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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!
    £1.35 free Coke Zero sugar with greggs app
    Competition wins £14,136.30[\COLOR]
  • Just one little 1p on the floor in Iceland
    Have adventures. laugh a lot and always be kind.
  • Jo_Blogs
    Jo_Blogs Posts: 753 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud! Mortgage-free Glee!
    Well done to everyone for their wombling :T:T.

    Today I got some beautiful free samples, a free lunch, and a free evening meal :D;) - I am going to claim a modest £5 for the lot.
    Saved Nitty Gritty £7440.75 [149%] / £5000-[Sep] £58.44:starmod: for the 'Save 12k in 2017' #157
    2017 Womble #35 £3463.27 ;)Sept NSDs 4/15:staradminCCCChl 9/12 months:D
    Sept PPChl#002 Pts 71
  • 2 hopper bus journeys to and from work worth £3

    I found 6p on classroom floors

    I bought 2 Big Macs and 2 medium fries for £3.98 with 2 vouchers printed on the back of my Oyster receipts saving myself £3.98

    I found 2 X £10 at the bus stop. :j I could hardly believe my eyes. I moved like lightning to grab both of them. :rotfl:

    I got a lift home from Karaoke in my friend's car yesterday, she saved me paying the £1.50 bus fare

    #13 current total = £1562.66
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Sugarbaby I will be truly gutted if they ever stop doing those vouchers. I don't think we've paid full price for mcD in around 3 years!

    We're away for a few days at the moment. Had a very annoying moment as found a 1000 Mr S voucher but it had expired 2 days before. Took it to the CS to see if they'd do it anyway but no dice.

    Found 8p today whilst on our journey.
    " 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!
    Jo_Blogs wrote: »
    Well done to everyone for their wombling :T:T.

    Today I got some beautiful free samples, a free lunch, and a free evening meal :D;) - I am going to claim a modest £5 for the lot.

    Nice :) :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
  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Xmas Saver!
    Got some more wombles today:
    - downloaded free movie with 2 Pringle lids today saving £5. I would usually buy a DVD.
    - bought a YS milkshake for my DD rather than buying a coffee shop drink so saved quite a bit but will just claim the product price reduction 30p to 18p
    - bought a birthday card from clintons for my SIL £2.50 reduced to 99p.

    Very happy with my wombles today, even though I didn't get any Costa loyalty point receipts, LP x
    Competition wins £14,136.30[\COLOR]
  • Siebrie
    Siebrie Posts: 2,971 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    €1,90 free-after-rebate Kinder Pingui (4 bars). This was the only type I saw, apparently there are 4 different types of bars free-after-rebate (but you have to pick one, they are not all rebated) (in Belgium) (and I would have picked a different package, with more individual bars, had I known). Best of all: they would also reimburse the postage, if you indicated this on the form! Stamps cost €0,79, nearly half the price of the product; so I'm really pleased to get it completely free.
    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
  • argh I've been in pain for the last couple of days so my enthusiasm for money saving is waning!

    Yesterday my ds bought me and madam lunch - say maybe £8. Also he got me a jar of jam and ys some cream (he was buying stuff and I only wanted a couple of bits) 78p

    £2.31 today on ys items and found a 2 point receipt
    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
  • Tesco Online Grocery discounts, offers and price reductions saved me £28.36 this week :T

    I found 1p on a classroom floor

    2 hopper bus journeys to and from work worth £3

    #13 current total = £1594.03
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