The Voucher Fairy

ouraggie

Hi, everyone. I just thought I would share a little thing I did which seems to have sort of developed organically and now I'm hooked!
It all began when I went to Robert Dyas to buy a hoover, armed with a voucher for £5 off £30 spend. I ended up not buying one, so donated my voucher to a very pleased lady who was en route to the till with loads of stuff.
A couple of weeks later, I was in Lidl with 2 vouchers in my purse. Only used one so donated the other to a grateful young couple with a trolley full of nappies.
The next day I got a voucher for a 1/2 price car wash at Tesco but I am a self-washer. This went to a gent in the car wash queue, who offered me a Mars Bar in return!
Since then, I have snipped out any coupons I spot and when I am going past that shop next, I nip in and give it away to someone. Recently, 2 people have had 4p a litre off their petrol (I picked 2 people with big cars!), various McDonalds patrons have enjoyed £1.99 deals, an old chap had £2 off his food shop and 3 people have had free takeaway coffee from Costa.
When I go food shopping I hide any money-off coupons I've got behind the front pack of that product so whoever picks it up to buy (but not the shelf-stacker) will see the coupon.
OH thinks I'm crackers and has now nicknamed me the voucher fairy! Also I did have to smile when my friend turned up for our lunch bearing 2 big strips of Farmfoods vouchers for me!
Gives me a nice warm glow to save people a bit of cash here and there.

VfM4meplse

I love this idea! You're like a year-round Christmas angel :A

Gem-gem

What a lovely idea. It is like passing it forward.
I have passed vouchers round to friends and family and they have passed them to me but never really to strangers.
I have just been send two free delivery codes from hotel chocolat. I will take them to work and give them away.
If we all do little acts of kindness like this what a better place this world would be.

KJBerry

What a fantastic idea! The nearest I get to it is passing on my car park ticket to someone else when there is time left on it. I so begrudge paying £3 or £4 at the local hospital that it makes me feel better if someone else can benefit from it.

balabooberlies

Wow

I had a lady give me a voucher for 25p. Off milk. I wanted to hug her. I think I am going to start doing this because it's flipping marvelous !

And ouraggie....you are an angel.

C_J

I did this with the £10 Lidl voucher that was in the Metro a few weeks back. I’d grabbed what I thought was two copies of the paper as I got off the bus - already feeling greedy for doing that, but I’d planned two big shops - only to discover later the edition was thinner than I thought and I had actually takes four copies. I cut out all four vouchers and handed the ones I didn’t use to two surprised shoppers at the tills. The look on their faces was brilliant, and it really made my day.

I also have a stash of trolley tokens, branded with a company name, given to me by a pharmaceutical rep at work. I often hand those out, especially to elderly people or harassed Mums struggling to find a coin for the trolley. People are always so surprised when you do something nice for a random stranger, and it makes me so happy.

ouraggie

Little update. Biggest coup yet - found a "20% off books" voucher on the floor outside W H Smith's at 5pm on Christmas Eve. Nipped in the shop and gave it to a fella who looked as if he was about to buy several hardbacks.
He saw me a few mins later at the car park machine, told me I had saved him £12 and insisted on paying my car park ticket (meaning he then only benefitted by £10.80, but we both got to experience that warm glow from saving somebody some money!).
Was in Tesco today and saw loads of gorgeous Tesco Finest gateaux in the reduced fridge for £1.24. Saw a lady pick up an unreduced one in the bakery area for nearly a fiver and told her I had just seen loads of the same in the reduced fridge. I gave her directions and off she went to nab one!

mrs_motivated

Ouraggie. Such a lovely idea, you really are the voucher fairy.

I will definitely start doing this, the nearest I got to it was just before Christmas and I was in M and S, a young family wanted some party food, in particular some spicy prawn ring and were so excited as they thought it was 4 items for £7, when in fact the deal was 4 items for the price of 3 (£7 per item). I thought I would tell them to avoid any embarrassment at the till and they looked gutted and put the prawns back as they couldn’t afford them, the mum had tears in her eyes and muttered to her hubby how nice it would have been to get something special for once. My heart went out to them, so I bought 4 items including the prawns, kept three and gave the family the prawns. The look on their faces was so heartwarming, she flung her arms around me and gave me a hug. I’ve thought about them a few times this Christmas and really hope they had a good one.

Artytarty

It must be nice to be nice.
I do the carpark ticket thing and can I be lovely sometimes but I struggle to be consistently good unless all is well in my own wee world and let's be honest, that's not very often!
Well done those who can be kind to others when life is left a pile of p@@.

kboss2010

I’ve done this a few times recently & wish I had in the Works as I realised the voucher I’d printed out on A4 was actually a whole page of mini-vouchers!

Hannimal

I fell in love with the OP a little