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  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    I bought 3 Ladies t-shirts from Lidl for £5 on offer and saved myself 97p

    Wayne bought me 2 bottles of water on our date in the pub last night £3

    #13 current total = £4040.61
  • Toni'sfriend
    Toni'sfriend Posts: 4,056 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts
    £10.00 on our weekly meal out using a voucher
    Have adventures. laugh a lot and always be kind.
  • Toni'sfriend
    Toni'sfriend Posts: 4,056 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts
    Quite a good day today
    £1.41 on YS meat (now a goulash for tomorrow's dinner)
    £4.00 on 4 packs of kitchen foil
    £3.20 on 4 bottles of washing gel
    £4.00 on 8 packets of YS chicken (enough do son's lunches for about 5 weeks)
    96p on rolls for above
    Shiny £1.00 coin (nearly caused a traffic jam picking it up from the middle of the road)
    Shiny 5p piece
    Lonely little 1p
    Use a lot of foil and washing gel so might go back to Lidl tomorrow to see if there is any left.
    Have adventures. laugh a lot and always be kind.
  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,766 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    Bobarella wrote: »
    I often look around me on the bus and think, I wonder who here is a fellow MSEr :)

    We need a badge(r)
    4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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    No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
    ******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******
  • Florence_J
    Florence_J Posts: 1,942 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Womble of a free Lush Face Mask due to doing their deposit five full size black pots get a free face mask scheme. It has taken me all my life to get that many pots, and the till person was a little put out by how old they were, but I don't care, I have wombled £7.25
    Debt Free Stage 1 - Completed 27/08/2020
    Debt Free Stage 2 - Completed 50/181 Payments
  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    10 X boxes of 30 metres of foil from Lidl reduced from £2.29 to £1.29 each saving me £10 :j

    Box of McVitie's Circle Time assorted biscuits from Poundland for £2 saving me £1

    20p roadkill

    #13 current total = £4051.81
  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Xmas Saver!
    95p saving off a Flake Ice Cream with newspaper voucher (deducted price of paper)

    LPx
    Competition wins £14,136.30[\COLOR]
  • Ladykernow
    Ladykernow Posts: 286 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    Partner brought home free samples of tea from his work today. :)
  • Toni'sfriend
    Toni'sfriend Posts: 4,056 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts
    Saved £13.84 on various deals and YS today (mainly more weekend deals at Lidl) plus 6p roadkill.
    Have adventures. laugh a lot and always be kind.
  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Xmas Saver!
    £3.10 using Costa points

    LP x
    Competition wins £14,136.30[\COLOR]
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