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I’m so blooming cross with myself. I exchanged £44 of Clubcard vouchers for £132 of magazine vouchers, ordered the first subscription fine but it wouldn’t let me use the code for the second one. Contacted Clubcard customer service and I should’ve ordered two separate vouchers as no change is given. I totally forgot about that. So I’ve lost the balance of it 😢 I’ve emailed the magazine subscriptions service on the off chance they can help but suspect not ☹️I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)3
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Oh.....how annoying is that, @Sun_Addict. Easy mistake to make. Hope they take pity on you.
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foxgloves said:Oh.....how annoying is that, @Sun_Addict. Easy mistake to make. Hope they take pity on you.
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Ohhh no that’s rubbish. Wouldn’t you have thought Mr T would have sorted something for you as it was a genuine mistake.January spends - £587.583
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Oh that’s so sneaky! It’s like they deliberately try to trip people up 😖Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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I’ve just heard back from the subscription company and they’ve confirmed what Mr T said so I’ve lost that part of the voucher value ☹️ Entirely my fault. Another lesson learned the hard way!I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)2
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Ah that's such a shame.I think a bit of sunshine is good for frugal living. (Cranky40)
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Oh SA what a pain about the CC voucher - might be worth a further contact with T’s although I suspect there isn’t anything they can do as the subscription people will claim the whole value - if I remember rightly this is why the “no change” thing applies. Such an easy mistake to make though when you’re thinking isn’t quite in a straight line for whatever reason.
I’m right there with you on feeling generally better for a good stretch - it makes such a difference when I make time for some yoga each day, I’ve been concentrating on getting that fitted in again this week and am already starting to feel the benefits. I like Yoga With Adriene - her 30 day challenges are good for motivating you to keep a run of it going, and although she only does one of those a year there are about 8 years on line now so you can easily work through one after another without finding yourself repeating them too much.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
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Happy Friday 😎
Unbelievably my workplace was emergency evacuated again this lunchtime for the second time this week! I was in the middle of a meeting when we got the alarm, I had to quickly go to the loo, run back to my desk to pack my stuff up and wait for the message to say our floor had to leave the building. On Wednesday it was a drill but today it was the real thing. There were several police cars outside the building with their lights flashing and no police inside them! I'm glad I decided to pack up and go home as I suspect we would be out of the building longer than the 45 minutes for starbursting.
Not a no spends day as had to pay for a ticket to a concert I'm going to in November with some friends (Mr SA doesn't know about this yet, I'll tell him nearer the time). Also went to L*dl on the way home, used my 50% off tinned tuna voucher and picked up two packs of frozen edamame beans as they're much cheaper than the ones I buy from Mr M even with the discount. They only sell them in L*dl when it's Chinese week.
Exercise today has been walking/to from work just short of 20,000 steps so will end the day on more. I'm also going to do session 3 of the stretching challenge.
Tonight's dinner is stir fry.I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)5
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