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Remember you're STILL a Womble - 2017 challenge

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  • crazy_cat_lady
    crazy_cat_lady Posts: 7,063 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I wombled a free birthday meal at a restaurant! £15.99
  • Jo_Blogs
    Jo_Blogs Posts: 753 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud! Mortgage-free Glee!
    Ye olde womblies afore tdaey

    £2 Swapped magazines
    £1.49 Qmee cashout
    £5 Lunch & dinner

    Hope you are all having a blessed wombling day :);)
    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
  • sistercas
    sistercas Posts: 4,803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Dizzy_Imp wrote: »
    Morning wombles :wave:

    Been foraging and wombling as much as possible, just not posting...naughty Dizzy.

    I have the following to report:

    £12 from egg sales
    £24.73 price match on food shopping
    £6.43 saving on YS items

    ....and...wait for it....

    Another whole year exemption from Council Tax due my house being extensively repaired/renovated :j £2293 :j

    This is not an April Fool's Day joke!!!

    I will update total after breakfast x

    Wow Dizzy that's great :T:T:T
  • sugarbaby125
    sugarbaby125 Posts: 3,339 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    Congratulations Dizzy on your Council Tax exemption

    1 hopper bus journey on my way home £1.50

    45 cooked chicken wings from Morrisons hot counter on offer which saved me £3

    Skittles funsize from Poundland which saved me 40p

    2 X boxes of Fox's Fabulously biscuits from Poundland which saved me £6

    I found 3p roakill on my way to the shops

    I found 5p on the floor of the bus

    I received £1.35 Quidco cashback

    I bought a new M & S skirt from eBay for £12 which saved me £17.50 on the price I would have paid in a M & S store :D

    #13 current total = £2779.91
  • f0xh0les
    f0xh0les Posts: 7,766 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    Cashback!! All £1.18 of it ! :j

    Every little adds up.... slowly:rotfl:.
    4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
    NSTurtle # 55 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢🐢🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢
    No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
    ******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******
  • Toni'sfriend
    Toni'sfriend Posts: 4,056 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts
    Wasn't able to take part for most of last month but I'm back. Starting off April with a massive 5p roadkill.
    Have adventures. laugh a lot and always be kind.
  • Jo_Blogs
    Jo_Blogs Posts: 753 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud! Mortgage-free Glee!
    Good morning everyone :)

    Well done with all the super wombles :T

    Congratulations Dizzy on the CT exemption, and all the best with the extensive repairs / renovation :D

    Hope everyone has a blessed wombling day :);)
    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
  • Morning :) having to revise my wombling total up :) as searched and searched for the pug strawberry plant variety I have been given and if I had bought them in the quantity I have been given they would have cost £105 :j doing some research these are heavy yield strawberries and each plant producing 1.2 kgs of fruit. I have 44 of them :rotfl: so that is 52kgs. To put into context I weigh 58! We'll all have a red hue by the end of the season :rotfl:

    dd bought round some bits for our meal yesterday cream, stuffing, flour & crisps for dgd. Ds bought me some flower pots. I had asked him if he had any big catering containers I could have for planting in and he interpreted that as I'm too poor to buy them :rotfl: bless he doesn't get my passion for recycling and living on next to nothing! He got me 12. Not sure what they cost but I'll conservatively claim £5

    total for yesterday £87.71 :T (would be more but I already counted £27 for the strawberry plants) :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
  • sistercas
    sistercas Posts: 4,803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    f0xh0les wrote: »
    Cashback!! All £1.18 of it ! :j

    Every little adds up.... slowly:rotfl:.

    It certainly does :D

    £5 for me at the hairdressers , I have a card that they stamp every time you go in and when you've got so many, it's £5 off :T
  • Jo_Blogs
    Jo_Blogs Posts: 753 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud! Mortgage-free Glee!
    edited 2 April 2017 at 1:10PM
    Morning :) having to revise my wombling total up :) as searched and searched for the pug strawberry plant variety I have been given and if I had bought them in the quantity I have been given they would have cost £105 :j doing some research these are heavy yield strawberries and each plant producing 1.2 kgs of fruit. I have 44 of them :rotfl: so that is 52kgs. To put into context I weigh 58! We'll all have a red hue by the end of the season :rotfl:

    That's absolutely fantastic! :T:T I'm now craving strawberry jam........yummy :rotfl:

    Ye olde womblies afore tdaey

    £5 Lunch & dinner

    Hope you are all having a blessed wombling day
    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
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