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£46.87 over the last few days

£38ish worth of seeds for £6.50 :-)
£4 off of a nail & hand set for CM & £3.50 off of a "mess less" colouring set for madam, £6.31 off of a benefit set for ds' gf. All tucked away for xmas
45p for a multipack of crisps and 75p for ys sausage roll
80p as dd brought some ys pastries and gave me 4DF 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: £1950 -
what no wombles in the last 24 hours???!
£7.56 interst received
34p on ys bananas
- perfectly fine as well!
75p as coconut oil was on offer (and on my shopping list)
£5.00 on a cute little jumper for madam half price
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: £1950 -
My Body Shop Online order was £30. I then used a £10 off code and my £5 Love Your Body voucher. I also got free delivery worth £2.49 as I had spent over £20.

3 X hopper bus journeys today worth £4.50
Used Odeon Premiere points to pay for my cinema ticket saving me £9.25
Free cup of tea at the cinema worth £1.90
Pizza Express meal. I saved £18.60 as I used a £20 Tesco Clubcard Boost Pizza Express voucher to pay for the food.
#13 current total = £10,071.130 -
£4.38 cashback ��
LP xCompetition wins £14,136.30[\COLOR]0 -
1 piece of melon, 12 walnuts, 1 apple €0,80
1 chair massage €10Are 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 = £ 3,104.590 -
I saved 50p in Poundland on a chocolate bar that was half price
Morrisons Bargains:
4 x 150g packets of Sensations crisps saved £1
10 X Cooked chicken wings from the hot deli counter saved £1
2 X 100g Milka chocolate saved 92p
3 hopper bus journeys worth £4.50
2 free Vue cinema tickets compliments of one of the Nectar Summer Rewards vouchers I have, which saved me £27
My weekly Online Grocery Shopping special offers and price reductions saved me £37.76
#13 current total = £10,143.810 -
determined_new_ms wrote: ȣ46.87 over the last few days

£38ish worth of seeds for £6.50 :-)
£4 off of a nail & hand set for CM & £3.50 off of a "mess less" colouring set for madam, £6.31 off of a benefit set for ds' gf. All tucked away for xmas
45p for a multipack of crisps and 75p for ys sausage roll
80p as dd brought some ys pastries and gave me 4
You got some really good bargains here Determined
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determined_new_ms wrote: »what no wombles in the last 24 hours???!
£7.56 interst received
34p on ys bananas
- perfectly fine as well!
75p as coconut oil was on offer (and on my shopping list)
£5.00 on a cute little jumper for madam half price
Your on a roll Determined
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LuckyPenny wrote: »£4.38 cashback ��
LP x
Cashback is always welcome Lucky Penny0 -
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