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  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
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    2 Hopper bus journeys worth £3 travelling to and from Karaoke :)

    #13 current total = £262.60
  • :j 10p House kill for me yesterday
  • Siebrie
    Siebrie Posts: 2,971 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    1 cent roadkill

    1 pair of horse riding boots for dd1. I asked the instructor how she rated a certain brand, and she said she had a few spares in the gear shed. We tried on for best size, and now dd has a secondhand pair for free, which we'll return to the instructor as soon as dd stops riding, or grows out of them. I'll claim €10.
    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
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Well what a grey day it is in London town. Been raining for hours. Not much chance of a womble today :)

    Or is there? My son was given a Wubble Bubble ball for Christmas which is like a huge balloon. They are supposed to be fairly resilient but his popped within 1 day. However due to their policy of giving a new one if you have your receipt we have a new one coming to us. Total saving £20 on a new ball.
    " 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
  • Dizzy_Imp
    Dizzy_Imp Posts: 2,782 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Some interesting wombles today! Riding boots one is particularly impressive as I know how much they cost, having a SD who is horse-mad.

    Just a small multi-buy discount of £1.20 to report, plus 3 eggs so far today = 30p. Total is a respectable £1.50.
  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,762 Forumite
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    Road kill 4p, would have been 9p but there were a group of builders next to the 5p and I didn't want to bend over in front of them.

    Wombled 10 packs of 50p crumpets down to 13p each £3.70 and £5.00 off half price Innocent smoothies x 4 for lunchboxes. £2.50 off 4 bunches of basil ( reduced down to 19p) so it is pesto pasta on the menu again this week, with 2 x packs of baby tomatoes( to be roasted with garlic and herbs ) reduced down to 19 p saving £1.00 and six loaves of bread down to 9p each !!! Freezer now nicely filling up. Saving £6.66.
    4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Oh I shouldn't laugh but I did Foxy

    Well done Siebre that sounds a great one!
    " 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!
    sistercas wrote: »
    dd1 gave me a £3 no7 voucher which I used against the mascara I was buying :T

    Fab:j
    nellsnest wrote: »
    £10. saving on a birthday present from boots sale.

    Great to get a bargain:T
    2 Hopper bus journeys worth £3 travelling to and from Karaoke :)


    #13 current total = £262.60

    Karaoke sounds a lot of fun. What's your faves to sing?
    " 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
  • I wombled a 50p off my classroom floor today. It has hockey players on it and I've never seen anything like it to be honest.
  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Xmas Saver!
    Thanks Bob, I won't include the Market Research - I have earned it. What about if I buy clothes etc. in the sales? What about eBay and Facebook sales?


    So I've had a really good start to my wombling;
    I found 2 pence on the floor
    I went to Asda and got the follow YS purchases:
    Bread £1.25 reduced to £0.67 saving £0.58 pence
    Pancakes £0.50 reduced to £0.22 pence saving £0.28 pence
    Pizza £3.50 reduced to £2.69 saving £0.81 pence
    Asda curry box £9 reduced to £4.79 saving £4.21

    Grand Total Saving £5.88

    This is addictive just need to consider each time whether I am going to actually eat the food I buy YS!


    Total saving thus far is £18.32 - just need to make my signature say that!
    Competition wins £14,136.30[\COLOR]
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