Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

TrulyMadly

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

You said exactly what I was going to say Wonder what they will be

I would like dried fruit to makes my Christmas cakes. Notice plural.....cakes.......as the first one is never perfect:o

So we have to eat it:D

davemorton

Savvybuyer

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

A free 6 pack of crisps in the Tesco mag if you can find any.

I'm still glad I managed to get some different type crisps a couple of weeks ago, even if paid for, from A back then, but obtained for lower than £1 each price, as there is someone here who doesn't like Baked Crisps:wall:.

Freewheeling

michaels wrote: »

Told you it wasn't my imagination. I thought it was yesterday and today but there is no option to claim it for either day...glad I didn't buy it but looks like a big cos glitch to me

How odd. It was still showing for me this morning as my receipts hadn't been validated yet. They have been now though. My husband cracked the cardamom one open this morning. It had a very strong cardamom flavour funnily enough, but tasty!

Freewheeling

Today Waitrose have sent me 6 vouchers for £2 off wys £10! :-)

Forgetful

just back from a wasted trip to 2 tescos... 1st had no mags at all... 2nd has lots of mags so I took about 8 ... gets home... yes ... wrong ones...!!! september ones!!! aghh...

michaels

Freewheeling wrote: »

Today Waitrose have sent me 6 vouchers for £2 off wys £10! :-)

Me too - I find you can get something costing 2 quid for free (with 2 mags, a newspaper and a coffee). Unfortunately I have managed to lose the vouchers already

Savvybuyer

mrsmac10 wrote: »

Thanks mrs lds

Well I went to M&S The reduced stuff was in each dept. So quite difficult to find. The staff were still making the reductions at 9am. I was there just after 8am

I was happy with what I got for £ 26. Not nearly as good as mrs lds but for my first venture it was ok. Spent some time helping an older man find trousers to go with his rtc jacket. He was over the moon :T

Just a quick catch up with DS then off out again. Loving the freedom and ignoring the fact that I should be reducing my spending as I do not actually have a wage. But that’s for another day :rotfl:

I think A have helped me save money. If they had not cancelled the guarantee, I would have been in M all this morning after 9. Used to not be able to get stuff in the past, until later, and not fully able to take part in these things (due to makings of my own). Now I am freed up on Wednesday instead and spent the whole morning(:(), with a relative, buying clothes from them and me (we may also need them if we're trying winter-outdoor washing:rotfl:). Good to have an extended selection to the restricted rotated set of clothes of before - I think we, having Asperger's, tend to stick with the same things. I don't see any need to keep up with fashion or trends. I have no idea anyway what is in fashion:o. However, obviously it's end of line and summer clothing but also clothing that is perfectly fine and will be worn in summer. I managed to get this winter's clothing earlier in the year, before summer:rotfl:.

I am lucky enough to be able to visit M&S and M&S (both nearby me), and basically just got whatever fitted either or both of us (and all of it was good). I didn't find many trousers that fitted me in the first store we have nearby and there were few tops for my relative there. I managed to get a couple of tops for myself; the relative had some trousers that fitted them. I found a couple of pairs of trousers in the second store, for me, as they fitted me but those ones turned out not to fit my relative (we are similar in fit but sometimes things fit us both, sometimes they fit me but not them and sometimes the other way around). The tops for my relative were in my second M&S as they didn't have many trousers that fitted them there:rotfl:. So I did very well. Thank you to the OP yesterday who told me about this sale, definitely something I will try again. Of course I used my M&S Gift Card, that came with my M&S Bank Account and gets topped up from there until late this year - terms have changed on that in the last few weeks and new accounts now require a lot more; however the terms applicable to mine remain unchanged due to when I took up the account.

Most of the stuff I got was cheaper but I got something at £3.49:eek:. I'm trying to avoid the more expensive stuff like that:rotfl:. However I did notice, afterwards, that it was originally £35 - I was actually not looking at how much these items were to begin with but only at their current clearance price:money:. (If you look at high reference prices, that is the full prices, and then think how much you are saving from that, you are IMO likely to buy more as you think you are making a good saving - instead, you should fail to notice that and look at only the current price.)

Last time - I may have been late and got a better deal - I found a t-shirt that turned out to have gone to 58p. I remember I had gone, at non-sale time or apparently just missing a sale:wall: - wrong time to visit ordinarily! - and was actually going to buy two at 2 for £8 price:eek::eek:. I remember selecting two, prepared to pay the mbuy - of course buying two rather than one at full price. When I got to the till, it turned out the mbuy wouldn't work. It turned out that one of the shirts was 58p, rather than its marked price, obviously it was 'secretly' a left-over clearance item that no-one had noticed or bought - but I just happened upon by chance - because it had the regular pricing on it. I actually ended up paying 58p for that shirt plus full price:eek::eek: on the other shirt and missing the mbuy:eek: - but the total still came to less than £8. I remember, instead of being happy at paying less than what I thought would be the total price, I felt a little miffed at having bought an item at full price - I wanted to go back and get two of the 58p shirts and only pay for those (as there was another shirt of the same type, I'd just picked two different ones for variety - but could have bought two the same) but, by then, at the till, one at 58p and one at full price = less than £8 total:eek: I was committed and just couldn't reject the full price one as I felt a bit mean to do so:(.

I was actually miffed that, although I paid less than the really expensive 2 for £8 in the light of one at clearance at 58p, I bouht one at full price - even worse price for it as missing the mbuy itself (even if I 'drastically' saved on the clearance price shirt). Mind you in the old days before I knew about this thread, I was regularly paying full price on things. Same back then in the supermarkets, where, for years, I was buying a worse option that actually worked out more expensive:eek:. Now, today, I can't understand why anyone would ever pay full price on something that today was about 10% of that price. From now on, and with my success on the 58p shirt before but my failure on the non-58p one, only ever buy when items are on clearance:money:. There's no goodwill refund, which is fine by me and a happy trade-off I am willing to accept for such a price, but just make sure the items fit first or that they fit someone you are giving them to later. Or selling on to at full price:rotfl: - nah, I wouldn't be like that!:cool:

I can't understand, now, how anyone can ever pay full price on clothes where that full price is more than two or three pounds something:rotfl:. A number of the items I got were less than that.

The whole point is that, for their profits, stores need more full price sales (who would ever buy at full price?:shocked: The vast majority of the public no doubt, which we, here on the Elite, are not). No-one should ever buy at full price (however the stores would then not exist). I prefer these subsidies and dysfunctional markets under which most other people, buying at full price, pay for me to have items at clearance. They say things on business news programmes like "Disappointing retail sales" - apparently they are only up by 0.3% or something? I always think what they think to be "disappointing" is a really good and enjoyable thing. Perhaps I am immature and mischievous; however, surely, if the sales are "disappointing", it means we're saving money by avoiding buying things. Anyway, why the disappointment - they are still making more than last time as sales have risen by 0.3 or 0.9 or whatever %. The best places to go for cheap prices are those places not making much money. Our saving is directly in opposite to them making profits. So, the stores need more people to buy at full price; we need, for ourselves, precisely the opposite. Our money is their profits (or "our money" (collectively, the rest of the public) is, whilst "our money" (our saving or buying on clearance price) isn't - indeed, they lose money on our purchases and on loss leaders that, hopefully, for us but not them, lead onto nothing else - just pure loss. Equals our saving). Stores need more full price sales. We should never buy at full price. And we should also buy with gift cards they have 'given' us and never cash or debit/credit card:rotfl:.

Disappointing - maybe they are under market expectations. Well - (a) the markets are not us, but people some of them making vast amounts of money that pails compared to what we individually save (if we manage to save at all); (b) the markets should change their expectations:p.

:rotfl:

Enterprise_1701C

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I would like dried fruit to makes my Christmas cakes. Notice plural.....cakes.......as the first one is never perfect:o

So we have to eat it:D

Such a shame

My cake and pud was made with fruit I got cheap some time ago, no idea where or when lol

Freewheeling

michaels wrote: »

Me too - I find you can get something costing 2 quid for free (with 2 mags, a newspaper and a coffee). Unfortunately I have managed to lose the vouchers already

Oh no! I hope you find them. Last month I had the same vouchers and used them to buy the Benecol yoghurt from Shopmium, which meant that for each shop I ended up being 75p in profit. I'll have to take a look at Shopmium or GJ and see what's on there....