Remember you're STILL a Womble - 2017 challenge

Siebrie

€1 and €0,02 coins found at the shopping centre.

f0xh0les

Nothing today. Not a wombling womble in sight. No roadkill, nothing. Oh well, tomorrow is another day......

Bobarella

determined_new_ms wrote: »

forgot I was given 500grms of chorizo by my cm on Monday. Just looked it up and it's £5!

I've added a new line to my sig to record the amount of money we save by me only working p/t. Really for my own interest as I want to know in monetary terms what all my frugalling effects contribute to the household - makes me feel less guilty for oh who works so much! - so far this month we're talking about an extra £350 to the pot (that and my wombling total) Be good to tell him at the end of the year :money:

Yum to chorizo!

I think it's an interesting point. Technically I work part time too. Despite always being "on" as you always are with your own business.

Because I only leave DD at times that DH is around, I save us money on child care. Plus being able to pick up DS each day means I am saving on paying for after school club too. In the same way as you, I cook from scratch the majority of the time, save money on shopping in a frugal way, batch cook, etc.

We also make a large saving each year by not running a car, so no petrol or maintenance costs.

However all that said, I think for many people who have children and work full time, the fact they barely earn because of the above mentioned costs, can still be worthwhile in the short-term when you consider the loss of career trajectory that can occur when people do either drop hours or stop completely to sort the kids out in those pre school years.

Bobarella

f0xh0les wrote: »

Nothing today. Not a wombling womble in sight. No roadkill, nothing. Oh well, tomorrow is another day......

Bad show old thing

sugarbaby125 wrote: »

2 Hopper bus journeys yesterday to and from work worth £3

1p found on a classroom floor

A bottle of water bought for me at Karaoke yesterday by a friend £1

Free Metro newspaper for which I will claim
50p

Quidco cashback £2.08

#13 current total = £767.06

Well done

Siebrie wrote: »

€1 and €0,02 coins found at the shopping centre.

Nice:)

Siebrie

I usually avoid the shops, because all the choice and decision-making make me moody in about half an hour; if I have someone with me I last about 15 minutes , but, today, I needed to find one of these necklaces with a heart pendant that you can break in 2, for dd1. She is 8, and wanted to apologise to her best friend for arguing so often; it's not easy when the friend is disfigured due to an accident when she was 3, and the whole class feels protective of her; and my dd is a bit shy, and feels comfortable enough with only this girl to do any arguing at all. Normally, I would tell her to find another way to apologise, but I felt this one was special.

Right, that was quite a novel . It's the end of the sales in Belgium, and I accidentally found some stuff I needed (and some I wanted....) on great discounts. I think the sales period did not go too well, because there was lots of nice stuff still left.

Bobarella

Siebre What a nice idea about the necklace.

sugarbaby125

I bought 3 X 3kg poly bags of Ariel Colour and Style for £14.97 in a local independent Chemist saving me £25.98 :T

2 Hopper bus journeys to and from the Cinema worth £3

Odeon Silver Screen ticket £3 saving me £5.40 for the usual ticket price for an adult ticket for a film showing before 5pm

Poundland Bargains:

Butterkist popcorn 50p saving me 50p

75g Maltesers 50p saving me 50p

84g Galaxy Minstrels 50p saving me 50p

8 children's books £8 saving me £26.92:T

This week I saved £34.62 on my Tesco online grocery shop :T

#13 current total £864.48

Dizzy_Imp

Afternoon wombles!

Got some bargain PJs in the sale at Tesco for my boys. Two sets each at half price, saving a very welcome £16.

Love your necklace idea Siebrie - really thoughtful and special x

As for you f0xh0les....c'mon girl - keep up :rotfl: and where's autumnleaves too? Hope everything is OK x

determined_new_ms

feeling quite productive on the wombling front today (although not a huge monetary value!)

£1.99 for a latte using beans, not one of which I purchased a coffee to get

£3.69 for a breakfast as did a ms assignment

picked up 22 sachets of sweetner while there (going to claim 1p per sachet) 22p

53p saved on a bit of ys cheese

£6.43 for today

wombled various receipts for points - one of which was for 43! Had as many as I could added to my card. I now have 350 point there and this is just from wombled receipts/150 additional points from when I got a couple of bits and I've only been doing this since Jan!

nellsnest

The only womble I have had these past few days , blister plasters that was waste at work.
Going in my first aid box. I"ll add £4.00 to my total.