurters are also 75p as is stated online. Just hope the APG have a store with the wider range of M's items in it that has the regular Frankfurters in stock or has not been OOS for too long, rather than my two stores from which they have vanished without trace and the one where I did have the right version last week but showing full price (but, then, it may have been full price on Monday and only gone on offer since)! I tired - I have got Spicy Frankfurters only from my set of six this time:rotfl:. But - that's good enough for what I need to see:cool:.

Just before I go, I'm just laughing now:rotfl:. I've just spend time in every store looking for Cadbury's Fruit & Nut 360g and not found it!:rotfl::rotfl: I thought it was online:o:o when I had an offer that I was going to look for, but I see they've just got CDM 360g online. However, I did have a look to see if they had Fruit & Nut (instore, and instore and instore and instore and instore and instore:rotfl:), but I've not found it - but that doesn't mean anything. At least I was trying beyond online it now seems. However, I have got Galaxy Milk Chocolate 390g at £2 in M*. The Cadbury's bar was 400g several years ago but had a downsize. I've no idea, these days, why people bother - I find SP/Value Milk Chocolates prices are rarely beaten and, even on offers, the branded chocolate bars are, for me these days, expensive! I gave SP a try several years ago (I used only to have the branded ones) and decided SP tasted good enough and have never gone back to Cadbury's or Galaxy ever since:money::rotfl::cool:.

That's it for now - if anyone is rushing out for the large selection boxes...:rotfl:

See you later:wave:.

EDIT: *Yes it is. Well, allegedly. It is still showing (as at the time of writing) £2.50 on msm but is showing £2 on m.com - so that does seem a price change on Monday and thankfully my reliance on one store:eek:, where I just saw that and didn't bother to question it:rotfl:, looks like it was good. I see everything don't I?:rotfl::rotfl: Just turn round and there it is - on my way out of the store:eek::rotfl:.

purpledonkey

braveheart60uk wrote: »

Do I win a prize for this stupid question? Anyone who "won" on Blippar since Friday evening received their prize? I haven't.

I have. I won on Sunday and received the code in the wee hours of Monday. Hope you get your voucher soon

streetlights

Good morning everybody, I hope you are well and have a fabulous Tuesday.
Happy shopping.

elainemn

Good morning