Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Picasso7

silvercar wrote: »

What will happen to shopping trolleys? I always keep a £1 coin in the car ready to use.

We will have to use Euros!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Enterprise_1701C

I nearly went into shock today. Went into Pizza Express to redeem my pizza and five lots of doughballs. I can't believe they can get away with charging what they do, the pizza I chose was £11.65 worth and was the size of the ones I normally get from Lidl for £1.79 for two, and the doughballs, £3.95 for 8 doughballs and a tub of butter :eek:

hornetgirl

Hope everyone doing frugal January is off to a good start. I'm kind of doing it, but rather than than setting myself a £ target, I'm aiming to spend as little as possible and focus instead on using up what we have. Some of the weird and wonderful stuff in our cupboards has been there for far too long. Also doing dry January as of yesterday.
I've been doing the final reckonings for last year's grocery spend and we've come in at an average of £73.04 per month. I'm very pleased with this as it includes our annual purchase of half a lamb and rather too much wine.
For comparison, 2013 was £91.87 and it's gone down each year since then, although I think I'll struggle to get it much lower now.

Enterprise_1701C

Picasso7 wrote: »

We will have to use Euros!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I personally have a lifetime stock of the trolley coins, keep getting given them by various businesses lol

Serendipitious

Anon wrote: »

Wel done - you have missed some flattest free items if you have taken that long NG to hit the £20 to free withdrawal.

That said, I have decided I will factor time and fuel into whether I chase after glitches and cashback offers this year as it is possible to spend a lot of time looking round for items that may be better spent on other activities like family :A.

Anon

I always have to take this into account

I pass a big A two days a week and twice at the weekend, but I never feel much like braving the weekend crush, so it's those two weekdays or nothing.

Everything else (T and M) would mean a special 12 mile round trip in the wrong direction for anything else and on notoriously busy routes, so they are very rare visits, and we have no W.

bubbs

silvercar wrote: »

What will happen to shopping trolleys? I always keep a £1 coin in the car ready to use.

Everything has to be changed, so the key fobs will be no good either:(

Sunshinemummy

hornetgirl wrote: »

Hope everyone doing frugal January is off to a good start. I'm kind of doing it, but rather than than setting myself a £ target, I'm aiming to spend as little as possible and focus instead on using up what we have. Some of the weird and wonderful stuff in our cupboards has been there for far too long. Also doing dry January as of yesterday.
I've been doing the final reckonings for last year's grocery spend and we've come in at an average of £73.04 per month. I'm very pleased with this as it includes our annual purchase of half a lamb and rather too much wine.
For comparison, 2013 was £91.87 and it's gone down each year since then, although I think I'll struggle to get it much lower now.

£73.04... that is really impressively low amount x

bubbs

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I personally have a lifetime stock of the trolley coins, keep getting given them by various businesses lol

they wil be no good either:(

miss_corerupted

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

£73.04... that is really impressively low amount x

It is super low. Mine has crept up and was £380 last month :embarasse

rose28454

Interesting day at work. Went in this morning feeling a little low about the job and when I picked up my work from bosses filing tray there was a letter from the accountant regarding his recent visit concerning this year's accounts. It said the girl who audits my bookkeeping will come down in March before year end to give me some new codes etc to use. ( thats ok will help me) Then there was a paragraph about me putting items in the cash account by mistake ( cause apparently I dont know where to put them - wrong I put them there as boss used his own money ). Then it said did I understand VAT as there was is some different way of charging VAT on used cars.
The letter made me sound like an idiot and as I previously mentioned I do the books the way he tells me to. I re read it a couple of times and thought to myself do I really want all this hassle. Then I popped into his office and closed the door and asked to have a word about the letter and he was mystified by what I meant. I said it seemed like I wasnt doing my job properly and implied he wasnt happy with me. He just said if he was unhappy with my work I would know and the letter was just the accountants way of making his point that the boss runs his company his way and not the way accountants want him too.
He said its their way of covering themselves in case there were a vat or tax inspection.
I used the chat as an excuse to open discussions about my rate going up and we are going to talk about it next week.
Feel much better about work now and DD is ill with flu and he is really good about me working to suit myself so he told me to not come in tommorow but make up my hours later in the week.
So good result will report back about the pay rise next week.