O/S WOMBLING, Road Coinage, Skips, Roadside 'finds' etc

balabooberlies

An update.........

Found a discarded coupon in my local supermarket.  £8.00 off an £80.00 spend.  I did my research, went down noted special offers on the things we use regularly.  Thought my whole plan had been scuppered when OH went to buy coffee and spent loads of money on things I had planned to buy.  In the end I went through with my careful planning.  Challenged myself to buy only 2 max of items that we use.  No hoarding.  I had an enjoyable hour, even found offers I had not spotted before.  My maths (wrote all prices down) was spot on.  Was so pleased with myself.

I am still staggered that someone would throw a coupon of such value away.

Today (walking my dog) spotted some plastic buckets that I was planning to buy for the garden on someones drive with loads of other stuff they were getting rid of.  Knocked on the door and they were more than happy for me to take what I needed.

A good week...........

joedenise

Well done @balabooberlies.

I have to admit I wouldn't use an £8 off £80 spend as I never spend anywhere near that amount in one go - except once in a blue moon when my chest freezer is empty but it would be at the butchers not the supermarket.

balabooberlies

I covered the gamut JD.

Tins, packets, cleaning products, OTC medicines etc.  And some naughty treats !

Farway

joedenise said:

Well done @balabooberlies.

I have to admit I wouldn't use an £8 off £80 spend as I never spend anywhere near that amount in one go - except once in a blue moon when my chest freezer is empty but it would be at the butchers not the supermarket.

I'm another one, that sort of coupon goes in the bin because I would struggle to spend that much in one go, maybe if I was buying booze but I'm not

balabooberlies

So sorry.  Didn't mean to sound judgemental.

Bala

flow2

i was walking past a small farm shop, around tea time, the owner was Putting a lot of the veg in a wheelbarrow, she said it hadn’t sold and was going On the manure tip, as they put fresh out every day, she said did I have a rabbit, as I could have 2lb carrots and a couple cabbage for them, so I lied and said yes ! Veg sorted for a few days.

balabooberlies

Great Flow...........

Enjoy !

bala

PipneyJane

Great shopping @balabooberlies .  It's easier to "spend big" in the supermarket when you shop for the month, not the week.  Prior to Lockdown, I only did one big supermarket shop a month and £70-£80 would be our regular bill.  We'd buy fresh veg from a local farm shop, and pop in mid-month to stock up on yoghurts, but that'd be it.

I've scored a £1 coin in roadkill coinage.  It was lying near the bus stop, looking lonely, while I was on my morning run.

- Pip

thriftwizard

I've been leaving excess courgettes/marrows out at the end of our driveway, with "Please help yourself!" written on the box. They've all gone, as did most of the green-but-blighted tomatoes I left out when the plants keeled over up at the allotment. A jar of delicious chutney came back! Thing is, the freezer's already full of pasta & ratatouille, as much as we're likely to eat, plus I'd made enough chutney to sink a small battleship, & there are still non-blighted tomatoes ripening on the conservatory windowsills. I'd much rather someone was getting the benefit of our gluts than they were just going to the compost heap. 

I do sometimes pick stuff up (even out of skips, with permission) if we really need it, but we're now in position where getting rid of stuff is generally more appropriate! That said, I liberated a tall, rusty, wire vegetable trolley on wheels from outside a house around the corner this spring before the recycling lorry got to it; it was the perfect size for seedling trays. It's still doing the job, full of saladings & herbs to grow on through the winter. I splashed out some savings on a little greenhouse this year, which the trolley will be going into when my peppers die back, but I've grown salad leaves & seedlings for many years in rescued "mini-greenhouses" or grow houses which have been dumped when the covers split - as they always do, usually pretty quickly - and just covered them in plastic that's been used to wrap mattresses or similar, which is pretty tough, with a fetching duct-tape trim.

I shan't be going round rescuing unwanted pumpkins at the roadside this weekend though, as I often have in the past - there's good eating on pumpkins! - because one of the local charity shops has given me the giant one from their Halloween window display, for a donation and a promise to return some seeds. It was organically grown up at our allotment site, so will be full of goodness. I'll share it with some friends & neighbours, there's plenty to go round & fill the last corners of our freezer!

balabooberlies

Pip it was ever so nice of you to rescue that pound from loneliness.  

Angie.......am so impressed...........

bala