Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

davemorton

Never realised you were from those parts MHOC. I had a few good nights in Alsager in my younger days.

Savvybuyer

Fwiw, three out of four 400ml Lynx Shower Gels should currently be comparing vs £1.50 at M. All four should each be vs T and S at £1.50. The three that A online and M have were showing me £1.50 last Wednesday in M and appear to have gone up in price since to "Offer price £2.00, was £3.00" until 9/12/18 (unless online and instore are out of line, which I may not know). However, even against £1.50 = £1.35, that, for 400ml, still works out more expensive than offer on 250ml that ran very briefly in M for 4 for £3. I did right therefore to buy four of those, in M as I didn't think APG would work (too many Ms didn't show the offer for me instore), on their last day of offer a few weeks back. As for 400ml now - avoid!:rotfl:

pandoraskids

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Elaine's keeping me right:D

Bought these bag clips today for 15p......the store I saw you at yesterday Elaine where the sale stuff is:)

I'm making a big effort to bottom my freezers and have a tidy out.

Think I can get rid of all the elastic bands now:rotfl:

Thank you TM, will have a look for these - we currently use clothes pegs

diluvsdiscounts

Good morning.
And so it begins, day one of froctober. Today is my mum's birthday and I'm taking her, Dd and dgd out for lunch but I never count socialising money in my total only household expenditure.
I'm going to pandoraskids town this morning to pick up a Ted baker order for dgd so I may go over to Sainsbugx for the free veggie stuff. I love the way froctober changes your thinking.
I'll park at As to get free parking and there's travel mugs apparently for £1 each and I have my final apg to use for 81p

Edited to say i won't be getting the free veggie things as its now closed....typical.
Am I right in thinking I could get a fuel 10k and claim £1 back vis cos plus a full refund in dh name through shopmium?

TrulyMadly

Morning paw sniffers:D

Anyone checked if the old PAG machine is still working?:D

I'm unsure how I'm going to do Froctober but I will embrace it in spirit as best I can.

I'm at Newcastle with work today so I have train fares to find which get reimbursed. Lunch is already prepared. Free weightwatchers bread making up an egg mayo sandwich. Fresh hens eggs too and a bottle of water. Two pears too...I got a whoopsied pack for 15p yesterday

Work will pay for my coffees:)

Bring it on:D

Freewheeling

Good morning all!

My husband and I were walking down the stairs fairly slowly this morning ;-). Luckily you tend to use different muscles for cycling than walking so we should get into work not too much slower than usual.

What do I need to do to take part in Froctober?

diluvsdiscounts

Freewheeling wrote: »

Good morning all!

My husband and I were walking down the stairs fairly slowly this morning ;-). Luckily you tend to use different muscles for cycling than walking so we should get into work not too much slower than usual.

What do I need to do to take part in Froctober?

You do whatever suits you FW. I count all money spent on the household so food, cleaning products, basically everyday spending.
For example today I'm hopefully going to buy 2 travel cups for dhs morning coffee they are £1 each minus my 81p apg I will later add £1.19 to my signature.
I don't count money spent on socialising as I'm not letting it affect my social life and certainly not for a whole month.

pandoraskids

I'm not sure how I'm going to fare with Froctober. Normally it would be fine but I am off on my hols next week and have to get a shop in for the kids - quick & easy stuff that we don't normally get. Having said that, we have a fair few blocks of cheese from the Lidl offer and loads of pasta, spaghetti, beans etc so I'm sure they'll manage :rotfl:

diluvsdiscounts

pandoraskids wrote: »

I'm not sure how I'm going to fare with Froctober. Normally it would be fine but I am off on my hols next week and have to get a shop in for the kids - quick & easy stuff that we don't normally get. Having said that, we have a fair few blocks of cheese from the Lidl offer and loads of pasta, spaghetti, beans etc so I'm sure they'll manage :rotfl:

And that's exactly what froctober is to me. It's making things you already have available do rather than buying something.
I have also made sure I haven't bought anything in advance of froctober as that defeats the object. We will need instant coffee soon but I have about 5 packs of filter coffee from waities offer a couple of months ago so we will drink more filter coffee so hopefully i wont need to buy any.
We went out on Saturday night so I have got alot more cash in my purse than usual as I normally use my mns credit card to gain the points. I might try to make the cash I've got last the whole month that would be a challenge.

TrulyMadly

And yes the APG machine is just countering along as if nothing has changed

All my little ones are done now:)