Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

elainemn

I succumbed to the heating on for an hour earlier. OH would not let me put it on yesterday. I want it back on timer again, but he says it is too early


Debating whether to get dressed and go for some milk and woopsies, but do not really need anything apart from the milk. Wish I'd got some yesterday.

michaels

I have an amex offer, spend 50 get 20 account credit.

Would it be too outrageous to go in, buy a 50 gift card then have the six of us sit at 3 tables of 2 and each have a £3 want-to burger/baguette and pay using the gift card?

mrsmac10

Good afternoon all

Miserable wet day

My tumble drier did not seem to be working as well as I thought it should. Then I remembered that the filter needs cleaning now and again. OMG :eek::eek: It's been a while since it was cleaned

I am loving the frugal concept too I am not going for whoopies in morries today I don't need anything other than milk but will get it then when DH goes to M&S to see if the have RTC sandwiches for his and his mates lunches They were really please with last week buys

I have taken dinners from the freezer and will bake tonight

Enjoy your day

Enterprise_1701C

Heating, what heating? We have nice big windows so when the sun is out it soon warms up the house, it's due to get up to the 20s next week too. Hopefully it will be a while before the heating needs to go on.

fuzzgun19

TrulyMadly wrote: »

From stinky overripe bananas to a banana loaf:)

Froctober powers on through:D

https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/banana-loaf

You tempted me!

Anon

michaels wrote: »

I have an amex offer, spend 50 get 20 account credit.

Would it be too outrageous to go in, buy a 50 gift card then have the six of us sit at 3 tables of 2 and each have a £3 want-to burger/baguette and pay using the gift card?

On which flavour of Am3x card please?

Many thanks

Anon

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I had no problems yesterday, but I did use the SS only once and early in my shopping trip (which will mean late morning by the time I finally get there). I had one several weeks ago that failed and that made me think back then "Has the system been changed to reject them now?" That proved not to be the case so maybe it was a faulty machine; however I don't know.

I've just had a voucher failure at the SS. However, I think it could have been because I reverted to loose carrots on this one shop, in order to make the voucher value. This is because, after the machine called for staff approval:(, the voucher knocked off less than its true value when the staff member approved it. If it's not knocking off the value of the voucher however, I suspect it screams for approval. The SA tried to void the voucher off the shop but the machines don't let them void just that one item although they could have voided any other single item linked to the shop. They therefore had to cancel the whole shop, have everything scanned through again and then manually typed the value of the voucher.

I briefly thought loose fruit and veg. was now accounted for correctly in a total bill for APG voucher purposes. One of my SAs had the magic touch at the till and it knocked off and worked without a ''Value not met' or changing its value when I had a loose banana on a shop. It then failed at the staffed till on another shop where I also had a loose banana:(. Both of these when the APG was still available and of course APGs paying for the full shop (or attempting to do so).

I know that I have now technically bought something, namely loose carrot, that is cheaper elsewhere:eek:. An absolute cardinal sin and complete no-no now as A are now overcharging me compared to the competitor at which I will be shopping in future (I won't need loose carrots as I won't have a voucher value, so won't be buying them anywhere at all:money:). However I think on the amount I bought, it doesn't make much difference and probably rounded to the same price(:wall::rotfl:) - for example if it A's price per unit was a bit more expensive it could work out at 2.4p rounding down to 2p whereas the competitor could have been 1.5p or 1.6p rounding up to 2p. Make sure if you have got a loose carrot of the right amount (and avoid them at A if at all possible as they are or have been more expensive than M) that you then trying adding another little piece in case the price stays the same. You could have 1.6p before = 2p but adding a piece of carrot for 0.8p (and therefore getting one and a half times the amount) will cost the same. You may as well take a bit more out of A legitimately, if you can. And even a little piece will add up to making more and having to buy them less (though I would hope people are avoiding loose carrots at A:rotfl:).

Hopeless trivial money saving trick of less than a penny again:(.

So, yeah, voucher now failing on me - but I think this might not be a general new thing.

Savvybuyer

The loose carrot situation came about because I rejigged my shop instore (almost always a bad idea as you'll come back home and find you have overpaid on something). I found there were some stationery items on sale in A. The good ones were out of stock in my store though; the only thing I found in stock was a Shatterproof Ruler for 8p after I think avoiding a pencil case for 30p as Morrisons have one for 25p. There are supposed to be ring binders (the proper type) for 5p and a 4 pack zebra pens on sale too that seem alright too but typically I could only find other sizes. I could have had multiples of 8p rulers but that would have been more than the one I needed so I chose other items.

I picked up a pack of 500g pears (7 pears in the bag, any less and I think you are overpaying) that have gone down from 79p to 59p, after checking at Lidl first to make sure that there were none on the same price there. I should wait for Lidl to have a 49p offer but wanted to make sure I wasn't paying more than I could get right now if shopping in A.

Savvybuyer

:mad::mad:There are some 800g Perfectly Imperfect Pears for 70p from T. That works out at 43.75p per 500g. So, 59p for 500g from A is overpaid:(. Just so difficult trying to save money - I need to check everywhere in advance and not just see prices on the shelf and think they are good:(.

Oh well, womble anyway and wouldn't have been comparable in the old days so was still the best (excluding whoopsies that I never find) that I could have had from A and I would have bought these sorts of things with wombles in the past. Just trying to excuse/make myself feel better about my extremely poor purchasing yet again:rotfl:.

Never ever assume, never assume anything whatsoever with supermarkets. I assumed that T had discontinued its Perfectly Imperfect range, at least on any decent prices on fruit, and wouldn't have something available like this again.

However, it may be that T's packs have larger pears - A's are kids 'funsize' so same number of pears for my money anyway and it is number and not weight with fruit that we decided counted as, if you get a bigger pear, you can't just take half of it and leave the rest to another sitting. You have to consume the full pear and the number of pears it has you consuming (and thus not having to buy again sooner if you really had fewer) is the same. You can't say a big pear counts as two pears and leaves you with fewer pears if you have small ones as it does not - the big pear is one pear as it has to be fully consumed at any time and part of it can't be carried over to another time when you'd have to use another small pear if you had small pears (lower total weight). It therefore doesn't save anything to have bigger pears, even if a pear that is bigger has you consuming more. Even if I have less, as a 'funsize' pear is smaller and less weight, it's possible that 500g packs on total number of pears could have more pears in them than 5/8ths of the pears in an 800g bag if those are not funsize pears. This sort of thing, which most people I suspect would think is tedious, would need checking.

Never rejig a shop instore, as that way is the route to disaster and overpaying. Even though we had to stick rigidly to a list when doing an APG shop before, because we didn't know whether something we picked up on impulse might be much more expensive at our competitor and therefore it helped stop us doing so, we still need to stick to lists prepared in advance as anything extra that strays beyond that, that hasn't been fully checked in advance, will almost certainly turn out to be a bad purchase in my unfortunate experience. Whenever I don't check in advance every item I am buying, it seems I later find that I have always overpaid.

pippo

Well I did an A's shop.
Last Sunday, at about the same time I was too early for whoopsies, this week too late! All I got was 1 bag spinach, 1 bag sliced leeks and one small tray of rasps at 5p each:o

I have to say that you can scoot around that shop some much quicker when you are not counting items and separating your shopping!

As expected the car park was littered with receipts!

Anyway my nett total spend for the week is £3.94 and given the £20 I won we are in minus figures!:j:j

I'm expecting a call from the bank to say there has been unexpected inactivity on your account! :rotfl: