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Remember you're STILL a Womble - 2017 challenge

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  • received £5.74 for selling some scrap metal & £12.62 interest on bank accounts :)
    DF as at 30/12/16
    Wombling 2025: £87.12
    NSD March: YTD: 35
    Grocery spend challenge March £253.38/£285 £20/£70 Eating out
    GC annual £449.80/£4500
    Eating out budget: £55/£420
    Extra cash earned 2025: £195
  • Siebrie
    Siebrie Posts: 2,971 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Any ideas/advice on cheap favours and bridesmaids presents?

    Cheap(est) favour would probably be a snapshot of the 2 of you (taken in the morning - can be developed/printed during the day/handed out at the end of the evening) with a text underneath 'thank you for joining us on this special day [date], [names]". Maybe your photographer is willing to do this?

    Maybe you can invite the bridesmaids for (homemade) lunch at your place a few weeks after the wedding, and give them a picture of the wedding party or an individual professional picture in their bridesmaid's outfit, that was taken on the day?
    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
  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    Real Techniques make up brush set from Superdrug Online reduced from £20.99 to £5.99 saving me £15 and I got free delivery worth £3 :D

    2 hopper bus journeys to and from the Theatre worth £3 :)

    2 Free Theatre Tickets worth £64 :T

    Boots Online order savings £18.70 plus I received the free Beauty Box containing products worth £56 :T

    This week's Online Grocery shop savings from special offers and price reductions £33.13 :D

    #13 current total = £5657.56
  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Xmas Saver!
    Went to Toby Carvery for a treat paid with £20 voucher from my FIL and my daughters meal for £1 using app voucher. Just marking down as £20 as there was a difference of £1.73. Best meal in ages!! Always tastes better when you don't have to pay.

    LP x
    Competition wins £14,136.30[\COLOR]
  • Siebrie
    Siebrie Posts: 2,971 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    1 lentil salad €0,50
    2.5 Danish pastries €1
    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
  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Xmas Saver!
    So I've just had a fab womble-tastic MSE shopping trip.
    Free coffee from Greggs £2.10
    Boots points spend £2.25
    Morrisons loyalty voucher £5 spent and £1 off pizza voucher
    I did a market research and got £5 worth of shopping (puls payment for doing it which I won't claim as a womble)
    So pleased that I refilled my cartridge today, got dove shampoo for 95p, reduced price coffee and crisps and cheap wrapping paper - won't count these as wombles unless Bob says otherwise - I think it's just savvy shopping rather than a womble.
    £15.35 womble I'm putting down for today.
    LP x
    Competition wins £14,136.30[\COLOR]
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Hi All

    Had a great and very apt find with all this rain. A set of two brand new diving fins, masks and snorkels. They both had all the tags still on! The price tag said £20 each.

    Found 11p roadkill as well.

    Bob
    " 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!
    LuckyPenny wrote: »
    So I've just had a fab womble-tastic MSE shopping trip.
    Free coffee from Greggs £2.10
    Boots points spend £2.25
    Morrisons loyalty voucher £5 spent and £1 off pizza voucher
    I did a market research and got £5 worth of shopping (puls payment for doing it which I won't claim as a womble)
    So pleased that I refilled my cartridge today, got dove shampoo for 95p, reduced price coffee and crisps and cheap wrapping paper - won't count these as wombles unless Bob says otherwise - I think it's just savvy shopping rather than a womble.
    £15.35 womble I'm putting down for today.
    LP x


    Hiya
    If you saved money then I'd say that's a Womble, if it was marked down from original price?
    Bob
    " 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!
    LuckyPenny wrote: »
    Always tastes better when you don't have to pay.

    LP x

    I am sure that was Kate Mosses sentiment exactly with her nothing tastes as good as skinny feels :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
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    received £5.74 for selling some scrap metal & £12.62 interest on bank accounts :)

    Steptoe image in my head now Determined:rotfl:
    " 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
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