Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

xxlouisexx56

Hi everyone.

Did a CC on Tuesday for sharpies but none in stock.

Asda are still holding the £60 from the shop on my bank account (shop only ended up costing £10)

I want to do another shop but I'd like my money back first.

altojack

mhoc wrote: »

Our eldest went when she was 18 (long story) so she has been gone now a long time but its still called her bedroom even though hell would freeze over before she came back full time - she barely manages to be here more than 2 days at a time
Her room was the first to be revamped when she was at uni.
The boys rooms were only revamped a few years ago but its now called the guest room as we reverted it back into one room - the last thing we would want would be either of them back on a long term basis:).

If things went wrong for them I'd have back in a heart beat until they got back on their feet :cool: that's just me though as we've always been very close as a family even when my parents were alive

3Dogs wrote: »

Awh I see now, I thought it was the chew she was chomping on, but it's the collar with poppies on :j

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: you and me both Susan xx

msgoggins

On the counter of pharmacy in Tosco.

Tray liner sized kids colouring/spot the difference with a tear off 50p coupon for Colgate products in T's only valid to 31/03/17

Was so excited forgot to ask whether they had any pharmacy goodie bags! Are they still doing those?

abailey54

Well the cheese stops multibuy coming off but no dtd given worth a go though- have something nice for my tea at least :j

Savvybuyer

Another update from M: my list is out of date and just so much has changed! To be fair, it probably hasn't - I just noticed a few items that have changed and much of what was on is still on, but M do seem to have taken the opportunity to increase a few prices. That 5L paint I mentioned earlier today is now showing £7:eek:! So the £5 was a lower price:eek::eek::rotfl:. It's off. The Regina Blitz 3 pack kitchen roll (2+1 'free'), which has been mentioned on hotukd, someone apparently got at £2, is now £3. They don't really want you getting kitchen rolls for less than £1 each:(. This could have been an early appearance in one store just before the product got established more widely and they changed the price up to £3! So, well done if anyone managed to buy them a little early.

Also mentioned on hukd was a Baby High Chair at £9 - I think they downrated on there because the poster didn't give them many details that users of the site wanted, so it's a lot of minus figures, but you can see that this item is on my list and I did pick it up independently (had it on my notes) from a different store last week. And a different one again today:rotfl:. So it didn't add anything to what I already knew but I am just checking there isn't something that's missing from my changing stores. To be fair, the product is just called "Baby High Chair" on the offer labels, so there's not much more information the poster could have provided and I had it as just that.

They had some Rum and Brandy Sauce on hukd - someone had them at 9p at M in Peckham. I found some marked down at 15p at Wrexham a couple of weeks ago although the national price (at least back then) was 64p. (I imagine it's still the same today: I haven't found them today as it's not been a wide search.)

I think the small cans of Coke mbuy is off and the Tropicana 1L is off too - gone back up to full price £2.48 (could have been off for a week). Stephenson's teacakes probably gone from 50p to 2 for £1. The Pavlova Base is no longer 38p RTC as far as I can tell - now £1.61, unless there is some older version that I do not have but I suspect, if so, it's long gone now. They do seem to have a habit of putting the prices back up again. I go no trace for a while and then some of the products seem to come back and are then full price:(.

There's Surf Tropical 90 wash now at £7, although I have no way of knowing what date it went onto this price. (I now notice it is currently on m.com and saying "Out of stock. This product is not available", but that seems complete rubbish to me as I have just seen lots of stock today.) So that item has gone down in price. However, it doesn't really matter what date it went on as it doesn't seem to be available in T anymore. So, that's a buy in M (if you really want to!). A little under 8p per wash, although it is a lot of washes and other products (not the big brands) are available on regular prices cheaper - cheaper even though not on offer at the moment. So, wait for those to go onto offer:rotfl::money:!

I was going to say it's a piecemeal update as I can't have hoped to have had several ranges on the list though - I don't have the Gino's products so no idea of what they now are (probably still on?). I have been able to find more than I thought though. I was unable to visit my "Holland's Pie" store today and I didn't think I would be able to find the price of the fresh individual Holland's pies. However, random ones of them make occasional random appearances on a few days a year in stores in which they generally don't appear. I happened, by chance, to have one of them today (a store that doesn't normally have any of them). I'm therefore working out the price at my Holland's Pie store farther away, doing it at a distance from this store:rotfl:. I've not got a range today, just one of them and it is still 50p - I've not known part of the range to be 50p and others 95p so I suspect they are all still 50p. It's part of a "Pie week" offer, I had to scan them as my random one store had no SEL for the one it luckily has and that's what came up - they've been on 50p for longer than a week though, as I think for several weeks, unless they went up to 95p last week and then back down again when I wasn't at M.

There was just one item that, when I looked at the list this morning, I thought about deleting it as I had not seen it for months on end. It was around and then disappearing and coming back and then disappearing again (as I visit various stores) and then taking a little longer to come back and then disappearing and become rarer, until eventually not coming back at all. I must have gone for at least six months without a sighting.

Savvybuyer wrote: »

M Pugs Ring Binder (BC 5 010251 705185)30p Lower price (24p) store specific was found previously.

Yes, I have seen it today!:rotfl::rotfl: Now got just this previously long-lost item in one of the stores at 25p store specific sticker RTC! So, the only item I was about to delete is still around, M still have it and I will not delete it. I even went no sighting for so long that I took off the name of the previous store where I had the (slightly lower) store specific price. There are some items on the list with store-specific named stores. The store names are to be taken as a guide only btw as it's likely that some of them - and some of them are now quite old - have gone a few days after they were added. They change the RTC shelves in some stores every day. I had an item on store-specific name some time ago though, that I took the name of the store away because I felt it was probably gone from there, then happened to visit the store some time later and stock of the item was still there at the same price! The moment I delete something, it will still be available whereas, if I leave the store on, it's probably gone.

And, yes, I was encouraged towards going out today by the 12-pack Easter eggs, although I also visited elsewhere than M. Useless on the 12 pack eggs - I didn't find them - lots of hopeless 5 packs at £2 around - but I found the other 25p item, the Pugs Ring Binder:(. Didn't need any. They're lever arch files, on this occasion (as sometimes ring binders are those small plastic wallet things, but these ones are proper files). Judging by the labelling on the ones I saw, this suggests the general price is now £1 so they could have come off national RTC and now be £1 regular - this 25p now today being a store-specific reduction. They could be available somewhere else cheaper (another store somewhere, but very rare Ms, not many of them, in the country).

It's not been a full check today, I was just looking for the Easter eggs and seeing if there were a few additional items - not that my list needs any more items:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. Of course there are - Isabel's Gluten Free Gravy Granules 170g at 58p RTC and are there 20p More points on every Free From item? Finally, for now, Oxford Brakspear Gold at £1 seems to be long gone and it is now, it seems, full price and mbuy.

I think I may be doing a price collection midweek next week and probably again two weeks later (not sure how good that last one will be as it's proving difficult to get the set of stores to pick up all the ranges needed unless I simply duplicate the same stores as the previous time and then miss what's already cleared out of there but is still around in the other places). I will keeping updating from 22nd February, with the (non-comprehensive) amendments and additions from today. I have not been able to get out as much as I did before, although it does seem that the 'every three weeks' updating then has three times as many items next time:( and it's either taking ages to update - doing it every week was better - or I would have to go every week but I just can't keep doing this anymore (trying to keep the cost down). Hopefully, today, though it wasn't planned this way, may now mean I'm a little closer to next week's prices or not as many changes to make as I've got some of them from today. I'm seeing occasional changes from msm in between and making those where I come across them, where it's got the information on there, so we'll see how that goes (I can't guarantee those to be comprehensive as it's just what I happen to notice and checking all items across a store is actually easier). I've no longer been doing the Mondays and, in the middle of this, M's offers are now generally ending on Tuesdays so I think I will (at least generally) no longer do Mondays as this way seems to work well. So, I'm just doing (some) Wednesdays now. And rare Fridays apparently:eek::rotfl::rotfl:.

pacifica9

Tinasmummy wrote: »

HEllo everyone and a very happy Friday ...........yippee!!!!!!!!

:hello:

Happy Friday!

pacifica9

xxlouisexx56 wrote: »

Hi everyone.

Did a CC on Tuesday for sharpies but none in stock.

Asda are still holding the £60 from the shop on my bank account (shop only ended up costing £10)

I want to do another shop but I'd like my money back first.

It does take a few days to refund the difference. Patience.

curl_girl

msgoggins wrote: »

On the counter of pharmacy in Tosco.

Tray liner sized kids colouring/spot the difference with a tear off 50p coupon for Colgate products in T's only valid to 31/03/17

Was so excited forgot to ask whether they had any pharmacy goodie bags! Are they still doing those?

Thanks good for T shops but I find some items too expensive.

If you have a poundeals shop nearby which are part of Pound stretcher.
The Colgate toothpaste with free toothbrush are on offer 3 for £1.so 3 toothbrushes and 3 toothpastes for £1. Bargain.

bubbs

abailey54 wrote: »

Well the cheese stops multibuy coming off but no dtd given worth a go though- have something nice for my tea at least :j

You have to ask 9/10 did you go CS?

diluvsdiscounts

ellie14 wrote: »

A very happy birthday to you. X

:wave: hello stranger.

Happy birthday VT and Snap :beer: