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I bought 2 X punnets of green grapes from Morrisons on their buy 2 for £3 fruit offer, which saved me 44p
Free Metro newspaper which I picked up on the bus on my way home from doing some shopping in Camberwell 60p
Current Total = £2553.63
Queen Vi your welcome
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Free school meals for my son last week (19th - 23rd Feb) saved me £11.50
I found 5p roadkill on the way home form Brixton on Sunday. My daughter was not impressed that I bent down and picked up 5p :rotfl:
Quidco cashback £1.84
Current Total = £2567.020 -
sugarbaby125 wrote: »Free school meals for my son last week (19th - 23rd Feb) saved me £11.50
I found 5p roadkill on the way home form Brixton on Sunday. My daughter was not impressed that I bent down and picked up 5p :rotfl:
Quidco cashback £1.84
Current Total = £2567.02
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My elder son paid back the money I had borrowed him and gave me an additional £20

This month's Bank Account interest £5.06
1 hopper bus journey 75p (26th Feb)
I am not going across my doorstep unless my journey is really necessary, so I chose to miss the Silver Screen showing of the film Murder On The Orient Express today as I can not afford a fall in the snow just to watch a film.:o I have an important medical appointment that I will have to attend tomorrow though.0 -
My Weekly Online Grocery Shopping special offers and price reductions saved me £15.98 this week

Current Total = £2608.810 -
I got a special priced ticket to see the play Fanny & Alexander at The Old Vic with a free drink for £20 for a seat that gave me a really good view of the stage and should have cost me £65. I saved £45 on the price of the ticket and £2.50 for the free soft drink. :T (I was allowed to have a glass of wine as my free drink or a bottle of beer, but I preferred to have a soft drink)
I went to Reggaeoke Upstairs at The Ritzy and I had 3 pints of soda water with ice and a slice on my night out at The Ritzy for free, which saved me having to buy at least 3 bottles of sparkling water which would have cost me £4.80
3 hopper bus journeys (3rd March) saved me £2.25
Free school meals fro my son last week (26th Feb - 2nd March) saved me £11.50
Current Total = £2674.860 -
4p roadkill. 2p on my way to the theatre and 2p outside Asda in Clapham Junction.
I had a free ticket to see The Shape of Pain at The Battersea Arts Centre that saved me £10.50. It was such a relief to find that the weather had improved so much and I did not have to worry about travelling by bus in adverse weather. It felt really warm compared to the extreme cold of last week.
I picked up a free Metro newspaper on the bus 60p
1 hopper bus journey 75p (5th March)
Current Total = £2686.750 -
2p roadkill yesterday
2 hopper bus journeys £1.50 (7th March)
A Big Mac and Medium Fries using a voucher on the back of an oyster receipt (my daughter found one in a coat pocket that had been overlooked) for £1.99 which saved me £2.19
Poundland Bargains:
2 X 5 penquin cakes half price saved me £1
2 X sharing packets of Haribo Supermix half price saved me £1
2 X Drench drinks on buy 2 for £1 offer saved me £1
3 X books for myself, 2 X Hardbacks and 1 Paperback saved me £29.97 :T
Revlon Eyeliner Pencil saved me £4.99
I bought a special offer ticket to see the play Brief Encounter at The Empire Cinema, Haymarket for £10 which saved me £29.50. :T I actually bought the ticket from The Old Vic who is a partner of The Empire Cinema and the ticket was sponsored by PWC
My weekly online grocery shopping special offers and price reductions saved me £20.57 this week
I went to see a film today at my local Odeon cinema and I used points from my Odeon Premier card to pay for my off peak adult ticket and saved myself £10 and I got a free cup of tea worth £1.90 :T
I got a free Evening Standard newspaper in Brixton today 60p
Current Total = £2790.990 -
2 hopper bus journeys £1.50 (8th March)
Free School Meals for my son last week £11.50 (5th - 9th March)
Boots Online Offers:
Bassets Adult Multivitamins on 3 for 2 offer saved me £5.29
No 7 Total Renewal Micro-Dermabrasion Body Exfoliator reduced from £12 to £5 saved me £7
Poundland Bargains:
2 X packets of TUC on 2 for £1 offer saved me £1
Paperback book for myself saved me £6.99
Current Total = £2824.270 -
£20 from my sister J, £20 from my elder son and £15 from my elder daughter for Mother's Day :T:D
1 hopper bus journey 75p (10th March)
Bottle of water brought for me at Karaoke saved me £1
Lift home from Karaoke in my friend's car saved me the 75p bus fare
My rent has been reduced by £6.03 a week from 2nd April 2018 to 1st April 2019 saving me £313.56 :j:D
I bought a Groupon meal for a 2 course Indian meal for 2 people with a bottle of Prosecco for £24 which saved me £32.21
2 hopper bus journeys £1.50 (14th March)
I bought an Elemis Frangipani Treasure Gift Set for my sister M's birthday in May from eBay for only £54.39 including P & P costs which saved me £81.61 :T:D
Current Total = £3305.650
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