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Remember you're STILL a Womble - 2017 challenge

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  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Xmas Saver!
    £7 Blue Rewards
    Competition wins £14,136.30[\COLOR]
  • determined_new_ms
    determined_new_ms Posts: 7,867 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Morning :) have been very low on wombles recently! Madam's 1st ballet class of term was free :) £7.50 she's been having school meals at school all week (but free for 1st 2 years :) £11.25 :)
    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
  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    2 hopper bus journeys on Tuesday and Wednesday worth £6

    Book from Poundland saved me £8.99

    6 X Quavers from Poundland reduced to 50p saved me 50p

    52p roadkill

    My Weekly Online Grocery Shopping, special offers and price reductions £46.35 :T

    Half price theatre ticket saved me £37.50 :j

    #13 current total = £10,257.32
  • Siebrie
    Siebrie Posts: 2,971 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    1 apple and 1 kiwi from Reception €0,40
    1 lunchmeat box (plastic, 3-tiered, with a lid, to keep luncheon meat and sliced cheese in the fridge) free with supermarket shopping €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
  • determined_new_ms
    determined_new_ms Posts: 7,867 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    hurrah 2 small wombles yesterday :) a bottle of elderflower & rose presse £2.29 & a ys ciabatta 99p given to me by a friend who came for dinner last night

    A lovely evening of chatting and laughter = priceless!
    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
  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    17p found on classroom floors

    2 hopper bus journeys worth £3 (Thursday)

    3 hopper bus journeys worth £4.50 (Friday)

    12 packets of Quavers from Poundland reduced to £1 saved me £1

    Big Mac and medium fries for £1.99 with an Oyster receipt voucher saved me £1.99

    #13 current total = £10,267.98
  • determined_new_ms
    determined_new_ms Posts: 7,867 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Morning :) ha ha wombles are like buses I didn't have any for ages and this week they seem to be trickling along :)

    yesterday I got £15 off a pair of black trousers, was given 6 mini muffins - say 50p and 1/2 a carton of apple juice after a team meeting say 50p :)
    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
  • Florence_J
    Florence_J Posts: 1,942 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    £14.77 off an amazon order

    £2.50 for a free bottle of milkshake syrup and cold remedy from in laws

    £10 for free alcohol at friend's birthday party
    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
    2 hopper bus journeys worth £3

    2 adult Vue cinema tickets worth £27. I used one of my Nectar Summer Reward vouchers. Me and my daughter watched the film Detroit. :T

    #13 current total = £10,297.98
  • Siebrie
    Siebrie Posts: 2,971 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    bottle of beer free through voucher 138 loyalty points
    60 loyalty points with €4 worth of veg/fruit
    loyalty points from wombled receipts 44
    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
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