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Remember you're STILL a Womble - 2017 challenge

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  • Florence_J
    Florence_J Posts: 1,942 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    34p and 36p multi buy offers
    £1.20 for a coffee my friend bought me
    £1.50 for various bits using friend's staff discount at place we were meeting at
    Debt Free Stage 1 - Completed 27/08/2020
    Debt Free Stage 2 - Completed 50/181 Payments
  • Jo_Blogs
    Jo_Blogs Posts: 753 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud! Mortgage-free Glee!
    Good morning everyone :)

    Great wombles as always :T

    Wishing you all a wonderful wombling day :);)
    Saved Nitty Gritty £7440.75 [149%] / £5000-[Sep] £58.44:starmod: for the 'Save 12k in 2017' #157
    2017 Womble #35 £3463.27 ;)Sept NSDs 4/15:staradminCCCChl 9/12 months:D
    Sept PPChl#002 Pts 71
  • Toni'sfriend
    Toni'sfriend Posts: 4,056 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts
    £4.19 on YS chicken fish and cheese
    2x5p and 2x1p roadkill
    Have adventures. laugh a lot and always be kind.
  • Siebrie
    Siebrie Posts: 2,971 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Siebrie wrote: »
    Work breakfast € 1
    A chair massage from work € 10
    Four apples from Reception € 0,80
    Large box of muesli € 5

    Add to that:
    1 orange and 1 kiwi from Reception € 0,40
    another box of muesli (together with the other one it makes 2 kilos!) € 5

    Then on Sunday we had a sister church visiting ours, we had a nice service, spaghetti meal for lunch and a guided tour of Mechelen. When we came back to the church for a cup of coffee and our things, the leftovers from the meal were handed out:

    2 boxes of Bolognese sauce € 2
    3 chocolate mousse desserts € 1,50
    1 whole bakery apple pie € 10 (I'm keeping it low - proper pies and cakes from a bakery are awfully expensive here)
    1 kalanchoe plant € 0,50
    1 box of grated cheese € 0,50
    It's all in the freezer now; the apple pie will do nicely for dd2's birthday on Saturday. The chocolate mousses we'll have for dessert tonight :)
    Are you wombling, too, in '22? € 58,96 = £ 52.09Wombling in Restrictive Times (2021) € 2.138,82 = £ 1,813.15Wombabeluba 2020! € 453,22 = £ 403.842019's wi-wa-wombles € 2.244,20 = £ 1,909.46Wombling to wealth 2018 € 972,97 = £ 879.54Still a womble 2017 #25 € 7.116,68 = £ 6,309.50Wombling Free 2016 #2 € 3.484,31 = £ 3,104.59
  • Am I too late to be a Womble (as well as a giraffe)? Hope not, it looks like fun, once I get my head round it!
  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    I saved £5 on the price of my South West Train day return tickets because I bought them online in advance

    I found 1p on Waterloo Station concourse

    1 hopper bus journey yesterday worth £1.50 on my way home from the visit to my eldest daughter

    I saved 71p on the purchase of this week's copy of NOW magazine as it was reduced in price to 99p

    JD Sports Offers:

    Adidas Men's jogging pants half price £25 saving me £25 :T

    McKenzie boxers £5 saved me £10 :T

    Free delivery worth £3.99 :)

    #13 current total = £3506.49
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Am I too late to be a Womble (as well as a giraffe)? Hope not, it looks like fun, once I get my head round it!

    Not at all. Please do join in :)
    " Your vibe attracts your tribe":D

    Debt neutral :) 27/03/17 from £40k:eek: in the hole 2012.
    Roadkill 17 £56.58 2016-£62.28 2015- £84.20)
    RYSAW17 £1900 2016 £2,535.16 2015 £1027.20
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    opps haven't been keeping up with this thread! Have lost count a bit of wombling as have had a lot going on. My mil looked after lo twice so that is £70 (I think I might have posted about one...)

    I got £3.04 from ys french sticks, 2 packs at 29p each and & 2 packs of 4 muffins they were down to 19p from £1 :)

    yesterday I used the last £4 on a gift card I had getting line for the garden and more seeds and picked up a rosemary plant in need of a good watering for 50p £2 off :)

    Today friends came round for roast and I asked her to bring some fresh coffee (as I'd just run out) so we could have some after dinner and she gave me a pack £2 and she brought a bottle of wine that we only had a couple of glasses out of so I'm left with 1/2 a bottle - say £3?

    Loads of great Wombles!
    Florence_J wrote: »
    34p and 36p multi buy offers
    £1.20 for a coffee my friend bought me
    £1.50 for various bits using friend's staff discount at place we were meeting at

    Free coffee :)
    Siebrie wrote: »
    Add to that:
    1 orange and 1 kiwi from Reception € 0,40
    another box of muesli (together with the other one it makes 2 kilos!) € 5

    Then on Sunday we had a sister church visiting ours, we had a nice service, spaghetti meal for lunch and a guided tour of Mechelen. When we came back to the church for a cup of coffee and our things, the leftovers from the meal were handed out:

    2 boxes of Bolognese sauce € 2
    3 chocolate mousse desserts € 1,50
    1 whole bakery apple pie € 10 (I'm keeping it low - proper pies and cakes from a bakery are awfully expensive here)
    1 kalanchoe plant € 0,50
    1 box of grated cheese € 0,50
    It's all in the freezer now; the apple pie will do nicely for dd2's birthday on Saturday. The chocolate mousses we'll have for dessert tonight :)

    Sounds a lovely day.
    " Your vibe attracts your tribe":D

    Debt neutral :) 27/03/17 from £40k:eek: in the hole 2012.
    Roadkill 17 £56.58 2016-£62.28 2015- £84.20)
    RYSAW17 £1900 2016 £2,535.16 2015 £1027.20
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Jo_Blogs wrote: »
    Good morning everyone :)

    Great wombles as always :T

    Wishing you all a wonderful wombling day :);)

    :D so cheery Jo :D
    £4.19 on YS chicken fish and cheese
    2x5p and 2x1p roadkill

    You're on a roadkill roll.:T
    " Your vibe attracts your tribe":D

    Debt neutral :) 27/03/17 from £40k:eek: in the hole 2012.
    Roadkill 17 £56.58 2016-£62.28 2015- £84.20)
    RYSAW17 £1900 2016 £2,535.16 2015 £1027.20
  • Jo_Blogs
    Jo_Blogs Posts: 753 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud! Mortgage-free Glee!
    Good morning everyone :)

    Great going with all the wombles :T

    No wombles to report at the moment, but who knows by the end of the day! :D

    Wishing you all a fantastic wombling day:);)
    Saved Nitty Gritty £7440.75 [149%] / £5000-[Sep] £58.44:starmod: for the 'Save 12k in 2017' #157
    2017 Womble #35 £3463.27 ;)Sept NSDs 4/15:staradminCCCChl 9/12 months:D
    Sept PPChl#002 Pts 71
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