Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 14

bubbs

Evening all

Sue i have updated my sig, thanks for all you do 😘😘
I never count my cashback, maybe i should!
I will try and come here at least once a week, i am just always doing something and i go on the slimming threads alot

Have a good weekend all and stay safe

Frogletina

Sue-UU said:

Thank goodness you've at last sold your ex husband's house, Frogletina! What a time it took,

I just hope the time hasn't pulled you down too much. 

I thought of you at the weekend on hearing the news of the sad and tragic death of my hairdresser's 22 year old daughter. Her partner was concerned as she hadn't arrived home. On checking her phone via his to see where she was, it showed the car was stationary. He drove to the spot, but thankfully the police were already there and stopped him from going closer. So very sad, poor young girl. They'd brought their own home less than a year ago. So much sadness in life. 

Live your life by your dear son's words Froglet. ❤️

Thank you for your kind words, Sue

In a way, I think the year we've all had has helped. I've become a hermit and don't venture out much at all. I've been here, mostly by myself, and it's given me time. No pressure to go out when there's nowhere to go. 

So sorry to hear about your hairdresser's daughter. Her whole life in front of her and cut so short, so many dreams unfulfilled.  It's just so sad.

My son wrote poetry, as do I and my father before me. I found this poem when I sorted out my son's house.

I once knew a man who looked to the sky,
he had a dream, one day he would fly

So he built a machine to live out his dream,
but it fell out the sky and he did die

Now he laughs and he grins
because he's got his own wings,
now he flies with the angels and sings

mummytummy

Sue-UU said:

Not quite mummytummy, but how about No 006? It's VERY lucky  

Thank you Sue-UU and signature updated 

little_sweetie

Aw frogletina what an awful time you must have had.  Onward and upward now ((hugs))
Thanks for the number change, Sue, I'll cherish it   How awful about your hairdresser's daughter.  You are so right, there's too much sadness in the world right now.  Let's hope things will start looking up very soon.
Have a great weekend everyone x

Frogletina

I've just received my incentive payment for joining HSBC and I've classed it as money for my sealed pot. 

So far I've got £130.00. Hopefully I will be using cash soon; I have my sealed  pot ready for that

frogletina

MrsShazbat

Hey Sue_UU and folks, I hope you are all well. 
I've been MIA for ages but I'm still here and want to continue. 
Can't remember my number till it pops up when I post this LOL 
Will count up, check my Quidco balance which I also include, and post on the old thread later xx

Edit: I'm No.66.  And just broke the tin opener trying to open my tin so hold that thought....

Sue-UU

A very Good Afternoon SPCers! I hope you all have a really great day, evening too.  

 TAKE CARE & STAY HEALTHY EVERYONE!!

For all those of you who are either poorly or feeling low or miserable in any way, our very best wishes that you'll soon be feeling very much better.   

Brilliant work Bubbs, thank you. You most certainly should be potting/saving your cashback, have a scan through the first post on page 1 to make sure you're not missing out in any other ways! 

I appreciate your kind words, thanks Bubbs. 

I can quite see how this year will have helped ease all the everyday pressures of life as it would have been, Frogletina, thank heavens for small mercies which have been a curse to so many. Very strange how life works out. Odd how an event like the Covid can bring such misery to so very many, yet to some it can turn out to be a blessing.

Very coincidental too that the last line of your son's poem includes the last line of what our hairdresser wrote on her Facebook page about her darling daughter: "Fly with the angels".

Her dear mum has nothing in life now, no other children, no husband, sadly only a mother with dementia. I hope the two blessings in life to help her through it all might be her Hairdressing business and her crafts which she's always loved. Here's hoping. 

You're welcome mummytummy, thanks for swapping it on your siggy. 

You're welcome little_sweetie. Let's hope you're right with your words about things looking up from herein. 

Ah MrsShazbat, you're back, thank goodness!!!! 😳 I thought you too had had problems logging in. Thank goodness all is well, though do you realise you're late for the Declaration Day which was the 29th of last month??!! I'll add the link for you HERE  I also have a new SPC No for you which I'll PM you. I've had to shift them around as sooo many folk haven't returned and I'm positive they wouldn't all have left us as they're our "old" members; meant in the best way possible.

Good to see you! 😊

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IF THERE ARE ANY HIGHER NUMBERED MEMBERS WHO WISH TO HAVE LOWER NOS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!

Sadly, there've been so many not wanting to OR who aren't able to access the site anymore

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Have a WONDERFUL FRIDAY folks, enjoy yourselves saving

NB folks: Opening date for SPC 14 is 28th October 2021.

Anyone wishing to join us, it's NEVER too late! So please just ask and you will be made very welcome.

LivingInTheBlack

£3.50 on Quidco 🙃

MrsShazbat

Well there we are, all done and declared for another year.  Sorry I was so late Sue_UU, completely forgot it was October and where we are in the year!!  No worries if it doesn't count in this year's overall total, but I've posted it anyway.  And thanks for my new number, my sig has been updated.

Can't believe this is my 6th one!  Unsurprisingly it's my lowest yet - I can't believe one year I nearly managed £700, I must have been super-strict that year plus I also counted Ebay money to begin with.  Now my Ebay money tends to pay for other things I might get from Ebay or use PayPal for.
I still have a 'thing' about not spending £2 coins but I'm working out the best way to save this year, or certainly till we return to some sort of normality.  I've spent the odd bit of cash during lockdown, and I've withdrawn some from the bank just to say I've got some in my purse, but mostly it's just parting with £2.50 every other week to pay for our black bin to be cleaned after emptying!  
I joined the £1-a-day challenge back when I also joined this challenge, and still pay £31 p.m. into a savings account.  However I've just started another M&S Monthly Saver so I'm switching the £31 p.m. from the account I'm currently using to the M&S Saver and as it has to be in multiples of £5 the additional £4 will count as my SPC savings at the moment (I'll pretend it's 2 x £2 coins  ).  

Hettyhound

Morning everyone 🙂 I’ve potted a ten pound note and some bits of change.  The 10 is from Prolific, well not quite 10 from them yet but more pending and I’m doing a month long survey which pays out each week so won’t take long.  Quiet day yesterday.  Keep thinking I will have to order Christmas gifts for my son and new baby stuff for my niece.  Her baby is due on 6th December so I’d best get something ready to post off.  One of the lovely local independent shops in our village has gone online for lockdown and will drop things off on your doorstep so I’ll get something from her.  Hoping the florist can re open on the 2nd so I can get a wreath for the cemetery; I’m kind of hoping the go karting venue doesn’t so the party my boy has been invited to on the 9th doesn’t happen.  I was really torn over this one but spoke to some other parents and they feel the same.  The kids have missed out on so much this year and when he finds out there’s was a party and I said no he won’t be happy.  Just holding on to the fact it will be a Covid secure venue and even though we were in tier 2 before lockdown we now have below average reported cases.  However I’m now having to arrange my visit to my social bubble to exchange presents and visit the cemetery around a five day clearance after the party and just hope that we don’t have it and appear asymptomatic.  I would be devastated if we were all isolating over Christmas because a parent couldn’t let a year go by without indulging their child 😬