Remember you're STILL a Womble - 2017 challenge

sugarbaby125

I bought a new pair of Van Dal shoes in their original box from eBay for £23 including P & P saving me £53 on the current selling price of £75 :j

#13 current total = £143.65

Siebrie

Dear Bob, thank you for running last year's thread and for starting the new thread! May I have a number, please?

This year's very first womble is the virtual chupa chup from last year's thread :rotfl:

3 mandarins and 3 handfuls of walnuts from Reception €1,20
5 cent coin in A1di

Bobarella

Hi Wombles

My current score is £12.99. Since I last updated my finds have been:

49p roadkill
1 fine drawing pen with plenty of ink at the swimming pool
£5 voucher for Morrison's due to me complaining about a pair of ripped tights given as a present. I was expecting around £1.50 back so bonus!
Two 500g YS pork mince packs reduced from £3 each to £1.05
A YS trifle for less than half price
4 loaves for 10p each reduced from £1
4 smoothies for £1.50 instead of £3

Think that's me so far!

Bob

Bobarella

Siebrie wrote: »

Dear Bob, thank you for running last year's thread and for starting the new thread! May I have a number, please?

This year's very first womble is the virtual chupa chup from last year's thread :rotfl:

3 mandarins and 3 handfuls of walnuts from Reception €1,20
5 cent coin in A1di

Of course dear Siebre, no 25. I hope you enjoyed the lolly :T

Bobarella

sugarbaby125 wrote: »

I bought a new pair of Van Dal shoes in their original box from eBay for £23 including P & P saving me £53 on the current selling price of £75 :j

#13 current total = £143.65

Fantastic! I bet there are so many bargains on eBay right now if people have the money. :T

Bobarella

f0xh0les wrote: »

Morning Wombliers!

Used cashback sites when doing 2 x car insurances (YAWN) yesterday - 4 hours of my life I am not getting back. £77.50 cashback has tracked. Will wait and see if it appears. It is the first year I have paid more than the previous year. Admittedly less than £35 more (as long as c/b pays out) on two cars but that is because it took over 260 minutes of my life. There does not appear to be any rhyme or reason to the quotes either as the top two quotes were £100 less than 3rd and 4th best quotes.

C00p raid 25p fruit pie, saving 75p
19p 6 x custard doughnuts (so I bought two) saving 62p
Jus-Rol shortcrust pastry 35p saving 90p
T0sc0 raid - 33p hummus saving 97p
Salad bags 25p saving 64 p x 4 = 2.56
Twinings Earl Grey teabags £7.99 for 200 saving £1.99
Massive pittas 27p saving 73p x3 = £2.19

The shelves were stripped bare, I know we have had a lot of weekends and replacement bank holidays but honestly I have not seen such a scene of devastation like it since the Jehovah's Witness Convention descended on the Molineux Asda in Wolverhampton. Utter desolation.

Wow sounds rather epic at your Co op!
Well done on the car insurance cashback.

Hummus is one thing I am rather grinchy about. I make it and you can buy a can of chickpeas for 25 to 40p, so I always find the tubs a bit galling at four times that at least.

Bobarella

FatVonD wrote: »

No wombled receipts but I did get three beef cannelloni for £1.13 each so a saving of £2.61 on the 3 for £6 deal!

That's a great saving

crafty_witch wrote: »

Bought a diary and calendar half price this morning saving £2.50 and a ys chicken with £1.25 off, so I'm off the mark with a respectable womble of £3.75

Brilliant work.

Florence_J wrote: »

£5.81 saved on deals from my Mr M shop.

£0.87 Saved on deals and Brand Match from my Mr T shop.

Well done Florence!

Bobarella

Massa1982 wrote: »

Contacted Supermarket about £5 worth of points being deducted from my account in error over xmas, they have promptly added the points back onto my account to redeem later. Took them 4 mins to rectify the error. I was suitably impressed with the speed of their correction!

Imagine if you hadn't noticed! Sneaky lot. Well done for getting the points back.

amber03 wrote: »

Got a few bits and bobs in work today so with staff discount saved £1.20. Sorry total is not highlighted but laptop broke and using iPad, which is doing whatever it wants when I am trying to highlight total.

I'm not worried about highlighting tbh. Great savings.

autumnleaves wrote: »

Nothing to update my total with yet, as I've not even left the house to go to the shops and had no cashouts on any sites yet.

I got Super Lucky Di's comping book for Christmas so will be hoping to put some tips to good use.

I've had a good freelance job come my way - just hoping I can pull it off well. Taken on some more extra freelance work too this month on top of running our business and have another client asking to up my workload, so fingers cross, money may start to come in soon:o

Sounds like everyone is off to a great start. I know I have £3 coming from Receipt Hog and £10 from Opinion Bar, but as ever, I won't be counting them until they hit my account.

Yes best not to count till you have the amount of it makes double counting easier. Glad you have more work too.

Bobarella

sugarbaby125 wrote: »

Hi Bob,

Yes unfortunately Tesco ended Clubcard Boost in 2016

Sad times:mad:

f0xh0les wrote: »

But you can still get deals with their partners - so 4x for eating out deals (I am planning on turning my £15 into £60 for Pizza Express in Jan) and travel - Stena line and I think Railcards might still be but sadly no longer in store on electricals and toys or clothes. Boo!

Thanks that's handy to know.

Toni'sfriend

Saved £7.15 on various YS foodstuffs in Iceland (stewing beef, chicken wings and fish fingers). Will make quite a few meals for us.

Total now £46.87