Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Forgetful

TM sounds really good your man selling the fish and stuff.... thats what I miss living in the big city now... its like the old days when I used to live in Cumbria...

fresh eggs potatoes..veg... fish.. oh and milk..

Tinyshoes

mhoc wrote: »

Both of ours are in for MOT and servicing at the end of this week and next and I am dreading what they are going to find - I don't know why OH thinks the servicing is really needed as the average miles is only about 3000 now.
But the main car has the one sided banging noise which has gradually been getting worse and something is def loose - its fine on the bypass but on the normal cart track roads it clangs about in a terrifying fashion.

I suppose you have to be philosophical about it, at least there is the money there to cover it but even so it feels like you try and save all year and you then get a run of unexpected/expected- but- dreaded expenses and your savings just dwindle away ...

Yes savings have been drastically raided. :eek:

We could have just about covered the cost of one car bill but I had to cash in my ISA last week that was meant to have been locked in for 5 years, so had a penalty of interest, not very MSE at all.

I keep thinking if only I hadn't taken Mr TS's advice and invested in the brewery that went into liquidation I would have had the money then.

Still good news on the horizon, couple of major shareholders that picked up the pieces and bought the remains of the company, and then gave us opportunity to buy a reduced price share of that company, they have been working hard to get the new brewery on track. And finally couple weeks ago with the right legal bit of paper in place they have been able to start brewing again. :beer: So maybe all is not lost...

The old company director has nothing to do with the business anymore. The major shareholders are now directors and they do seem very transparent with the goings on of the business. I guess they stood to lose a whole lot more if nothing was rescued. I only have a 1% share, will have to wait quite a few years I think to see if I recoup anything at all. :eek:

Tinyshoes

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I'm sulking, I haven't got any bonus offers, not checked the other account yet though. For a 'treat' they are trying to get me to take out their credit card :eek:

I have the CC bonus offer too. :eek:

How on earth is that a treat? :think:

mattswife

Tinyshoes wrote: »

I have the CC bonus offer too. :eek:

How on earth is that a treat? :think:

lol yeah i have that as a treat too :rotfl:

i used £3 off £15 last night and have £1 off £5 spend on meat etc i will probably use and i have £2 off £10 on wine.

HILLBERN

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I'm sulking, I haven't got any bonus offers, not checked the other account yet though. For a 'treat' they are trying to get me to take out their credit card :eek:

Same as me 😬

mhoc

Well I thought I would disappear off for a shower but in the midst of this the coal man came :eek:
Fortunately he just trudges through to the bag garden and piles the bags in the usual corner and puts the bill through the letter box

£175 now for 20 bags of coal :eek::eek::eek:

OH shovels coal on the fire like his is firing up a steam engine and gets the living room up to 25 degrees so you have to take all of your layers off.
And he gets through a coal order in a month in the worst months

Enterprise_1701C

mhoc wrote: »

Well I thought I would disappear off for a shower but in the midst of this the coal man came :eek:
Fortunately he just trudges through to the bag garden and piles the bags in the usual corner and puts the bill through the letter box

£175 now for 20 bags of coal :eek::eek::eek:

OH shovels coal on the fire like his is firing up a steam engine and gets the living room up to 25 degrees so you have to take all of your layers off.
And he gets through a coal order in a month in the worst months

OMG, assuming this is additional to other bills then that must hurt :eek: I would love a wood burner but we have no chimney or appropriate flu, I think we would spend the summer carting wood back from the woods for the following year lol

Freewheeling

£175 a month :eek:.


Last February/March when we had all that snow our gas bill got to £70 for a month at it's highest.


We've just had a wood burner installed, it was definitely not very :money: though as the whole installation including building a stone hearth, lining the chimney properly, buying the wood burner and having it all fitted came to £2500. It will be lovely in the winter though .

fuzzgun19

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Thanks from me too forgetful:T:T:T

These are just the perfect freebies for me and I've managed to get one or two;):p

Pleased it's on for a few days. I might have to do some detours around a few different co ops:D

I picked up a Coop mag and spotted a coupon inside. No idea how much these are in store

I managed a few co-op mags today, the store I was in only had one kind of Maryland on offer at £1. Not sure how that compares to other places, but I think Aldi/Lidl do their own 200g for about 40p.

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Picasso7

mhoc wrote: »

The new Morrisons app - thanks to the OPs for spotting this.

I've just looked at my accounts on line. There are a series of steps to go through now to say if you want your Morrisons £5s as paper vouchers or if you want to save them up or automatically added to your card so when you swipe your M card at the till it will just take £5 off.

Its also got a student club if you have a student email address.
And a baby club so its worth seeing how old your babies are.

Then you have to opt in to your offers -they are automatically opted out. Both cards had the same 5 offers valid until the end of October

100 points for Morrisons wonky parsnips
100 points for doughnuts
100 points for wonky pomegranates
3000 points for a £30 spend
500 points for downloading the app

You have to get it into your head that its not 100 point = £1 like in Sainsburys and Boots - 100 points =10P
100 morrisons points are not an excuse to buy doughnuts :rotfl:

One of my cards has only got about 700 points to the next Morrisons fiver so I am going to download the app with that cards details.

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

My M points were added yesterday (shame the clothes didn't fit)

Thank you so much mhoc. I've just checked again and the new app is there. I decided to go for printed £5 vouchers as I wasn't sure what would happen if you spent less than £5.

I've got the same offers as above. You have to activate them, by the way. My guess is that the 3000 points wys £30 will be like the till spits and won't work on gift cards.

Fuzzgun, thanks for your post. I've also discovered that the points from buying my Amazon gift cards have appeared so it does still work. I'm most grateful to you and whoever else reassured me that I just needed to be patient.

In store the other day I got three consecutively dated vouchers giving me 1500 points wys £20 or more. I doubt I shall be using them as I rarely spend that much.