Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Serendipitious

The Co op till rejected the Robinson's coupons on the 2 for £2 'normal' variety. (Which I noticed are also enhanced with sweeteners, in fact I could not find a Rob's variety with no sweeteners.)

redfox

bubbs wrote: »

Morning all
I am well and truly peed off on here:mad:
I posted a link from boots for the champneys what is wrong with it? I get a message from the forum team that i cannot reply to:mad:saying its a referral!
How its a direct boots link a referral?

bubbs, I have looked at the post that the FT deleted and it is most definitely an affiliate link - it has affiliate references & HUKD in the link. I'm guessing you copied it from HUKD? Most of the links on there are affiliate links in some way or another which makes them unsuitable for here.

mhoc

I have braved the rain this morning to do the research
Marks Italian meal deal - filled ravioli, sauce and either a salad bag or garlic bread - £5.
We had to try four AP codes before finding a valid £3 one - so not bad value for £2 real money - starting from scratch it would cost more thsn that. As far as I can see everything except the salad is freezable.
I got raviolli with chicken, carbonara sauce and cheese garlic slices.
Tonights meal experiment - chicken breast cubes fried in butter and sage then stirrred through the sauce and heated and then the ravioli for 4 mins

There is quite a bit of sale items left but nothing of much interest - usual very tiny sizes and still everything over priced.

I also had a look in the cafe to see what the dearest hot drink was but its only £3 - I know in Nerooos adding syrup adds 50p but there does not seem to be this option. Ive got 20% off hot drinks on my sparks card and hot drink vouchers to use ...

mhoc

Serendipitious wrote: »

Today I had to buy a hairdryer.

My trusty old (very old) Babyliss sounded a bit funny yesterday, as if its tone had gone down a notch, then today it developed a tiny but persistent rattle in the motor.

So off to Boots I went, couldn't find the exact same, so I got the Boots OB as it has a 4 year guarantee and was only 12.99, and seeing as I'll use it most days, that guarantee could be helpful. But it's a bit alarming to realise I'll be almost 68 when the guarantee expires... :eek:

Anyhow, I had 150 pts coupon for spending £15 and I spotted Boots OB bodysprays for 40p on the rtc, so I made up the spend with those, bought 6.
Got 75 points for buying 2 Boots toiletries, so 2 of the sprays only cost me 5p.
And 84 points on the shop as you get a bit extra on own brand items for being in the over 60s club.

So paid 11.22 as I used the last of my giftcard £4.17, got total of 309 points.

nice shop

I just got 2 of the Boots smile toothpastes at 75p to use the extra 75 points - I give these to Errant son as it stops him using my very posh overpriced toothbrush.
At the time the no 17 brand was being discounted so I found an eyebrow pencil for £1.44 with a little brush on the lid, exactly what I needed. I asked the girl and she found me 2 more in the under the section draw so then -3 pencils and 2 toothpastes was enough for me to use a till spit, spend £4 get 200 points. The till then gave me a 2nd one of these.
At the end of March I found an SD card in reduced to clear for £5 so I got that to use up my 2nd till spit voucher - spend £4 get 200 points. In the meantime I though better of it and returned it for a refund. The till automatically took 20 points back and I was expecting the 200 points also to be deducted but so far nothing has happened.

All the rest of my spare Boots vouchers, Tesco and Sainsburys conditional spends went to my local couponing friend before we went away - much better than wasting them. I also gave her my Stork cupcake mix stash - she hadnt found them as its only our Sainsburys thst stock them - and the new icing sugar box I'd just opened (yes it was in date ) So that was my March random act of kindness - she has 4 so shopping and cooking is continual in her house

zippydooda

juju17 wrote: »

elainemn, when you put the coupons in the basket, you have the option of printing them or saving them, so that after you have bought the products you can upload your receipt. Only just looked at all this myself...saves printing:j

is there an app for this, or do you go the the website on your phone tia

elainemn

zippydooda wrote: »

is there an app for this, or do you go the the website on your phone tia

They sent me a text then I went to the website from the link. 2 receipts loaded so I will see what happens next.

Serendipitious

mhoc wrote: »

nice shop

I just got 2 of the Boots smile toothpastes at 75p to use the extra 75 points - I give these to Errant son as it stops him using my very posh overpriced toothbrush.
At the time the no 17 brand was being discounted so I found an eyebrow pencil for £1.44 with a little brush on the lid, exactly what I needed. I asked the girl and she found me 2 more in the under the section draw so then -3 pencils and 2 toothpastes was enough for me to use a till spit, spend £4 get 200 points. The till then gave me a 2nd one of these.
At the end of March I found an SD card in reduced to clear for £5 so I got that to use up my 2nd till spit voucher - spend £4 get 200 points. In the meantime I though better of it and returned it for a refund. The till automatically took 20 points back and I was expecting the 200 points also to be deducted but so far nothing has happened.

All the rest of my spare Boots vouchers, Tesco and Sainsburys conditional spends went to my local couponing friend before we went away - much better than wasting them. I also gave her my Stork cupcake mix stash - she hadnt found them as its only our Sainsburys thst stock them - and the new icing sugar box I'd just opened (yes it was in date ) So that was my March random act of kindness - she has 4 so shopping and cooking is continual in her house

My till spit with today's shop was double points when you next buy bodysprays, which given current stocks, may not be any time soon.:rotfl:

chandlerscroft

Shop done this morning v's Tosco £11.70 APG so £2.73 a bottle

9x Nederburg 56 Hundred Pinot Grigio (75cl) £53.82 £47.25

silvercar

Anon wrote: »

Now tryng to be more helpful :A. If it is a printer on wifi, check the IP for the printer hasn't changed. For some reason ours (HP on V M home network) keeps changing the IP and needs updating on the computer under printer properties.

HTH

Anon

Also have HP on V M network and the printer goes off line at random times for random reasons. Switching the printer off and on usually sorts it. Occasionally I need to also switch the laptop off and on.

juju17

zippydooda wrote: »

is there an app for this, or do you go the the website on your phone tia

I couldnt find an app.....havent used this new method yet, will try later after shopping