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Remember you're STILL a Womble - 2017 challenge

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  • Florence_J
    Florence_J Posts: 1,942 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Had a Mr T delivery this morning

    £12.78 savings on promotional offers

    £13.23 savings on brand match

    I expect I am counting at least some of the same deals twice but that's how I'm going to measure it.

    Total £26.01
    Debt Free Stage 1 - Completed 27/08/2020
    Debt Free Stage 2 - Completed 50/181 Payments
  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,762 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    DS2 bought 2 packets of posh crisps at MrT, but they had milk powder in, so I sent him off to customer services who refunded him £1.99 each for the 2 for £2 crisps. He may well be half a womble-in-training.
    4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
    NSTurtle # 55 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢
    No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
    ******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******
  • sistercas
    sistercas Posts: 4,803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    £9.35 from an old credit card . Finally closed it and it was in credit :beer:
    Hopefully £30 from quidco for changing my gas supplier ( I won't count it though until it's been paid out )

    Luckypenny I think that definitely counts , I count my h@lifax reward every month :D
  • LuckyPenny
    LuckyPenny Posts: 1,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Xmas Saver!
    Thanks sistercas will add this months and thereafter
    Forgot to add £4.99 for a free movie we watched last night with 2 Pringle lid offer.
    Competition wins £14,136.30[\COLOR]
  • Wombled £8 by buying two legs of lamb in mr a. Currently £5 per kilo instead of £6.99 :)
    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
    edited 25 March 2017 at 10:46PM
    71p found on classroom floors

    2 Hopper bus journeys to and from work and 1 hopper journey in the early hours of Saturday morning worth £4.50

    Free Evening Standard 50p

    4 boxes of jaffa cakes reduced in Morrisons saving me 40p

    Wayne bought me 2 bottles of water in the pub £3 and gave me £10

    15 cooked chicken wings from the hot counter in Morrisons saving me £1

    Dettol wipes from Poundland saving me 75p

    #13 current total = £2204.34
  • sistercas
    sistercas Posts: 4,803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Found a £1 :)
  • Bobarella
    Bobarella Posts: 10,824 Forumite
    Savvy Shopper! I've been Money Tipped!
    Good work everyone! Keep wombling!

    Luckypeny yes I'd say that counts :)
    " 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
  • was given 2 stalks of sprouts at the allotment. Have taken 500grms off for us to eat 72p and also a load for the worms :)

    when I got there another allomentee had left a dibber for me in my shed £6 and I found a flask lurking in the shed so have brought that home to clean up £6 :)
    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
  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,762 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    £5.00 M0rris0ns voucher
    Up to 3600 on Y0ug0v
    4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
    NSTurtle # 55 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢
    No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
    ******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******
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