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Remember you're STILL a Womble - 2017 challenge

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  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
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    2 hopper bus journeys to and from Karaoke last night worth £3

    #13 current total = £2207.34
  • Siebrie
    Siebrie Posts: 2,971 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I completely forgot that one of my colleagues always gives me the cans of soda he gets whenever he travels on Eurostar. 3 cans per trip, of which I get 2 (the third goes to another colleague). This month: 4 cans x €0,50. My dh really likes the ginger-apple one, and I like the elderflower-lemon one; my colleague prefers the rhubarb-apple one.
    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
  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
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    4 X boxes of Jaffa cakes reduced in Morrisons saved me 40p

    2 X hopper bus journeys to and from work worth £3

    Free Evening Standard 50p

    10 cooked chicken wings from Morrisons hot counter saved me 50p

    #13 current total = £2212.24
  • determined_new_ms
    determined_new_ms Posts: 7,867 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 28 March 2017 at 5:48AM
    morning excited to see when I logged on to my bank we have received £30 cashback for changing energy suppliers :)

    also going to conservatively claim £30 for manure I got for free yesterday - and millions of worms! Not sure if I waxed lyrical on this thread but I built a wormery last week and paid £31.50 for 500grms of red worms for it. (Everything else I got for free :) ) honestly when we were bagging up the rotted manure there were just tons and tons of worms! If only I'd known this last week I could have made the wormery totally for free but there must have been at least 100 times the amount of worms I bought in that manure!

    eta: just checked out the cost of buying a 2 tier wormery. £65 saved by making it myself :T
    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
  • Siebrie
    Siebrie Posts: 2,971 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 28 March 2017 at 1:22PM
    one kiwi and one grapefruit from Reception €0,40

    I missed last week's chair massage :(

    Glass of freshly pressed orange juice and a handful of veggie crisps at the pre-opening of a new business venture (my company's, not mine) €1 There were plenty of other snacks, but I decided to wait for dinner at home.

    Two croissants from a business lunch, given to dds for breakfast 2x€0,20.

    An Asian noodle salad from a business lunch €0,50
    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
  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    Free Metro newspaper 50p

    2 hopper bus journeys to and from work worth £3

    #13 current total = 2215.74
  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,766 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    245 wombled cl0bcard points at Mr T's
    4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
    NSTurtle # 55 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢
    No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
    ******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******
  • yesterday brought some surprise wombles as my ds visited and gave me gifts for mothers day :) among them were 4 packets of seeds for the allotment - £9! Some gloves for gardening estimating £5

    he also paid for my train ticket to take madam to ballet £2.70 and bought me a magnum £1

    I used my mse skills to track down tiles for our patio that is being done next week. Paid £480 for 34 m2 but orginally the cost I was quoted by the builder to get from Jewsons was £900 so a saving of £420 :T (I'm counting this as if it wasn't my obsession to live as frugally as I can I would have just got the builder to buy them :D)
    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
  • crazy_cat_lady
    crazy_cat_lady Posts: 7,063 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Finally got a decent YS haul at Mr M - saving me £10.42 :D
  • sistercas
    sistercas Posts: 4,803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    £21.45 saving on grocery offers

    Was on a course today and they gave us a voucher for a free lunch , main , pudding and bottle of pop .it was totally unexpected . I'm going to claim £5 :j
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