Back for 2023: What's the best £1 you've ever spent?

BobbinAlong

Does it count that a friend bet OH £1 when he was on his own that I would be the one for him? Twenty years later we're still together and he has paid her £1.

Valli

bought an orchid for 40p (yellow stickered) from @sda - still growing well.  

this week 4 punnets of raspberries for 30p each.  Made jam.

KaelaLee88

Buying a ticket for the early morning swim where I met my Husband Best money I ever spent! Xx

provista_2

Buying 2 halves of lager for less than £1 in 1985 and meeting my future husband as I turned from the bar. We just celebrated our 34 wedding anniversary on Saturday. 

JohnCov

A big THANK YOU to Martin Lewis for his advice.

Without this site and his advice given on the TV show I would not have known about claiming Pension Credit.  Or how to qualify for Cost of Living payments. 

I got on with it straight away.  And now in receipt of both! Result.  :-)

tegmim

I bought 24 corn on the cob at Tesco a few years back for -96p. They were three for the price of two, but then reduced. I love sorn on the cob nearly as much as a love doubled-up discounts so I just took the whole box to the checkout, and the till took off more for the free one than it cost for each pair I had to pay for. So I hastily bought eight cans of beans, so the total price to pay was positive and I didn't have to get a supervisor. As a result 96p bought me eight cans of beans and 24 corn on the cob - about £15 of food at full price.

MOJO24110

paulie576 said:

Last year 50p for a great condition first press of The Beatles Please Please me single on the old red parlophone label from a car boot.
Sold for £200+on a well known auction site.
I don't normally sell any vinyl,but couldn't turn this one down.

I bought a copy of the 1963 Beatles , Please, Please Me- LP a 15 years ago, for 50p @ a local charity shop, no cover and in average used condition...A few years back my son thought it could be worth a bit...Turned out to be 1st pressing  & sold for £1800 with 3 international punters fighting over it...Remember, no cover..With a cover worth £3,500+

Wings_of_Ambition

Not £1, but spent 20p on a single raffle ticket as a young teenager at a summer fayre, and told the lady I wanted 2nd prize if I won, not 1st prize. I won, she remembered, and I bagged an 'Atari Lynx' handheld gaming console, which I kept for a good 15 years before selling on for £60 back in 2011.

pmartin86

Not sure if this counts, but always amuses me as one o fmy lifelong friends still mentions it to this day. I'm not a gambler, but my freinds loves the "slot machines" - He would happyily put 10-20 quid in each time we went to the pub, he'd just finished a "session" and said "the machine is 100% ready to pay!" I had a quid spare in my pocket, i joked id put it in and win his money, he told me to go ahead, I put it in, pressed the button, some weird lights popped up and he called me a jammy git, apparantly its some "guranteed jackpot" they have to hit occasionaly, took £70 out of it and its probably been a decade and he's still "bitter"

Nelliegrace

£1 Raffle ticket which won the large Christmas hamper at the Church Fair. It had a lot of useful tinned food to make meals, and not just sugary, over-packaged junk. The basket was returned to be used again.