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Remember you're STILL a Womble - 2017 challenge

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  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,762 Forumite
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    Not sure on Bob's rules on live people/animals:rotfl:

    Bob??? Can we womble people? I think someone might have wombled a husband at one point:j, but not sure how MSE that worked out:money:

    Clarification on the rules please Madam Chairman
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  • sistercas
    sistercas Posts: 4,803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    edited 15 January 2017 at 11:14AM
    7p roadkill
    £5 Halifax reward
    £5 body shop voucher
    £6 points sainsbugs :j
  • FatVonD
    FatVonD Posts: 5,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    12 wombled clubcard points here, I'm going to count them separately to my YS reductions :)
    Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)

    December £361.54, November £322.28, October £288.52, September £374.30, August £223.95, July £71.45, June £251.22, May£119.33, April £236.24, March £106.74, Feb £40.99, Jan £98.54) Total for 2017 - £2,495.10
  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Xmas Saver!
    I wombled a Costa receipt with £0.30 pence loyalty points on it today, doesn't sound a lot but it soon adds up. I found one worth £1.20 last week. So they have been added to my card. I won't add them to my womble total until I spend them so I don't double count.


    Is anyone else having technical problems with the asda price guarantee website? I wombled a £0.46 pence receipt the other day and everytime I try to log in to print off the voucher it says technical problem....
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  • Dizzy_Imp
    Dizzy_Imp Posts: 2,782 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    LuckyPenny wrote: »
    Is anyone else having technical problems with the asda price guarantee website? I wombled a £0.46 pence receipt the other day and everytime I try to log in to print off the voucher it says technical problem....

    Sorry, I've never wombled a receipt from Asda and only really order online from them, so can't shed any light on this I'm afraid.

    YS saving of £1.19 on a Chinese leafy vegetable...not sure what to do with it but it was only 6p...:o Other savings of £2.30 and a record number of eggs today 10 = £1.00) so my total for today is £4.49 :T
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Hi All

    Today's wombles

    £2.50 payout on nectar used against my shopping.
    £3 saved on catfood
    5p roadkill

    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!
    Dizzy_Imp wrote: »
    Evening! Finally got round to registering DH's coffee machine this week and as a thank you (and I suspect to tempt me into making an order) I've been sent three 60g samples of artisan coffee beans. I don't drink coffee, although I love the smell, but DH is made up with this womble. I'm going to claim £2, although I think hand-roasted over acorn ash, all singing, blessed by dancing faeries, chocolate and chestnut smudged, smooth as silk, pleasure-infused beans might be a bit more expensive.

    Bizarrely and completely coincidentally, DH also went to see one of his customers today who is a coffee judge and master blender and came away with some roasted beans. Sadly, he paid for them, but I'll let him off, just this once...

    A good bag of coffee say AllPress, Monmouth, Hasbean or other third wave artisan roaster will go for around £7.50 for 250g so you're 180g could be claimed at around £6 I'd wager.
    LuckyPenny wrote: »
    Your so lucky Bob.
    I cashed out £1.96 today from my Quidco cashback account
    I also found an Asda receipt, did a price guarantee check and its work at £0.47p voucher. I'll add this to my total when I spend it otherwise I might end up double counting!
    .
    Total so far £21.23


    Thank you LP. With my roadkill do you mean? I agree with your method of counting, like I cashed out £2.50 in nectar points today so added that to my total today as spent
    Hi,everyone!Wow,there are some very serious wombles around here.Who needs a job?:eek:
    I have been catching up on the thread,and was reading the discussion about surveys being wombleable (make up a word-me?Never!!!) or not.Initially I was going to add surveys to my tally,but in the light of that discussion,I agree that you do spend time doing surveys,so I am not going to count them.My total earnt in surveys over a couple of years is already in my ticker,and in my email inbox,they are divided into different folders so I can see how many surveys I do a year,etc.
    So,taking off the Pinecone survey I had initially counted, that brings back my total for the year,back to £1.
    Now needing to be added to that:
    3rd Jan:£5 Halifax reward
    9th Jan:5p roadkill
    14th:£30 goodwill payment from M+S.
    I have my gas/electricity through them,and have always been happy with them (been about 3 years).Every now and again,when I have got into a large amount of credit,I phone them up and ask for a refund of the credit.
    In July last year I did this.They refunded me about £220,and lowered my monthly tariff by a considerable amount.So imagine my surprise when my bill last week said that I had now underpaid by nearly £300 :eek:.So I phoned up,not complaining,but just saying that they had only refunded me in July,and reduced my direct debit.Now I wanted to pay the debt.I was speaking to an absolutely lovely guy,who said he would like to raise a complaint to M+S on my behalf,and refund £30 to my account as an apology.He also then proceeded to take up-to-the-second meter readings from me,and work out a DD amount that will cover evenly over the year.
    Total for January:£36.05

    You are doing very well already Saver Upper: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!
    Good Morning All, had a few wombles over the past few days: £20 Carpool money, 20p roadkill, A random bag consisting of the following: bottle of cleaning fluid, fly spray (?) and bottle of soda water plus a desk lamp from my sister - I'll claim a nominal 50p for each item so £2.00 there.

    She did also drop her youngest DD off for me to look after for the next 6 months as she's swanning off to Cyprus for the next 3 years, but don't think I'll claim for that lol !

    have a great day everyone.

    The carpooling is a good one. How does that work for you? I'm now thinking of Peter Kaye and co of course:rotfl::rotfl:
    f0xh0les wrote: »
    Not sure on Bob's rules on live people/animals:rotfl:

    Bob??? Can we womble people? I think someone might have wombled a husband at one point:j, but not sure how MSE that worked out:money:

    Clarification on the rules please Madam Chairman

    Ha ha, well I remember Siebre congratulating me on DD when she arrived as a womble so why not a niece :):rotfl: or husband :rotfl:
    sistercas wrote: »
    7p roadkill
    £5 Halifax reward
    £5 body shop voucher
    £6 points sainsbugs :j

    Brilliant SC :beer:
    " 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!
    FatVonD wrote: »
    12 wombled clubcard points here, I'm going to count them separately to my YS reductions :)

    I have thought of trying to separate my wombles too but only do so with my roadkill. But it (my roadkill) is counted in my Wombling score.
    LuckyPenny wrote: »
    I wombled a Costa receipt with £0.30 pence loyalty points on it today, doesn't sound a lot but it soon adds up. I found one worth £1.20 last week. So they have been added to my card. I won't add them to my womble total until I spend them so I don't double count.


    Is anyone else having technical problems with the asda price guarantee website? I wombled a £0.46 pence receipt the other day and everytime I try to log in to print off the voucher it says technical problem....

    It does add up and how nice to get a lovely free coffee. I am another that doesn't use Asda just through not having one near by. Sorry.
    " 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
  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Xmas Saver!
    Okay thanks anyway on the Asda receipt front I'll give it a try tomorrow.

    I'm sure a free coffee tastes better than a paid for one!!
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