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🤣 essential indeed! I hope they also deem crisps and booze as Christmas essentials 😬Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
🌊 A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor 🌊
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But obviously not pigs in blankets, as they have already announced that there will be a shortage at Christmas. I wonder if it could possibly have anything to do with the profit margin? Cynical or what. Put in other terms, why haul a carton that will only make a £100 profit when you can have the same size carton hauled that will make £500 profit.
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I don't think you are being cynical @badmemory I think you make a very valid point and as a business, you are there to make money so you would prioritise the products that make the most profit.Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
79.5 coupons rolled over 4/75.5 coupons spent - using for secondhand purchases
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🤣 I am banned from buying tubs of chocolate, I think we ate 5 last year way before Christmas and had to buy more, if they are in the cupboard/bedroom/hidden I have to eat them and DH joins in whilst complaining....he's very supportive .....🤔*Stop giving up what you really want for what you want now*
*Face your fear, don't do what's easy, do what is right, fight for it because it will be worth it*
January grocery budget £215.07/£250
#18 The 365 day 1p challenge 2023 £108.50/£667.95
#48 Saving £1 a day for Christmas 2023 challenge £31/£365
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I’m actually going to buy a few more, as we are quite social animals, and when going out for dinner etc, always take along a gift. As I paid £3 for a small carton of celebrations I thought I would get these instead. Got a few occasions in the diary and the recipients would be pleased to receive them. If I eat them, I can’t go out 🤐🤐Carolbee2
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I had a friend who would freeze chocolates in her freezer in the shed outside, she said it stopped her eating them. I was always baffled as frozen chocolate is no barrier to me 🤣Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
🌊 A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor 🌊
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The frozen chocolate wouldn't stop me - the shed outside might but only if it was snowing.3
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Wouldn’t stop me, I’d keep a pair of wellies by the back door. The only place at moment I can’t access is the loft, due to recent operation.CRANKY40 said:The frozen chocolate wouldn't stop me - the shed outside might but only if it was snowing.
do you think we need some sort of addiction counselling?Carolbee3 -
Yes and it's probably why we're on the debt diary page too. I fondly remember putting Selfridges fresh cream truffles on my credit card on my way home up Oxford Street many, many years ago. That was the start of it.....4
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Oooh I could just eat a Selfridges fresh cream truffle right now!!
My start was buying chocolates as a gift, eating them with my mum and then replacing them before the birthday came up 🤣Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
🌊 A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor 🌊
My WW and friends diary is here 😁 …
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6259606/must-try-harder/p11
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