Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

diluvsdiscounts

MKS wrote: »

I am confused Di! I thought that you were getting your pork from t and not a.
If you got them from a, what did it compare against? Was it the 3 4 £10 ones? tia

Sorry I did get them from Ts on a cnc but they didn't have any fresh, only sealed ones from the chiller so they gave me 7 off those @ £4kg but price matched the £2 kg price which came to £28.

marmitelovemehateme

QUORN SHOP.....Lasagne didn't compare (different weights...error on my behalf) I used wombles...£5:54 back on this shop...

items (5 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Tesco
1x Uncle Ben's Long Grain Microwave Rice (250g) £1.00 £0.74
1x Uncle Ben's Pilau Microwave Rice (250g) £1.00 £0.74
1x Quorn Lasagne (400g) £2.50 N/A
1x ASDA Diced Swede (400g) £0.29 N/A
2x Asda Arla Farmers Semi Skimmed Milk (4pt) £1.66 N/A
1x Young's Simply Breaded 4 Omega 3 Large Fish Fillets (480g) £3.00 £1.50
2x Quorn Meat Free Tikka Masala & Rice (400g) £5.00 £3.20
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Celery (each) £0.52 N/A
1x ASDA Farm Stores White Mushrooms (300g) £0.68 N/A
1x Nestle The Original Shreddies (415g) £2.00 £1.00
Comparison total (compared products only) £12.00 £7.18
+£4.82 cheaper

mhoc

pandoraskids wrote: »

Thanks for the reminder - I must remember to get the Princes Tuna

Yes, I must look into some of these apps now, I have also started to enter more competitions

My free tuna I got from Sainsburys - my theory being that sometime in the future I might get an extra bonus points for tuna till spit - I live in hope

MKS

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

Sorry I did get them from Ts on a cnc but they didn't have any fresh, only sealed ones from the chiller so they gave me 7 off those @ £4kg but price matched the £2 kg price which came to £28.

Thanks, Di.

braveheart60uk

emerald21 wrote: »

Hi what do you mean by putting your loyalty cards on google pay please

Open the app.
At bottom 3 choices "Home" "Payment" "Passes" - select "Passes"
Blue box at bottom " + Pass"
Pop up "Loyalty Propgramme"
You then get a list of nearby to select from and you then photograph the barcode of your loyalty card. For Tesco, select Tesco Extra and scan the QR code from your card. If not on the list, use the "search loyalty programmes" box at the top.

You then use app and select which one you want when using them. I have not tried it yet, but hope it works.

mhoc

Ive been thinking along the same lines - with winter fast approaching, doing more competitions again.
Trouble is that with glitch shopping and bargain hunting you get the adrenaline rush straight away - well at least after 3 hours when you check your sada receipt and then again when you arrange your stockpiles and conncoct meals out of your freezer stash etc

If say you spend a couple of hours on a wet afternoon rattling through a few dozen online draws at the end of which you realise the futility of it all - even those facebook comps that have pitiful prizes - eg bits of tat from someones desk, promotional plastic rubbish, second hand chewed pencils ... even these get zillions of entries so your chances of winning anything at all are pitiful.
Limiting your entries with prizes worth over a set ammount or only doing draws for certain prizes you actually need is a bit more of a focussed way of doing things but your chances of winning are still minimal.

braveheart60uk wrote: »

Just been shopping.
Cupcakes are yummy, more so when free. Got them and then went and used a couple of my free saved up loyalty drinks at Nerd.
Split my shop using MySupermarket to check prices. Went To Sains and Sada. Got a till spit from Sains for £18 off £60 for 1st order.

On another account received MOCs through post.


Have now used GooglePay to put on all my loyalty cards I can. Trying to start being semi normal now, shopping less frequently and being extra careful about shopping and keeping a good eye on prices and will have to keep an eye on my wee stockpiles from the good old APG days, and buy when things are cheap enough.


Oh, got a few of the Prince's tuna from Sains and Sada no problem.


Some good from APG discontinuing, less mileage on car, more time for other moneysaving (apps, coupons), maybe start entering competitions again. Have less clutter from my stockpiles of bog roll etc.

Going to start a spreadsheet with my savings through apps etc. Today would be cupcakes x 2 (how much were they? £1.50 each?) £3.00, free earned coughees from Nerd £4.60, 6 x tuna (3 Sada £3.60, 3 Sains £3.00) £6.60. So today £14.20.



My sainsbob receipt (I didn't scan a nectar card) £35 spend , earned points 35. There is Bonus Points 126. Does anyone know what this is for, also how long do I have to add points from the receipt to my card?


****Just read, 10 x nectar points on household until 9 Oct, that's where it came from ***

braveheart60uk

pandoraskids wrote: »

Thanks for the reminder - I must remember to get the Princes Tuna

Yes, I must look into some of these apps now, I have also started to enter more competitions

I have also re-started mystery shopping. There are some good bank ones for £70+ :T

mhoc wrote: »

My free tuna I got from Sainsburys - my theory being that sometime in the future I might get an extra bonus points for tuna till spit - I live in hope

I have printed off a few, all individual, justs needs a different email addy(anything near enough) and a postcode in the postcode format. So, all different with different QR codes. All valid until end of year, so you could keep until the hopeful bonus nectar points.

braveheart60uk

mhoc wrote: »

Ive been thinking along the same lines - with winter fast approaching, doing more competitions again.
Trouble is that with glitch shopping and bargain hunting you get the adrenaline rush straight away - well at least after 3 hours when you check your sada receipt and then again when you arrange your stockpiles and conncoct meals out of your freezer stash etc

If say you spend a couple of hours on a wet afternoon rattling through a few dozen online draws at the end of which you realise the futility of it all - even those facebook comps that have pitiful prizes - eg bits of tat from someones desk, promotional plastic rubbish, second hand chewed pencils ... even these get zillions of entries so your chances of winning anything at all are pitiful.
Limiting your entries with prizes worth over a set ammount or only doing draws for certain prizes you actually need is a bit more of a focussed way of doing things but your chances of winning are still minimal.

I use(d) Roboform to autofill for speed. I know the "rush" isn't there unless any instant wins about. Xmas a great time for comps.
Many, many moons ago I had a winnignstreak where I won a Disneyland Paris family holiday where 3 families also won cars.
Met a couple, one of which had won £30k on the ITV morning free draw, then the other won £50k within a year in the same competition.
Yes, it is a lot of work, but can be possible. I must get back to doing them on laptop while watching TV, a bit of multi-tasking.

mhoc

lesliejack wrote: »

obviously I have woken up in a complaining mood today
fed up with my Outlook email, it keeps sending me the same emails several times, 57 this morning all from yesterday and Tuesday
even when I empty the deleted items folder it manages to retrieve them and send them again :mad::mad::mad:

Outlook also had me driven to distraction earlier this week - multiple copies of things and emails from a fortnight back reappeared.
Ive still got over 11 thousand to wade through and mass delete - wet Sunday job.
I did manage to get everything working again - I emptied the deleted box and this helped - not sure if that was conincidental though.
But I also lost all of my message rules in the process so nothing is being filed into the correct boxes.
Another wet Sunday job.
There are not enough wet Sundays in a week

pandoraskids

mhoc wrote: »

Ive been thinking along the same lines - with winter fast approaching, doing more competitions again.
Trouble is that with glitch shopping and bargain hunting you get the adrenaline rush straight away - well at least after 3 hours when you check your sada receipt and then again when you arrange your stockpiles and conncoct meals out of your freezer stash etc

If say you spend a couple of hours on a wet afternoon rattling through a few dozen online draws at the end of which you realise the futility of it all - even those facebook comps that have pitiful prizes - eg bits of tat from someones desk, promotional plastic rubbish, second hand chewed pencils ... even these get zillions of entries so your chances of winning anything at all are pitiful.
Limiting your entries with prizes worth over a set ammount or only doing draws for certain prizes you actually need is a bit more of a focussed way of doing things but your chances of winning are still minimal.

braveheart60uk wrote: »

I use(d) Roboform to autofill for speed. I know the "rush" isn't there unless any instant wins about. Xmas a great time for comps.
Many, many moons ago I had a winnignstreak where I won a Disneyland Paris family holiday where 3 families also won cars.
Met a couple, one of which had won £30k on the ITV morning free draw, then the other won £50k within a year in the same competition.
Yes, it is a lot of work, but can be possible. I must get back to doing them on laptop while watching TV, a bit of multi-tasking.

I do mine while watching tv in the evenings or if I am up way before anyone else in the mornings, use chrome autofill. Have managed to win a few nice bits recently but nothing as good as a holiday. Don't bother with the twitter or fb drivel/tat ones :rotfl: